Alberta Rocks.....Again!

Okay, I hate to rub it into Ontario's nose, but Alberta won the Brier once again, with a rookie team!

Alberta stuns Ontario in Brier final

HALIFAX – Draw to the pin to win.

With the adrenalin pumping and perhaps your one and only chance to win the Brier on the line, drawing to the button is easier said than done.

But Kevin Koe did it here Sunday night to give Alberta a 6-5 win over Glenn Howard to win the province a third consecutive Tim Hortons Brier.

It came down to the last rock in the eleventh end, but Alberta won. Congrats to the Koe team.

One thing I did notice was all the empty seats throughout the tournament, shame on you Halifax. Even the final game had empty seats, and the crowd was pretty quiet. Maybe they didn't have a Brier Patch, or maybe they did and that is where everyone hung out.


Why isn't CTV covering the paralympics like they did the Olympics? These athletes are even better than the none handicapped athletes. They have so much more drive and ambition, they should be highlighted, instead CTV is ignoring them. Shame on CTV. They are making our paralympic athletes into second class citizens and that should never happen.

Sorry Ontario, maybe next year!

Sometimes It's The Small Things....

That makes your heart sing!

For once Air Canada gets something right for it's customers, or because of it's customers demands!

Air Canada flight idled for Olympic hockey fans

VANCOUVER — Travellers the world over know the pains of flight delays - due to fog, weather, late pilots, or just plain busy airports.

But only in Canada would a flight get delayed for a hockey game.

Air Canada president Calin Rovinescu told a Vancouver business gathering that one of his company's scheduled flights sat on the tarmac as passengers finished watching the men's gold medal match between Canada and the U.S. on the final day of the Olympic Games.

He said travellers on the Montreal-bound flight just couldn't be persuaded to board the plane while play continued.

Instead, they watched the heartstopping hockey game being broadcast on airport departure screens.

Passengers on board Air Canada flights around the world during the Canada-U.S. showdown were kept apprised of the score by the flight crew, who were receiving real-time updates from operations control.

The spirit of the Olympics is not dead, even if our politicians keep trying to kill that feeling with nonsense issues. They can't. It has moved into our hearts and sings through our veins and could be unstoppable. Canada today is not the same Canada as before the Olympics. We are a changed country. A better country.

I admit that I have an addiction to the Olympics. I sit on the edge of my chair and cheer for every Canadian who is competing. I live vicariously through them for 17 or 18 days. I try to reach into the water to push our competitors closer to the finish line. I stop breathing while our athletes are racing around the skating oval and I can see they are within a hundredth of a second to winning. I cheer when they win, and I cry when they try so hard, but don't quite make the podium. They become real for me, and for everyone in Canada. They make us proud, they allow us to shout and wave the flag.

They unite the east and the west, and they make us realize what a wonderful country we live in. Remember to cheer on our paralympic athletes with the same enthusiasm we cheered for our able bodied athletes. Think about the extra effort our paralympic athletes have to go through to achieve their goals.

Sometimes it's the small things, like an Air Canada flight delayed because of a hockey game, that makes your heart sing.

Bloc Shows It's Distain For Canada!

I loved all the athletes, they showed their pride in Canada, and were proud to watch the maple leaf fly high for them and our country. During the Olympics, the medals were for Canada, not any specific province within Canada. All athletes competed for Canada and showed their pride, whether they won a medal or not, all were united, and this united our country like no other time I can remember. It was heartwarming and showed the world how special Canada really is.

On the first day that parliament was back in action, the opposition were heckling and yelling just like they were doing before Christmas. It appears that nothing has changed with our MP's, and that again nothing will get done because of petty partisan bickering and one-up-man-ship. Did we really expect anything different?

What really steamed me was when the flame for the Paralympics was carried into the chambers and "Oh Canada" was sung, the Bloc refused to sing our national anthem. They stood there like robots, refusing to clap for our country and our athletes. I am sure that the Quebec athletes who won gold and sang our anthem are embarrassed by what the Bloc did.

Canadian athletes were embraced by all Canadians, we didn't care what province the athlete was from, we saw all of them as holders of our hearts and hopes, and boy did they deliver! Too bad the Bloc couldn't join in with the rest of the country. They look petty and pointless in this patriotic post-Olympic atmosphere.

The news should not be about how we might get a gender neutral version of "Oh Canada", the news should be about the Bloc MP's who refuse to stand up for Quebec athletes, and Canada. Their day is done. They are irrelevant. Quebec voters need to realize that a majority for the Conservatives is possible without Quebec being the deciding province. So do they want to continue voting in a separatist party that will never gain power, or vote for any of the other parties to actually get something done for Quebec?

Our nation has been joined by the Olympics, it's time for Quebec to join us, not just in the spirit of the Olympics, but everyday.