43 Replies to “Margaret Trudeau At Studio 54, 1979”

    1. Nope, couldn’t do it. Lot of pictures of beavers in Canada’s history. Many more savory that Justin’s mom’s. 10 minutes in (some jumping ahead) and it’s still not as interesting as the China Uncensored I’m playing in the background.

      A pleasant 5 minute video. That runs for 15 minutes. Your mileage may vary.

  3. Yeah, how many Canadian kids have ever heard of the Canadian-French terrorists from Quebec?
    I believe most would be deliberately kept ignorant….. the narrative demands it.

    1. Several months ago, the security at the Edmonton airport gave me a particularly rough time when checking my stuff. The agents in question didn’t think they were doing anything wrong (“It’s for your safety.” Yeah, right.) and then I reminded them of a time when civil liberties in this country were arbitrarily suspended, namely the invocation of the War Measures Act.

      They weren’t amused by the analogy, for some reason.

      1. Knowledge of history means you’re dangerous. Tread lightly, my friend (with whom I’ve never shared a beer).

        1. There are a few SDAers that I wouldn’t mind having some brewskis with.

      2. BADR, I’ve been through there on several occasions. One time I bought ammo in Edmonton, just to take note of the experience and process. I filled out the correct paperwork, and had it in checked luggage, which they made me drag over to the X ray machine to confirm it was in there. Dunno why, I told em it was in there, so where else would it be. Anyway, then going through the security, they had a women waiting specifically for me, with a swab system to, get this, check for gunpowder residue. I vowed the next time I went through there, I would go to one of the several Edmonton gun ranges, and shoot a gun, to ensure I would have residue on me at the airport. Um’, I don’t think it’s illegal to have that residue on you, at least not yet, So what was the Frigging point? Sigh. I haven’t yet been back, gonna be fun!

        1. Yup. I’m frequently being dragged over to the side for the same thing.

          Now get this: I have to scan my boarding pass when I get there. Then I turn around and, within 3 paces, I have to do it again. How, within a space of a few seconds, am I supposed to have changed my identity?

    2. I lived that era in Montreal. Mailbox bombs, riots and “Troops in our streets”. The current crop of BLOC, ADQ and PQ are either past members of the FLQ, or their spawn. Nothing has changed. Tronna slept through it all. I’d happily line ’em up and shoot them today, just because. The laughable part is that since then, Kaybec imported French North African muzzies and Haitians to replace les Anglos. Oops!

    1. And here I thought it would be one of Dear Leader ascending to Heaven….

  5. Very naughty, Kate… funny, but naughty.

    So, are there photos that Sophie found on Justin’s phone that caused the split ?
    If such exist, they’ll show up on 4chan, sooner or later.
    Maybe, posted from a WE jungle hideaway or island?

  6. I sat through that whole annoying, aboooooot speaking, bouncing in his chair wanker waiting to see Maggie’s flashing beaver described as nationally important all to find out it was a joke. You got me, Kate!

    1. Back in the day she was affectionately referred to as “The Maggot”, which still seems quite appropriate.

  7. This photo and film clip represents a time in history that qualifies as a prelude to our troubles today with the likes of Justin Trudeau and his perceived little fiefdom, also known as Canada:

    Here is the iconic video of French President Charles De Gaulle, with his arms up in the air from the balcony of Montreal City Hall, proclaiming his encouragement for a free Québéc. This was July 24, 1967, an historic moment in Canada:

    “De Gaulle in Quebec “Vive le Québec libre!” (1:27)
    https://youtu.be/XasQu5YQFUM

    Conrad Black’s take and still photo of De Gaulle:
    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-vive-le-quebec-libre

    1. Guess I’m too serious here with this submission.
      Then again it’s Saturday night and you guys have some good jokes going on here. I surely wasn’t going to go there…!

      Like, meow!!

    2. My Mom despised DeGaulle. When I was too young to understand what she was talking about, any time his name came up in the news she would hold forth about the back-stabbing communist. With France, some things never change.

    1. Are some Canadians now saying “aboot” because that’s how Canadians are alleged to talk?

        1. I’m struck by that as well. I’ve never heard “aboot” before, thought it was American urban legend.

          1. Not even in Newfy Land. It’s more a Tronna/southern Ontario thing and very subtle at that. They “abowt” more than aboot. All of the Weather Network gals used to sound that way, one particularly more than the others in the line up, back when I watched that channel mid 90’s.

      2. He is the only person I have heard in 60 years pronouncing About as Aboot. It’s an obvious affectation.

      3. Sophisticated Canadians don’t say “aboot”. They say “a singular Wellie.” (Ta-dum tish!)

      4. My husband and I describe the proclivity as “oot and aboot”. It’s sort of Scottish in a way. I did work with an American from the N.E. who’s speech was very similar. He said it was easier to leave out the “U”.
        If I recall, Quebecois do not speak in that manner. We had friends of that background for a while, and a week spent at a Mexican hotel with a gang of Quebecois RCMP back in the ’90s reinforces that idea.

  10. The most iconic picture for Western Canada was when tRUDEau gave his famous pose of giving the “Western Canada Salute” from a train window … middle finger … and how “Just-in tRUDEau” is fulfilling his fathers dream of destroying Western Canada …. Wexit will be interesting to watch next election, since the Conservative Party presently doesn’t express Western views. Sad.

    1. And when the old man said “Just Watch Me” to a reporter, re: going after the FLQ.
      (What a joke that was, we watched the War Measures Act enacted and then the punitive measures bestowed on the FLQ, i.e. — the banishment to sunny and warm Cuba)

      1. he banishment to sunny and warm Cuba

        Only to be quietly let back into the country a few years later. I guess they were disappointed that poutine wasn’t available in Havana.

          1. Labatt 50? Surely you jest. (I know a rather naughtly joke about that hootch, but decorum prohibits me from repeating it here. I can’t believe I actually drank, and worse, liked that stuff when I was an undergrad….)

            Maggie, on the other hand….. Well, let’s just leave it at that, shall we?

  11. Watched 5 minutes and that was 4:58 too much. That dudes defining “Canadian” video would be Omar Khadr getting his $$$. He can disparage the last spike all he wants, but reality is that if that moment hadn’t happened, everything west of Manitoba would now be part of the U.S. Actually, that might be better for most of us. Dare to dream.

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