Happy change of clocks weekend. Happy up to 50 cm of snow weekend, too. Fifty! That is 20 inches! Sunday, day of thrown out backs. And one less hour to get over it.
- Chantal Hebert, still channeling Rene Levesque's shrug, has a good column in The Star on the unfortunately named NAFTA-gate:
A memo deemed to contain insider information about Obama's NAFTA mindset would have landed with a bang in the Prime Minister's Office last week, or else Canadian diplomats and their Ottawa masters are asleep at the switch.
What if the Watergate Hotel had been called Happy Harry's Holiday Hacienda? Would we be calling this NAFTA-Hacienda? - The USA has a national four squares champion.
- Jean remains Canada's best quote:
He told the crowd that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is treading on dangerous ground by mixing politics and religion. "It is a problem when you mix politics and religion, I had to face that problem all my life and it was not easy for me because I'm a Roman Catholic in practice — and even some bishop said I was to go to hell," said Mr. Chrétien.
And he couldn't resist the punch line: "He might be with me, who knows."
- NYCO makes a great point about the sometimes stunned nature of Web 2.0.
- In perhaps the stupidest example of exercising the law when no one needs it exercised, PEI has seized 10,000 cans of pop. Because they are in cans. And that is illegal. For the next eight weeks. Comments as to the use of public funds, including you tax dollars in action, can be directed to the guy in charge of everything.
- This just in from a scared old academic:
"This is not a bunch of old academics sitting around a table saying, 'Oh, this scares us.' That's not what's happening," he said.
Nope - not at all.
Comments
Mike C - March 7, 2008 9:30 AM
Four Squares was not on our Halifax early 70s schoolyard game agenda. We did have one called Four Corners that involved 5 people - four on each of the four corners of a slab of concrete, the other in the middle trying to nab one of those corners when any of the others switched places (which was how you scored points). You had to step on a lot of toes to get anywhere in that game.
sean liddle - March 7, 2008 9:33 AM
NYCO's point is well taken. One is amazed that some w2.0'ers would think "Hey, why can we NOT have access to those images? What are you hiding?? ".. duh.
Although I will say, when travelling for work last fall to Nanticoke, I was quite annoyed that the aerials available on Google Maps for the area around the power plant were of such crummy resolution, yet I can measure the width of my fish pond in my back patio in the middle of the woods in the middle of nowhere..
David Janes - March 7, 2008 10:37 AM
I thought 4 squares was a show on Tree House.
Chris Taylor - March 7, 2008 11:18 AM
We need more poking of sticks in the spokes of presidential contenders. Instead of Canada being the superpower of actionless hectoring, we can be the superpower of hectoring <i>and</i> troublesome meddling. Isn't that what Paul Martin and Bono meant when they said "the world needs more Canada"...? No? How about Stephane Dion's challenge that "Canada must take on the world"?
I say bring it, world. We have more sticks than you have spokes or bike wheels. Also our national heroes (as featured on Heritage Minutes) can beat up your national heroes.
Alan - March 7, 2008 12:10 PM
"for Finland"
One day, Chris, your comment will itself be the subject to a Canadian Heritage Munite brought to you by Canada Post.
Chris Taylor - March 7, 2008 12:50 PM
...but I need these baskets back!
Alan - March 7, 2008 12:54 PM
"...into the river papa!!!"
Paul of Kingston - March 7, 2008 1:57 PM
Personally I fear an enduring rain of death spokes from the south not to mention a further bunging of the border.