Posted on February 18, 2009 by thewayofthings
Even Art Carney knows our economy’s gone subterranean.
“We don’t do optimism, We don’t do pessimism. We do realism at the Bank of
Canada. – We don’t do spin.”
Wow! Nice, short, bold, scalpel-like declarations from a powerful guy who clearly feels he has his finger on the pulse of Canada’s economic future. (Ahem, be careful with that scalpel sir.)
These emphatic [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2008 by thewayofthings
Doesn’t that frost your cupcakes.
It’s yellow, not so mellow, radioactive as hell and yummy in Cameco’s energy tummy.
Cameco is Canada’s lil’ Saskatchewan based uranium company that could and did secretly ink a deal bringing 550 metric tonnes of Saddam’s yellowcake from Iraq to Canada, at the US government’s behest and with the Canadian government’s blessing.
Using teams of ‘experts’ that included Iraqi scientists and engineers [...]
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Posted on July 4, 2008 by thewayofthings
Party invite depicting Champlain as an explorer with a penchant for poutine offends the thin-skimmed.
Mon Dieu! You’d think we’d sent an armada of gravy boats off to declare war!
An ill-advised party invite from the Canadian embassy in Washington D.C. promoting its 2008 Canada Day party has threatened Anglo-French realtions and gotten some folks sharply ‘cheesed-off’.
The invitation, depicting Quebec City’s founding father toting a big, honking [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2008 by thewayofthings
The cookie may be crumbling but as long as the price of 20 Timbits and a large regular hold steady — we should be okay.
Happy 141st Canada Day to one and All far and near and may the True North stay forever Strong and Free! —- your patriotic blogger — Steve
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Posted on June 28, 2008 by thewayofthings
And seldom is heard a discouraging word in that place called Alberta.
That’s why the folks at Travel Alberta and Discover Alberta have their vacation knickers in a knot. And so it falls on the current ’Alberta Booster Boy’ and Premier, Steady Eddy Stelmach to turn on his oily charm and show that the clean, green, vacation machine that is ”Wild Rose [...]
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