Here is what is on the calendar:
Gilles Duceppe is rolling out his Quebec City BQ candidates just in case at 10 at Hotel Pur, Salle J, 395, rue de la Couronne in Quebec City. Across town earlier that morning, say around 8 30, Justin Trudeau will be at Cegep de Ste-Foy's Place Publique talking to students at the school.
In Ontario our Premier, Dalton McGuinty, will be in Earlton, Ontario [I dunno where that is either; MapQuest it] helping to open International Ploughing Match.
But the highlight of the day will be in New Brunswick, Woodstock is the town, where the arraignment for Larry Beaton, who has been charged with smuggling over $100,000 of illegal menopause treatment cream into Canada will be going down.
I will in the front row for those proceedings wearing my grey sombrero.
WFDS
Showing posts with label Quebec City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quebec City. Show all posts
Monday, September 21, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
813...This Sunday Is Momentous
Momentous for two reasons.
First off, it is the opening day of the full schedule of the NFL.
More importantly it is the 250th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, a battle that changed the face of the North American continent and the world in a matter of minutes.
To review, before the battle, the French were a major colonizer in the New World. After the battle, not so much. Fifty years after the fight the French presence in North America was pretty much spent.
In celebration of the anniversary a 24 hour event Moulin a paroles [word mill] will start at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon reading key passages from the history of Quebec such as the song lyrics, information about the 1837-38 rebellion, the 1755 Acadian deportation and most controversially the Front de Liberation du Quebec's 1970 manifesto.
The FLQ were the small group of terrorists who kidnapped James Cross, a British diplomat and Pierre Laporte, a Quebec cabinet minister, in October of 1970, sending Canada into a state of emergency.
The reading of this manifesto is sure to cause controversy but, as reported by Kevin Dougherty in today's Montreal Gazette, Gilles Duceppe, the leader of the Bloc Quebecois, supports the reading on the basis of its historical value. He states that not reading it would be censorship, that those who are against it being read are pro censorship and he is right on the money there.
WFDS
First off, it is the opening day of the full schedule of the NFL.
More importantly it is the 250th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, a battle that changed the face of the North American continent and the world in a matter of minutes.
To review, before the battle, the French were a major colonizer in the New World. After the battle, not so much. Fifty years after the fight the French presence in North America was pretty much spent.
In celebration of the anniversary a 24 hour event Moulin a paroles [word mill] will start at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon reading key passages from the history of Quebec such as the song lyrics, information about the 1837-38 rebellion, the 1755 Acadian deportation and most controversially the Front de Liberation du Quebec's 1970 manifesto.
The FLQ were the small group of terrorists who kidnapped James Cross, a British diplomat and Pierre Laporte, a Quebec cabinet minister, in October of 1970, sending Canada into a state of emergency.
The reading of this manifesto is sure to cause controversy but, as reported by Kevin Dougherty in today's Montreal Gazette, Gilles Duceppe, the leader of the Bloc Quebecois, supports the reading on the basis of its historical value. He states that not reading it would be censorship, that those who are against it being read are pro censorship and he is right on the money there.
WFDS
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
689...Emile Loranger Meet Donald Trump
Donald Trump is, of course, Donald Trump. Emile Loranger is the Mayor of the small, about 12 k, town of L'Ancienne-Lorette which is a western suburb of Quebec City and is best known as the place that NHL tough guy John Kordic died of a drug overdose in back in 1992.
The reason I am introducing Mr. Trump and Mr. Loranger is that they are of the same mind when it comes to shaking hands. They don't like it. Spreads too many germs it does. Mr. Trump doesn't shake hands; Mr. Lorette, being a mayor and all that, has taken it one step further and CanWest News Service is banning handshakes in his re election campaign this fall.
All in the name of preventing the spread of the H1N1 virus.
WFDS
The reason I am introducing Mr. Trump and Mr. Loranger is that they are of the same mind when it comes to shaking hands. They don't like it. Spreads too many germs it does. Mr. Trump doesn't shake hands; Mr. Lorette, being a mayor and all that, has taken it one step further and CanWest News Service is banning handshakes in his re election campaign this fall.
All in the name of preventing the spread of the H1N1 virus.
WFDS
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
551...Hockey News, After All, It Is July In Canada
QMI Agency had a story this morning in the Ottawa Sun that Pierre Karl Peladeau, who lives with the funniest woman on the planet, Julie Snyder, wants an NHL team for Quebec City.
Mr. Peladeau, who was rebuffed in his attempt to buy the Montreal Canadiens, makes the solid point that "Quebec City is a hockey city...more than certain American cities..."
He is right there of course.
And then again, he is wrong.
Quebec City's problem is that it is Quebec City.
When attracting talent, reference Eric Lindros, it comes down to location, location, location and Quebec City is a place that star players don't want to play in.
Location is also what spiked the Vancouver Grizzlies. If you recall, the most likely first ever draft choice of the NBA team was Stephon Marbury who said he wasn't going to go to Vancouver, to close to Russia for his liking, so they had to pass on him. Ditto their last obvious draft, Steve Francis said he wouldn't go to Van. They drafted him but he invoked, among other things, God's will, and forced a trade to Houston where he was co Rookie of the Year. It just isn't a town that NBA stars want to be in.
Same with Quebec City. Attracting third line players, no problem, but the higher you get up the food chain, the less likely the player [and his wife, you cannot forget they have to live there too] will want to play in the town.
Not hating, just stating.
WFDS
Mr. Peladeau, who was rebuffed in his attempt to buy the Montreal Canadiens, makes the solid point that "Quebec City is a hockey city...more than certain American cities..."
He is right there of course.
And then again, he is wrong.
Quebec City's problem is that it is Quebec City.
When attracting talent, reference Eric Lindros, it comes down to location, location, location and Quebec City is a place that star players don't want to play in.
Location is also what spiked the Vancouver Grizzlies. If you recall, the most likely first ever draft choice of the NBA team was Stephon Marbury who said he wasn't going to go to Vancouver, to close to Russia for his liking, so they had to pass on him. Ditto their last obvious draft, Steve Francis said he wouldn't go to Van. They drafted him but he invoked, among other things, God's will, and forced a trade to Houston where he was co Rookie of the Year. It just isn't a town that NBA stars want to be in.
Same with Quebec City. Attracting third line players, no problem, but the higher you get up the food chain, the less likely the player [and his wife, you cannot forget they have to live there too] will want to play in the town.
Not hating, just stating.
WFDS
Monday, June 22, 2009
349...We Love To Talk In Canada
Talk.
And talk.
And talk some more.
In my town, Ottawa, we have been talking about moving the Central Canada Exhibition, The Ex, since the middle of World War Two. Still at Lansdowne Park. We have been talking about building rapid transit, a subway, something something, in this town since, minimum, the 1974 mayoralty eleciton. Still no rapid transit.
Parliament Hill is in my town and on the Hill they have been talking about buliding a superfast supertrain from Quebec City to Windsor as long as I can remember and I can remember back into the 1960's.
Here we go again.
Mike De Souza of Canwest News Services writes this morning that Joe Volpe, the Liberal Party transportation critic, says that now is the time for such a train and that it would aid in nation building. Even though they are separatists, the BQ follows the Canadian way and to that end the Bloc Quebecois transportation critic, Mario Laframboise dit "no way", unless of course, the nation you are talking about is Quebec and then what do we need a train for anyhow?
Oy f'ing vey.
Do something already.
WFDS
And talk.
And talk some more.
In my town, Ottawa, we have been talking about moving the Central Canada Exhibition, The Ex, since the middle of World War Two. Still at Lansdowne Park. We have been talking about building rapid transit, a subway, something something, in this town since, minimum, the 1974 mayoralty eleciton. Still no rapid transit.
Parliament Hill is in my town and on the Hill they have been talking about buliding a superfast supertrain from Quebec City to Windsor as long as I can remember and I can remember back into the 1960's.
Here we go again.
Mike De Souza of Canwest News Services writes this morning that Joe Volpe, the Liberal Party transportation critic, says that now is the time for such a train and that it would aid in nation building. Even though they are separatists, the BQ follows the Canadian way and to that end the Bloc Quebecois transportation critic, Mario Laframboise dit "no way", unless of course, the nation you are talking about is Quebec and then what do we need a train for anyhow?
Oy f'ing vey.
Do something already.
WFDS
Thursday, May 7, 2009
99...Buzz Words/Follow up to Post 98
Gary, the commish d'NHL, Bettman, throws around buzzwords like market size with great regularity without knowing what they mean.
Hamilton/Vaughn/Winnipeg/Quebec City/Saskatoon are all bigger markets than Phoenix/Washington/Nashville. Not in gross numbers, no, but Gary ain't selling Coke or Hondas, he is selling hockey and there are 10 times more hockey fans in Vaughn than in Phoenix.
Research, Gar', research.
If I can do it from my laptop on Elgin Street in Ottawa, you can do it too!!!
WFDS
Hamilton/Vaughn/Winnipeg/Quebec City/Saskatoon are all bigger markets than Phoenix/Washington/Nashville. Not in gross numbers, no, but Gary ain't selling Coke or Hondas, he is selling hockey and there are 10 times more hockey fans in Vaughn than in Phoenix.
Research, Gar', research.
If I can do it from my laptop on Elgin Street in Ottawa, you can do it too!!!
WFDS
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