The Calgary Stampede – Canada’s only major sporting event to make the CBC National absent the names of the winners.
(Actual, you know, balanced coverage of Stampede highlights here, including the auction of retiring chuckwagon driver Neil Walgenbach’s outfit for more than most CBC reporters’ net worth.)
Cut them some slack Kate, I mean it’s Toronto based. It’s been years since they published the name of winners. 🙂
True enough Kate…… but we do lack the cache inherent in Pride Festivals, anarchist angst and global environmental collapse.
Now that’s the latest, greatest, outdoor show on earth.
Syncro
Interesting to see the 8 rodeo stories covered by the CBC are all negative. I suppose it’s fair enough though, I wouldn’t want too many of those types moving here and upsetting the wagon or giving us advice on how to repair our local hockey team’s chances next year. They’re experts you know, those Regent Park types.
“Rodeo:
5th Calgary Stampede horse death examined
July 15, 2010
Rodeo protection could improve: researcher
July 13, 2010
4th Calgary Stampede horse dies
July 13, 2010
Horses killed at Calgary Stampede
July 12, 2010
Stampede rider hurt in horse death
July 12, 2010
Calgary rodeo condemned by U.K. MPs, activists
July 8, 2010
Anti-rodeo ad runs in Calgary paper
July 5, 2010
Calgary Stampede modifies steer wrestling
June 23, 2010”
… more obvious CBC warning, don the hip waders for the ensuing horse-shit-storm.
Im on a Horse
Of course the Ceeb ran a poll on eliminating livestock from the Calgary Stampede. Ballpark a number before you look.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/07/calgary-stampede-should-animals-be-excluded-from-the-rodeo.html
Syncro
I laughed out loud (and am still laughing) at “I can’t believe I’m stuck here covering the Redneck Olympics”.
Kate strikes again.
PiperPaul in Calgary
The only way you’ll tune the CBC is to A: Cut funding or B: Boycott advertisers. The latter–in a the internet age–is easy.
It’s nice to see that we have a forum for the downtrodden and underprivileged in Toronto, Victoria etcetera. Without a taxpayer-funded cesspool like the CBC, the Loyal Opposition might never manage to come up with a database of what their constituents hate the most, and more importantly, what to promise them in order to score a few votes.
Oops, I left out the “stinking’ part.
PiperPaul, who is not a bagpiper (wish I was), leader of rodents or plumber.
As a Kelowna boy who became bareback and bull rider during a 5 year stint on the rigs, I can tell you that the men behind the chutes were amongst the finest sportsmen I have ever had the privilege to meet.
I don’t suppose all CBC reporters are vegetarian, and more than a few eat the remains of cattle that have had a hole punched in their skull.
Hypocrites. They can all bugger off.
Hasn’t been a testicle in Tranna for years.
LOL eastern paul. I moved there in the mid-eighties (corporate thing) and saw the Jays win back-to-back World Series. We cheered and were on top of the world.
What has happened to them?
“Hasn’t been a testicle in Tranna for years.”
Buhahahahahahahahahh..dat funny….
Being a Torontonian, uh hum, I didn’t expect to be very impressed with the Stampede when I went 15 years ago. In fact, I didn’t expect to be impressed by Western Canada at all — too “new,” no old buildings or old trees — and cowboys? Weren’t they just TV creations?
I changed my mind. I loved the Stampede and I loved the Big Sky and all the friendly people. I was really impressed by the chuckwagon races and the outriders. I saw in them a rugged individualism, a willingness to take risks, raw courage, and a hell-yes-can-do attitude that was missing in Toronto, where I grew up, and in Ottawa, where I once worked for the feds.
Given my first 30 years living in Toronto and Ottawa, it’s a miracle I’m where I am today: swimming as hard as I can upstream, yelling at the downstreamers to “turn around!”
Go Calgary! Go Stampede!
I should have added,
Go Calgary! Go Stampede! Go to hell, CBC!
Calgary has the Stampede, Toronto had the G20.
Do not be too hard on the CBC. Two weeks after the G20 they are just getting around to naming the “winners”. Hey!
The CBC is really pathetic. You would think than an organisation that was suppose to be national in scope would be sensitive to the culture of the various provinces.
Their biggest problem is that they moved their head office to Taranna. You know, that city that is what it is because of what happened in Montreal with the PQ election and not because of what it was and would ever be on it’s own.
Now we are left with a shell of a once great organisation that has become the propaganda arm of the Liberal party in Canada and for the separatists in Quebec and the make you feel all fuzzy inside for the NDP with their political correctness. This means that truth is the first casualty and that idiocy is the new religion.
Loved Jd’s comment @ 1:42 a.m. Bet you use Old Spice too! LOL
Two words: assless chaps.
If the cowboys wore assless chaps the CBC would be on this story like stink on a hippy.
The only way you’ll tune the CBC is to,,,Boycott advertisers. The latter–in a the internet age–is easy. Posted by: Citizen “O” at July 19, 2010 1:55 AM
Yup…and let them (advertisers) know you’re doing it.
If the cowboys wore assless chaps the CBC would be on this story like stink on a hippy.
Posted by: Stan at July 19, 2010 8:25 AM
Be a hell of a way to get the Trawna crowd to travel out west…
Here’s another for you to fix, Kate:
Study: poor choices fuelling HIV epidemic
_http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9017239.html
I managed to break my boycott of CBC long enough to watch rodeo this weekend and was glad I did although it did make me a bit homesick. As far as bringing the cowboy spirit to those who don’t know what it is, the Stampede rodeo does a fair job but to really get to appreciate it you have to get up off your behind and take in a local rodeo in small town Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba or BC. The ones where the whole town comes out to watch the rodeo, parade, tractor pull or whatever.It’s a sense of community that sticks with you after visiting one of these events.
When I lived in Alberta, my weekend wanderings in pursuit of photographic excellence always seemed to end up at a rodeo. No press passes needed to get behind the chutes there. You get no Hollywood actors there, just the real cowboy, probably bruised, busted up a bit and fer sure dusty and dirty. It’s the real deal.
btw, bull snot is gross and hard as hell to clean off a camera lens.
But aren’t most cowboys male? I can’t see how…oh wait, I get it. This is one of those Brokeback Mountain things, right?
Did you know that 10% of all cowboys (just like the rest of society) are gay?
$100,000 for barrel racing????????????? WTF!!!
PiperPaul stop perpetuating the 10% gay number, it’s more like 3%. The gays want you to believe it’s 10%.
What doesnt a lefty hate?
Tarana: Everything for everyone, and nothing for ourselves.
Alberta: F&^ck … Fight … or hold the Light.
It’s two different worlds.
They were all in Vegas for the rodeo last December. Couldn’t believe there were so many Canadian Cowboys.
Now a wine tasting championship… that would get good press.
Wonder how many of those bareback riders from Tranna would be on the first plane out if they knew how many ways there were to prepare prairie oysters! ;^P
I hate to say it, but I was surprised by the number of CBC commentators that actually down-voted most of the critical comments on Stampede. I didn’t go through all of them (not that masochistic), but the first few pages (old to new) showed about a 2:1 downvote on stupid comments on Stampede and rodeos. Almost gives a guy hope. Almost.
That said, I’ve been in Calgary for four years, gone to Stampede for 3 of them now, and to me it’s still just a bigger version of the Saskatoon Ex. But without spudnuts. What it did teach me, though, is that rodeo live is way more fun live than watching it on TV.
tranio: “PiperPaul stop perpetuating the 10% gay number, it’s more like 3%. The gays want you to believe it’s 10%.”
Ditto.
The bogus “10% of the population is gay” claim came from Alfred Kinsey’s bogus sexuality studies, when he used prison inmates as his sample.
Well, duh.
Three percent is much more accurate when you take as your sample the general population. The 10% figure, however, is much more persuasive if you’re trying to legitimize the lifestyle.
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/urban/two.php:
A NEWLY RELEASED REPORT from the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics reveals that only 2.3% of the population considers themselves homosexual. The statistics come from a 2002 National Survey of Family Growth and are based on 12,571 interviews with men and women ages 15-44 years of age. (The findings were reported in WorldNetDaily, September 16, 2005).
Prairie Oysters, eh. I actually had the job of frying those up at my Aunt and Uncle’s ranch. The cowboys were eating them as fast as they were being cooked.
The comment “Hasn’t been a testicle in Tranna for years” got me wondering if there is a politically correct name for the lost testicles of the steers in Toronto? Hogtown Nuggets?
“You would think than an organisation that was suppose to be national in scope would be sensitive to the culture of the various provinces.”
Oh come now. The CBC doesn’t recognize something as modernist as provinces. They have 2 views of Canada: Upper Canada and Lower Canada. The end. If you want to think of the 2 solitudes as women, think of one as Cynthia Dale and the other as Wendy Mesley while the announcer reads “I Heard the Owl Call My Name.”
Okay first of all I’m stunned…..stunned I tell you that CBC still covers the rodeo. Second pairie oysters taste like liver to me. However I do have a recipe for them. I deep fry em……the girls all said I had the testiest testicles they had ever had!!! I put it on my business cards 🙂
“….stuck here covering…..”
Very simple, leave. What makes you feel welcome in Calgary. That’s why cowboys like fences, you stay on your side we’ll stay on ours.
I don’t know about the lack of testicles in Toronto but when it comes to the national disgrace called the CBC, there is definitely a lack of testicles in Ottawa, specifically Conservative MPs who continue to apologize for it rather than de-fund, sell off, or shut it down.
I hate the CBC and I don’t like the stampede. I suspect I’m not the only one.
This summer, in Calgary the fences are used to keep the animals in, in Toronto they were used to keep the animals out.
For all the bitching about the $16 billion we will spend on the F-35s over the next 20 years that is still way less than the $22 billion we will give the CBC in the same time period for biased news, boring comedies, and reruns of Mitchael Moore’s crocumentaries.
The CBC/liberal party want the F-35 contract tendered, maybe we should tender the CBC contract as well.
I wonder if SUNTV would be interested in bidding?
I wonder if SUNTV would be interested in bidding?
Stan
The irony of that happening would make a wonderful horror film.
I’m puzzled. What is this Cee Bee Cee of which you speak? A government welfare program for congenital idiots, perhaps?
Wait till you get the coverage from Mother Corp when the Royal runs in Tarannna this fall. Truly a Juxtapose moment.
I read it for the Business section…oh wait.
Urban centric angst. They see freedom and it reminds them how controlled their lives are so they lash out irrationally ( and quite rudely)
A browse through the comments on any CBC web story is like a tour of a psychopathic ward. seems the core leftist constituency is populated with disturbed people dragging their severe abnormal personality psychosis into the political realm.
Seriously when did a rodeo become a political issue or even the concern of those unlikely to attend one? Well, since obsessive compulsives mistakenly assumed their psychotic control impulses to be politically correct moral directives.