Wednesday September 17, 2014 – 10am
Posted Sep 17, 2014 12:49:30 PM.
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10:00- Scotland votes: What was vs. what might be
Paul Wells, Political Editor of Maclean’s Magazine
A whopping 97% of Scottish voters have registered to cast ballots in tomorrow’s independence referendum. Wells reports from Scotland that nobody has any clue what’s going to happen. But of course if you’re defending the status quo, it’s preferable for the status quo to be something you like to show off. The Yes and No campaigns are not diametrically opposed in style – you can’t shorthand them as Hope vs. Fear, because the Yes has been braying all week about the Westminster government’s supposed “plan” to privatize the National Health Service, so there’s plenty of fear in their rhetorical arsenal as well. But perhaps you could line it up this way: the Yes is about possibility, the No about prudence. I offer no predictions. The polls are close. I haven’t seen much of the country since I got here Friday, and this exercise is so unprecedented nobody knows how to predict. At dinner tonight, everybody around me was talking about voting No, except the young guy at the next table who impressed his date by gaming out the negotiations around an independent Scotland’s accession to NATO. Nobody has any clue what’s going to happen.
10:30- Racing Legend in Kitchener this morning
Mario Andretti, Former World Champion Race Car Driver
Racing legend Mario Andretti will be in Kitchener, Ontario on Wednesday, September 17 at Fowler Tire to celebrate their long standing relationship with Firestone. Mario Andretti (born February 28, 1940) is a retired Italian American world champion racing driver, one of the most successful Americans in the history of the sport. He is one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sportscar Championship and NASCAR (the other being Dan Gurney). He also won races in midget cars, and sprint cars. During his career, Andretti won the 1978 Formula One World Championship, four IndyCar titles (three under USAC-sanctioning, one under CART), and IROC VI. To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 (1969), Daytona 500 (1967) and the Formula One World Championship, and, along with Juan Pablo Montoya, the only driver to have won a race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500. No American has won a Formula One race since Andretti’s victory at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix. Andretti had 109 career wins on major circuits. Andretti had a long career in racing. He was the only person to be named United States Driver of the Year in three decades (1967, 1978, and 1984). With his final IndyCar win in April 1993, Andretti became the first driver to win IndyCar races in four different decades and the first to win automobile races of any kind in five. In American popular culture, his name has become synonymous with speed.
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