Only article I could find regarding this video
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2009/05/15/edmonton-cab-driver-lawsuit.html?video=true

The assumption of entitlement of this generation makes me sick. Spoiled brats.




Oh, and the cops obviously were thinking with their dicks. Even Edmonton and Alberta have laws against baring false witness and abuse of process.

The comedian who appeared in this clip, Doug Benson, has been booted from a scheduled appearance at an Edmonton comedy club. (Is this guy insane?)

He's probably quite lucky. It's very likely he would have received at least one or two life-altering shots to the ganouche.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2009/03/23/8857581.html

Tags for this video have been changed from 'hockey, loser, empty, net, humiliation' to 'hockey, loser, empty, net, humiliation, ales hemsky, patrik stefan, dallas, edmonton' - edited by maatc

Damn this band is creepy.

Apart from lead singer John Kay, the band all have weird porno names:

>> ^calvados:
I think the major reason not to homeschool is so that one's children don't miss out on the socialization they get from being around masses of other kids in the institutionalized education environment. That's the most important thing about school: socialization. I suppose you can still have that if your (homeschooled) kids play team sports or whathaveyou, but I'm sending my kids to school (if I ever have any).
/homeschooled_for_two_years

Yeah, that whole "they are not socialized" thing is total crap. We are not shut-ins. My kids are not inside, isolated from the world. Almost every day they are attending homeschool functions including Park Day, Girls Club, Beavers, Brownies, homeschool science camps at the Telus World of Science, art classes at the Edmonton Art Gallery, science day at the SHiNE center, and on and on.

"Homeschooling" does not equal "trapped in the house".

>> ^spoco2:
Ok, so tell me the real reasons as to why you've chosen to homeschool? You have said it's none of the reasons I give... so, why do you do so?
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According to a survey mentioned in the wiki article on homeschooling. 85 percent of homeschooling parents cited "the social environments of other forms of schooling" (including safety, drugs, bullying and negative peer-pressure) as an important reason why they homeschool. 72 percent cited "to provide religious or moral instruction" as an important reason, and 68 percent cited "dissatisfaction with academic instruction at other schools." So, the vast majority of parents are doing this either because they think their children can't handle being around other children, or due to religious reasons. Neither of which I think are doing the kids any favours whatsoever.

Looking at that survey, it seems to be in the United States whereas we are in Canada. Most of those reasons/problems in the US don't exist in Canada and none of those reasons are why we homeschool.

In fact, you are assuming that homeschooling has nothing to do with public education. In Edmonton it does. We are registered with the Edmonton Public School Board and we have EPSB facilitator that we meet with once a month. We are given the choice of following the Alberta Curriculum or following our own, or a blend of both. We are members of two different homeschooling groups in town and most of the educational destinations (science center, art gallery, etc.) offer homeschool events during the day that are far more fascinating than the field trips I went on.

What is so bad about school that makes you feel that your kids won't learn there?

There is nothing bad about school and our kids would absolutely learn there. This has nothing to do with the schooling available, as the Edmonton Public School Board is renowned in many North American education circles and we have many educators that that visit and study the system in Edmonton. This isn't about trying to get away from something bad. This is just an educational choice.

Surely the longer that the kids are away from formalized education, the harder they're going to find it to actually move into it eventually (As I'm assuming you aren't accredited to hand our bachelor degrees).

Amusingly enough, my wife recently attended a homeschooling round table where that exact question always get asked. There were a number of students up there that were attending college and university that were homeschooled. Some of them decided to attend high school, others took a year of college before going into university. Some just challenged the high school finals and went into university never once attending elementary, Jr. or Sr. high. Short answer: there are no problems and its not that hard. And its worth noting that college/university education is nothing like high school.

Why do we homeschool? Because we want to.

>> ^GoShogun:
Lol, right there with you plastique. -38 C in Calgary tonight with windchill. If you can't see your breath, it's shorts and t-shirt weather in the prairies.


Hell I showed up in Edmonton in January one year during a freakish warm spell - a few degrees above freezing, maybe 5 or 10 degrees Celsius.

There was a guy wandering on the street in shorts.

Canadian citizens awoke today to the tragic news that an overnight meteorite impact failed to destroy Alberta. Eyewitnesses say the Armpit of Canada was still exactly where it was last night before they went to bed, despite being impacted by roughly 1/2 ton of falling space rocks.

"Oh, geeze -- the least it coulda done was take out Saskatchewan, eh?" said Calgary resident Bob Horton. "Perfectly good meteorite impact and it didn't even scorch Edmonton! What do we gotta do to get ridda this place, eh? Can't the Americans test nuclear weapons or something here? I mean, talk about Hoserville!"

The Prime Minister said free beer and back-bacon would be provided to the sufferers of the non-destruction of the Provence. Further, he said Canada would look into the idea of carving a giant target into Alberta's endless wheat fields in case there's another bollide looking for a place to impact.

According to Wikipedia, EIA may refer to:

* Edmonton International Airport
* Electronic Industries Alliance, a US trade organization
* Energy Information Administration, a part of the U.S. Department of Energy
* Environmental Impact Assessment, an assessment of the likely impact of a project
* Environmental Investigation Agency, a non-governmental organization
* Enzyme Immuno Assay, see ELISA
* Equine Infectious Anemia, a horse disease
* Equity-indexed annuity, a financial product
* Evergreen International Airlines, an American airline with ICAO code EIA
* Exercise-induced anaphylaxis, a medical condition
* Exercise-induced asthma, a medical condition
* External iliac artery, an artery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIA

Now that's what I call quite good.

(edit: She's from Edmonton, in the balmy reaches of northern Alberta. Move to Deadmonton and you, too, can become great at something obscure you do in your room! Because it's fucken boring there.)

I'd almost down vote, but only because its Edmonton

I'd have to say Pink Floyd Pulse. I saw them in Vancouver in a closed stadium (BC Place) and then went to Edmonton and saw them in an open air stadium. It was just an awesome couple of days.

Another very memorable concert was when I went to see Weird Al Yankovic. He is a great entertainer and the costume and the act was just great. I'd have to say we had loads of laughter at it

Bring the hate! As a lifetime Torontonian, the only argument that I can understand for hating Toronto is the Hockey Night in Toronto thing. When I went out west during the playoffs a few years ago, that was the biggest legitimate gripe and I totally agree.

That being said, being heckled through two hockey games by some loser in an Edmonton bar because of where I happened to pop out of a womb really didn't teach me much except that people who suck live everywhere, not just Toronto.

@BillOreilly,
I've read your comments on many other videos, and I get it. I'm pretty impressed, actually, that you've got BillO's character down so well at times.

Not that I'm getting anywhere responding to your messages (Because I think you're playing a 'character', and if you aren't, then we'll probably never see eye-to-eye regardless), my reference was simply to the fact that it's fun and something to remember when something out of the ordinary happens that wasn't 'scheduled' or planned out. And yes, it's fun to see a performer's string break, and they continue with the song regardless, pull it off, and make it sound as good, if not better. My point was that the White Stripes say they don't worry about such occurances, instead they welcome it.


@karaidl,
Some of their song lyrics are incredibly simple, Let's Build a Home is definitely one of those. So is "Let's Shake Hands" and "Astro" (many of which could very well be double-meaninged =p). But they've also got some very well-written lyrics as well. Especially, but not exclusively, on their new album. If interested, check out Effect and Cause, A Martyr for my Love for you, and 300 MPH (Just a few off the new album). Good stuff

@myn,
Yeah, Canada loved them for touring every Province on such a significant tour (Their 10th anniversary AND the tour for their new record). They were raved about in the papers, and I went to the show the night before the Edmonton one you mentioned, when they were in Calgary. Great stuff, and yeah, the youth centre show was rather admirable.