The Black Rod

Open wide, folks. Mary Poppins sang how a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down--- and the first win by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in their spanking new football stadium is as sweet as it gets. But now it's time for your medicine. While watching the game we thought that it was a good time to catch up with A Person In A Position To Know. We introduced him to you back in July with his hot tip about the cost overruns on the stadium that were being kept under wraps. http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2013/07/hidden-winnipeg-blue-bombers-stadium.html Yikes. No sooner did we touch base with APIAPTK than we realized that the team's new acting CEO Wade Miller is sitting on the biggest powder keg in blue-and-gold history.  When she blows, the blast will be monumental. And this time, A Person In A Position To Know is not the only source of the explosive news. During a recent on-line chitchat about stadium matters, when a curious football fan asked ...

A year ago, just as an exercise, we started asking people "who would you like to see run for mayor?" We hoped to compile a list of potential candidates to encourage a debate in advance of the 2010 civic election over what makes a good mayor. We never expected the response we got, i.e. we never saw so many blank faces in our lives. How many legitimate names did we collect? Try ZERO. What was funny then isn't so funny now. Incumbent Sam Katz is facing off against one high-profile and several low-profile candidates. The high-profile contender is so unqualified that it's scary. And one of the low-profile candidates deserves to be a legitimate contender but isn't because the mainstream media won't treat him seriously. They leave us no choice. We have to step in and draft someone to run for mayor. After much searching we have a candidate: He's a businessman. He's a sportsman. He's a married father. He overcame the odds to succeed th...