Posted on 11/15/2023 3:32:15 AM PST by Squawk 8888
With the Grey Cup, the Montreal Alouettes and the reigning champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers now in Hamilton, the Canadian Football League’s championship week is taking shape.
Hamilton’s manager of tourism and events says the first of several Grey Cup activities got underway Monday and more are coming “at every price point” for football fans including the festival.
“In addition … to big concerts like Carrie Underwood at the FirstOntario Centre on Friday, there are also 40 other musical performances at the Built in the Hammer Street Festival,” Ryan McHugh said.
“So just tons of stuff to do — the Santa Claus parade on the Saturday and lots of CFL events.”
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Allouettes are the former Baltimore stallions. Good luck to my adoptive home ream
I’m actually glad that the NFL went back to Baltimore, because it meant that Montreal finally got a permanent team since the original Als folded in the 1970s. I think the NFL was in on the CFL expansion into the USA as a message to all the greedy owners who thought nothing of moving their teams in order to chase local governments willing to fund their stadiums.
Just checked your profile. Well said :)
tthanks.
Go Ravens
Stunned the Alouettes beat the Argos.
Go Bombers!
I hope the Muslim terrorists in Canada don’t para glide into the concert. Baby Castro is practically begging them to commit an atrocity.
Apart from a few isolated incidents, Muslim terrorism has never been an issue here. The worst terrorist attack involving Canadian victims was the Air India bombing over the Atlantic, which occurred in the mid-1990s. Security breaches involving aviation still happen but they inevitably fail. The same is also true of the USA.
The biggest threat to safety on either side of the border is and always will be homegrown criminals. Best example I can cite: Toronto, a city equal in population to Chicago, just recorded its 60th homicide of the *YEAR*. I’ve lived in Toronto all my life and can state from experience that a homicide count that high is simply unacceptable to everyone else who lives here, including our criminals.
Demographics matter.
Correction: The Air India bombing took place in the mid-1980s. It was engineered by radical Sikh (Khalistani) terrorists who had a beef with the Indian government and were stupid enough to think that murdering a few hundred Canadians would advance their cause.
Culture matters even more. Canadian-born whites have been in the minority here for at least a quarter of a century.
Most newcomers came here to get away from the BS in their home countries; the same also applies to America.
What I meant to say is that Canadians picked their own damned cotton.
BTW just checked your profile and it also applies to my own prolonged absences.
FRegards,
Squawk
You now owe me a keyboard ;)
You’re close to the truth there; in terms of productivity chattel slavery has always been a false economy. The shorter the growing season, the more likely it is that abolition was never a serious issue because farmers had to feed and house slaves who had no work to do until springtime. That’s why the northern states and Canada were the first to either ban slavery or phase it out with minimal controversy.
Here in the Province Formerly Known as Upper Canada (Ontario), the business model was paid itinerant labour from planting to harvest, supplemented by children who were off school for July & August. After harvest, the labourers went off to the logging camps up north where the logging companies depended on snow-covered ground to move their harvest to the nearest available waterway. By the time the snow was melting, the labourers went south in time for spring planting.
Watched the second half. One of the best games I’ve seen in a long time.
Congratulations Alouettes!
(But why Green Day for the Halftime, yuck!)
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