But more to the point, was he on the Canadian Olympic team at the 1960 Rome Olympics, did he physically race in the Men’s Eight for Canada at that Olympics, and if so, which heats and finals, and was he physically on-board rowing in the final in which the Canadian team won the Men’s Eight silver (Canada’s only medal at that Olympics)? Some sites say it was him, and other say it was Lorne Loomer. What’s the Straight Dope?
Once upon a time, Canada’s financial and industrial heart was Quebec. And the other provinces hated Quebec.
The Quebec passed its language laws, and business fled to Ontario. And Ontario did extremely well, and the other provinces hated Ontario.
Now, with Ontario financial institutions dealing with the worldwide recession and Ontario industry being shut down by US head offices, and Alberta riding high on its resources, the other provinces hate Alberta.
But that’s just the natural state of affairs: one province will always attract the ire of other Canadians. It’s just Alberta’s turn, is all.
Premier Dalton McGuinty is jogging with his dog along a nature trail.
A coyote jumps out and attacks the Premier’s dog, then bites the Premier.
The Premier starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie “Bambi” and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.
He calls animal control … Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the Province $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the Province $200 testing it for diseases.
The Premier goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals.
The Premier spends $50,000 in Provincial funds implementing a “coyote awareness program” for residents of the area.
The Provincial Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
8 The Premier’s security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The Province spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training re: the nature of coyotes.
PETA protests the coyote’s relocation and files a $5 million suit against the Province.
ALBERTA
Premier Alison Redford is jogging with her dog along a nature trail. A Coyote jumps out and attacks the dog.
The Premier’s security agent shoots the coyote and keeps jogging. The Premier has spent $0.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
The Crows eat the dead coyote.
And that, my friends, is why ONTARIO is broke and ALBERTA is not.
The Province of Ontario does not fund the Mninistry of Natural Resources (or anyone else) to deal with wild animals. Have bear in your backyard? Deal with it yourself, or see if the local police will shoot it.
BTW, in my town this week, there has been an injured bear, a cougar and a lynx wandering about at the universitiy/hospital. The police are complaining that the MNR should deal with the problem, rather than the police, who would prefer to spend their efforts, and our tax dollar, fighting crime.
I knew it! Potash is really an addictive chemical that you’re hooking the rest of the world on. Devious Eastern Devils…
BTW, not all of us wear c’boy hats and dinner plate sized belt buckles ya know; some of us wear camo baseball hats , too.
@Hypnogogic Jerk:
Having been in the military for 20+ years I had many opportunities to travel to the “Heartland of Separatism” ie Chicoutami. I speak French well enough to get by, and worked with a lot of Quebecers who had to learn English on the fly during my career. Overall, what we all discovered is that what the media tells us is basically bullshit. I expected to be spat on for being “Le maudit anglais-goddam” my first trip to Bagotville. Quebecois who came to Cold Lake for the first time expected the same from Albertans. Truth is, people are mostly friendly, helpful and if I got stuck on a turn of phrase, were willing to even try speaking <gasp!> English to help me! The reverse in Alberta is also true.
You want to speak French in Quebec? No problem. You want government services conducted in either official language? You should expect no less! We fail as a country if you can’t, I think. However, placing language laws FORCING me as a potential business owner to conduct my trade is crap. There are plenty of businesses in TO or Vancouver that use Punjabi or Farsi as their primary language and guess what; they don’t have laws in place to force the owners to comply with having to serve their custom in either official language. Would they do more business if the did? Maybe. But they know their client base and it works.
Only in Quebec do we seem to see cultural mores forced on a population by law.
Last point; there are more than a few communities in Manitoba (the second largest commmunity of persons with French as a primary language) who would be very surprised to learn that they don’t exist outside Quebec…
Hmm, I know Ontario is having some financial issues right now, but based on the “crack houses” I saw travelling through Niagara on the Lake last weekend on the winery trail, I think Alberta has a ways to catch up with the Jones’.
On a completely unrelated note, why isn’t lacrosse or rugby an Olympic Event? Really, if something as pointless as equestrian events can get in, a real sport should. I have nothing against the horsey set, but come on, the horse is the athelete and you don’t see the medals going to them…
