You know all those newspaper stories that appear this time of year with a forward-looking bent that purport to tell you what's likely to happen in the coming year?
Forget those stories.
They're always wrong and, even if they're not wrong, nobody except the nerds who cuts out the clipping to wave in your face at some future point can even remember what was predicted in the first place.
Much easier just to prognosticate on the unlikely side — tell people about what they definitely won't have to deal with in the coming year. That way they can eliminate the stress of considering the myriad of possible ramifications.
So, here are a few things that you definitely won't have to worry about seeing in 2008:
• Mayor Hazel McCallion announcing her retirement.
• Tim Peterson switching parties and/or crossing the floor.
• Enersource Hydro Mississauga holding a tag day for its board of directors.
• Wajid Khan releasing his report on the findings of his Mid-East trip.
• Antonio Batista sending Pat Saito a Christmas poem in rhyme.
• Hydro One voluntarily saving trees in its rights-of-way through Mississauga.
• Stephen Harper deciding to give Cabinet ministers more autonomy.
• George Bush getting re-elected.
• Paul Szabo losing his title as the most talkative MP in Parliament.
• Bob Delaney opting not to sue anyone for questioning his integrity.
• Carolyn Parrish apologizing for something she thought, but didn't say out loud.
• Don Cherry apologizing for anything.
A belated Happy 2008, no matter what happens.
Comments (1)
The biggest non-prediction is whether Paul Szabo's chairing the Mulroney Schreiber affair links into Peel's "pooling" Mike Harris had wedged into the $54 billion EI surplus.
It's this interference with our fundamental mobility and legal rights we don't know the Conservatives are collapsing the Progressive Conservative party out from the mysterious disappearances of our T-4 slips and HRDC Records of Employment.
Posted by Wayne Nagy | January 12, 2008 10:23 AM
Posted on January 12, 2008 10:23