Ugh. I must have been subconsciously repressing the memory.
Hugh John Macdonald was John A.'s son, but he was well-known in his own right, as Premier of Manitoba.
I can remember Justin Trudeau’s brothers, Michel and Alexandre (“Sacha” when he was younger).
I recall Michel, simply because he spent a summer at my canoe club, and more recently was taken out by an avalanche, so it wasn’t through is father that I became aware of him.
Might be old for some, but I haven’t seen this one before. PM Harper doing a Rolling Stones cover
So, is this still on? Who’s in who’s out?
Herr 'spiel and I are planning to meet up with everyone at Confederation Park.
Looking forward to meeting everyone.
I’ll be there, I’ll try to find that Confederation Park if not I’ll be at the Mayflower.
Looking forward to it 
Sunday looks to be a perfect day to be at Winterlude. It should be fun. See you all tomorrow!
The winter road blocade at Attawapiskat went up again last week, so de Beers is seeking an injunction.
Were the “Cecil” reservations actually made? If not look for “Registered at Last’s” mouse toque.
Will the blockaders respect an injunction? Is there an OPP detachment nearby to enforce it? And even if there is, will the OPP do nothing (as in Caledonia); or refuse to enforce it, as police did in Sarnia?
Maybe de Beers would do well to forget an injunction and instead, just suspend operations at Attawapiskat. It seems to me that they’re in the driver’s seat on this one: you blockade, we shut down. We can get by with our other mines and interests around the world. We’re not hurting if we don’t run the Attawapiskat mine–but your friends and relatives who work for us will.
Or the aboriginals might deliberately disobey an injunction so as to push the court into finding them in contempt (the strategy used in Frontenac injunction and the Platinex injunction). In both of these instances, the contempt orders resulted in incarceration, but the Court of Appeal tossed the sentences, taking the teeth out of the injunctions. In the Frontenac contempt, the sentence also included fines, but these too were tossed by the Court of Appeal. The issues of consultation and sovereign control of land are very important to First Nations.
Well, twas a small group of Ottawa Dopers:
Das Glasperlenspiel and husband.
jools: all the way from La Belle Province!
Registered at Last: Whose mouse toque was our beacon!
And me.
Good beer. Good food. Good (anonymous) friends.
I had a great time!
A DopeFest at the Tulip festival would be grand. And a whole lot fricking warmer!
The calendar is marked! It was a great afternoon!
I’m glad you guys all had a good time.
You’re a bunch of Canadians - I’m sure you’ve all done some winter driving and can empathize. We drove home from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to Calgary, Alberta today - about half of the nine and a half hour trip was on roads that were covered in snow, blowing snow, ice, slush, etc. The worst part was passing the semis - they were blowing all kinds of slush out of their wheels, and passing them meant that for about ten seconds, we were driving completely blind in these conditions. “Nerve-wracking” doesn’t even start to describe it.
Glad you got home safe - we experienced similar conditions on several winter drives when we lived in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Not a fun drive.
It was great meeting you guys yesterday, it was a small bunch but a great one
A special thanks to Registered at last for thinking and organizing it.
Though, I have a tiny favor to ask, next time could it be a Saturday?
Thank god the drive back home was not like Cat Whisperer, glad you made home safe!
Glad you’re home safe. A week ago I had a five hour trip take ten hours due to a winter storm, so you have my sympathy.
Seroius suggestion, though: don’t drive blind, even if it means not passing slow moving elephants. Life’s too short – particulary if it is lived out in ten seconds.
Can’t view the photo right now, but glad you made it. As someone who drives a lot you have my sympathies. I am very familiar with the blind passing, and as Muffin suggests just chill and hang back. That’s what I do now.