It can always be worse.
I can’t imagine anything worse than Tim Hudak.
I’m very sorry John Tory chose separate school funding as the hill he wanted to die on; HIM I could have lived with.
I met Eves once. He seemed like a pretty milquetoast kind of guy. I know he was a lawyer but he didn’t strike you as the kind of man who would blow you away with his searing intellect. His primary qualification for the job was that the only other person who wanted it was Jim Flaherty, who managed to piss everyone off. The truth is that everyone knew they were choosing Ernie to be the guy who took the fall.
Kathleen Wynne’s the same thing, sorry to say. She’s inherited the mantle of a government that has no business holding the job; the Liberals have been almost sensationally incompetent. They might be the worst govenrment in my lifetime to hold on to power this long, at either the federal OR provincial level.
It was worse. In the early 90s, and after being out of work for a year, with UI (now EI) exhausted, I was (according to my local NDP MPP) supposed to rely on my “old boy” white English-speaking network of connections. Like many others in my situation, I had none. Still, my local NDP MPP’s office told me that the provincial NDP government would have been happy to help me if I had been anything but white, English-speaking, and male; but as I wasn’t, they did not care about me. At least they were candid and honest; I can say nothing good about them otherwise.
It still rankles. So I’ll just say … 'nuff said.
Maybe it’s just the number of years I’ve spent in university talking, but I find that I’m less awestruck by people with law degrees and PhDs as I once was. They suggest you MIGHT be a sharp intellect, but I wouldn’t conflate the two…
Here’s something interesting - if you go to Twitter and search on #dayinthelife, you can see the tweets that PM Harper tweeted today to give us an insight into what a day in his life looks like.
Those McGill students have all the luck – a water ride on campus! Student swept away by flooding at McGill University - YouTube
Yeah, many students had to get through freezing cold water to get home, and one of them was actually knocked down and swept a fair distance by the water (and was unhurt.)
Lots of damage was done.
I’m heading down to McGill for a concert on Wednesday, and I hope things will be okay.
I don’t do Twitter, but I heard this on the radio today. I love it that “Day In The Life” is an homage to The Beatles, of which Mr. Harper is a fan.
It’s cold enough today, I might actually do up my coat.
Can I just vent for a moment here? I really hate this ‘Real Feel’ nonsense in the weather reports. It’s -28 here in Edmonton. How that ‘feels’ depends entirely on whether you dress for the weather or dress like a moron. Saying it ‘feels’ like -41 just leads to people running around saying ‘It’s -41 today!’ Sorry; I just had to get that off my chest.
I would think that in Edmonton you would notice the windchill difference more than most. There’s a definite difference in temperature no matter how you’re dressed if there is a wind. When I lived in Ottawa the walk down Gloucester St every day was an exercise in torture. I bought overknee boots and an ankle length coat but the action of walking still managed to open up enough gaps to allow the freezing wind entry.
I can stand the cold (with excessive whining) on a cold calm day, but I don’t think the Real Feel goes far enough in identifying the impact of the wind.
^ 2nd this. Especially when taking the bus, that extra windchill dictates whether I take a scarf or not to cover my face. I was freezing my nostrils last week. 
The current wind in Edmonton is 7 km/h. There’s not much wind chill going on…
Clearly I’m not paying enough attention to the weather lately. Isn’t real feel just the wind chill/humidex?
Yup. And humidity also applies to how it feels in winter, which explains why I usually feel warmer in the winter up here in Thunder Bay than I do in the winter down in Toronto, despite it usually being quite a few degrees colder here.
You know, I don’t mind windchill or whatever they call it, because as pointed out it does make a big difference. And a calm cold day is easier to handle than a windy cold day.
BUT, I hate humidex with a passion. I have lived in Ottawa most of my life. I know what 30 or 35 degrees feels like in Ottawa. I have never lived in Phoenix … I don’t know what 30 degrees with NO humidity feels like! The humidity DOES NOT change enough during an Ottawa summer to make a bit of difference! If it is hot here, it is humid here, period. <\rant>
Anyway … back to Winterlude CanaDoperFest … I am thinking of meeting on the canal on a weekend afternoon and having a little skate and then “retiring” to a pub somewhere. (ok, I guess I have to substitute Timmy’s with Beavertails … I will see if my budget will stretch) What do folks think?
I’m in!
+1 to that. My wife and I get into this debate all the time. Tell me the temperature followed by the windchill! I work outdoors about 50% of the time and how I dress depends greatly on the temp and the wind. I don’t dress the same way when it’s -35 and calm versus -10 with a -35 windchill. Plus, your car doesn’t give a crap about windchill. Plugging it in at -40 makes sense, plugging in at -5 with a -40 WC is a waste of energy.
Word.
Someone is giving temperatures in winter without giving windchills? There’s no point to that!
I agree about the humidity, too - Calgary is normally very dry in winter, but for a couple of days last week it was unusually humid, and a moderately chilly day seemed much colder than usual because of it. I’ll take my cold, dry, sunny winters over humid, mild winters any day. 