Things you should know before settling in...
1: Pull up your pants, you look like an idiot!
2: Let's get this straight, it's called a gravel road. No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.
3: That lingering scent in the air comes from the combination of sweat, crops, live stock and oil. To you it just stinks, to us it is the lovely scent of money. Get over it.
4: So, you drive a sixty-thousand dollar car. We're real impressed. We have a quarter-million dollar Combine that we drive three weeks a year.
5: Every person in a pickup waves. It's called being friendly. We open doors for women. This applies to everyone regardless of age. Try to understand the concept.
6: We started hunting and fishing when we were nine years old. Yeah, we saw "Bambi" too. We got over it.
7: Yeah, we eat beef and pork. You want sushi and caviar? It's available at the corner bait shop.
8: The "Opener" refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.
9: Per capita, each man, woman and child owns at least two firearms and knows how to use them.
10: Highway 2 runs north and south, Highways 1 and 16 run east and west. Highways 63 and 43 lead to the promise lands. If you don't like it here, I suggest you use 1 or 16 as your escape route. You could use 2 south but if you don't like it here I doubt very much you would like it any better south of the border.
Enjoy your stay!
Friday, March 21, 2008
Welcome to Alberta
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Hot Air Record Broken
Alberta was the place chosen to break a world record for hot air ballooning. The new record holder must have taken into account that Stephane Dion would be in the province at the time, providing plenty of the required hot air, pretty much guarantying a new record.
On Friday, Hempleman-Adams set out in a hot-air balloon with an open wicker basket near Red Deer, Alta., and climbed to 9,906 metres.
Hempleman-Adams also braved frigid winter weather conditions in Alberta - at the height of his climb the temperature was reportedly -60 C.
The bitter cold Hempleman-Adams endured was caused by the cold reception that Dion received by Albertans, and was not related to climate change.
Friday, January 12, 2007
KOed, Going Dion for the Count
Okay, the title is a bit of a stretch, but....
Call me silly, but if Dion thinks he can win Liberal seats in Alberta by making the following statements:
"I’m not here to kill the milk cow"
"It's a scandal for me as a Liberal that out of 28 riding's in Alberta we have zero seats".
"All these workers living too fast for the easy money in the north, It’s not good for the economy".
Lastly we have this gem, "It’s not at all a carbon tax," Dion insisted, preferring to call it "environmental tax reform."
He is not as bright as I thought.
If Dion keeps up this strategy, I can see the referee standing over Dion, waving his arms, calling in the doc to look after him. It will be a Knock Out for sure! Those 28 scandalous seats, will be a lovely blue for a very long time.
Resources for this post include:
1) NEIL WAUGH -- Edmonton Sun
2) CBC Edmonton
3) The Rutherford show on 630 CHED. Available in the Audio Vault, Fri. Jan. 12 at 9 AM.(free membership required)
Update: Check out Darcey's post at Dust My Broom. The comments are priceless.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Age of Consent Changed?
It appears that the age of consent has been changed to 101(AB) and 135(BC). I am a little confused. Apparently, Western Canada has become of age, but it is not due to the age of the provinces. It is strangely enough based on the fact that the population of Alberta and British Columbia combined(7.69 million), have surpassed that of Quebec(7.65 million). That and, 2006 "was the year when the West, particularly Alberta, had a greater impact on the country's economy than ever before and generated more attention than ever, as well." (sure sounds like a fourteen year old) Even stranger is that Calgary is given all the credit when it is Fort McMurray that is the designated driver of "a speeding car with a gas pedal and no brakes.". As such, taking Calgary around to the fine dinning establishments, frolicking about and not to mention, the bank. While Calgary gets a billion dollar symbolic 59 storey Bow, that no doubt will stroke the ego of many, Fort McMurray is fighting for decent infrastructure to accommodate its growth. The environmental impact of the whole oil and gas industry has yet to be addressed sufficiently never mind the oil sands projects. Then there is also the problem of filling all the jobs currently available and those being created by yet more projects.Western Canada comes of age, but who and what, is getting screwed?