Author: Stephen Taylor

Now is the time when we party

That’s right! It’s homecoming weekend… where alums, old and new, mix it up with the crazy kids at Crazy Go Nuts University for a weekend of football, pancake keggers and memories new, recalled and fuzzy.

We also thought that this would be a perfect opportunity for Queen’s past, present (and future) bloggers to meetup. The festivities kickoff at Alfie’s (formally the Underground for you older kids) at 6:30pm on Saturday and will probably spill into Aberdeen as the night progresses.

Join Joey (Accordion Guy) DeVilla, Matt Fletcher, John Hamilton and I and others at Queen’s this weekend for this 1st annual (yeah, 1st annual) Queen’s blogger meetup.

Every blogger currently at Queen’s, that has graduated from Queen’s or any Queen’s student/alum that plans to start blogging is welcome to join us for cheers, beers and an oil thigh this weekend.

Cha Gheill!

Give my cell a call if you’re lost this weekend: 540-2001

“All Canadian provinces are obviously distinct from one another. But with its difference in language, Quebec is different in a fundamental way which requires specific attention … Other multilingual democracies, like Switzerland and Belgium, have these kinds of arrangements. They give the minority language community the ability to feel secure and to make a more positive contribution to the country” — Liberal environment minister Stéphane Dion, 1996 (then the Liberal intergovernmental affairs minister)

Prime Minister Paul Martin mocked Conservative Party of Canada leader Stephen Harper in the House of Commons for lacking a “made-in-Canada” solution and wanting “to do it with the both of them (the Bloc and the ADQ) in a bed and breakfast in Brussels”.

Instead of “kick-start[ing] some national discussion” on the topic, looks like we’ll stick to partisan hackery.

Then again, perhaps Harper is guilty too of playing politics with the Liberals by drawing them out with veiled Liberal quotes and by hitting them back before the news cycle comes full circle.

Or has Stephen Harper learned that Canadian politics is all about Quebec?

Anglophone lawyer, Jennifer Myers got out of a traffic ticket on Monday because the “No Left Turn” sign that she neglected, and for which she subsequently received a ticket, wasn’t in French.

By the way, the traffic violation was in the city of Toronto and Myers doesn’t speak a word of French.

It’s good to see that these laws of language equality are now being applied and exploited equally by all Canadians, regardless of their linguistic background.