First off, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but whoopie for dial-up. As both Telus and Primus have techical concerns for high-speed in my neighbourhood, I found a service that will provide me high speed, and give me free dial up until my new ADSL modem arrives. No more 1 hour trips to the library.
With all that is happening in this neck of the world, what has happened outside of my world, anyway?
Liverpool FC went from 9th in the Premiership to tied for 3rd, and drew Arsenal in the next round of the FA cup (yay, then ugghh).
The Toronto Make Me Laughs have lost every single game they have played since my last real post (on 25 November, 2006). They are nearly sliding out of a playoff spot. YAYAYAYAYAY! Mort Leaf Mort!
Montreal, in the same span have gone 2-2-0. They sit 4th in the east.
Vancouver has gone 2-2-0 also. Vancouver is currently 9th. Trade rumours are afoot in this city, with talk of trying to re-acquire Anson Carter. I have a thought to make the ‘Nucks better. Fire Nonis and Vigneault.
Roddy Piper has been diagnosed with cancer.
Dawn and I finally have our little furball cat, Tara home.
We actually had snow in the lower mainland. And true to my uncle’s word, it nearly shut down the whole region. I must say it makes me sad as a Canadian to see an urban area succumb to snow like this. But alas, when a dumping like the one we received last week hits but once a decade, the need for snow removal infrastructure is not a high priority.
But, as for being proud to be Canadian, the Liberal party have elected a new leader, who soon will become our next Prime Minister. Say hello to Stéphane Dion. He is a francophone Québecer, supports a Canada that includes Québec, and wants to augment the standard Liberal stance of fiscal responsibility and social justice with a third pillar of environmental responsibility. He has gone on record, saying that current Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has single handedly turned Canada from environmental hero to zero. But it’s not REALLY Rona’s fault. The environment is not one of Harper’s five priorities of re-criminalizing same-sex marriage, going against his word and taxing income trusts, giving single moms an $18,000 per annum pay cut, cutting the income tax for the rich while raising the base rate for the poor (along with a 1% reduction in GST), and of course, creating legislation so that Conservatives can hold Liberals accountable fiscally when the Conservatives do NOT hold office.
Yup, all the signs point to it, a Liberal majority government. I would like to say it’s a refreshing change, but alas, it’s par for the course here. While our differently brained neighbours fear Liberals like the plague, the opposite is quite true up here in the Great White North. In my near 34 years (yikeys I’m not liking getting older), we have had only one Conservative Leader, Power Chin aka Brian Mulroney, who had a government last longer than one year (9 years). Trudeau, Cretien, and Martin were the Liberals in the same time span to accomplish the same feat (7 and 4 years, based on being born in the middle of a Trudeau term, 10 years, and 2 years). I just wonder. Can Harper last out the one year mark? Not that it truly matters, as opinion now swings back in the red’s favour. It’s only time before Dion is referred to as Mr. Prime Minister.
That is all.
