Recent content by Signalman150

I got 86%. Lived in YK for two years and did quite a bit of traveling up to the far north (such sun-and-fun places as the teeming metropolis of Repulse Bay). Now the good people "up North" might want to think twice about just how much we "southerners" know about them.  If most people down here...

Okay ladies and gentlemen, I'm not going to lie to you; five minutes ago I stood out in my back yard on the verge of tears. I live in east Edmonton, near the Capilano area.  I'm out fixing my fence (long past due) and I hear a jet engine coming from the direction of the Muni.  I can never...

Thought some of the posters for this particular thread wouldf be interested in this article fm the Edmonton Journal last Monday. Reproduced under the Fair Dealing provisions of the Copyright Act. 'No-zero' policy gives students a do-over Deadlines in the adult world often just as flexible...

Logairoff, don't be quite so shocked; and, since ex-Sup actually works on the education side of things, you might want to cut him a bit of slack.  Unless you've taught professionally, he likely has some practical experience with this issue you don't. I teach as well, tho' I don't have ex-Sups...

In addition to Colin P's comment on the historical aspect of this endeavor; I remember my father talking about spending a great deal of time in such sun-and-fun capitals of Canada as Baker Lake, whilst the post-war (i.e. WWII) RCAF mapped Canada's far north.  I believe they used Lancasters for...

Oh boy; where do I start? No, it's not about grade 13; I was educated in a province where no such thing ever existed, and I teach in a another province where the same applies. No, it's not about lousy profs, and yes; I'm well aware there are many. It's about students who know they don't need to...

OWDU, That photograph in a book you mentioned, of Tanzanian troops parading in DPM combats.  Was it perhaps a pic in the National Geographic?  I remember being extremely surprised to see it at the time, because it was obviously Cdn pattern.

Hah!  This one's easy.  I was sent (as a plug reservist) to the Airborne Regiment during Op GamesCan in 1976.  I'd only been with them about a week, and we had sports parade--soccer. I wasn't a strong soccer player, but I thought I was acquitting myself rather well, right up until the moment...

Sorry Greymatters, but you're way off base and ten years too late.  Perhaps you didn't get what I was saying; this was in the days of the American "Hell-no-we-won't-go" mentality, and every Leftie on Canada's west coast was trying to emulate them. The time, my friend, was 1972, not '82. If you...

TCBF -- I understand your reaction to having to listen to John Lennon as part of a Remembrance Day Ceremony; I would feel much the same way.  For the last several years I've gone down to the Legislature Grounds to watch the gunners do their salute.  The first couple of times I went, they held...

Okay, this is a riot. I finally got off this damn continent for the first time in over 40 years and spent 5 weeks in Britain this past summer.  During our (i.e. wifey and I) first few days in London, we did the obligatory tour of the Tower.  I marveled at this wonderful FEMALE Beefeater that...

I'd seen something similar to this years ago, and was quietly reading through and chuckling to myself --until I got to the last line, "Your loving daughter, Sheila"...at which point I cycled a rum and coke through my sinuses. :-X Wonderful.

Getting back to T6's comment at the beginning of the thread; I always feel a little uncomfortable when a Yank says thanks to us for doing something like this. I still remember reading on another site somewhere a comment that I wholeheartedly agreed with.  The comment was made that the "gold...

GungHo, Just my two cents. I know that elsewhere on the board I've made mention of this, but it bears repeating. A lot of good advice here, particularly the 'grass is always greener on the other side' stuff.  If you love what yr doing now, keep at it; a good firefighter is worth his or her...

Been through Arizona a few times on the 'scoot.  First time was back in 2000 during the Annual Three Flags Classic motorcycle run (that year it was from Tijuana to Courtney BC in 3 days over a VERY circuitous route). What scenery! What people!  What sunshine!  What a...friggin' education.  I...