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Bien sur, unless you are calling a location in Quebec, in which case the languages are reversed.

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Which is why I specified as a Canadian. :stuck_out_tongue:

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In other news…

That’s the kind of name I’d expect from a communist party, not a nationalist libertarian party.

The People’s Party of Canada will be based in Gatineau, Que.

Ah. I guess when Andrew Scheer and the Conservative loyalists told him to go to Hell, he misheard them as saying “Hull.”

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Previous proposed names:
The Regressive Conservative Party
Too similar to pre-existing party of regressive Conservatives
The White People’s Party
Too obvious

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With the implication that if you’re not in the Party, you’re not “people”. What could go wrong?

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You don’t have to be in the Party to be people; you just have to identify it as your party.

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Just like how they used to do it in East Germany!

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Ohé, sois gentil!

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At least it’s not the Party of Canadian People. Splitters.

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Hello, bonjour…

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Scary news; the rituals to channel Canadian anger into our geese are showing signs of strain. It looks like there’s just too much anger to be held by the geese.

Luckily, with a little modification to the ritual, other animals have been able to pick up the slack.

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We’re supposed to just use the geese? Not raccoons?

:scream:

Oops.

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snarf

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Eh?
:wink:

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My boss’s office looks out over the “lake” (retention pond) and there were several of us in his office for some conference call.

So I’m gazing out the window when three Canada Geese land on the water and a couple trundle out onto the shore.

From up above a fourth goose dives at the one on the shore. Full body blow, feathers start flying.
Wings flapping. Honking ensues.

By now no one is paying attention to the call as we have Kill (with) Bill playing outside.

Finally one of the other Geese from the original trio starts in on the agressor and they manage to get him(?) to fly off.

No other point, but I can see that the rituals are working.

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Soon it will be Kill Bill with added crabs.

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Oof. That was way too close for comfort.

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Indeed. We tend to forget that we can get this kind of extreme weather. The previous tornado was nearly 25 years ago - touched down briefly in an uninhabited part of Almonte, then hopped across the river to touch down in the Wilfred-Lavigne district in Aylmer (now part of Gatineau, for those who don’t know the region). It turned before it reached my brother’s place (just as well, because Nicole and the kids, then toddlers, were at home), but did deposit the remains of some roofs in his pool.

There was more than one system this time, though, it seems: the one that hopped from Dunrobin to the Mont-Bleu district in Hull, and another that nuked the Hydro substation in the Craig Henry area in Ottawa.

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