What's my motivation?

This page returns from family business in Minnesota and is expected to be excited about a few things, which frankly, don't stir much of anything in me. Here are a few examples:

Eagleridge Bluffs - When Vancouver's 2010 Olympic bid committee first tackled bringing people to and from Whistler, their plan incorporated a mix of ferries, buses, and passenger rail. Did the NIMBYs in West Vancouver not get a noxious whiff of trouble when that plan was trashed to fuel the BC Liberals pavement addiction? At least the Bluffs had something resembling an environmental assessment before the tree huggers come lately were shooed back to their monster houses which ate up a lot of pristine North Shore woodlands themselves.

Same Sex Marriage - The Harpercons will table a free voting motion sometime this fall to re-open the debate on SSM. While on the surface such a motion may be incendiary for progressives, the real objective for the Prime Minister is to establish closure on the issue before the next election. The Stockwell Days and Myron Thompsons will get to scream and yell, the Jim Prentices will get to shrug about how the country has moved on, the motion will fail miserably, and Harper will have cleared the deck of at least one sticky piece of social policy.

The Edmonton Oilers - They're not 'Canada's Team', they're Edmonton's team. The Oilers play an entertaining brand of tough, fast hockey, but North Carolina is by no means Afghanistan. This page never ceases to be bemused by hockey fans who switch from their favourite team to a hated rival because they want the Stanley Cup to rest in Canada, no matter how many Europeans or Americans suit up for the team. Face it, you didn't see Cubs fans adopting the White Sox last fall just because they're from Chicago.