Je reviendrai à ...

[jawnbc]

... Montréal. En route to Québec City for the big honkin' national NDP policy convention. W00t!

toneyvr the lovely gave me a lift to the aeroport. querrelle gave me an entirely different kind of send off last night.

Fly to YUL, then catch the NDP train to the convention. Same thing in reverse Sunday evening. Staying at "a private men's club". Cheap and convenient. But 'net access might be marginal.

This could be fun...

Comments

[feygele.livejournal.com]

Will you be in Montreal at all for any amount of time? Lemme know!!

[chen-tokuryu.livejournal.com]

I expect a well-detailed report from you, sir.

Let me live vicariously through your wild and zany Quebecois adventure!

[jawnbc]

sadly no. plane arrived, shuttle to train, registration and hoo-haw, train to Quebec City. On Sunday it'll be reversed...

I long to meet you though. serieusement!

[feygele.livejournal.com]

Vraiment! Perhaps the next time I make it to the west coast...

Also, the Mr. Voice on The Current opened with quite a snarky jab at the NDP. I checked their site to see if the wording is up yet, but it's not. But you should check it out. (Also also, their bit on the NDP proclamations had me giggling.)

a-ha!

[feygele.livejournal.com]

"Hoping it will boost their profile in Quebec, members of the NDP in that province propose Canada abandon the monarchy and consider becoming a republic. Currently, this debate over the relevance of the Queen in Canada is about as old as (catching himself)... wait. There's an NDP party in Quebec? Really? What do they do? ...This is The Current."

And, we ended the show this week with some of the 600 ambitious resolutions the NDP will consider. We couldn't resist having a bit of fun with them, but rest assured the resolutions themselves are very much real. [RealMedio link to this chunk of the Current.]

to hear their reading of the