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Time to write to Santa!

November 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Don’t forget – send your letters to Santa soon. Send your letters to
Santa Claus
NORTH POLE H0H 0H0
CANADA
The jolly old elf and his minions will read your letter and reply – last year over 1.6 million letters were answered. That’s a whole lot of ho ho ho’s…
Oh and you don’t have to be Canadian to [...]

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Tags: Canada · Silly Moments

Haiku time – aren’t you thrilled?

November 5th, 2009 · No Comments

It is winter
I am so thrilled with the cold
Stupid ancestors
It is cold outside
I curse my ancestors as I shiver
Why not move to New Zealand
I saw snow today
I shivered in my jacket
Come back summer
Stupid fecking ancestors just had to choose a cold country, didn’t they? Why not New Zealand? It sounds lovely to me.
If you [...]

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Tags: Canada · Weather

Another journey along Canada’s Highway of Heroes

November 17th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Two Canadian soldiers and their interpretor were killed in the early hours of the morning today. While we slept soundly here in Canada, Corp. Nicolas Raymond Beauchamp of the 5th Field Ambulance in Valcartier and Pte. Michel Levesque of the Royal 22nd were killed when their light armoured vehicle hit an IED. Three other soldiers [...]

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Tags: Canada · Good Citizen · History · War

Justice partially served 48 years too late

August 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Everyone moved on except for Lynne Harper. Dead at 12, now a footnote in history, just a small grainy photo to remind us that there was no justice for her and there never will be. Her family must have suffered greatly. I often wonder about them. I hope they found peace in the past 47 years. Somehow I doubt that.

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Tags: Canada · Justice · Law and order · Politics · RIP · Rants