It was a wonderful Canadian moment.
One of my Canadian heroes, Romeo Dallaire, talking about another of my heroes, the late great Stompin' Tom Connors.
Telling Evan Solomon about the day when him, his U.N. soldiers, and about 200 civilians were in a Rwandan hotel under heavy enemy fire.
How he played Stompin' Tom's song The Blue Berets, and how it cheered them all up, had them clapping their hands and stomping their feet, even as the mortars and shells rained down on the hotel.
I told you he was looking a little worried, or a little desperate.
I told you he's been acting funny, or even crazier than usual.
And now we know why.
It seems that Canadians are finally getting tired of Stephen Harper.
And his support is slowly crumbling.
OMG. I don't know how to say this. Because I don't want to cause mass panic eh?
But Stephen "Queeg" Harper is looking and sounding crazier than I've EVER seen him.
At least since the time he lost his marbles strawberries, and turned the PMO upside down looking for them.
For there he was a day after this devastating report was released.
Claiming the authors are partisan, but the C.D. Howe institute isn't.
I see that Hugo Chavez has lost his long battle with cancer.
Venezuela’s government announced the death of President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday, ending 14 years of charismatic rule by the firebrand socialist but leaving his party firmly in control of the nation.
Vice President Nicolas Maduro’s voice broke several times and tears ran down his face as he appeared on national television to announce that Chavez died at 4:25 p.m. local time (3:55 p.m EST;1755 GMT) “after battling tough with an illness over nearly two years.”
And I for one will miss him, for he was quite a character, and quite a leader.
Every time Diane Finley tries to defend why she is waging war on the poor, she claims that it's just a question of saving money.
Just like she did today when Thomas Mulcair went after her for ordering EI inspectors to barge into the homes of the unemployed.
“Service Canada has a responsibility to find and stop inappropriate claims and to protect the funds that Canadians have paid in the system,” Finley said.
"Last year, the employment insurance program lost hundreds of millions of dollars due to inadmissible claims."
Even though what she's really doing is trying to shame the poor, like the Cons in Britain.
Well I see they have been filing into the Vatican getting ready to choose a new Pope.
Dozens of old men in red beanies.
And one in a fedora.
But before they start voting they want to know what is the Vatican HIDING? Who's REALLY pulling the strings?
And of course, knowing them eh? Who is being BLACKMAILED?
From the moment he came to power, he announced that he would like to be known as Great Arctic Leader and Lord Protector of the North.
He decreed that henceforth everything from government stationery, to the nose of his plane, should be embossed with the words "The True North Strong and Free."
He warned us the Russians were coming. But that his warrior government would stop them if we bought those fancy jets. His propaganda machine hummed heroically.
But that was then, and this is now.
It's been the weirdest winter ever where I live.
It was so warm for so long it took forever for the canal to freeze, until it was safe enough to skate on.
Then it thawed so quickly, the net got stranded in the middle of nowhere, with the ice too thin to retrieve it.
And since I blame global warming for this latest disaster, and so many others, I wasn't exactly thrilled by this news.
If you wanted to know where our economy is heading, or what the Cons are planning to do to Canada.
All you had to do was look at Jimbo Flaherty today, to know it's not going to be pretty.
And that the Day of Reckoning has finally arrived.
For there he was standing in front of a giant Porky Action Plan billboard, promising growth and jobs. Telling us the economy is shrinking, so what we need to do is kill even more jobs.
As you may know, I have for many years portrayed Tom Flanagan as Dr Strangelove.
I've always considered him a bizarre right-wing crank, and Alberta firewall separatist.
I never understood why the CBC hired him, and then didn't fire him after he said Julian Assange should be murdered.
So I'm not really surprised by his latest outrageous statement.
