Canada is not a great country for symbols. Sure, there’s the maple leaf, but how many times do you actually see a maple leaf tree in Western Canada? There’s the beaver, which became a symbol of the nation for its industriousness and our desire to kill them for fur coats.
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Tattered Sleeve: Oh, Carey
(apologies to Steve Perry) You shouldn’t have posted Knowing how Montrealers feel And you should’ve known Dec. 6 and what it means Oh, I must’ve been a dreamer And I thought you were someone else ‘Course you’re livin’ in a bubble! Oh, Carey, regarding guns Hold on, hold your fire
Continue readingPostArctica: Hockey Should Not Be A Racist Sport
Apparently the idea of racism in hockey is now a hot topic in Canada. All I can say is what took everyone so long? Hockey is a white man’s sport. It is very expensive to have your kid properly equipped to play the game at any age. You do not
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Calgary and the hockey barons
On November 18th of last year, Calgary held a plebiscite which attracted an impressive 305,000 voters. The question on the ballot was whether or not the city would host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. The answer was a decisive no, despite the Olympic opponents having far less money at their
Continue readingIn This Corner: Go Jets go! Right?
The other day I turned on the television to find an NHL game in progress. I was shocked. I thought the hockey season ended months ago. It had for me, anyway. Stranger still, the game featured a team identified on the screen only as VGK. VGK? Could it be the
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Amazing Che
Amazing ChéHow sweet the soundOf Habs fans leaving their seats In the K, he was lostBut with the CH, was foundWe give praise to Bergevin ‘Twas Captain K that taughtThe PP to clickLeko and BBQ, my FHFears relievedHow precious did that CHé appearThe OT I first believed Through many Rangers,
Continue readingIn This Corner: The Return of Stuff Happens, week 12: BULLETIN: Trump does right thing; world reacts with shock
I guess it was bound to happen — Donald Trump actually did the right thing this week. I never thought we would see the day, but as the saying goes, even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then. On Thursday, Trump actually looked decisive and — dare
Continue readingIn This Corner: The Return of Stuff Happens, week 10: The beginning of the end for The Donald?
So, what’s the over/under on the Trump presidency? I would have thought two years before he was impeached, but now I’m leaning towards one year. Eighteen months, max. Trump has now lost his first big promise, to repeal and replace Obamacare. His plan alienated his own party to such a
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: If Y(emelin) Should Fall From Grace with Claude (apologies to the Pogues)
If Y Should Fall from Grace with ClaudeAfter being cleanly beatenIf Y’s muscled off the puckAnd his passes fail completelyLet him sit Claude, let him sit ClaudeLet Y sit up with the press where the hotdogs come with friesThis Cup was always ours Was the pride of MontrealersIt belongs to the
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Winter’s Coming (apologies to Arcade Fire and their Neighbourhoods #1 (Tunnels)
And if the snow buries my CH neighbourhoodAnd if Che is flyingThen he’ll saucer a passFrom his stick blade to PatCHesYeah, a pass, from his stick blade to PatCHesKidA has climbed out of the cellarAnd skated up the middleThe middle of the iceAnd since there’s no one but the goalie
Continue readingIn This Corner: The Return of Stuff Happens, week 2: My hush money has arrived
Deposited into my bank account this week was a payment of $150, my “Alberta climate leadership adjustment rebate”. The rebate covers the period of January to June of this year, which is a rebate for money I haven’t spent yet (or, as I call it, a prebate). The prebate is
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Still Happens, week 37: Judging the judges
This week, an Alberta judge found Travis Vader guilty in the deaths of elderly couple Lyle and Marie McCann. Queen’s Bench Justice Denny Thomas found Vader guilty of second degree murder, despite the facts that no trace of the McCann’s has ever been found, no weapon was found, and the evidence was entirely circumstantial. Oh, […]
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Still Happens, week 23: The year of the fallen icons
The Oxford English Dictionary defines icon as ‘a symbol or graphic representation on a screen of a program, option, or window’, which doesn’t work until you look at the second definition, which is ‘a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.’ There are few words in English usage today more […]
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Still Happens, week 13: Horror in Lahore; more Trumpism
Remember the horrible attack last week in Belgium? Of course you do; it’s still in the news. But on Easter Sunday, there was another terrorist attack that was worse by multiple factors, yet it hardly rated a mention. On Easter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan, hundreds of people had gathered in one of the city’s largest […]
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Stand Down Therrien (apologies to the English Beat)
I said I see no goals
I see only losses
I see no chance of a play-off tomorrow
So stand down eMTy
Stand down please
Stand down Therrien
I say stand down eMTy
Stand down please
Stand Therrien
You tell me how can it work
With this “process” of yours
All these chip-ins aren’t working,
We want a third goal scored
Stand down eMTy
Stand down please
Stand down Therrien
I sometimes wonder
If I’ll ever get to say
Come with me my children
To the Stanley Cup parade
Our hopes seem desperate in your dump and chase plans
Would you give a second thought
Would you ever change the process, I doubt it
Stand down eMTy
Score!
Everybody shout it
Stand down eMTy!
DDD, cut his power play time
More gCHuck at Centre
We score
Score, score, score, score, score
Score, score, score, score, score
Score, score, score, score, score
Score, score, score, score, score
Score, score, score, score, score
Stand down please
Stand down EMTy
Stand down please
Stand down Therrien
I say stand down EMTy
Stand down please
Stand down Therrien
Stand down EMTy
Stand down please
Stand down Therrien
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Stand Down Therrien (apologies to the English Beat)
I said I see no goals I see only losses I see no chance of a play-off tomorrow So stand down eMTy Stand down please Stand down Therrien I say stand down eMTy Stand down please Stand Therrien You tell me how can it work With this “process” of yours
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Stand Down Therrien (apologies to the English Beat)
I said I see no goals I see only losses I see no chance of a play-off tomorrow So stand down eMTy Stand down please Stand down Therrien I say stand down eMTy Stand down please Stand Therrien You tell me how can it work With this “process” of you…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Three days left to support the Pride Tape kickstarter
1,083 backers have stepped up to donate $70.073 in support the Pride Tape kickstarter campaign since it was started in December 2015. Launched by the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services at the University of Alberta and supported by Ca…
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 51: It was a very bad year
Well, I did it. And I’m sure you’re thrilled. When I started writing this blog, I vowed to write a weekly review of events as I saw them. I did it mostly as a personal challenge, a way to instil a little discipline in my undisciplined life, and to boost my memory of the events […]
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