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Piglet
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
... the Big White Out which will commence within minutes of Pete landing back in Ottawa ...
As long as it confines itself to Ottawa, that's fine ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Jurgen Gothe has died. I used to listen to DiscDrive daily, and then, after the CBC turfed nearly all the classical and progressive music from CBC2, I stopped. Jurgen was a wonderful host, and I miss his show, and now, him.
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Stercus Tauri
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For a while I owed my sanity to Jurgen Gothe, though my Dear Wife claims the opposite. She is bracing herself for an outburst of favourite quotes. I had a ghastly commute to Mississauga, but the evening drive was a lot easier with Disc Drive. Then there were lucky times, like tuning in on the way to the airport in Montreal, and catching him again when I got in my own car at Toronto. It wasn't just his choice of music; he cared about the choice of recording. I have never forgiven the CBC for cancelling his programme.
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Trudy Scrumptious
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Originally posted by Stercus Tauri:
For a while I owed my sanity to Jurgen Gothe, though my Dear Wife claims the opposite.
She claims Jurgen Gothe owed his sanity to you?
RIP Jurgen.
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Books and things.
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Kittyville
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Ah, Canada - it's good to be back.
That is all - for now. Never been to Montréal before, so may be back later in the week, once I've seen a bit more of it.
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Piglet
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Welcome, Kittyville - have a wonderful time. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Thanks, Piglet! After two days of conference tedium, we're playing hooky tomorrow and heading out for a ramble round town. Then to the Bell Centre for game 5 of the playoffs. The tickets cost un bras et la moitié de l'autre, but when am I likely to be able to go to such a game again?
Allez les Canadiens!
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The Habs sure struggled in that game! You certainly are right about the ticket prices for NHL.
Meanwhile, on the praires, we have a blizzard. About 6" of snow so far. Maybe ski tomorrow.
[ 25. April 2015, 21:32: Message edited by: no prophet's flag is set so... ]
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Conceding that first soft goal seemed to sap their confidence, but the Senators were dogged, so fair play to them. Looking forward to game 6 now!
Jealous of your skiing. It's been too long since I went.
In Toronto now, somewhere else I haven't been before, so off for a bit of an explore tomorrow before 2 days in the office.
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Caissa
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St. Carey comes through in the clutch.
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Piglet
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Just bumping this to avoid the Hostly Spring-cleaning Broom.
Spring is almost beginning to spring here in the mystic East; actually that should be misty East, which is how we can tell it's nearly spring - you can't see the end of your nose.
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lily pad
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Plows are out on the roads here today - 10 cm expected - just another day in April.
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We had 30 cm over the weekend. Power failures all over due to the heaviness and wetness. It's +9°C this morning, and it will all be going I think today and tomorrow. You're right, just another April day.
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Thankfully there is only about 3-4 feet of snow still in the yard so another bit isn't too bad - you can keep the 30 cm. We're hoping for +13 next week.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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Where's Meg? I think Alberta is slipping into the Twilight Zone. ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Stetson
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
Where's Meg? I think Alberta is slipping into the Twilight Zone.
Here is some memoribilia from the last time that what is predicted to be happening on Tuesday happened...
Daveberta
The NDP flyer, ninth from the top, is interesting. Notice that they were accusing the Tories of planning a sales tax, which they have never introduced, and foregoing a rise in royalty rates, which the Tories did in fact implement in '72.
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Meg the Red
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
Where's Meg? I think Alberta is slipping into the Twilight Zone.
You rang? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Should be an interesting election; the advance poll at which Mr. Red and I voted was so crowded that we had to park a wee bit illegally to be able to exercise our franchise.
My vote won't change anything as we live in a solidly Dipper riding whose excellent MLA I have consistently supported. However, there are signs of change; on a trip through the countryside south of Edmonton this weekend, I counted about twice as many NDP signs on private property as those representing other parties Very unusual for rural ridings! (I acknowledge that I may have miscounted because, y'know, math is difficult.)
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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I dunno about you, but if the NDP pull this off in Alberta, I will have to be sedated.
They're calling it the Orange Chinook.
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
I dunno about you, but if the NDP pull this off in Alberta, I will have to be sedated.
They're calling it the Orange Chinook.
Somehow I pictured you dancing in the street. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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For a start.
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Caissa
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The last election the polls had Wildrose leading. Albertans got cold feet. Let's hope they don't this time after 45 years. Alberta has a history of single party hegemonies going back to the UFA.
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Stetson
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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
They're calling it the Orange Chinook.
Hey, enough with the Calgaracentric metaphors!
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Stetson
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Joking aside, the phrase is still rather ironic, because, going by past numbers, the regions of Alberta most likely to return large numbers of New Democrats are also the ones with no experience of chinooks.
Though I guess we'll now in a few hours if that trend holds up.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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MY WORD!!!!
Rachel Notley, PC, MLA, DRAGONSLAYER
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Meg the Red
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I was a student page in the provincial legislature when her father was an MLA, the sole NDP representative in the House. Like my parents, I admired him greatly; he was an incredibly principled, dedicated, hardworking man whose life ended tragically and far too soon.
The majority of my fellow pages had Tory connections, and literally laughed out loud at me when I made the mistake of telling them my parents had voted NDP in the previous election. When I told this story to Grant Notley's daughter at a fundraiser a few years ago, she nodded, then said that she was working to make sure that the NDP would be taken very seriously one day.
Yesterday was that day. Mr. Notley would be so proud, as am I.
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Uncle Pete
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It looks like a horrible urban-rural split. What a dogs breakfast of a government that will be.
I do admit that it is one thing that Tories manage to manipulate rather well.
Good luck. Hope she won't be a one term wonder.
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Profound booing when she mentioned working with Mr. Harper. But it's okay, Saskatchewan is the new Alberta. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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So Meg, how does if feel to wake up in an NDP-run province?
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Meg the Red
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I've done so much happy dancing, I can skip the gym.
That being said, Notley's not going to have an easy ride, particularly as she's inherited a steaming heap of economic mismanagement from the Tories. But she's tough and savvy and personable and feeds on the snivelling of PC cronies who've lost their easy access to provincial coffers.
In the meantime, Orange Crush was disappearing from our meeting room fridges at a great rate today; I work with some really gleeful pinkos.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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The good people of Lloydminster must feel very confused right now.
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What pleases me most is the discovery of Alberta's new renewable energy source, generated by the rapid rotations emanating from Ralph Klein's grave.
Roll on, Ralphie!
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Meg the Red
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![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Uncle Pete
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A discreet civil servant sent me a picture (privately) of pigs flying. The photo was captioned Meanwhile in Alberta...
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Caissa
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I posted that picture on my Facebook page. Be interesting to see if it translates into federal seats in the fall.
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I got the kids knock knock joke sent, which ends with "Orange you sad you called an election".
Will there be an effect on the rest of the country? And will politics finally come back to the comfortable centre where it belongs in Canada (to clarify, social democracy is the centre IMHO).
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Meg the Red
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Heck, Ralph Klein once referred to NDP supporters as Communists, so nothing new here. Which reminds me, I do believe this would be an appropriate time to break out that perfectly lovely hand-pained hammer and sickle flag Wodders so kindly sent me a couple of years ago. . . .
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Caissa
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Mulcair has promised to implement PR if the NDP win the next federal election.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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That's Fair Vote Canada doing their Entryist thing; they're annoying. Their President was in my former Riding Association. Did I mention they were annoying?
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Uncle Pete
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That annoying person you mention is a friend of mine; he is not in the least annoying.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Your experience is very different than mine, then.
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Mulcair has promised to implement PR if the NDP win the next federal election.
As did the PQ in 1976, and the NDP in 1990. I wish that they had, but parties in power seem to have their attention distracted and sense of purpose weakened when this question comes up. For those interested in this most obscure topic, the Québec green paper is one of the best documents written for the Canadian context.
As far as Alberta goes, I won a bottle of Lagavulin 16-year old from an acquaintance who had fiercely (and with borderline offensiveness) predicted the triumph of the Wild Rose. I said it was more likely that the NDP would come in and would give him a bottle of the nectar should Wild Rose win-- he reciprocated the wager. I had my first sip last night but will have to give him a drink, as I had every expectation that the Conservatives would have come in, although much weakened in urban areas. Even though my prediction was wrong, I feel very much like a winner.
At my local this morning, a Zoroastrian friend wickedly noted that there must be dozens of Conservative assistants now wondering how to fill out the UI forms.
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Only in Canada eh.
21° shirt sleeves and sun yesterday. -3 this morning with a terrific wind and snow.
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Same here - frost warning tonight after 23 degrees yesterday. Wind is very brr this morning but we still went biking. There are buds on the branches so there will be leaves.
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Meg the Red
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I confess I don't understand the mad rush to campgrounds on the Victoria Day weekend: it's a very rare year that it doesn't rain/snow/sleet/freeze. There was a frost warming overnight, which I suppose would not be so bad if half the counties in Alberta weren't under a fire ban, so no chance of warming chilly appendages by a roaring campfire.
(And no, I don't call RVing camping; if you don't have to put on footwear to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, you. ain't. camping.)
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Piglet
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It's cool-ish here (after a lovely day yesterday) - we've apparently got icebergs out in the bay, which always makes it feel a few degrees colder. However, when D. and I went up Signal Hill for a look at lunchtime, the fog had come in and we couldn't even see the bay, let alone the icebergs ...
Gotta love Newfoundland.
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Augustine the Aleut
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Last night, I was at a local grenola emporium where a jazz singer was playing in the garden, and then the fireworks began. After a moment's interruption (as they were really very good), the singer and her two musicians improvised to the fireworks for the next half hour. The spirit of Handel lives!
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Caissa
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Speaking of jazz, I am currently listening to the new Brad Mehldau album. Victoria was gorgeous in Saint John. We celebrated it, and our 19th wedding anniversary, by going on a 7 kilometere walk.
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Victoria Day 2015: Took a 4 km walk on the boardwalk with half the population and the cycling leg of a triathlon in the morning and a 10 km bike ride in the evening. Lots of snow still in the ditches and on the trail. A stop for ice cream in the evening went down well. The pup ran at least twice what I did. It was a great to have several days in a row with sunshine, light winds, and no bugs!
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