Canada

Hey @ohiobarbarian I haven’t heard of the NDP polling that high, although it would be amazing it true. Jagmeet Singh was a provincial MPP prior, and many thought he had the talent to become a national star.  He had a really slow start though, after being elected party leader, he had no seat in parliament for probably over a year. At some points,…[Read more]

I did see that, in the Toronto Sun of all places. It really shows that when people get to hear him speak, he comes across as a very genuine and likeable guy, (with no baggage). Still, that’s just job approval rating, the next question has him at 15% to be the best PM. Can he keep building on that trajectory for the next 1.5 weeks? I dunno…

@alcina

Now I want TWO house hippos.  Please.  Thank you.

Canada is a wondrous place, indeed. But as much as I’d like to say you could have one, I suspect the nightmare of obtaining the important permits would probably make it near impossible. And in case you haven’t already seen it, here’s the original House Hippo commercial:

I am not a Canadian, but I joined in order to say please may I have a House hippo?  Thank you in advance!

No I had not seen that clip. Pretty cool and concise though, once again qualities that the other leaders lack. He’s really grown on me too, and I’ll vote NDP like I usually do, but its sad that they’re most likely going to lose big in Quebec.  If that happens they might as well keep him for another round and give him a full few years to try and…[Read more]

I’ve been to several events now where he was speaking, and I have to say, I’ve come to really admire him.  He is honest, compassionate, funny, well-spoken, and very intelligent. Did you by chance see the clip of him affirming his comment about Trump being impeached?  The first link has a better video; the second link has some b…[Read more]

Benighted? What a lovely word for such a sad state of affairs. It does crop up quite frequently in the press here during conservative reigns. But I don’t recall anyone I know using it to describe Americans; though I can see the resemblance.

As for beer availability being the measure of an enlightened civilization? Meh. I have a genetic quirk…[Read more]

Beer isn’t available at corner stores? And Canadians call we Americans benighted? No beer at the corner store is just, well, barbaric. Backward, at the very least. I mean that sincerely. As for bars, many of ours open at 6am. Now, that’s civilized! Of course, they have to serve breakfast, which is only reasonable.

But a 50% cut to the library…[Read more]

I’d have to do a bit of research to comment on the claims made about the OFL, but I can at least tell you that the information about the cuts is accurate. Additionally, they just cut 50% out of the budgets for library services and Toronto’s public health department. (He has a real hate on for Toronto.)  They also completely defunded the college…[Read more]

50 grand, eh? Well, I restarted the swear jar recently, and at this rate, I may be able to afford the trip pretty fucking soon.

And while I didn’t make it to Norway last week, I did get as far as Eugene, OR, where I parked outside the Sons of Norway Sonja Lodge to snack on some rakfisk. Not quite the same, I know; but you have to start…[Read more]