the blog quebecois

Globe and Mail:

The current distribution does penalize certain provinces, particularly western provinces, Alberta and B.C., that only have six senators at this time but they have four to five times of the population of New Brunswick or Nova Scotia where they have 10 senators.

Many will share my view that it's not good for the province[s] to have an elected Senate as long as we don't have a change of the number of senators per province.

Such touching solicitude from Citoyen Dion, on why Senate reform is needed; unless someone tries to reform it, in which case it's impossible without opening up the Constitution. (Makes frowny face, shakes head sadly, turns away.)

The blogospheric Line Of The Day appeared in a slightly different context, but it fits: Here's a sack of flour, dirty tragic dying person. Someone will be around to study your plight shortly. (Via SDA.)

Update: Newsworld's top-of-the-hour broadcast: Something to the effect that Harper was determined to push through his changes, even if they would leave the Senate "less accountable and more dysfunctional." (I got that last part verbatim.) So sayeth the CBC.

Sheer, gratuitous editorializing. You must have missed that class at J-school.

Or maybe you learned all too well.