Meanwhile in Coutts, the shinny game is on
Meanwhile in Coutts, Alberta, at the border crossing to Sweetgrass Montana, volunteers and donors have dropped off hockey equipment to protesting Truckers. Photo: Jessica Bianchi, FB
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Purpose of the Truck Convoy
This Convoy is not just for the truckers’ mandates …
It’s for the 30 million people that Trudeau’s government approved and allowed
to be spied on their cell phones …
It’s for our indigenous brothers and sisters who have been oppressed for so long …
It’s for the family members
banned from visiting family
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Mike Murchison’s take on “Memphis”
Mike Murchison is working on “That’s How I Got to Memphis.” He’s been there once or twice….
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Life Lessons from Porcupines
It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold.
The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they covered and protected themselves, but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions.
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The Girl from the North Country
Tobermory, Ontario, 1978 Photo: Mike Smith In April of 1963, Bob Dylan recorded a composition he wrote entitled “Girl From The North Country.” Great lyrics squeezed in between a feeling of sadness and longing to go back. To her? To
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Wood, metal, flesh
Every tree will have a story to tell, long after it has been cut. Every strand of phosphorus metal will have a unique vibration when pulled tight.
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The highway owes you nothing
Regardless where you run: be it along the Danforth, or across the foggy flatlands of Idaho, neither the city streets nor the highway owe you anything. You owe them your best in all you do. Regardless what you drive or where, don’t ever lose sight of what a privilege it is to drive. It’s just that: a privilege.
A bad fare, a bad load can make or break your attitude, which can lead to self righteous action on your part. You know what I mean. Road rage, aggressive driving. Stupid things that can risk your privilege.
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This trucker aging like a fine wine
I find as I age, I don’t expect much from people anymore.
It’s not that I’m writing them off; it’s just that I have learned over the years that I have to deal with people where they are standing, whether they be high on the mountain or deep in the valley.
As a young man full of gas and gun powder, it was more a question along the lines of “What can they do for me?” Or, “How do I give my best ‘shuck and jive?”
I often shrugged off the concerns of others simply because addressing those concerns didn’t suit my needs. But that’s where aging has wonderful insights.
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Confessions of a Young Offender: The Great West Mountain Flood of 1967
During the summer of 1966, I started to lose interest in the things I enjoyed doing at the time, like building skyscrapers and other structures with my girder and panel sets and Stalox mini-brick sets, reading about the universe, swimming up at the Westmount pool, and being a general shit-disturber in school.
I wanted something better. Something more exciting.
I wanted adventure.
Then I learned that a group of my old buddies had taken up smoking. That sounded pretty kewl to me at the time, so I ventured up to the spot where they were known to hang out and started bumming cigarettes from them to prove that I, too, could be super-kewl.
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