3 Minutes That Matter: Manitoba PC Failure, Trudeau's Montana Trip, The Blue Jays

Canada's loudest Conservative Bull Horn is not a human being. It's a paper - The National Post. They are warning Conservatives Nationally not to do what Manitoba Progressive Conservatives did - not to demolish themselves with dumb messages that make conservatives ashamed of their party, reluctant to support them, prompting many to stay at home or vote for someone else. The Post doesn't need my help. But I will offer it with Mathematics 101. Roughly 67% of voters live in the city and suburbs of Winnipeg. Focus on that 67% number because the Progressive Conservatives who were governing my adopted home province for 7 years managed to get not half of that 67% number - only one third is what that got one third of the voters in Winnipeg and to add insult to injury in the Manitoba Legislature out of 32 seats in Winnipeg, the Manitoba Conservates won only 3. 3 seats out of 32. Yes the campaign tilted right. Yes they concealed their leader from the voters. Yes they ran terrible ads. Yes they made every mistake in the book. But at the heart of the analysis is this. Canada is a middle of the Road Country - not a right wing nut job country and if you communicate with real voters the way Conservatives on Social media communicate with anonymous trolls and bots and accounts that are as fake as Donald Trump's tan, your brand will get tanned, caned, and demolished. It happened this week in Manitoba and the right wing bullhorn known as the National Post saw fit to warn the troops. Stop peddling stuff that only appeals to the ignorant and the hateful. You may wind up like the Manitoba PCs - in a landfill.

Despite the Conservative Party's belief that CBC is a PR agency for Justin Trudeau, once again the public broadcaster is breaking a story that only brings embarrassment to the PM. The family's Easter vacay to Montana cost taxpayers a quarter of a million dollars, much more than the number that was reported by the PMO to Parliament.

The Blue Jays have now gone seven seasons without a winning a playoff game. On Wednesday night in the Twin Cities of Minnesota - the Jays got swept from the Wild Card round. No sane fan could be surprised. This fan of Major League Baseball. When I was kid Willie Mays Sandy Koufax and Mickey Mantle were alive. I have been a fan for well over a half a century. I am not a fan of faking excitement about making a wild card round, something the Jays have been able to do in four of the last five seasons - bowing out each time without winning a single game. The Jays are Baseball's version of the Leafs. They tease but they don't satisfy, they don't go all the way.

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