I know that for most of my southern friends my yearly Festival du Voyageur posts are loved. This weekend past Darlene and I took in all that Festival had to offer. From the fiddle music, and meals packed with Bannock, spit pea soup and fresh ham.
The wood fires to warms your bones against the cold, and of course historical re-enactments of life in the 1700′s when this part of Canada was settled. Any of you who are also using WordPress may have been having trouble with the recient updates in adding pictures.
Normally I don’t get my hair in a knot about people not knowing about where Winnipeg is because we are pretty laid back and just out of the way.
Except for the fact that we are in the center of the fucking continent people. LOOK please just take a small break and look at a map. If your reading me here you have good goggle something or other.
OK, everyone settled? Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin.
Mayor Ford, Toronto is still part of Canada is it not? We all see the same Maple Leaf flag flying high over us? So what gives when you think that Windsor, Ontario is part of Manitoba?
We all know you’re not the sharpest knife in the roll, but for fuck sakes. Pull your head out of your Southern Ontario ass and look around. Did you even realize that Ontario exists outside of the GTA? There is another side to the Ontario map you know it includes places like Kenora, North Bay, Thunder Bay, Souix Lookout, and my home town of Fort Frances. Also not in the view of Windsor (Not Winnipeg, Manitoba).
Next victim please.
CBS News I am going to go a little easier on you.
You’re American and I know that you don’t know much out of the way of Krispy Kreme and Big Macs.
Don’t get me wrong I like you guys, much like I love a retard cousin, Unlike the excited states we love to read books, and more than often write books. So how do you always get us wrong?? Discussion is more than just lies and partisan bullshit, and may I elate that our Canadian economy is kicking your ass?
Canadians like you say love to give, often the shoes off our feet. We are a giving kind people. So would it be so hard for you to get your facts right??
Your not Canadian so we don’t expect perfection so at least get the province right.
I would also like to send a direct message to Tucker Carlson, why are Canadians so hard assed and tough. Because we have to be, we have the largest and laziest economy right next to us. We have to be hard, we have to be tough. We don’t give up. America has stood on its laurels for half a century and gutted its economy overseas. You have no resources, you are reliant for half the world for your own energy.
I suggest in the most Canadian apologetic terms that you please put down your Whoppers and pick up your boot straps. It’s going to be North America (Canada and USA) vs. Asia in very short order. I suggest you get your house in order.
Hi everybody it’s time for everybody’s favorite head snapper What the #@(& is that! Today’s labour day edition takes a spin down Portage avenue and though the downtown core.
Our first installment comes courtesy of the fine folks at Air Canada, Canada’s largest and most maligned airline service. This huge objet d’art is tucked away in a corner of the courtyard that most people just wizz by in traffic and I only just discovered it yesterday.
King Pigeon at the Air Canada building downtown Winnipeg.
Holding court or just waiting to crap on someone?
I just find it hilarious that Air Canada an airline renowned for its high rates and poor customer service would have a rat with wings at its Winnipeg head office. Kinda makes you wonder what other decisions are going on in the boardrooms.
Well spring has sprung here in Winnipeg, Manitoba and that means a few things. Road work, mosquitoes and public art travesties. I have come upon a few new ones and a golden oldie that I had been searching for quite a while.
First up is a rather quaint installation only minutes from my home in St Boniface.
Exhibit One:
A piece dedicated to Gabrielle Roy, a St. Boniface teacher and writer. Gaining acclaim for her novels The Tin Fluteand Alexandre Chenevert for being a motivating factor for Quebec’s Quiet Revolution .
Gabrielle Roy Plaque
This piece speaks for itself in its simplicity and musical nature.
Roy 1
Roy 2
Of all today’s pieces I find this one strangely haunting, almost lyrical.
Festival time is almost upon us again my friends and I know how much all of you like my photos of all the festivities that run and all the snow sculptures that are carved lovingly during it’s annual February run.
So once again here’s a sneak peek at some of the work going on around town to get St. Boniface in a Hé Ho frame of mind. Some of these pictures are continuations of works that had begun last week in my “A day in the life” photo journal and from “60 years on a hard throne“.
Here at the mint work has been completed on the Winnipeg Jets Logo Coin.
Here’s the flip side of the coin. A bison standing in relief. Sadly facing due south so a great deal of the definition has been removed by our unseasonable temperatures.
Bob
