Thanks! It was my tippy-top question. For the record, there was another. (Never reply to internet commenters, it encourages us.)
Everybody in Calgary with a protest, since it was built in 1988, goes to the Olympic Plaza, dead centre in front of City Hall, big open space surrounded by transit and restaurants. Until the Convoy West (…
Thanks! It was my tippy-top question. For the record, there was another. (Never reply to internet commenters, it encourages us.)
Everybody in Calgary with a protest, since it was built in 1988, goes to the Olympic Plaza, dead centre in front of City Hall, big open space surrounded by transit and restaurants. Until the Convoy West (Weekenders) showed up in the dense Beltline neighbourhood, horns aflame, weekend after weekend after weekend, until counter-protesters forced police presence.
To me that says that, in Ottawa, far from inadvertently causing minor inconvenience to nearby residential neighbourhoods, they discovered a whole new pressure point to jab; *deliberately* cause residential pain, in order to get attention. (Unlike Occupy, who were ignored at the Plaza, and on Parliament Hill, after week 2.) What else would explain the Beltline torture, Mr. Layton?
...needless to say, Layton would feel no urge to answer, since he can shrug off the Calgarians the way he shrugged off the guys at Coutts. But it actually raises another question about whom-to-talk-to on the Convoy: if any given speaker can shrug off inconvenient members, is there any one united message? Maybe a majority of them would shrug off the Facebook page as feeble. So , bonus question: "Did you survey folks for how MANY preferred the MOU to the Facebook message?"
I think there's a Facebook Wing to the Convoy and an MOU Wing. And that, of those who stayed more than one weekend, it was about 60% MOU.
Thanks! It was my tippy-top question. For the record, there was another. (Never reply to internet commenters, it encourages us.)
Everybody in Calgary with a protest, since it was built in 1988, goes to the Olympic Plaza, dead centre in front of City Hall, big open space surrounded by transit and restaurants. Until the Convoy West (Weekenders) showed up in the dense Beltline neighbourhood, horns aflame, weekend after weekend after weekend, until counter-protesters forced police presence.
To me that says that, in Ottawa, far from inadvertently causing minor inconvenience to nearby residential neighbourhoods, they discovered a whole new pressure point to jab; *deliberately* cause residential pain, in order to get attention. (Unlike Occupy, who were ignored at the Plaza, and on Parliament Hill, after week 2.) What else would explain the Beltline torture, Mr. Layton?
...needless to say, Layton would feel no urge to answer, since he can shrug off the Calgarians the way he shrugged off the guys at Coutts. But it actually raises another question about whom-to-talk-to on the Convoy: if any given speaker can shrug off inconvenient members, is there any one united message? Maybe a majority of them would shrug off the Facebook page as feeble. So , bonus question: "Did you survey folks for how MANY preferred the MOU to the Facebook message?"
I think there's a Facebook Wing to the Convoy and an MOU Wing. And that, of those who stayed more than one weekend, it was about 60% MOU.