"fair driving conditions"?? oh... right, moose... did the driver swerve to miss it, or did the impact cause the ditching? Some of those ditches are super, uh, deep. But hwy 40, 30km from Hinton shouldn't be too bad, it's paved, even, and unless they were ram-rodded by trees, it shouldn't have been too bad of a landing... maybe speed, eh?

thank goodness it didn't happen further south (then again, it's paved all the way (and beyond) to Cadomin and the Luskar mines).

Oi.

Good news: I got home before the sun came up (barely.)

Bad news: Moose puts bus in ditch south of Hinton.

Fortunately no fatalities, but a pretty crazy scene at the hospital. And I learned a lot about sedation because of this: "One person is now in critical condition with head injuries at the University of Alberta hospital in Edmonton."

Sorry I didn't say hi; it was 2:00 when we got to town with our patient. Lovely snowfall you folks have got going there, though. Can't imagine the morning commute was any fun, the way the ambulance slid around here and there.

Sure I'm up for some tobagganing. Just need a time and a place.

Anyone up for Tobogganing Tomorrow night? as in wednesday the 13th. Some of you may have already gotten a seamingly random message already via text messaging regarding this already. I'm thinking 7ish so everyone can get home and then come. Location and time are still up in the air, but millwoods rec centre has lights and is a decent hill. Any sugestions are welcome. cummmon! you know you wanna!

Never doubt my intentions. I do everything for a reason.

Had I just posted the image directly to the board your first reaction would be to say to yourself "PHOTOSHOPPED!", but seeing it on the official National Geographic website gives credibility to the photo.

Well, I mean, the other two are the Afghanistan motion and the budget (which is necessarily a confidence motion.) I wouldn't suggest that either of those are frivolous.

You're right on this one, though; asinine is a great description of what's going on here.

(Oh, and Tay, seems to me you're losing a step. Time was you'd post that shit straight up -- no link at all, just the pic.)

gotta love national geographic

this month, though, they've stated loud and clear that three separate bills are confidence issues... and - like the one on crime - are forcing the opposition to make the call, I call that bullying... you can call that whatever you want.

I think the government thinks that they can do all this asinine stuff and then say "well the Liberals voted against it, it's their fault we're having an election, not ours."

I'm just so tired of it.
I love the idea of a minority government because it forces everyone to be accountable, but this is just bullshit.

Also, while I'm being contrarian, I'd say he looks like more like Carell than Kattan. (Especially the second pic.)

Well, I mean, the government can make any bill they want into a confidence motion (of course, finance bills, like the budget, are required to be so.) So, they're well within their rights to make this a confidence motion, and so is the opposition well within its rights to defeat the bill and force an election.

That said, the whole thing is ridiculous, it's grandstanding, and it's strange grandstanding at that. (Are many Canadians even paying attention to this posturing? If the government fell on this, what would they argue? That the opposition fell on the sword of Senate/House procedure? I don't see the endgame here.)

I'm not sure it's fair to call it bullying, though. Much as I dislike the tactics the Conservatives have been using -- treating it as a perpetual campaign in which to score points -- I wouldn't say they've been playing at brinkmanship during their whole governance. To this point, very few non-finance bills, to my knowledge, have been confidence motions; it's not as though they're attaching election threats to every piece of legislation.

The singing is just plain immature.