Dear Quebec, please leave canada...

this was a comment from one reader of the CBC report:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/03/04/mtl-quebec-english-private-school-conseil.html

you have to wonder why the quebec govt have their head so far up their own asses. this whole bilingualism issue in canada has really gotten to the point of crazy. bilingualism doesn't unite us - it fragments us. it costs us billions every year in service and administrative costs. and more to the point it has become nothing more than a tool, that the political entities in quebec use to firewall funding, claim minority status, reap the benefits of cultural and arts spending projects, legislate mandatory government bureaucracy and at the same time suck billions of dollars in welfare, through the provincial transfer payments scheme.

today, they are claiming they want to further limit the ability of quebec residents to choose to have their children schooled in english. does that sound like the policy of a free and liberal western country? they essentially want to force french education on every resident. why is it so many Quebecois want to be schooled in english? is it because they live in the middle of fucking NORTH AMERICA!! where french is about as useful outside quebec as michael j fox fumbling with change at a parking meter....

and bilingualism has become nothing more than an industry now for quebec. because many of the best government jobs require fluent french (for no real reason) guess who they are mainly open to....the CRTC's policys that demand local content be produced in english and french, - where do you think all the federal $$$ that subsidize those arts programs go?? into factories in quebec that churn out crap that most of canada doesn't even watch.

even worse, we all have to pay for quebec the welfare state which consistently keeps the highest unemployment numbers through the wacky federal transfer payment scheme, $16billion, of our money was poured into this province, so it could be wasted forcing their residents to use a language that is quickly becoming irrelevant on a worldwide scale, let alone in north america.


imagine yourself a parent in quebec. you want the best for your children, and you want them to have opportunities - so you want them to speak fluent english, so they can work and function in the rest of the country, and (most of the western world). but here your government not only creates a tyrannical petty campaign to block english from every street sign, restaurant menu radio station and billboard, but wont allow you to attend an english speaking school in a BILLINGUAL country!

it is with that sentiment that i echo the comments of the readers on CBC, "Dear Quebec, please leave canada" and rid us of the expense incurred in supporting your uni-lingual industrial complex...

Tim Hortons Ad sinks to new lows in emotional, sentimental crap peddling...

Talk about cheap, dramatic brain dead advertising, this commercial from Tim Hortons started playing shortly after the Haiti Quake crisis, and while it's about an African family being reunited, it seeks to exploit the emotions of reuniting family members from 3rd world countries, a topical issue during the recent disaster.

what more can you say about a fast food company that simply draws on the plight of 3rd world countries to advertise and shamelessly associate it's product? does anyone really want to get emotionally involved with the company that makes some of the most mediocre coffee in the world? no. do we take offense to the hijacking of international disasters in order to promote brand? yes.

the standard of advertising in this country is pathetic. when it comes to major corporations and the drivel their canadian ad agencies spit out it's appauling. Maybe it's because i'm used to much more sophisticated advertising in europe and australia, but the stuff they make here is a joke. it either involves animals (see telus, bell, fido) or involves some overlly dramatic effort to combine a completely unrelated event with a relatively mundane product.

by the way tim hortons, your donuts are the worst. period. please, go to a krispy creme store try a donut and do something about the quality of yours.

CTV Olympic Coverage is Pathetic...fucking pathetic

Man am i pissed. I just tried for 30mins to watch the Sven Kramer disqualification video on CTV without luck. Like many others, this video is incorrectly linked on the website. the NBC site is 1000% more professional, but of course i can't see the video there, because you cant view it out of the US.


CTV's coverage in general has been nothing short of pathetic. first of all, the people covering the events, the commentators and personalities are nothing short of a joke. tamara taggart who i have talked about before has the personality of a bitchy highschool preppy, putting on a fake smile and pretending to be friends with everyone - plus she's butt ugly. then theres that corpse Robertson, who should have retired years ago. his face basically hangs off the bone, and he reads like a computer generated robot voice. his live conversations with other reporters are a joke, as he reads from prompts - this is the best we have????? seriously?


then there's the replays....you can tell a network has no idea what it's doing when it fails to clearly distinguish between live events and replays. Ever watch a professional network, and see LIVE written on the screen, those four words tell us EVERYTHING. Fucking CTV low budget, small town morons.

Big surprise - frogophones kick up a stink over the lack of french at games

Do these quebec politicians really have such miserable lives that they have to sit around looking for things to complain about, measuring the frequency and concentration of english to french at every single public event.

Check out this story on CBC:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/02/14/olympics-french-charest-moore.html

Rather than sitting back and enjoying the opening ceremonies these morons were busy making a fuss over the fact that there wasn't enough french used in the openning ceremonies. BOO HOO....hey quebec here's a lesson in history and geography, this is BRITISH columbia, and the British did win the war no? When you host the games you can speak all the french in the world you like...meanwhile we hosted it in a language that the world speaks - english.

opening ceremony - moments of spectacular with alot of yawn...

ok, first the good. the whales, swimming through the stadium - holy shit that was amazing....BUT what the fuck was that tap dancing moron doing? as ever, it's annoying being forced to listen to everything in french, and seriously, who are we kidding, the people in quebec can get by with english.the olympic IOC president, jacques rogges - complete asshole, and what a stiff, the guy has no personality. what else??

then there was the epic failure of the hydrolic lift on the cauldron, what a spectacular fuck up of canadian engineering. jesus, i hope the moron who designed that thing lost their job.and the awkward look on everyones face as they waited for this thing to come, that never would. ouch.

oh yeah all the first nation stuff, ok that was necessary but a little obligatory and then the performances...well they were just ok. brian adams and nelly furtado looked about as comfortable together as a match and a box of TNT, and KD Langs hallelujah was not uplifting or appropriate at all, it was somber and sad.

when all was said and done at the end i was "is that it?" like having sex with a girl you've wanted to fuck for a long time, and realizing that it wasn't everything you thought it would be so too are the olympic opening ceremonies. and like the long time to find your pants, and get dressed, look for your keys and then the awkward goodbye after the lay...so too was the idiotic ending which saw wayne gretzky walk out of the stadium and then drive through the streets of vancouver on the back of a truck, in the pouring rain and light another cauldron - this time a functioning one.

olympics make their contribution to global warming...

As we speak, trucks are bringing snow from Manning Park, (more than 200KM east of Vancouver), to deposit on Cypress Mountain for the 2010 olympic games. Once the trucks dump the snow, helicopters will place it on location on the mountain, thats right, helicopters...furthermore pipes have been laid throughout the olympic course and dry ice will be pumped through those pipes in an effort to keep the mountain cold enough for the snow to remain...can you imagine how much fuel, electricity and energy all this effort involves?

all of this will make for at best poor to average conditions on the mountain, but at what cost will it come to to the environment, and ironically, further contribute to the very reason the weather is warmer in the first place!

The real stink of it...2 hours to the north lies Whistler Blackcomb, with some of the best skiing conditions in North America, and plenty of alpine snow.

Two Small Dicks with big Bills...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/02/02/bc-twosmallmen.html

Well one read of this article by CBC on Vancouver moving company, Two Small Men with Big Hearts and it should be obvious who NOT to use when moving. I haven't had experience with these monkeys. when it comes to moving I don't scrimp, and I would encourage anyone with valuable possessions to find a reputable vendor, but also the important lesson is to do your homework.

One quick google search on this company and the first 10 links are complaints. That's a red flag, in addition, just hit the BBB site and do a search, and that should be the end of the story. These distributed franchises are disasters in general when it comes to quality of service, because the parent has very little control over quality assurance. I avoid them like the plaugue except when i want a burger or a sub :)