Merry Christmas to all. Enjoy. Hug your family members:
A Canadian classic. Huron Carol
‘Twas in the moon of winter-time When all the birds had fled, That mighty Gitchi Manitou Sent angel choirs instead; Before their light the stars grew dim, And wandering hunters heard the hymn: Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, In excelsis gloria. Within a lodge of broken bark, the tender Babe was found, A ragged robe of rabbit skin Enwrapp’d His beauty round; But as the hunter braves drew nigh, The angel song rang loud and high… “Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, In excelsis gloria.” The earliest moon of wintertime is not so round and fair, As was the ring of glory On the helpless infant there. The chiefs from far before him knelt with gifts of fox and beaver pelt. Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, In excelsis gloria. O children of the forest free, O sons of Manitou, The Holy Child of earth and heaven Is born today for you. Come kneel before the radiant Boy Who brings you beauty, peace and joy. Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born, In excelsis gloria!
I never thought I would ever see this place again.
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Walking along a pathway on the top of the ridge that ran parallel to the memorial grounds, an acute sense of Canadian pride welled up through every bone and cell of my body.
“Charlotte, hold my arm please…tightly. I feel faint. I may fall.”
As we walked along the main pathway toward the back end of the memorial, my emotions began to flood over me. The feeling was overwhelming. I began to hyperventilate. Not out of fear but out of immense pride and sense of patriotism that a young country like Canada could construct such a beautiful tribute to all our countrymen who fought here and died here and have no known graves. It is hard for me to describe but the memorial that is in front of me is unbelievably beautiful.
Ahead of us, two marble pylons rise out of the ashes of this death ridge to grace the heavens. They represent Canada and France, they tell me, reflecting a bond between our two nations of the sacrifices and the hardships experienced during the war. From my vantage point I could already see the plinths that grace the monument: individual carvings of white marble, stone, and steel. From the pamphlet we received they represent shared values of justice, peace, honour, truth, knowledge, and hope. I could almost visualize in my mind an inverted cross that was conceived by the architect in the construction and the situation of the two pylons on a flat extensive and massive base of the memorial itself. I am not sure if that was the intent of the design by the architect but that is what it said to me.
The scene before me took me aback. I did not expect this reaction. The beauty of the monument, the fine lines chiseled forms of the statues caused me to break down and cry with a mixture of tears of joy for the magnificence set before me, but of sorrow and pride for what this represents. Each teardrop symbolizes a friend, or a comrade, a winger perhaps but all soldiers who are not coming home. Friends and colleagues of mine. From all parts of our beautiful country.
And we have only touched upon the entranceway of the monument. I somehow fear how I will react when I see the entire scene.
“Dad, are you okay? You look faint. Do you want to sit down.?”
“No, I am fine sweetie. I will be all right. It is just…it is just…just so emotional for me. I should not have come here.”
Silence between us. I am sure she saw the tear tracks on my flushed face. She held my arm tight.
“I am so proud of you dad. And this place is so powerful in its symbolism. It is so beautiful here yet intensely sacred ground.”
“France gave this land to Canada Charlotte.” I said my voice shaking with emotion that I could barely get out the words. “For us, our nation Charlotte…Canada in perpetuity…forever. I can’t believe it.” I can barely hold back my tears. Looking around I could see veterans of the war fighting back their emotions on seeing this magnificent testimonial to all our comrades who died here and in France and in Belgium.
We climbed the limestone steps and found ourselves on the massive stone and marble base of the monument. Here there were hundreds of people with us, mingling and stopping at various points of observation.
“Look, look over there. At the top Henry.” I heard someone say.
And another: This is unbelievable. Fantastic. The folks back home should see this.”
“The ceremony is being broadcast” I heard another exclaim.
Walking slowly amongst the crowd toward the front of the monument, I could see the broad Douai Plain ahead of us beginning at the bottom of the sloped terrain. At the front side, the Eastern side of the monument, the stone carvings really come to life. They are situated and enmeshed within the marble grain at the top of the twin spires. They represent the values that we fought for: honour, sacrifice, faith, hope. Personally, for me, I never thought of it in those terms. Nor did the lads that signed up with me to go to war. We felt that it was going to be the great adventure of our lives; excitement that we wanted to be part of. Nothing more, nothing less. A great adventure in a country that we never gave much thought to.
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Canadian Taxpayer group slams $90B high-speed rail boondoggle proponents, as announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“Is there a proponent for this Mr. Prime Minister? ”
“Yes there is. The Canadian government and the people of Canada.”
“Oh you mean the people of Ontario and Quebec.”
“Well yes, the people of Canada. It is long overdue and the government of Canada will fund it.”
“The Canadian taxpayer?”
“Yes, Canadians. And we hope to start breaking ground by 2029 with the first line from Montreal to Ottawa.”
“Who will be the Prime Contractor, Mr. Prime Minister?”
“Probably AtkinsRéalis from Montreal.”
“Oh, you mean SNC Lavalin?”
“No, I mean AtkinsRéalis. No more questions please.”
And then there is this:
“But there is no proponent for this so it ain’t going to happen,” so says Tim Hodgson, Prime Minister Carney’s Minister of Industry and Natural Resources Carney’s. “The Canadian taxpayer is not going to fund this.”
“But…but…”
“No ifs ands or buts.” Hodgson says. “If there is no proponent for a pipeline, it will not be built on the Canadian Taxpayers dime. We will not approve it. No more questions please.”
Canadians are naïve jokesters.
There are consequences to your actions Canada.
"CBC News has learned that a delegation of Canadian parliamentarians has been denied entry into Israel this morning after trying to enter by land from Jordan."
"While all of that is out the window now, what the group has told us is, is that they were stopped at the crossing from… pic.twitter.com/cFq5JPMqal
The MPs in the delegation were: Fares Al Soud (Liberal MP) Iqra Khalid (Liberal MP) Aslam Rana (Liberal MP) Gurbux Saini (Liberal MP) Sameer Zuberi (Liberal MP) Jenny Kwan (NDP MP).
Maybe, if their last names were Smith, Jones, Morrison, McIntyre etc., they may have gotten in.
Then again, Canada officially recognized the State of Palestine, effective September 2025.
And…in doing so unofficially, by proxy, recognized HAMAS and Hezbollah.
Oh and then there is this:
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
If they say it, believe them. It is happening now and we are letting them do it out of fear of being labelled Islamophobic. Do you think the Muslims are concerned about being labelled Caucasian-phobic? Not a chance and that is why they are laughing at us.
By 2000, six hundred Somali families occupied Fargo, North Dakota. By 2004, Somalis outnumbered Hispanics in the Fargo public school system. Refugee resettlement, led by Lutheran Social Services, continued bombarding the state with foreign migrants, 70% of them into Fargo.
After President Trump’s outrage at the $1.5 billion in Somali fraud in Minnesota, Rep. Hamida Dakane, the first Somali Muslim to hold office in the North Dakota legislature, dismissed Trump and bragged about a Somali Muslim population encompassing Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Washington, Virginia, Maine, and North Dakota. “We are history,” she declared. “And we will always rise.”
Soon to be Florida, Texas and New York state.
Muslim values are Canadian values” so says the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
It is the religion of peace.
Yes it is:
But tell that to the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting. 16 dead, many injured.
“Yeah but. No…no…no. No ifs ands or buts. This our reality now. We are at war. It is a global war of ideology.
Dedicated to those Canadian MPs who tried to get into Israel:
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Look at what Quebec gets ($13.5B). Inclusivity? It is fiscal tyranny. Every westerner should be angry about this.
Insanity in our schools here in BC.
During question period yesterday, Tara Armstrong read directly from a BCTF article that claims colonialism shaped ideas about nature, gender, and biological reproduction. The article argues that the common phrase “the birds and the bees” reflects “binary pseudoscience” tied to “white supremacy culture.”
…WTF over. And…
Insanity in our government.
Under the Province’s NDP government, provincial schools follow SOGI 123, a nationwide program pushing LGBT ideology in schools under the label of “inclusivity.”
Did you know that our children are being indoctrinated on Progressive ideology starting in government funded daycare? Who controls and dictates the curriculum? Liberal left wing ideologists, that’s who. The entire school board where I live are all left wind radicals. No balance here
Flag culture: BC Politician put through a motion that only the national and provincial flags could be flown on all government buildings. No others. That bill was defeated by the government representatives.
This is Canada today. The wokest country on the planet. Wokeness will destroy us as a nation.
The new Canada: insanity!
Coming to a city near you. Like a virus this will spread. Sharia Law will be part of Canada by 2050. Canada will be a Muslim country by 2100 – unless we stop it. Like the hammer did in 732 Ad.
Horsman has asked an Ontario court to overturn a Waterloo Region District School Board decision that forces school councils to begin meetings with land acknowledgements and bans any discussion about them.
In response to a question about the Carney government’s relationship with the Indigenous community, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand scolded senators for not beginning the meeting with a land acknowledgement, despite there being no requirement for them to do so.
Insanity at all levels of government.
Guilbeault quits over pipeline MOU. Good riddance.
May is upset by Chili Con Carney. He backstabbed her on his climate policies.
Canada? When 1.4 million people hold 39 million people economically hostage.
“Whether you support the pipeline or not. We can all agree that any government must seek our (Indigenous) free and prior and informed consent before any proposed projects take place on our land and waters. This MOU provides no such assurances,” he said. Read my lips: no more pipelines or anything else in this country.”
Consequence of government policies?
Consequence of government policies?
Consequence of government policies?
I never ever thought that Canada would come to this. But it has. And our governments are to blame.
BTW I was born here so I am indigenous to Canada and I support the pipeline.
And yet we continue to listen and support insanity and leadership hopefuls who have not one iota of common sense.
NDP leadership hopeful Avi Lewis says nation-building projects endanger Indigenous women. WTF over.
‘They’re big, manly things with huge work camps entailed in remote areas.’
Federal NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis has echoed anti-pipeline advocates by making the charge that resource projects touted by the Mark Carney government would put the lives of many Indigenous women and girls in danger.Lewis, one of five leadership hopefuls after Hazmat Singh stepped down as leader following the NDP’s decimation in last April’s federal election, equated nation-building projects with work camps that are “big, manly things.Yes bring im one for more decimation of the NDP.
And more Canadian madness:
Insanity!
MAiD: A slippery slope. Medical Assistance in Dying is now Canada’s 5th cause of death annually. Given the hopelessness of government policies, can you blame them?
A Canadian woman who got approved for a medically assisted death because of a years-long wait to receive surgery for her chronically painful condition may finally get treated. American conservative commentator Glenn Beck has offered to pay for her to have surgery in the United States.
Government’s logic: “With over 75,000 free health care deaths since 2016, the free death system’s performance is no more impressive than that of the rest of the Canadian health care system. And while the limited capacity of Canada’s free health care system has traditionally taken lives, it’s now saving them. Why? More MAiD equates to reduced waiting lists which equates to better health care service.”
Insanity!
Religion is no excuse for hate, Carney’s newest minister says of proposed removal of hate speech defence. Look out Roman’s 1. We’re coming for ya.
‘Nobody should be committing a hate crime in the name of religion,’ said Canadian Heritage and Official Languages Minister Marc Miller.
Bible banned in Canada (it could be after this bill passes – and it will).
And yet Canadians keep electing these progressive madmen and women.
