However, it frequently is the time for politics, and this year I seem to be up to my neck in campaigns. First came the provincial election where I worked some (not as much as I should have probably) for the excellent Quebec Solidaire candidate Eve Torres, who came a quite respectable second in a riding that was gift to the Liberal Party.
Now there is a bye-election in prospect in Outremont to fill the seat vacated when Thomas Mulcair resigned at the end of the summer. Last Sunday I did some calling for the NDP candidate Julia Sanchez, another fine woman entering politics for the first time.
And today and tomorrow, I'm going to be calling into three Congressional districts which Lee and spotted last summer, thanks to SwingLeft, a movement to take back the US House of Representatives and whose motto is "Don't Despair. Mobilize." They looked winnable, so we checked to make sure that we could give money as non-resident Americans (yeah, this kind of thing is mainly why I keep my dual citizenship), and coughed up some cash. Now it's time to put my mouth where my money is, to turn the adage on its head. Got a headphone-mike thing for my computer so I can use the campaigns' phone bansk, and when it's 1 p.m. here and 10 a.m. on the Pacific Coast where the three campaigns are, I'll spend some time on the phone.
Konrad Yakabuski in the Globe and Mail this morning is pretty downbeat on what will happen Nov. 6, even if the Dems take back the House. The headline is "Democrats no match for 'nationalist' Trump." But you've got to try anyway, it seems to me.
BTW, my daughter and her partner don't quit bike riding in the winter. I think they're more than a little nuts, but she's just bought some new winter biking duds so she can ride in style and comfort in winter weather. Given the traffic conditions around here I can understand the appeal: what takes a half hour on a bike would take an hour on the bus. But fixing that is another story.
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