Over the Darkened Landscape Read Online Free Page B
Author: Derryl Murphy
Police, but image deals with Disney and years of training for the Musical Ride 30 and singing Hollywood classics leaves them ill-prepared to deal with actual fighting.
One casualty is suffered by the Mounties before they decide to withdraw: Sergeant Do-Rite’s jaw is broken. He returns home a disgraced and dejected man after finding that Nell has left him for a Rich Little 31 impersonator.
Louis Louis
The Assembly of First Nations announces that they have successfully created a clone of Louis Riel 32 . And while they were going to wait until he grew up before they made their move, now seems to be the appropriate time.
The Prime Minister, full of bluster, says that “We hanged the bastard once, and we can hang him again!” The press gallery falls in love all over again with this man. Their belief that he had slowly succumbed to the boredom of the job and that they would never again be offered another interesting quote is shot down with this one line.
Tabloids the world over bring interest in Riel to new heights. And in schools across Canada, Hangman becomes a very popular game.
Natives and Métis across the nation declare their independence. The crisis deepens.
Nothing Binary About 101
Old animosities still lingering, the government of the Republic of Québec offers financial aid to the native and Métis secessionists, as well as hinting at military assistance. Some tense moments pass by on the border between Ontario and Québec after an older gentleman sneaks across and erects and English-only No Parking sign in retaliation, but soon fall to the side when the Québecois troops are recalled to deal with native unrest in their own land.
Reforming 1812 33
The Prime Minister panics. After consultations with his ministers, he does the only thing he can think of. The phone call is not unexpected. Troops move across the border, officially as a measure of concern to protect American citizens. Resistance, except for in a few rare pockets, does not last. The troops stay. The tourists leave, and do not come back.
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1 Wreck Beach is the nude beach in Vancouver, British Columbia. A popular place.
2 Also known as Ma Bell. Was a monopoly until very recently. Of course, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone while he was in Nova Scotia, Canada.
3 Every Canadian government bill begins with the letter C.
4 Much, much worse than the postal service of our kind neighbors to the south.
5 It is a law that Canada Post can deliver all the junk mail they want, and no one can stop them. They deposit in every mailbox, often regardless of stickers requesting otherwise.
6 No, metric isn’t dead yet. But there are a lot of people up here who would like to see it go away. Many miles away.
7 Healthcare is what most Canadians think defines the difference between them and Americans.
8 No more home delivery to new subdivisions, just to big boxes that stand on the street so you can get it on the way home.
9 The people who broke Ma Bell’s monopoly.
10 Places with “American” or “Cheesecake” in the name are cyclically very popular where I live.
11 The Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission. Sort of like the FCC.
12 Go back to the story. I explain who they were right after this footnote.
13 For decades, the voice of Hockey Night in Canada on CBC Radio and then TV. The man who came up with that most important of Canadian phrases, “He shoots, he scores!”
14 Rene Levesque was the first separatist Premier of Quebec. The party he lead, the Parti Quebecois, came back to power in 1994, looking for a way to break up the country. They almost succeeded at the end of 1995, and vow to try again.
15 The Sports Network. Canadian version of ESPN.
16 The Canadian Football League. Three downs, 110-yard field, 15-yard end-zones. The CFL has expanded into the US, and the Stallions, at the time with Baltimore and calling themselves the Cs (because Colts was owned by the NFL) came this close to winning the Grey Cup in
One casualty is suffered by the Mounties before they decide to withdraw: Sergeant Do-Rite’s jaw is broken. He returns home a disgraced and dejected man after finding that Nell has left him for a Rich Little 31 impersonator.
Louis Louis
The Assembly of First Nations announces that they have successfully created a clone of Louis Riel 32 . And while they were going to wait until he grew up before they made their move, now seems to be the appropriate time.
The Prime Minister, full of bluster, says that “We hanged the bastard once, and we can hang him again!” The press gallery falls in love all over again with this man. Their belief that he had slowly succumbed to the boredom of the job and that they would never again be offered another interesting quote is shot down with this one line.
Tabloids the world over bring interest in Riel to new heights. And in schools across Canada, Hangman becomes a very popular game.
Natives and Métis across the nation declare their independence. The crisis deepens.
Nothing Binary About 101
Old animosities still lingering, the government of the Republic of Québec offers financial aid to the native and Métis secessionists, as well as hinting at military assistance. Some tense moments pass by on the border between Ontario and Québec after an older gentleman sneaks across and erects and English-only No Parking sign in retaliation, but soon fall to the side when the Québecois troops are recalled to deal with native unrest in their own land.
Reforming 1812 33
The Prime Minister panics. After consultations with his ministers, he does the only thing he can think of. The phone call is not unexpected. Troops move across the border, officially as a measure of concern to protect American citizens. Resistance, except for in a few rare pockets, does not last. The troops stay. The tourists leave, and do not come back.
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1 Wreck Beach is the nude beach in Vancouver, British Columbia. A popular place.
2 Also known as Ma Bell. Was a monopoly until very recently. Of course, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone while he was in Nova Scotia, Canada.
3 Every Canadian government bill begins with the letter C.
4 Much, much worse than the postal service of our kind neighbors to the south.
5 It is a law that Canada Post can deliver all the junk mail they want, and no one can stop them. They deposit in every mailbox, often regardless of stickers requesting otherwise.
6 No, metric isn’t dead yet. But there are a lot of people up here who would like to see it go away. Many miles away.
7 Healthcare is what most Canadians think defines the difference between them and Americans.
8 No more home delivery to new subdivisions, just to big boxes that stand on the street so you can get it on the way home.
9 The people who broke Ma Bell’s monopoly.
10 Places with “American” or “Cheesecake” in the name are cyclically very popular where I live.
11 The Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission. Sort of like the FCC.
12 Go back to the story. I explain who they were right after this footnote.
13 For decades, the voice of Hockey Night in Canada on CBC Radio and then TV. The man who came up with that most important of Canadian phrases, “He shoots, he scores!”
14 Rene Levesque was the first separatist Premier of Quebec. The party he lead, the Parti Quebecois, came back to power in 1994, looking for a way to break up the country. They almost succeeded at the end of 1995, and vow to try again.
15 The Sports Network. Canadian version of ESPN.
16 The Canadian Football League. Three downs, 110-yard field, 15-yard end-zones. The CFL has expanded into the US, and the Stallions, at the time with Baltimore and calling themselves the Cs (because Colts was owned by the NFL) came this close to winning the Grey Cup in
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