Beyond The Commons

Aaron Wherry covers all the goings-on in and around Parliament Hill. Follow Aaron on Twitter: @aaronwherry

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Gone vacationing

by Aaron Wherry on Monday, July 18, 2011 1:18pm - 31 Comments

Beyond the Commons will be taking the next few days off. I assume the NDP will be by shortly to explain how this week wouldn’t have been possible without the organized labour movement.

Until we return, feel free to peruse the complete and unabridged archives of The Commons—including 50 sketches from the year so far—and recall that funny and/or distasteful and/or abhorrent and/or charming thing that backbencher and/or cabinet minister and/or member of the Royal family did and/or wore that one time.

Tags: I'm sitting at a Starbucks beside a corn field adjacent to a strip mall, vacation

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Anonymous

You’ve done a stellar job all year Aaron, and under difficult circumstances….so enjoy yourself!
Anonymous

You’ve done a stellar job all year Aaron, and under difficult circumstances….so enjoy yourself!
Anonymous

You’ve done a stellar job all year Aaron, and under difficult circumstances….so enjoy yourself!
Anonymous

You’ve done a stellar job all year Aaron, and under difficult circumstances….so enjoy yourself!
TonyAdams

Have a good hols, Wherry.

Hope there is lots of sun, alcohol and craic wherever you find yourself.
TonyAdams

Have a good hols, Wherry.

Hope there is lots of sun, alcohol and craic wherever you find yourself.
TonyAdams

Have a good hols, Wherry.

Hope there is lots of sun, alcohol and craic wherever you find yourself.
AVR

Feel free to take a couple weeks, or a month, or several years…you won’t be missed.
AVR

Feel free to take a couple weeks, or a month, or several years…you won’t be missed.

Anonymous

Oh you’d miss him. You wouldn’t have anything to natter about then.
Anonymous

Oh you’d miss him. You wouldn’t have anything to natter about then.
http://halooverride.blogspot.com/ Halo_Override

I’m ashamed to like the same cartoon as you.
http://halooverride.blogspot.com/ Halo_Override

I’m ashamed to like the same cartoon as you.

Anonymous

That’s irrational. Why should you feel ashamed about liking the same cartoon as someone you disagree with?
Anonymous

That’s irrational. Why should you feel ashamed about liking the same cartoon as someone you disagree with?

Anonymous

He doesn’t like the thought of being even that much in sync with such a person, obviously. Not that hard to figure out.
Anonymous

He doesn’t like the thought of being even that much in sync with such a person, obviously. Not that hard to figure out.
Anonymous

He doesn’t like the thought of being even that much in sync with such a person, obviously. Not that hard to figure out.

Anonymous

Well, obviously. It’s still irrational, though!

Anyway, I think that AVR should come to his senses and admit that he really likes Wherry. We’re all Wherry fans here. There’s no call for that sort of crankiness and rudeness!
http://halooverride.blogspot.com/ Halo_Override

Tweren’t the disagreement, but the uncouthiness of it all!

Anonymous

He doesn’t like the thought of being even that much in sync with such a person, obviously. Not that hard to figure out.

Anonymous

That’s irrational. Why should you feel ashamed about liking the same cartoon as someone you disagree with?

http://halooverride.blogspot.com/ Halo_Override

I’m ashamed to like the same cartoon as you.

AVR

Feel free to take a couple weeks, or a month, or several years…you won’t be missed.
Anonymous

Aaron, I hope you’re traveling during this vacation. Don’t squander it in Nowhereville, Ontario.
Anonymous

Aaron, I hope you’re traveling during this vacation. Don’t squander it in Nowhereville, Ontario.
Anonymous

Aaron, I hope you’re traveling during this vacation. Don’t squander it in Nowhereville, Ontario.
Anonymous

Ah. I thought you might stay around and localize the News of the World scandal.
Like for instance how closer are various Ottawa journalists to the PMO? Which ones are meeting frequently and are close friends with PMO operatives and various MPs? For instance we could rate members of the Ottawa media on a 1 to 5 scale reflecting the extent to which they are carrying out the PMO agenda talking points etc, and which ones totally independent thinkers. An example: a 5 if you are totally under PMO control at the Mike Duffy level. May be a 1 for Lawrence Martin. That kind of thing.To Harper’s credit, with Cameron getting caught out on cozy cozy connections to tabloid editors and owners, you can understand why Harper apparently has nothing to do with the ink stained wretches or their employers, well except for Sun Media and Kory T. Oh yea, there was that New York meeting.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z4UWLSSOOCOIUJ3IAC6OPVGREU d.

We gave the world Conrad Black. Let us rest from our localized labours and be proud of ourselves.

Anonymous

Good point. So how do National Post and Sun papers stand up to scrutiny like we are seeing in London?
At least Black ran a quality brit paper which I don’t think was likely involved in NoW style shenanigans.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Z4UWLSSOOCOIUJ3IAC6OPVGREU d.

With ’6 words and a long quote’-style blogging, I wouldn’t notice. You’ve spent the last month packing?

But since there’s some actual content in this blog, I’ll respond that without organized labour, we’ll soon be all like a Korean friend of mine: 12-hour workdays, getting part-time pay and working like a dog.

Or another Korean friend, a Sorbonne graduate (when the Sorbonne was still something), she burned out teaching French, three 3-hour intensive classes a day. Not to mention prep work. Came to Canada exhausted, to learn theatre-management. Good luck to her. But not if the liberals get back into opposition.
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