SITTING ON THE TRAIN, THINKING ABOUT SEX
Yup, that about sums it up.
KEEP IT CANADA: PEI
"Why are there no stripclubs in PEI?"
"Got too many fuckin’ potato farmers. That’s why."
This simple, direct, colorful, anti-drug ad (featuring what most experts by now have agreed is some kind of “cat-toad hybrid”) was created in 30 or 40 seconds by an unpaid intern for Drug Abuse Reinforcement Education (better known as D.A.R.E.) in 1999, one year after the program was disqualified from receiving federal funding because they “failed to meet federal guidelines that they be both research-based and effective,” according to Wikipedia.
Previously - Party Cat
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Is Getting a $275,000 Armoured Police Vehicle
A city in Alberta, where recent law enforcement news included two cops being chased by an upset owl, will soon be awaiting delivery of an armoured vehicle for the local police force.
After a fierce debate, city council in Medicine Hat, Alta., approved the purchase by a vote of five to four. Technically, though, the truck had already been approved months earlier, when the Medicine Hat Police Commission voted unanimously in favour.
If You Want to Honour Canadian Soldiers, Stand Up for Veterans
Today, people in Canada and Britain don poppies to mark their remembrance of soldiers who died in World War 1 and in all of the other armed conflicts that followed. Websites sport digital flowers; companies adapt their logos; even the felt poppies dotting the ground, having fallen off careless rememberers’ coats, seem intended to remind us we have a job to do. In the first few weeks of November, between Halloween and when Christmas season begins in earnest, we need to remember.
But what good are the poppies on our lapels, really? Well, of course, they signify a person interested in remembering fallen soldiers and in having that remembrance documented by others, not necessarily for selfish purposes, but to express solidarity. Solidarity with the soldiers themselves, with their cause, with the hope for a better world in which war is unnecessary. All worthwhile stuff, most people would agree.
But in recent years Britain has been host to a vigorous debate over the poppy. A renewed push for its use has led some people to conclude that it’s being used to shore up support for current military endeavours rather than to remember and mourn the casualties of past battles.
Harry Leslie Smith, a WWII veteran and author, wrote last November about why he would no longer wear a poppy to remember his friends who had died: “I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one’s right to privacy.”
This is a point rarely made in Canada, and one that might be worth exploring. The Harper government more than any other in recent memory has used the imagery of soldiers and war to its advantage. Thebicentennial of the War of 1812 was a huge PR coup for the government, which celebrated Canada’s pre-Confederation military might for an entire year. This week, Historica Canada is holding a party to celebrate the launch of a new heritage minute about a team of WWI fighters who went on to win a gold in Olympic hockey.
But behind the cheerleading and feel-good history ads, the Harper government is actually less than supportive of the soldiers who come back from more recent military engagements.
Eminem knows… If There’s No Artselfie, You Never Saw The art.
In the second episode of Keep it Canada, Matty heads to PEI to meet a potato farmer, go clam-digging, eat a whole lot of lobster rolls, and cook for his new Islander friends on the beach.
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