Alright boys and girls, here is a little lesson in the English language. When you speak of someone who has a title such as “The President of the United States” you should always qualify it by keeping the “of the United States” part in tact. If you are speaking in reference to the leader of your country it’s OK to use “The Prime Minister”, “The President”, “The Czar” or whatever your leader chooses for a title but please make sure to ALWAYS qualify where said person is from if you are referring to someone that is not local. By omitting the qualifier you are essentially making this person your own. And that is WRONG.

In case you haven’t clued in yet, I am referring to the way people here in Canada refer to the American President. I’m especially concerned when the Canadian media does this. The US President is not “The President” he is “The President OF The Unites States of America”. All too often people in Canada refer to this President person in a manner that implies he is our president.

I really hope that most people are just speaking this way because they are making a gramatical error and not because they actually believe The US President is the Canadian leader. In Canada we have a Prime Minister who’s name happens to be Stephen Harper. One could say that our “true” head of state is the Governor General but I’ll lay off that arguement for not.

I just don’t like being placed in the same boat as Americans. Don’t get me wrong, they are good people, but they aren’t Canadians nor are we Americans. There are many differences in the way we think, act, and interact with people. I can attest to this because I work closely with Americans and they are great to work with but it does pose a challenge because of the above mentioned differences.

One other thing that I don’t understand is why Canadians are so politically horny for Obama. I am happy to see that a black man is now US President but why all the fuss here in Canada. Wouldn’t it benefit the African Canadian population more if there were a black Prime Minister? How does the American President give so much hope to Canadians? I just can’t fathom this one bit. My complaints have nothing to do with race but rather the way some Canadians salivate just at the mention of his name.

Canadians need to get a grip and start worrying about what’s happening here at home. As you will see in the near future, the election of a new US President will have very little effect on the way of life in Canada. Stop watching all that CNN propaganda and turn on CTV NewsNet (or another Canadian channel). There’s too much American stuff on TV that we sometimes lose sight of the fact that we actually have our own issues to worry about.

One final thing… It sickens me to listen to Americans when they say that their president is the “Leader of the Free World” that is a crock of shit and is completely insane. There are more citizens in countries outside of the US, in the “free world”, than there are in America so please stop saying this. It makes it sound like you want to take away our freedom and take over this so called “free world”.

It’s finally here. The very first episode of the Canarchy Podcast! This episode is short (6:48) and is more or less a basic introduction to what the podcast will be. I’ve explained a bit about myself, where I come from and a bit about how I think.

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Dear Rob Bennett,

Your company sucks. That’s right, I said it.

Let me list you the reasons why your company sucks:

• You’re greedy
• You don’t care about the people you service
• Your grid is out of date needs a major overhaul
• You constantly ask the UARB (Utilities and Review Board) for rate increases but never increase your level of service
• Your PR folks always have dumb excuses for power outages (salty fog, streamers from the Gay Pride Parade etc.)
• Your technology is out of date (I know for a fact that is it)
• You are a monopoly

I could go on and on forever but I don’t know if you’ll get the point anyway. I’ve been a Nova Scotia resident for my entire life and I am ashamed to have you as a power company. I can only hope that at some point in the future another company comes in to pick up the slack.

Back to the subject of the state of the grid. I remember a few years ago when some transmission towers in Burnside just toppled to the ground under a bit of weight from ice and snow. Why did this happen? These towers should be designed and maintained to withstand simple maritime weather. Instead your company took that money to feed the greedy mouths of it’s executives.

I spent some time working for your company a few years back as a contractor for your IT company. I was astonished that you could even deliver power to anyone with the crappy technology you had. Most of your computers couldn’t be updated because they were running Windows 95 and didn’t have enough storage to download the updates. Not to mention that Windows 95 is completely unsafe these days. Part of my job was to deploy new PCs and laptops to your staff but you shelved the project about a quarter of the way through.

I might be a little biased due to recent events here in South West Nova but I believe I have the right to be. I was one of the fortunate ones who had power restored relatively early and my workplace has a generator that powers the entire building, including showers and a gym but there were many who went without power for three or four days. I also heard some people at work saying they called your call center and you weren’t even aware that power was off in certain locations. How the hell do you not know this? With the technology available these days you should be able to pinpoint every building that’s not receiving power. There’s no excuse.

You should be held accountable for each and every power outage. You should also have to report to the public the who, what, where, and WHY of every outage. We fork out hundreds of dollars each billing cycle to have electricity but when you can’t provide it all you do is feed us with bullshit.

You don’t deserve any sympathy or our money but since you run the show we don’t have a choice. I hope some day this will change and you will realize that you will be the ultimate loser.

Sincerely,
Canarchy.com