Province of Winnipeg

[bc_soccer_fan]

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2005/04/19/news/editorials/edt01.txt

Hahahaha. What a dumb prick.

[Marc]

Extreme socialists!

[SPS]

This guy makes North Dakotan's seem really assinine when in fact they're some of the nicest folks in the union.

The treasury board 'monkey' was in fact Reg Alcock, MP for Winnipeg south and Treasury Board President.

I really love the barbs about our 'socialist' governments, and the way he portrays Gary Doer as a communist. You could stop reading this article when they bash the Province of Winnipeg, but you'd miss out on some good laughs later on. Fine, don't let your 18 year old's come up and drink on spring break, see if we care. We'll just jack up our prices on cross border meds!

Here's some potential liscence plates for our 11th province

"Province of Winnipeg, land of no-freeways"

or

"More peeps than N.D. and 1/1000th the size!"

[shaku_bert]

I never really found our southernly neighbors terribly freindly.

The writer completely fails to give voice to Manitoba's concerns about the project. They intend to divert water from a lake in ND into the Red River which will empty in Lake Winnipeg. The potential to introduce new species into the Lake that could destroy the provinces fishery is ignored. In fact the ND'ans did do an environmental study on what might happen. But they only looked at waterways up to the border. Because whatever happens past the border isn't their concern. Real Neighborly of them.

[DoyleG]

American opposition to the plan was ignored as well.

[Winnipeg Fury]

quote:Originally posted by shaku_bert

I never really found our southernly neighbors terribly freindly.

Agreed. For the most part, they are ignorant pr*cks.

[aussoccerfan]

quote:Originally posted by Sigma

Really? Most Americans I have met have been wonderful people. Perhaps that is because I spent most of my time in Iowa? Apparently people in Iowa are a lot like Canadian's.

I have a lot of family in the Quad Cities area of Iowa. When I went to Iowa a few years ago, I found most people there nice.

[shaku_bert]

We’ve rented a cottage every summer at the same fishing lodge in N.W. Ontario for 30 years. There are few other Canadians but it is mostly Americans (serious fisherman types). 95% of the Americans on the lake (they come mostly from Illinois (just South of Chicago) and from Indianna) are as nice as nice can be. Some of the Canadian families are first class a-holes. You can’t paint all people with the same brush. Last time I was down in N. Dak. (last labour Day), people seemed really frosty. Probably due to Canada not supporting the war in Iraq. A couple of years ago, I was in Arizona and I just got back from Las Vegas (its good to have a computer geek wife who has to go to conventions!) and most of the people you met were nice! Golfed with a dad and son from Philadelphia by way of New Yawk! What a hoot!

[Cheeta]

Speaking of New York. Parents met some New Yorkers a few years back while vistiting relatives in LA. As nice a couple as you'd meet anywhere and surprisingly aware of Winnipeg including the Bombers. That kind of threw me off. The Bombers? The RWB, the old defunct Jets, but the Bombers? Sorta weird.

I've cousins who're Americans (born and raised) and as nice as people as you'd ever meet in your life. All from the LA region. One eventualy quite her job as an ER nurse and went to work in one of the charity hospitals down there strictly on principle. Maybe it's a California thing.

Of course they were brought up right. There father went down there in the '60s, never became a citizen and was proud to call himself Canadian until the day he died.

Back to the subject at hand. This whole fiasco has been going on one way or another for what's got to be 25 years. The reason Devil's Lake floods the way it dose is a direct result of other water diversion projects they've conducted over the years. So bo-ho. If you're so fu'king clever than get that Army Corp of Engineers to figure out how they can keep the Mississipi water shed in the Mississipi were it belongs.

And for those up here who see the American political system as a model for Canada's future look no further than a place like North Dakota and the senate. This is a state which pork barrels every aspect of it's existance based on the weight that those two senaters bring to Washington. Not just disproportionate, but criminaly disproportionate to it's population.

I'm okay with the North Dakota tourists staying home. Not a problem. But I dought that the North Dakotains are okay with the Winnipeg tourists staying home though. Probably Canada's only trade deficit with the US of A.

[mjoni]

It's pretty incredible that Americans can get away with writing such blatantly anti-canadian (or anti-whoever) like that. In Canada, that would probably cost someone their job.

May or may not be time to take a second look at NAFTA.