“But Edmonton isn’t Consort or even Calgary”

21 Replies to ““But Edmonton isn’t Consort or even Calgary””

1. I miss Decore. He may have been a liberal (albeit an old world liberal) – but he knee how to handle a-holes: he kicked them out! Who was that yapping old fart? Ed Ledger? We would succumb to verbal diarrhea and Decore would have him out the door before the turd tumbling from his lips could hit the floor!
   Then there was that chick that looked like the bride of Frankenstein … Olivia Butti? At least she kept quiet when Decore told her to stifle it.
   The real crazies ran away with city hall when the goat faced Jan Reimer took over. Then the nutters like Tooker Gomberg came swarming out of the woodwork and businesses fled to Calgary…but now Cowtown looks like it needs a good flush too…
   This whole province flipped it’s lid a long time ago…

2. I can see the inevitable TV show: Nuts gone wild. This girl should have the usual future in PETA, Greenpeace or Edmonton city council.
   https://twitter.com/ban_marina

3. Most of them appear to be really big into bran already

4. Hitler was a vegetarian.

5. Why stop there, how about a smart meter for the legislative building that only supplies electricity to the building if wind energy produced in Alberta is greater then 30% of installed capacity.

6. Redmonton has finally jumped the shark – Home to Albertas only pocket of proglodyte arrested development, they now have a gen of prog clones who are hostile to the province and its mainstays and willingly will sell the province out to self-destructive PC fascism. They seem determined to become GTA west.

7. So rather than source food within 50 km of the city (beef) the youth council prefers a fruit plate consisting of Chilean papaya and watermelon garnished on a bed of Leamington Ontario lettuce and parsley and drizzled with lemon juice from Mexican lemons. Or did I miss all the fruit and vegetable farms in Edmonton?

8. Hmmm. Why can’t these council troughers buy their own lunches? And why waste all that time debating what to have for their free (except to the taxpayers) lunches? This is how “Public Service” becomes the overweening sense of entitlement that permeates politics today. End the free lunches now!

9. Also there is a misconception that beef cattle “are raised on feed-lots”. According to my beef farmer buddy, beef cattle go through three stages: 1-weaning, 2-grazing, 3-finishing. The finishing stage makes them fat and tasty and is done on a feed-lot. But the other two stages (representing most of the cattle’s lives) are typically on a farm with pastures and natural water supplies (like ponds and untreated ground water). Much of the land that beef cattle graze is unsuitable for agriculture anyway.

10. vegan, old indian word for can’t hunt. I know it is old but hey, when jerks promote eating nothing but veg they should be the only ones eating nothing but veg.

11. Steve, they miss the irony of having jets fly fresh fruit all over the world.

12. So, the results of all the migration of people looking for jobs from failed provinces is slowly turning Alberta into a failed province.

13. I realize it will not happen but anybody connected with agriculture in any way should boycott Redmonton.
    What the Sam Hill is going on with the captcha this morning. It is all but impossible to read both words correctly.

14. That’s funny. I don’t remember voting for any of these people on this Edmonton Youth Council.

15. WTF is a Youth Council? Who elected them? Why do they get a free lunch?

16. Isn’t it amazing how taxpayers money spreads out far beyond what the people actually voted for and far beyond that they would vote for ? Kinda like hiring your distant cousin to do a job and finding he brought along 20 more friends all expecting to be paid too. And they are, and that’s normal. Only taxpayers money, so why not ? Need more money ? Just raise taxes.
    Here’s a short primer of how things got out of control. Ottawa, Edmonton or the Federal Government in the USA, all the same.
    http://www.ushistory.org/gov/8a.asp

17. Here’s the end result to creeping bureaucracy.
    http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_government_budget/us_govt_budget.html
    And we think Greece has problems ?

18. Couldn’t quite decide what I was going to have for dinner tonite ……that is until I read this story! 14oz New York strip medium rare!

19. “To produce a hamburger, the farming industry first has to grow enough grain to raise the cow. That means serving beef, particularly when the cow been raised on grain in a feedlot, requires more water and land than serving grain and bean-based options.”
    Have these people never heard of “pasture-raised”?
    Do they honestly think that the way food animals have been raised in the last 50-60 years is the same as how they’ve been raised for millennia?
    These brats seem to think history began with them. Or that they’ll be the ones making it.

20. It’s a pity but when some place experiences economic success, all the vermin come streaming in. There was no “problem” with oil prior to LeDuc in 1947, and parasites were few and far between. Alberta was in fact a “have-not” province back then.
    As for using good agricultural land – both moose and goats live happily on scrub. And convert it to delicious meat. Moose are hardy animals, as well, unlike elk.

21. I suppose it would be politically incorrect to suggest cannibalism.