Election

London has fantastic radio stations. Or, more specifically, the BBC has fantastic radio stations. I recommend loading up the old BBC website (www.bbc.co.uk) and having a browse. The most thrilling part is that all the programs can be streamed up to a week after the original broadcast.
It completely puts the CBC to shame. For shame, CBC.
However, the BBC is propped up by a fat T.V. licensing tax that anyone owning a T.V. must pay. You can't just opt out by only using T.V to watch DVDs, or anything else sneaky. Trade-off is no commercials and really good programs.
So perhaps it should be, For shame, Canadian government, for shame.
In unrelated government slagging, why are they (by they I mean the Broadcast Consortium and those in power) still not letting the Green Party on the televised Leaders' debate?
At least provide a benchmark for guaranteed inclusion.

The televised leaders' debates for the 2006 election have excluded Green Party of Canada leader Jim Harris, despite his leading a national party running candidates in all 308 ridings and having earned the votes of over 580,000 Canadians in the 2004 federal election. Leaving these decisions to the unaccountable Broadcast Consortium that controls the debates is a threat to Canadian democracy


http://www.greenparty.ca/leaders_debates.html

I'm still very impressed with the Green Party's platform and while I understand the need to keep the Conservatives out, hence voting Liberal (boring), I think they're worth a look.
For shame, Broadcast Consortium

I'll try not to sprain my ankle getting off my soapbox