When political announcements are made to a sympathetic audience
Polar opposite experience: POE. My new acronym to describe this morning, wherein the new early warning system functioned perfectly. Unlike Tuesday where nobody seemed to realize that you have to announce a school closure for it to work properly, I had already received multiple phone calls and email messages before the web site had kicked in. Home for the day. The only “bémol” as people say locally was that my partner in things had to go to school, even though things were closed, because a talking head had decided that employees should show up to man the empty classrooms.
More noise on that one, I’m sure. Anyhow, the storm never became violent, although I did have to shovel out twice. A lot of cancellations, which means that the “ped day” count will artificially drop, later this spring. Time is money, even in education.
Speaking of money, the primal minister (think primal evil), is off to wine and dine in Davos, which also has snow. A chance to announce to the assembled power figures that Canada intends to modify government pension plans, because people get old, don’t die quickly enough and are then a drain on the state. Pity that he couldn’t have anoounced it to Canadians, in the Parliament, like a real politician.
The virtual noise on the CBC website was loud. Changing the rules of the game, in mid-period, is unlike any kind of hockey played around here. For the record, there’s something called “grey power”, and it may end up zapping his evilness in the place normally kept covered.
