Recent content by bluealberta

I don't know if this has been asked before, but who are all the guests on this forum? I just looked, and there are about 340 guests, and only six members. Who ARE those guys, anyway?????

..................and the beat goes on: PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT "Conservatives deliver real results" GST Cut – Tax Relief For All of Us Promise Made: “A Conservative Government will: Reduce the GST by one point right away” (Stand up for Canada - 2006 Conservative Election Platform...

I sat in my seat of the Boeing 767 waiting for everyone to hurry and stow their carry-ons and grab a seat so we could start what I was sure to be a long, uneventful flight home. With the huge capacity and slow moving people taking their time to stuff luggage far too big for the overhead and...

I got this email today and wanted to pass it along here. Red Friday RED FRIDAYS ----- Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing Red every Friday. The reason? Canadians who support our troops used to be called the "silent majority". We are no longer silent, and are voicing our...

Just announced at the Calgary Stampede: The US border may be open to Canadian Beef. Waiting for confirmation. Great news if true!!!!! R-CAlf Sucks.

Listened to a very interesting interview today with the lady in charge of windpower in Alberta. In it, she said that since Alberta started worrying about Kyoto long before Canada as a country did, they developed wind power as an energy source. Since this contributes to the enery grid in...

Given that there is a thread about golf rage in Alberta, in order to ensure fairness and a sense of balance, here is an article about something far worse in Manitoba: Marine on leave attacked in The Pas Last Updated May 10 2005 07:47 AM CDT CBC News WINNIPEG – Cpl. Leonard Anderson...

Interesting article from todays Calgary Sun: Sat, July 9, 2005 Time for Alberta to exit, stage right? By LINK BYFIELD -- Calgary Sun A University of Alberta professor I know sent me a lengthy article he's trying to get published, entitled: "Let's get while the getting's good." In it...

CANADA DAY BAH HUMBUG WHY CELEBRATE - WE'RE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE July 2, 2005 By MICHAEL COREN, TORONTO SUN ON CANADA Day weekend I am supposed to behave like a good Canadian columnist. To say how wonderful this country is and how great and grand it is to be Canadian. Sorry, not going to do...

Just got back from a week in northern Montana, and want to thank the US citizens for their hospitality, especially on July 1. We had quite a party with our new US friends. Also thought you would like to know, best gas price worked out to $0.696 per litre, after exchange. Roughly 20 cents per...

Gun registry: Still wasting tax dollars Windsor Star June 14, 2005 If Canada's criminals registered their firearms, and deadly weapons smuggled from the United States were similarly registered, the billion dollars spent on Canada's firearms registry might seem like a wise investment. But...

There have been many allegations that the Mulroney government was more corrupt than the Liberals. Lets take a look at history from 1978 on to make a decision. The source is www.cbc.ca/new/background/groupaction/scandals.html 1. Francis Fox, Solicitor General for Trudeau forced to resign...

The Liberals and the NDP got into bed with the Bloc to vote against a Conservative motion that would have expanded the paramaters of Justice John Gomery and would have permitted him to assign blame and name names in the sponsorship scandal. This is particularly ironic when one considers that...

I know I posted this on another thread, but it is now locked, so here is another thread. Maybe we can keep this thread on topic and have a civil discussion, without resorting to crap: Let's take a look back at the Liberals since 1993 to see why they should be booted from office. This is...