Canuck

  Monday, 8 December 2003

Search in Toronto school rubble < 8:01:25 PM>.

At least one person is killed in the Canadian city after part of a theatre collapses onto a school. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

Freaky to find out about this on the subway on the way from work via the BBC's site newsfeed! Hard to imagine this sort of thing happening in Canada.

< 4:28:01 PM>.

Chantal Hbert has a lot to say here but sums it up here: a backlash against the Jean Charest government is more likely to bring the PQ back to power than a surge in nationalist fervour. I wonder if Bernard Landry is listening. [montreal city weblog]

< 1:19:29 AM>.

Storm tears across Atlantic Canada
A snowstorm pounded Atlantic Canada Sunday, toppling power lines, grounding planes and turning some roads into ice rinks. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

Not one flake here in TO. How come they get all the fun down home?

< 1:12:54 AM>.

Over lunch today I was reminded of the day I parked in the Premier's parking spot by mistake.

About eight years ago, I was delivering some computers to the Legislative Assembly, and I pulled right up to back driveway to unload. I was inside for no more than half an hour, and when I came out there was a carefully written note under my windshield wiper:

You are Parked in the Premiers Parking Spot

It was signed simply "Commissionaire."

That was it.

That note, in its own small way, was responsible for keeping us on Prince Edward Island. I saved the note, and it's sitting beside me at the computer as I write this. [Reinvented News]

How things get done down east.