La belle province is soooo far ahead of Ontario in soooo many ways.

• You do not have to go to a designated store to buy booze – just stop at the local dépanneur
• In general, they have better tastes in food and in clothes
• One word: bagels
• In general, Quebecois are much more relaxed and less anal retentive than their neighbours to the west.

And finally, they have only one – secular – school system. They abandoned the wasteful discriminatory and anachronistic catholic system in 1997.

And now, the government of Quebec has gone a step further by banning religious teaching in publicly-funded daycares!

Quebec, which has grappled with efforts to limit the place of religion in its public institutions, has decided to bring secularization to the tot-and-toddler set. Starting in June, publicly funded daycares that teach a particular faith to their young charges risk losing their government funding.

Yup. Soooooo far ahead! Congrats to the Charest government (and the Bouchard government in 1998) for showing the cojones that successive governments at Queen’s Park have lacked!

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

From the USGS as well…

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

From the USGS.

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

More details – the USGS is reporting that the epicentre was about 61 kms north of Ottawa:

Earthquake Details

Man!

THAT was scary!

Lotsa folks freaked out by this… the building across the street seems to have been evacuated…

It lasted about a minute or so… I didn’t think these things lasted that long…

Cell service is down.

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

The Government of Québec has made the wise move of pulling all of its police force’s Tasers out of the field after some of them were shown to be malfunctioning.

Hopefully a full ban is next and the rest of the country follows suit… if our cops can’t use it with respect, then they should not have this weapon.

Are you listening, RCMP???

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario

The Dippers have won a seat in Québec!!!!! Outrement is theirs!!!!

The freezing over of Lucifer’s ‘hood surely must mean that….

The Leafs WILL indeed win the Cup this year!

I had better book my hotel room now for the post season celebrations that will take the city (and the nation) by storm! Come to think of it, I should stake out my spot along the parade route – just to be sure!

Trashy,
Ottawa, Ontario