That’s weird - I hope it isn’t becoming a thing. I did see some people doing that at the Cranbrook hockey game we went to, but I’m pretty sure they actually were Americans.
I sang the national anthem along with Serena Ryder in my house, but just because I like practicing singing it. I did not sing the French words, since I do not know them.
I know them phonetically. I have read them and can translate much of it, but it’s reeeally easy to fake the words phonetically if you’ve watched like, 30 years of Canadian hockey games. (That’s probably about how long ago they started incorporating the French portion.)
Maybe that’s not much of a thing out west. 
Nope, it really isn’t. The only time I hear any French in the national anthem is at something like the Grey Cup, which is televised nationally.
Well, Alberta is the most culturally American of the provinces… 
First Nations reject federal education reform proposal. From the article:
I’m interested to see what their response would be to a system like the one everybody else in Canada works under; the federal government will fund your education, but you will conform to these federal standards. Don’t conform to these standards, we stop funding you. That sounds fair, no? Do they think that other school systems get to take the funding but not answer to any oversight?
Perhaps it may seem so to residents of other provinces, but I can assure you that Albertans are patriotic Canadians. In spite of the fact that Alberta leans a little more right than other provinces, it is still far to the left of today’s United States.
The vast majority of Albertans do not want private health care, with it’s co-pays and deductibles; uncontrolled gun usage (“A guy in Nose Hill Park asked me if I’d been to the Stampede; I felt threatened and wished I’d had a gun”); and religion dominating politics.
I will grant that to a degree, that last point is true. But the religious rarely carry enough votes to make a difference. Regardless, Albertans do not see themselves as “America North.” Which is why it puzzles me that some Albertans, during the singing of the national anthem prior to the Grey Cup game, acted … well, just like Americans.
Looks like the Feds are in trouble again…
Essentially they outed all medical marijuana patients.
…and that is coming on the heels of this lawsuit because of the changes in the Medical Marijuana Access Program
Sorry, not sure why the link didn’t add
But what has he done for us lately??
If he’s going to set a standard for entertainment we need him to keep it up.
Evangelical Satan worshippers? That’s a new one on me.
It’s a parody cult – [del]pokes[/del] directs derision at Christian evangelicals.
A very good article from Commander Chris Hadfield in this month’s ‘Wired’ - We Should Treat Earth as Kindly as We Treat Spacecraft.
See now that’s what I’m talking about.
I’m sorry I didn’t mean it please make the bad man stop.
The big question is whether the Ford circus has sufficient momentum to keep on rolling even if Ford cleans up his act a fair bit or keels over, a la the media perpetuating the JonBennet Ramsey long after there really was nothing left to present.
Well, today’s Toronto Star has a Royson James column entitled, “Mayor Rob Ford begins to rally the gullible”…
Begins??? Has he been doing anything but for several years now?
He wasn’t rallying the gullible when he was in drunken stupors or when he was duking it out with his wife.
Nicer topics not involving Mr. Ford:
I’m likely to find myself in Calgary over Christmas, and possibly New Year’s. Any chance we can organize a Calgary Dopefest at that time? (Non-Calgary/Albertan Dopers who find themselves in Calgary would, of course, be more than welcome.)
Maybe he’s trying to upgrade his stupors to comas ?