John Stall

Hi there, and welcome to my new blog - let’s call it “Stall’s world” just for fun.

This is where I am happy to begin sharing some of my thoughts and insights into the news, trends and events that shape not only our lives of today but because I have been in and around the news and public affairs business for a very long time (some 30 years), I like to whenever it is useful, interpret and compare current developments with and through the prism of history that gave rise to them.

For example, of all the provincial elections that I have covered over the years (back to the mid-70s) few if any, have been less contentious than this one. 

There is no overriding issue to be decided (although funding of religious schools and promise breaking are talk points). There is no “let’s get rid of the Harris regime, because they have concluded the revolutionary agenda” or cut too many services. There is no “Let’s get rid of the Bob Rae government because they put the province into debt.” There is no “Let’s get rid of that David Peterson - just to teach him a lesson about not taking anything for granted by calling an election way before one was scheduled or necessary - but just because he was way out front in year three of his mandate.”

In this election, there is no real palpable public anger, no real scandal, no real sense that anything is at stake - there is no “juice.”