It’s getting lots of views on YouTube. A portion of a late night Fox news program features panelists mocking Canadian soldiers. It aired after a top Canadian general said our military would need a one year break after the end of the Afghan mission. Greg Gutfield with Fox news suggested the Canadian soldiers needed time off for manicures and pedicures.
Residents in southern Manitoba are keeping a very close eye on the south, as frantic flood preparations continue in North Dakota and Minnesota. Volunteers are urgently needed to help with sandbagging in Fargo, where the Red River is already a meter about flood stage, and won’t crest for another week or so.
Meantime….a Colorado low is expected to dump a lot of wet stuff on southern Manitoba for the next few days. Rain and even hail, started yesterday in the province…and that will now turn to snow and wind by tomorrow.
Looks like the feds are taking a page out of the E-Bay playbook. Public works officials are in the process of developing a real time auction website. It would allow Canadians to buy used government vehicles, office furniture, boats, computers, tools and other items.
“Knowing” paid off for Nicolas Cage at North American theatres this weekend. The supernatural thriller took in just under 25 million U.S. to be tops at the box office. The Paul Rudd comedy, “I Love You, Man” was runner up, taking in some 18 million.
Investigators are looking into 2 deadly plane crashes that happened half a world apart. Officials say between 14 and 17 people are dead after a crash in Butte, Montana yesterday. The plane was carrying several children who were on a ski trip. Meanwhile, the pilot and co pilot of a FedEx cargo plane are dead, this after it crashed and burned in Tokyo earlier today. Both accidents are now under investigation.
The province will bring down the budget this week. And, all signs point to Manitoba bucking the recession trend. We still have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, and, we’re one of only 4 province’s predicted to have growth this year.
