Congratulations to them!
Well, that just ain’t right.
I’m reading Jann Arden’s tweets about the Junos, too. We’ve come to the conclusion that the Ikea Monkey was robbed. 
Same happened for one of my old professors last year. It really sucks that it gets ZERO press coverage or airtime, and you basically have to TELL people that you won a Juno. D:
Congrats, though!
It would seem that the RCMP has foiled an attempt to sabotage a VIA train. Article here at The Gazette.
Good for the Mounties!
Can you speculate on what they were trying to accomplish with that? I didn’t know that Canada was considered an Al Qaeda target.
I remember that back around the time of the Spanish train bombing, and the London tube bombing, some commentators mentioned that Canada was at that point the only western nation that participated in Afghanistan that had not been struck by al Qaeda in response.
Talking about it with my husband, he thinks it’s probably because we’re buddies with the US. I guess that makes as much sense as anything.
That and fighting in Afghanistan for a decade, followed to the present day by training locals to fight.
Terrorist season is much shorter here too. It only lasts from May to October. Too damned cold to be wandering around planting bombs any other time.
It is too bad really as -30C can play havoc with electronics and batteries. There is little more gratifying than some would be terrorist who disintegrates himself (and hopefully his cohorts) due to incompetence.
Hah - didn’t take into account that he’d need a block heater on his vehicles, and that batteries go dead in seconds when it’s really cold out!
Wait a second, we’re looking at this all wrong. We’re supposed to be living in fear now that we’ve been targeted for terrorism.
Calgary real estate developers’ plans to control city councillors. I especially liked it when they listed the councillors that they had already bought, and complained about the one who wouldn’t stay bought.
My favourite part is where our former mayor, Dave Bronconnier, who was totally in the bag for at least one builder (his brother-in-law’s) had his lawyers answer questions for him rather than concede that he literally ran his mayoralty in exactly the way he described (allegedly) to Wenzel.
Bronco was soooooooo dirty. He got out just before the chickens came home to roost.
Was the 2006 “Toronto 18” case not news in the west?
It turned out to be kind of a damp squib, but it was a semi-legitimate terrorist plot.
Rita MacNeil’s burial instructions - “Upon my death, I would want to be cremated immediately, my ashes to be placed in my tea room teapot. Two, if necessary,” the light-hearted letter began." - from this article in the Hamilton Spectator.
What a lovely person!
Unfortunately, Rita McNeil’s name is now indelibly linked in my brain with a dirty joke that MacLean & MacLean told about her (when I saw them in concert fifteen years ago).
That made me crack a smile.
Because you know the joke, or because I foolishly spent money to go see MacLean and MacLean?
I thought they were funny in the day and would have paid to see them for sure.
Here’s the joke (spoilered for mildly crudity):
[spoiler]Q: What do you call Rita MacNeil wearing a female condom?
A: A half-ton with a box liner.[/spoiler]