05-30-2005, 05:14 PM
Quote: BTW, Tommy Douglas' daughter gave an amazing speech last night at the Centennial Galla. Made me proud to be a Saskatchewanite.
Oh my, Mr. Layton..Mwaha! Can you see him out on your sidewalk doing situps, crunches and "Yoga Booty Ballet" right now? Take a picture!! [/quote]
Ah! Saskatchewanite! I'd never seen it in print, and I never used it. The French terms Saskatchewannais(e) and Fransaskois(e) were so much more elegant and certain.
Canadian Geographic did a spread several last year on the different proposals for making provinces from the NWT. The province of Buffalo, spanning RL Alberta and Saskatchewan south of about 50 degrees was interesting. Maybe the proto-CCFers could have kept the proto-Socreds in check.
While I haven't seen Layton do that, I have seen him around in person and shook his hand. I worked on his failed federal campaign in 1997, a municipal campaign and gave money this time around. After one of the campaigns, there was a volunteer appreciation get together at his home where he lives with Olivia Chow, a politician in her own right and a failed federal candidate in 2004. She was down at city hall this morning where I was eating my free hemp pancakes for Bike to Work Week.
I've never been a card carrying member, just a fellow traveller. I'm an independent voter who usually winds up voting NDP. The only political party I've sort of belonged to was the Rhinoceros Party via the campus Young Rhinos at McMaster University in Hamilton back in the 1980s.
There, I had the misfortune to make the acquaintance of Craig Chandler, then a bullying head of the campus Young Reformers and local failed candidate, later a failed candidate in Calgary and later head of a supposed business pressure group. Oh, I yearn for the good old days of the Progressive Conservative Party where you didn't have to be inhuman to be right-wing! Joe Clark, Jake Epp and others were people you could respect and honour, even if you couldn't support their party.
Oh my, Mr. Layton..Mwaha! Can you see him out on your sidewalk doing situps, crunches and "Yoga Booty Ballet" right now? Take a picture!! [/quote]
Ah! Saskatchewanite! I'd never seen it in print, and I never used it. The French terms Saskatchewannais(e) and Fransaskois(e) were so much more elegant and certain.
Canadian Geographic did a spread several last year on the different proposals for making provinces from the NWT. The province of Buffalo, spanning RL Alberta and Saskatchewan south of about 50 degrees was interesting. Maybe the proto-CCFers could have kept the proto-Socreds in check.
While I haven't seen Layton do that, I have seen him around in person and shook his hand. I worked on his failed federal campaign in 1997, a municipal campaign and gave money this time around. After one of the campaigns, there was a volunteer appreciation get together at his home where he lives with Olivia Chow, a politician in her own right and a failed federal candidate in 2004. She was down at city hall this morning where I was eating my free hemp pancakes for Bike to Work Week.
I've never been a card carrying member, just a fellow traveller. I'm an independent voter who usually winds up voting NDP. The only political party I've sort of belonged to was the Rhinoceros Party via the campus Young Rhinos at McMaster University in Hamilton back in the 1980s.
There, I had the misfortune to make the acquaintance of Craig Chandler, then a bullying head of the campus Young Reformers and local failed candidate, later a failed candidate in Calgary and later head of a supposed business pressure group. Oh, I yearn for the good old days of the Progressive Conservative Party where you didn't have to be inhuman to be right-wing! Joe Clark, Jake Epp and others were people you could respect and honour, even if you couldn't support their party.