North of 49

Hey Dee I found a smiley photo! She like her incumbent rival is a very strong, attractive, smart, well papered, seasoned speaker but that's pretty much where the similarities end. Danielle Smith comes to the table with some heavy experience, say Fraser Institute, an internship with them and a time with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business and that type of experience worries me a bit. Why?   Her back ground is similar to  a man who back in the day I thought could be what this country needed Ol' shark eyes "MORE Prisons Damn it!"                          His name Stephen Harper! I never voted for the man but did think he would be a fair and balanced leader. Lucky I never wasted my vote. But enough of the political profiling lets take a look at the website. http://www.wildrose.ca/mlas/guy-boutilier/  That link takes you to the Fort McMurray MLA's page. Brilliant web...

The thing to realize about this far northern clutch of dissimilar yet connected people is that change does come but it does take a good long time and that might be a result of it's global position or maybe it is caused by both the environment, which can go from bad to brutal to mind numbing in hours, and the cultural roots of the two main groups who settled the modern Fort McMurray, The MacAttack, Ft McMisery, Ft. McMuddy or simply The        Mac. This photo is probably from the late 70's early 80's. I now live about a block from the red towers. The two groups being the Native American and the Canadian Newfie,  I'm only kidding but you have to wonder if the laid back roots of these two cultures have given the town (city) the lag in development of the open downtown spaces or was it more just a practical reaction to the physical reality that when there is a flood Downtown lives up to its name it is clearly down under the water.  I have be...