I know that the CFL is not very important to Canadians outside of the cities and western provinces that have a team, but I love the game and if we could just get a team in Halifax, St. John's (yes), maybe Quebec City (great university team there - Laval), Yellowknife (why the hell not?) we'd really have something here. Anyway the Atlantic Schooners are coming when their stadium is complete - construction is estimated to finish in July, 2039 (see my "Breaking News" badge from the Regina Grey Cup back in 2003).
A trip to Grease without leaving Quebec. Une gargotte où l'on donne à manger à bas prix. This restaurant is located in Huntingdon Quebec - drette proche à New York Steak...er State. And it's true - if you like chien chaud, original poutine and clogged arteries, this place is a must. Very well known by the locals and drifters alike.
below: Last scheduled flight of the Concord from NYC to London. Pics by Sybil This is my entry for remembrance day also know in France and Belgium as Armistice Day. I was aboard a train headed for Edinburgh on November 11th, 1999, cruising along England's North Sea coast. Over the intercom came an announcement to observe a minute of silence in remembrance at 11:11. It occurred to me that along this coast were many air fields where allied pilots and bomber crews left and never returned, many never to be seen again. Simply disappearing into the fog of war. One of them was my uncle, 19 year old Robert Charles Shilliday, MIA January 1945. My middle name was given to me after my mother's lost brother. The silence at 11:11 that morning was very special. afterthought It didn’t take long after The Wright’s first manned flight at Kitty Hawk that people realized this new wonderful invention would be good to use in the theatre of war.
I am strictly anti-war but I love everything about flight, including the war machines man has created since the early 1900’s. As a child I was surrounded by pilots. My father and three uncles flew in the service, one of them disappearing somewhere in Europe in 1945. So I was exposed to planes from the time I learned to see and think. My father would let me sit in cockpits of a variety of aircraft as they sat in hangars out at the base. Although I never became a pilot myself, I have experienced flight hundreds of times and especially love the feeling of breaking through the cloud into the great blue yonder…..
MY favorite planes as a child include some that my family members flew.
What do you know about Tuktut Nogait National Park, La Ronciere Falls and area? Thought so. It is in the Northwest Territories near the Nunavut frontier and just south of Amundson Gulf
It is hard to find anyone brave enough in this country to suggest that we bid adieu to England’s royal family. Or anyone that thinks doing so is an important step in our ascension to countryhood. The fear comes from loyalists and monarchists who love to suggest that the monarchy keeps us different from the U.S.A. Or that we have done it (held on to another country's elitist monarchy) for hundreds of years so why stop suckling now).
I mean, if that is the only thing that you see as giving us an identity may I suggest you come out of the cave you are living in (Toronto? Brockville?) and check out this country for once. And not from sitting shotgun in a van loaded with screaming kids as you speed across the prairies in a desperate attempt to make it to the Rockies. You gotta get off the Trans-Canada highway man. Live a little. Get used to the black flies, mosquitoes and crazy cold weather. That, my friends is Canada.
I’m not suggesting we stop flying Union Jacks (the biggest one on Britannia's planet is flown proudly at Cupids, Newfoundland - proudly under the Royal thumb for 400 years) and parading about in those crazy costumes like you see at National Parks (Forts) and Parliament Hill. We’ll never deny our history. But it is time to write our own history. Real Canadian history and it’s not too early as some would suggest. As a matter of fact, it is far too late. (Better late than never).
This week Charles and his bride are here in the great white north to visit 4 Canadian provinces and salute the Canadian Forces regiments that Bonny Prince Charley has his name attached to. These visits are becoming fewer and further between and dare I suggest again that when the nice lady, who refuses to give Chuckles that long awaited throne, kicks the diamond studded bucket, that this “country” grows up and cuts the silly little rope that keeps us living in a forgotten state of childhood attachment. Please. For the sake of the children!
As Canadian monarchists suggest, abolishing the monarchy would affect everything from “aboriginal treaties to interprovincial relations” to whose face appears on our money to …….I say the longer we wait, the deeper into a hole we dig ourselves. Just do it. But in a kind, polite and gentle way - the Canadian way.
Pepsi vs Coke. Cable vs Networks. In Canada we have seen a battle being played out on our TV screens between the networks and cable TV providers. Makes you wonder who is right huh. Guess we'll find out when we see who's left.
