We don’t pay much attention to Canadian news here at Deceiver, because… well, why would we? But here’s a nice little item, courtesy of The Tyee:
The minister of state responsible for encouraging British Columbians to eat healthy food is also the part owner of a pair of pizzerias.
In August 2006, Premier Gordon Campbell appointed his former roommate and Surrey-White Rock MLA Gordon Hogg as the minister of state for Act Now B.C., the program that promotes healthy eating and exercise…
Now it appears while Hogg’s public job may be to trim British Columbian waist lines, he will benefit from other Canadians expanding theirs. Hogg has a five per cent interest in the Stavenger Drive Pizza Company and the Kelsey Drive Pizza Company, both of which own Boston Pizza Restaurant and Sports Bar franchises in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Hogg’s wife LaVerne has a five per cent share of another company that owns a Boston Pizza in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
If you don’t know anything about Canadian geography — and why would you? — British Columbia is clear across the continent from Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. They’re about as far away from each other as you can get without swimming. So maybe he just figured “out of sight, out of mind.” Well, except when he’s depositing the checks.
Speaking of money, did you know the Canadian dollar is known as the “loonie”? So the health minister of British Columbia is a portly gentleman named Hogg who, when he’s not telling people what to eat, sells pizza to put loonies in the bank. Sometimes I wonder if Canada is even a real place. It’s made up, right? You can tell me.
Dudes! I’m from Canada and didn’t think that comment about not paying much attention to Canada was very nice, afterall, the USA is NOT the only country in the world….there are 193 others,in fact!!
This isn’t news to us; the gov’t here are getting more and more intrusive and Big Brother all the time; from banning public smoking,perfume,trans fat in restaurants, plastic bags,telling us to turn off our A/C,hunting and fishing bans, etc…they think they know what’s best for us and are trying to dictate every aspect of our lives, and acting like the environment police!!All aspects of Gov’t are becoming more invasive, be it the police who get off tasering people, failing health care, nosey schoolboards,know-it-all public health officials,above-the-law social services, you name it….come to think of it, you’re LUCKY you don’t know about all this!!
Another Canadian reader here but I’m not mad at cha!
The $2 coin is known as the toonie.
I always thought the “loonie” coin got its name from the engraved image of a Canadian loon on the obverse. But a friend in Montreal tells me that it’s derived from “L’une” — the French for “a one.” Anyone know if he’s pulling my chain?
Hmmm, sounds like Al Gore making buckets of money, and gaining political ground from a movie and world tour about the environment. Then all the while lives in a house that emits 20 times more energy and CO2 gas than the average home AND has a $30,000.00 per year electricity bill - sounds to me like ALL politicians are hypocrytes, so don’t pick on Canadians
(by the way “loonie” comes from Loon - the bird - that’s on out dollar coin)
Canada a made up place? Maybe so. But let’s look at this: you elect a man who has never been anywhere and can hardly read, who appoints a vice president who then shoots his friend, and then the friend apologizes to the guy who shot him, while the president and the vice president wage war on a country that didn’t do anything to them, based on weapons that country never had. Then you re-elect them. After that these same two geniuses take the world’s strongest economy, squander it way past the breaking point, down into deep foreign debt, largely owned by countries that aren’t necessarily friends of the USA. And then to cap it off the president–with no money and an exhausted military–threatens world war three on another country that will sink the States into deeper do-do than Iraq ever will.
Hang on–I just realized: you just can’t make up the last seven years of crap in the USA.
Oh, and you guys talk funny too.
Two words: Celine Dion.
Also, Bryan Adams.
It’s pretty ironic that when Canada’s Minister of Health was a woman who wasn’t a twig, she was harassed and called fat, and called a ’slab of beef’ or something similar. Luckily we have a man in that office now! I mean, sure, he’s morbidly obese and the fat is creeping up his neck to choke his eyes out of his face but he has a c*ck, so it’s okay!
Friggin’ Harper…
No, it’s Wyoming that doesn’t exist. I’m fairly sure there is a Canada.
“Two words: Celine Dion.
Also, Bryan Adams”
Pretty funny actually.
To respond: American Idol, Ryan Seacrest, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney,Bush, Jesse Helms, Cher…….and on and on. Perhaps if you are discussing cultural embarrassments….well actually you shouldn’t.
And we do speak funny up here…..enunciating vowels and the like. Good point……now go join the rest of America and bark like a trained seal for Oprah, and words like “hope”, “change” and 9/11.
Know what I’m talking aboooooooot?
Chris is right, there are a lot more famous people in America than in Canada.
hey simon, if you dislike canadians so much how about we stop trading with you? we have the raw materials buddy, all americans do is provide factories. trust me, if we choose to send our materials some place other than the states (which we could and should if you ask me. you *ssholes are completely dependant on our water, gas, timber, etc.) you would be f*cked. by the way, a lot of your famous people are from canada. the only reason why you jackasses think you have it all is because you are out of touch with the rest of the world. apparently in the states it’s cool to be totally self absorbed.
as for your so called famous people, well here are some i’m sure you are really proud of:
paris hilton
kim kardashian
anyone from the hills
britany spears
celine dion and bryan adams may suck, but at least they are talented and carry themselves with a lot more class than the trash that comes out of the states. the usa isn’t going to be a major power for much longer, with people not getting jobs, losing their houses, oh and not to mention allowing their country to get into a war that is pointless. so yeah, you are so much better thatn everyone else. good job.
I don’t dislike you. I think you’re adorable. And Corner Gas is pretty funny!