Letter to Braemar #4

My walk yesterday triggered fond memories of Railroad Chicken Wrestling:
Snow Edition & Snow Joust: Road Edition.

Happy Holidays to my partner in ridiculous full-contact platonic fun :)

Spage is...

...wading through crotch-deep snow like some frakking regular Canadian.
Snow confuses and enrages Vancouverites. I am no exception.

Spage is...

...checking out her across the street neighbour's pretty holiday lights.

Spage is...

...at Margaret's retirement party. She has been a Federal Public Servant
for 33 years!

President-elect Steve Harper

Our Prime Minister has it in for Canada and our political institutions. He never respected those institutions and now he's moving to disassemble them because they are roadblocks on his path to becoming the head of state for Canada. Is this alarmist? Hardly. In this editorial by Rick Mercer, who should be The Official Opposition of the House, around the recent coalition/prorogue mess he points out that the Conservatives are publicly alluding to these plans. And this is not news if you take into consideration many of the smaller actions Harper has taken to subtly move Canada into step with America. Remember fixed election dates? Harper insisting on being the mouthpiece of the government even though it is made up of 308 elected Members of Parliament? That he's evangelical? Declining to name a Deputy PM? His desire to make judges and Senators elected? His instance that it is his right to choose who asks questions at press conferences? Refusing to participate in media scrums outside of the Commons? Taking a motorcade from his front door to the Governor Generals house - across the street? It all sounds very Bushy in nature.

There is one good thing about Harper; in hockey he has a preference for an overtime period in lieu of a shoot-out. Who could disagree with that?

Brabe Says

"Hey Brabe, remember earlier, when you were asking me about how to affect
change? Well..."

"Don't tempt me with terrorism, Spage!"

Spage is...

...out and about downtown enjoying this warm and sunny December day. I do
adore this corner of Canada!