It’s not that I’m not a political guy. In fact, usually kinda the opposite.
But I’ve made a very deliberate decision to keep this space fairly free of politics and opinion that links (directly) back to those topics.
That said, it’s election day in Canada and today the nation was off to the polls to pick a federal government.
Traditionally, I pour myself a glass of whiskey, settle onto the couch, turn on the television and watch with bated breath as the results start to roll in.
With a country as geographically expansive as Canada, there is literally a rolling in of the results as we cascade east to west waiting for election zones to close down and start reporting results.
My region closed a few minutes ago and numbers have started appearing on the bottom of the screenful of commentators on the CBC coverage.
The glass of whiskey will either be a celebratory drink or a mournful way to drown some political sorrows.
As of now I don’t know which, so I’m sipping and watching and sipping some more.