Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, and a Little Progressive Humour

Happy Canuck Turkey Day! Pam and I are roast­ing a Turkey thigh (and even that is huge…), plus also roast­ing a pump­kin (seeds sep­a­rately). I feel all Martha Stewart-y.

Since it’s not only Thanks­giv­ing sea­son, but also elec­tion sea­son for both the US and Canada (and again, we get ours a lit­tle ear­lier), thought I’d include this lit­tle bit of emi­gré humour (just in case the unthink­able hap­pens in the States):

Many thanks to my friend Mark Bartelt, a very enlight­ened Cal­i­forn­ian who I met through the arti­cle I did for the LA Times years ago, for the pointer to this lit­tle gem that is all too close to reality.

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By David Drucker | Filed in Canada, Food, Humour, Politics | October 13, 2008 4:25 pm

2 Comments to “Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, and a Little Progressive Humour”

  1. AvatarAl
    Posted: Oct 13th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
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    Of course, if Harper wins again tomor­row — with or with­out a major­ity — he may bring us closer to Amer­i­can policy/attitude than most care to real­ize, no mat­ter who becomes the next President.

    How­ever, the Cana­dian pub­lic will not go qui­etly into the night about this either.
  2. AvatarDavid Drucker
    Posted: Oct 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
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    Hi Al,

    Yeah, we’ve been dread­ing that we are not rid of Harper, even if the orig­i­nal Bush will thank­fully soon be just a bad mem­ory. The last three years have shown us that he can’t do as much dam­age as the Repub­li­cans in the US, but I’m hope­ful that the lack of a major­ity will once again pro­tect the coun­try from him. Besides, if he starts to wreak havoc, unlike the US, we can have his gov­ern­ment voted out, and no amount of sup­port from Alberta could pos­si­bly out­weigh the rest of the country.

    I some­times won­der how much of the demise of Clas­si­cal Music on CBC2 (and the trans­form­ing it into a more com­mer­cial easy lis­ten­ing for­mat) was the result of Con­ser­v­a­tive Party appoint­ments, and wouldn’t be sur­prised if that was the case. That point did make me a lit­tle sad when the video brought up the NPR and PBS to CBC equivalency.
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