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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

So it's been a while since I've posted, but never doing anything other than going to work will do that. No, that's unduly harsh. I did hang out at Shane's new house, which was a pretty fun time. It's always cool hanging out with him and his wife. He's a teacher (math primarily) and clued us into a website he's working on for his kids. It'll be up here once school starts.
I rented a car for this weekend, and a friend and me will be driving down to Morden (a town in SW Manitoba) to take part in their annual Corn and Apple Festival. Mainly for the novelty of getting out of the city for a day, but also for the free corns on the cob and apple cider! Should be a fun, at least it's an excuse to go for a ride.

"I have a background from my younger days in hockey. When somebody slammed you into the boards with undue force and aggression, you took their number," Emerson said. "I think we've got to take their number."

That's a quote from Industry Minister David Emerson speaking about the United States' decision to ignore ruling after ruling declaring the trade tariffs imposed on Canadian softwood. He and Ottawa have been identifying areas where tariffs imposed by our government would have maximum impact on the U.S. economy. The difficulty being, not to select items that would unfairly punish one specific part of Canada (i.e. setting export limitations on crude oil would impact Alberta plenty more than any other region). That was my first reaction, if going for maximum impact. I've heard talk of putting restrictions on newsprint export, which I think would be a good start. Next should come electricity. But what do I know, I'm just an armchair politician.

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