SFUO Elections

Tomorrow is the last day of elections for the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa.

Lets all face some facts here: if you haven't voted yet, odds are you don't really care who gets elected.  If you cared that much you would have voted already.  Tomorrow you're going to see candidates running around telling people to vote for them in a last minute attempt to clinch the election.   I recommend you do what they say.

Allow me to explain:

A good work ethic is probably at least as important as a good platform for a member of student government, and what better way to test work ethic than a frantic race around campus, petitioning undecideds?  So if you have no knowledge of any of the platforms, just vote for whoever gets to you first.  If nothing else, at least we can have a hard working student government.
 

CBC: Excessive Royal Wedding Coverage

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has taken every possible opportunity in recent weeks to report on the impending marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, a subject that doesn't affect Canadians in any significant way and most Canadians don't really care about.

Canada's state media apparatus has always been somewhat out of touch with what Canadians are interested in, but their recent obsession with British Royalty has been particularly uninteresting.  Lately I've started changing the channel over to CTV whenever the a "Royal Engagement" segment comes on.

The above graphic was meant to illustrate the convoluted and mostly meaningless way that the wedding is relevant to Canadians, but I'm not sure I really got the message across.

I did come across one interesting story on the CBC website while I was researching this post.  Apparently, some British parliamentarians are considering amending succession laws so that a daughter born to William and Kate would have a place in the line of succession.  If Britain made this change and Canada didn't, then Canada could technically recognize a different person as "King of Canada" while his older sister would be "Queen of Britain."  Hilarious.