Four tags a holiday do make
Environment Canada upped the warning tags to four, and the day changed direction. This morning the weather left much to be desired, and sometime before 06h00 the “other” school boards saw fit to declare closure. My gang were able to make a decision, albeit one hour later. Were they waiting for an official translation?
The day continued to degrade, weather wise, and by mid afternoon there were multiple car pileups in different parts of the province, power outages, a train lying sideways on a Montreal area bridge, due to wind and derailment, and odd other demonstrations of Mother Nature doing the same old same old. I didn’t make my much-shifted medical appointment either. I did make a huge pot of beef stew though.
PBS presented a special on “earmarks” which is the euphemistic term used for hiding huge budget expenditures on line items in laws; for example, law X will make all lines in Bill Y into law. How does the Canadian government hide its excesses? Not only in advertising contracts, I’m certain.
In important news, “Red Green” (Steve Smith) has been named to the Order of Canada.
