Tarot Meditation: 3 December, Sagittarius 2015

Announcements for Thursday:

• 10.30am-11.30am: Yoga
• 11.30am-8pm: Store Hours for Walk-in's

Happy Thursday, Sault Ste. Marie! For today's Tarot meditation, I'm looking at the following combination:

Empress + Wheel of Fortune: Everybody loves a dreamer. Passion is contagious: when you believe in your desires so passionately that they become reality in the minds of others, then you will become an alluring siren who pulls into your sphere of influence all those who keenly feel the absence of the same in their own lives. Beware the potential of making slaves out of your followers.

How can we apply today's Tarot meditation to the real world? 

Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk says the Ministry of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure ignores the north despite having the mandate to serve the entire province. (Frank Gunn/Canadian Press)

Now, before any of you reading this start to think that I have a political bent - well, I do. Were I a Canadian citizen and not a permanent resident, I'd vote for the Green Party. Yay, trees. Also, the only reason I'm picking this headline from the news is because it's the #1 article on my Google News feed for Ontario. So chill-ax, I'm not picking on the Liberals.

So, with that out of the way, the Auditor General of Ontario, Bonnie Lysyk has come out with a report to say that money has been paid blindly, services have been shamefully delayed, and Children's Aid Services is almost criminally mismanaged. To me, this isn't really a strike against the Liberals so much as it's a strike against big provincial government and unwieldy bureaucracy. So it's not a surprise that this problems exist. I don't accept these problems, but I'm not surprised that they're happening. And for those of us in Sault Ste. Marie, it's also no surprise that the provincial government is practically ignoring us. 

So what's to be expected from all this? A northern Ontario resident can dream. There're some pretty egregious shortfalls in this report, and I fully expect the Liberal party's opposition to grab hold of it. And that's what opposition is for: to keep people accountable. I have every hope that this will turn into a "thing" and force the provincial government to make it right. I only hope that this doesn't become a platform point during the next election and voters focus exclusively on the shortfalls of the Liberal party at the expense of not critically evaluating the shortfalls of whichever party would replace them.