Grounds For Violence (with apologies to “Sounds of Silence”). I am so there right now. Every day they promise tomorrow will be the start of great weather, and every day is cold, grey, and snowy.
Snow all day here, too.
I’ll bet a Krakatoa-size volcano blew up somewhere and all the governments around the world are keeping it secret because we’re in for a year-long winter or two or three.
Lucky for them it blew up in Antarctica, so they can keep it secret.
That video sums it all up.
We’ve had a nice day today, but I don’t think that we’re in the clear yet. Still, it was nice to have a day where it wasn’t cold, grey, and snowy.
It was nice in Lethbridge today (we were in town for a job interview for Dread Pirate Jimbo - it was a whirlwind tour - in and out in hours!). Then we drove back to cold, grey, hazy Calgary. 
Good luck to Jimbo!
He might like to know that I’ve already received a note from one of my golf buddies about playing sometime soon. Should he get the job, and a move to Lethbridge is necessary, he will have plenty of opportunities to play.
That is flippin’ brilliant. I’m sending it to family friends in New Zealand. They managed to escape.
Who would make a better Prime Minister? A former astronaut, or a child of a former Prime Minister?
Given that the former Prime Minister was Pierre Trudeau, and I live in the west (which he had great contempt for–remember the one-finger Salmon Arm salute and the NEP), I’d say the astronaut.
It’s the name “Trudeau” that makes Albertans wary. Justin may be a good choice, but he is a Trudeau. That name alone, regardless of party, regardless of policy, regardless of whatever, is anathema to Albertans. Because of what his father did.
So what will Justin do for Alberta? I think Marc Garneau would have looked at the country as a whole, but I somehow think Justin will repay Quebec (primarily) and Ontario (secondarily). The rest of us will be left sucking hind tit.
Given that the feds are currently trying to enact their own voter suppression through legislation, they wouldn’t exactly have the moral high ground here…
Cold, grey, hazy, Calgary! No kidding it is so dingy and smoggy and crappy right now, and road grime galore if you are driving.
Where’s my blue sky ?!!!
The feeling’s mutual. 
I think Justin Trudeau has already told us how he feels about Alberta.
He has? Then he can’t be all bad.
Remember this from 2010?
I don’t see Justin Trudeau making things better for the West. He still sees Canada as being Ontario and Quebec - we’re just colonies out here.
Another poll released in Quebec, again showing the Liberals in the mid-40s, with the PQ and the Coalition tied in the low 20s. Most of the other polls have shown the Liberals in the lead, but not by that much. Outlier, or major shift in the last few days?
And, Pauline Marois, looking back in a disastrous campaign, says her worst mistake was talking too much about sovereignty:
By the way, I’ve started a thread on the Quebec election over in the Elections forum.
Up here in Cool Pool.
And plus double digits today! Happy Happy Happy!
“All we are is dust in the wind…”
There was dust blowing in the streets of Regina this weekend!
Dust! A sure sign of spring in Saskatchewan.
+12 in Ottawa and the windows are cracked open to air the house out.
Then a day and a half or rain - so happy but still not thrilled. 
I love the spring rains - they clean everything up and get everything started growing.
Not so keen on them when they cause massive flooding, mind you.
If they actually lose this badly we could be seeing the end of the PQ. Not of sovereignty support, but the PQ specifically.
I could write five thousand words about this but it goes back to what I feel is one of the most important rules of politics; you must give people an clear and affirmative reason to vote for you.
In the case of the PQ we’ve now reached the point where a party that was created for, and exists largely to, separate Quebec from Canada is in a position where even discussing their central purpose is so intensely toxic that it causes massive distrust and loses them an election. That is an impossible position to be in; they cannot discuss separation, but they can’t NOT discuss it because it’s the identity of the party and the reason their core base votes for them. Their only other clear, affirmative raison d’etre is a leftish policy platform - but they’re shot holes in that and Quebecers have other left-learning options now (and are willing to take them, as evidenced by the last federal election.) There isn’t any proactive reason to vote PQ and so the votes are draining away.
It is difficult to see where they go from here. Many new parties are vying to replace them.