Ten humble wishes for the New Year

And so that is Christmas and what have you ever finished?

One other yr over and a brand new one simply begun, from the John Lennon/Yoko Ono tune Pleased Christmas (Struggle Is Over), sung by Lennon, Ono and The Harlem Neighborhood Choir. 

That tune nonetheless hits me laborious, fact be advised.

Irrespective of the place I’m, listening to a radio, it may choke me up.

As a result of I do know what it means, I do know. Been there, finished that.

All of us have, haven’t we?

And so, what are my High Ten needs for 2024?

Right here it goes, no holds barred! No censorship! No filter! Maintain on! I am hitting the afterburner!

And a giant because of Nigel, Dave, Myke & Derek, for letting me have this superior voice on the Western Commonplace.

1. I hope that Justin Trudeau… simply goes away. I imply, simply go away, earlier than you place the ultimate nail into Canadian unity. Earlier than you finish our Confederation. Please, expensive God, return to instructing drama. That and browsing in Tofino, BC. You bought that.

2. I hope our present Surroundings Minister and jack-in-office, Steven Guilbeault, who has finished extra harm to our nation than any Canadian politician in historical past, loses his job when the Grits fall. And I take advantage of the phrase ‘politician’ flippantly. I actually do not know what planet this fellow resides on. I hoped he would keep in Dubai, however no luck. To place it properly, let his future job embody, “Would you like fries with that?”

3. I want and hope, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, will proceed to valiantly stand as much as the PMO and its divisive and damaging insurance policies, that are killing our as soon as nice province. We have to have her again, arise for her all the way in which. Ignore the cowardly native TV/radio media and their egg-head college prognosticators and present some frikkin’ balls! Full pace forward!

4. I want and hope, that Nikki Haley soars within the US Republican management race, and places an finish to Donald Trump’s run for the White Home. Go Nikki go! She’s an informed, clever lady and I feel she is going to do high quality as president of the US. America wants change very badly. Like many others, I’ve given up on Sleepy Joe Biden.

5. I want and hope, the high-paid millionaire athletes in our metropolis (and you already know who you’re) will give again extra to the neighborhood that worships them and for some cause, thinks they signify us. I hope Flames’ Common Supervisor Craig Conroy makes this extra vital within the New 12 months. The residents of Calgary are funding 96% of the brand new area, perhaps you must present some appreciation? The Stampeders, compared, ought to be counseled for all their charity work. They put the Flames to disgrace. Sarcastically, the Stamps are the group that has earned our respect, not these overpaid, spoiled NHLers.

6. I want and hope that Glenbow Ranch Park CEO Jeromy Farkas stands robust and protects that stunning park from destruction, because of the deliberate East Glenbow Dam. It is a horrible undertaking, that have to be stopped. Finish of story. Go Jeromy Go!

7. I used to be going to hope that aliens would land on the White Home garden, to lastly finish the nice UFO debate and convey peace and low-cost reasonably priced power to the world. However even when they did, I feel mankind would nonetheless discover a strategy to screw issues up. In accordance with High Secret MJ-12 NATO paperwork, at the least 5 and as many as 12 alien races, have visited the earth. An assortment of Greys, Nordics, Reptilians, and many others. It’s no surprise, they need nothing to do with us.

8. I want and hope Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek is visited by the three Ghosts of Christmas Eve (from Dicken’s Christmas Carol), displaying what a horrible mayor she actually is and, hopefully, turning her into particular person, who really cares about Calgarians, as an alternative of basking in her officialdom and screwing issues up royally. (Add the sound of Jacob Marley’s chains.) Turn into a mayor who has our backs, and cease taxing us into oblivion. And, perhaps take a telephone name or two, or perhaps an e-mail? Present some humanity.

9. I want for the Alberta authorities, the Canadian authorities, Metropolis Corridor and all of the millionaire oilpatch bigwigs, to assist assist the Hangar Flight Museum of their $60 million bid to construct a spanking new, first-class facility. Each college child ought to be taken to this museum, to see a completely restored and guarded Lancaster bomber — not only a non permanent tent — to see first-hand, the price of freedom.

10. And lastly, there was a time I assumed Quebec was one of the particular issues about Canada. Not anymore. I’ve one massive Christmas want for all of us, that we give Quebec an ultimatum. Both it behaves like a member of Confederation or leaves Confederation. Quebec is holding us again. They’re takers, not givers, with a way of entitlement no much less. To be trustworthy, we should always have allow them to go, after we had the prospect. And a message to the Quebec premier, from Mr. Spock of Star Trek fame: “After a time, it’s possible you’ll discover that having is just not so pleasing a factor in spite of everything as wanting.”

And so, as Lennon and Ono sang: A really Merry Christmas, and a Pleased New 12 months, let’s hope it is a good one, with none worry.