Premier Dalton McGuinty visits with kindergarten children at Victor Lauriston Public School in Chatham, January 12, 2009. Aaron Hall Photo.

Guess who has just commandeered our new “Ontario tonight” feature (see bar at top of page), and turned what is supposed to be a home for “brief intermittent reports on comings and goings in Canada’s most populous province” into accommodation for yet another extended tirade on Ontario’s “founding Liberal Premier of the later 19th century, Oliver Mowat,” and what may or may not prove his great-spirit echoes in the present career of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty?

Whatever your guess, if you haven’t yet checked out “Ontario tonight” you may want to quickly look into “Monday 9 August 2010 – Premier Dad today as direct descendant of Christian Statesman and Elder Brother Mowat, 1872—1896.” The point of departure for the extended ramblings in this case is Robert Benzie’s piece in today’s Toronto Star on Dalton McGuinty –  “The upside and downside of being Premier Dad.”Â  (And we promise: the next entry in “Ontario tonight,” whenever the spirit moves it, will be much shorter.)