Thanksgiving (Canadian)

[Bach5G]

It’s Thanksgiving in Canada today and I wish everyone (not just Canadians) a happy Thanksgiving.

There’s a lot of noise out there. We’ve been tested in recent years - pestilence, tough economic times and, in some parts of the world, war. Those are 3/4 of the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse right there. Yet, we’ve come through COVID and the economy has rebounded nicely with low unemployment and real wage gains, and inflation is under control. Crime is down. There are no easy solutions in sight to the wars. Unfortunately.

Just a reminder that most of us have much to be truly thankful for, despite what all the noise would lead us to believe.

[Cmillar]

Yes, have a good Thanksgiving.

Might not be so good a feeling in a year or so if Poiliviere and his Conservatives (aka Facists) take over. I fear for Canada and the influence of Trumpism (aka Facism) and how it's overtaken common sense. (Former PM Stephen Harper must be smiling as he goes about his work as President of the International Democracy Union (aka right-wing thinktank) and attending meeting with Orban and others)

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/04/05/ ... -Globally/

Goes to show that the terrible state of education in North America has created an uneducated public that is so susceptible to the facist spouting of Poiliviere and Trump.

But, hey...have a good holiday!

[BGuttman]

Well, down here in "lower Canada" (aka US) we are celebrating Columbus Day, which has been transitioning to Indigenous Peoples' Day because Columbus imported a lot of plagues on the people living here. Celebrating the day as First Nations (as you Canadians would call them) Day is relatively recent. We were celebrating Chris Columbus all the time I was growing up.

Happy Thanksgiving to all you Canadians.

[Bach5G]

Maybe we should celebrate “no politics day“.

[ghmerrill]

Maybe we should celebrate “no politics day“.

Way too radical. What are you? Some kind of anarchist?

[CalgaryTbone]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of those celebrating today. I just mowed my lawn today with temperatures in the low 70's F - some years, it's been a snow shovelling day!

As far as something to be thankful for, this week's program is Bruckner 8th - a bucket list piece for me. I need to carve out (no pun) some time for practicing later today, but that's OK!

Jim Scott

[ghmerrill]

I just mowed my lawn today with temperatures in the low 70's F - some years, it's been a snow shovelling day!

That's been because more recently you guys have been either sending your "Canadian lows" down south of the border to us and keeping some of the warmer air. But compensating by also sending down some heat and smoke from the NW forest fires. Not your fault. We all know that cold air sinks, and so naturally will be pulled down towards the South Pole from the North Pole. When I was a graduate student in Rochester you'd always see the snow and cold just being sucked across the border from Toronto and Peterborough. When I was an undergraduate in Troy, we'd get it coming directly from Montreal.

[Cmillar]

I just mowed my lawn today with temperatures in the low 70's F - some years, it's been a snow shovelling day!

That's been because more recently you guys have been either sending your "Canadian lows" down south of the border to us and keeping some of the warmer air. But compensating by also sending down some heat and smoke from the NW forest fires. Not your fault. We all know that cold air sinks, and so naturally will be pulled down towards the South Pole from the North Pole. When I was a graduate student in Rochester you'd always see the snow and cold just being sucked across the border from Toronto and Peterborough. When I was an undergraduate in Troy, we'd get it coming directly from Montreal.

Yeah! I tell everyone I was warmer in Western Canada in the winter than I ever have been here on the East Coast! The humidity here is a killer. The dry air in the west can have you feeling warm at 0 degrees. I do miss that!