so yah...my life has been crazy busy as of late. i have had 2 all nighters in 1 1/2 weeks. i lost my keys, wallet, pants and towel in the same week and a half. today i found my wallet, pants and towel. im still missing my keys. my car is getting fixed...i talked to insurance on thursday. the problem is that the powertripping security officers at the university decided to be jerks to me and tell maintenance to build huge snow piles around my car so i couldn't get it out. so now i can't get a tow-truck at it. oh well...it was really warm today...and it rained...i don't know if the snow melted because of the warmth or the acid in the rain. oh hamilton...so tonight the government fell...that was really exciting...tonight i have to write my paper...and tomorrow...i hate my paper. today our library opened...it is really nice...it actually feels like a university kinda now. oh well. thats about it.

If ound a website from these two ten year old boys who want to boycott mcdonalds on December 3 to protest the softwood lumber issue. I think it's great that they are involved like this. They have a website and everything...come check it out. http://www.wewantourmoneyback.ca/
Enjoy!
craig

So it turns out that Belinda Stronach has some wit to make up for her lack of competence as a cabinet minister. This article was the third most important story on Thursday on the CBC site...and to think we might have had an election without the CBC to help the liberals along.

Miss Stronach was quoted on This Hour is 22 Minutes responding to one of the actors comments:

Actor: "You're a House of Commons wrecker being seduced by an older man who then, you
find out, can't even get his polls up....It's not the size of his caucus; it's what he does with it."

Miss Stronach: "You know, I recommended to Stephen once that to rise in his polls he should
take a little Viagra. But the pill got stuck in his throat and all he got was a stiff neck."

And the article goes on and on about it. If no one has ever seen a clear case where the CBC is biased to the liberals, here is one for you. Check out the story at:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/11/10/stronach-this-hour051110.html

Oh CBC...why can't you just have a strike again...maybe unions have served at least one good purpose....

So a week ago I went to Ottawa with Nathaniel for a little road trip for our 2-day reading break. It was a good time, watching politics, seeing the governor general, touring the mint, going to the supreme court and just relaxing and all. Though, I had to say that I was disappointed wih the overall state of the city. Besides being poorly planned, the city was just overly dirty. As we walked from our hotel (5 blocks from the parliament buildings on the same street), we past countless beggers asking for money. Graffitti lined the walls of the run-down, boarded up stores, and everything just looked dirty. It reminded me of transcona in winnipeg (a.k.a. trashcona for you ontarians).

Now don't get me wrong, the fall weather had caused alot of the trees to their leaves and the flowers to be pulled out but the city should not look like this! This is our nations capital! When people walk down the streets they should be instilled with pride exploring these streets! The capital of a nation should be a beacon of light, the pride of the nation and what it represents!

I remember went i visited Quebec City this summer. I remember walking from my hotel located right beside the parliament building and the walls of Old Quebec. I walked around the city in sheer awe; I could just sense the pride in the city. Everything was absolutely beautiful. To most Quebecors there, this was their capital city. The city seemed to designed and upkept to provide Quebecors a glimpse of what a self-governed Quebec would look like. It looked almost unrealistic.

As I focus my train of thought back on Ottawa, I do not feel this at all. I feel nothing but disappointment. Only in the parliament buildings did I begin to experience anything like i felt in Quebec City. Yet this only made me feel that the parliament buildings were out of place. This cannot be; the capital of our nation and every nation must be beautiful. I really think that Winnipeg is comparable if not nicer than Ottawa. Maybe Ottawa should try to revitalize their city. For if people cannot feel proud of their country while visiting their nation's capital, how can they feel proud of their country at all?