Consumer Rights Threatened, Man Takes Action

And no we’re no talking about “The Man.”  No, rather this is an interesting news article I read about in Australia. Just a quick recap: Seems a fellow had purchased a car from a local car lot, drove it a block and the damn thing exploded!  Now if this wasn’t crazy enough, now the owner of the car lot is suing the guy who bought the car because some of the exploding wreckage damaged some newer cars on his lot!

Whoa! and if this wasn’t crazy enough, the car lot owner is asking for an additional million because of the negative press his business has been receiving!  HE SOLD HIM AN EXPLODING CAR! For pete’s sake, what a world we live in.  If you’re like me then it’s time you got off your haunches and wrote a letter. I wrote one to my MP telling him that I want that case dropped immediately or we should discontinue trade with Australia!  This is just the type of case that will set a very bad precedent and I would hate to see it happen on my watch.

Also, try boycotting anything Australian until this case is settled. I know my readers are only a few thousand, but if we all told a twenty people and they told twenty people then soon Australia would have to start listening to us and do what’s right.

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Apparently Safety law in limbo over a simple loophole!

Parliament is now home for the holidays but some senators are still working away to change a recent bill to overhaul consumer safety legislation here in this country. They say the legislation is unconstitutional and I don’t think I can disagree with that.

The Tories have been trying to get this reworked for some time – I think about 2-3 years – but Liberals have been voting against what has been known as Canada Consumer Product Safety Act. As someone that takes Consumer Rights very seriously I think that’s shocking. Maybe the Liberals haven’t got their stuff together but it’s time to work together and get something going. Don’t let the senate do all the work on this one.

I guess we’ll see how this plays out after the holiday break. My guess is that it will move extremely slowly (as it has so far) but maybe we can have something sorted out by February. Consumer Rights is all I care about and it’s near and dear to my heart!

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Montreal :(

As you most of you know, I’m a pretty big Roughriders fan. Some of you might also be aware that Roughriders just lost the Grey Cup the other week there. Well I haven’t been in much of a mood to blog but I’ll get back on the horse now.

It’s too bad that Montreal took it but what can you do I suppose? And there’s always next year. The Roughriders weren’t the best team this year so I guess they didn’t deserve to win it. Oh well. There’s always next year. I’ll back to posting this week.

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Stop, Drop…

Shut ‘em down open up shop

OOOOHHHHH! NNNNNNNOOOOO!

SaskRiders.logoThat’s how Rough Riders Roll!
Oh boy, if there ain’t nothing in this here world that gets me more amped up and excited than some good ol fashioned football, I don’t know what it is.  And here I thought nothing could get me more excited, until I went down to the Co-op only to learn they was all sold out of watermelons?  Jeezum, I’ll tell you I had a few choice words with the produce manager, but I shouldn’t really be surprised. He ain’t a real Saskatooner if he don’t know that when the RoughRiders make it to that goshdarn GREY CUP, people are gonna wanna wear watermelons on their goshdarn heads.  Anyways, he wasn’t in (probably for the best considering I was ready to give him a good ol fashioned throttling) and decided to drive into the city to try my luck there.  Well if it weren’t 2 hours of searching I managed to find some of them melons at the Safeway, but I’ll tell you the pickings were thin.  Anways, long story short is I got my hat, and am looking forward to carving that thing up and making myself a little hat.
Speaking of which – boy did I chuckle when I saw this:
Boy, if that don’t make you think what our old farm cat would do if I stuck a lime on his head.  Sheesh, I think I would have to be going out and buying some ozonol right quick. cat-watermelon-helmet
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I’ll tell ya for the last time!

mad manOh boy.  If there is something that’s stuck in my craw, it’s them goshdarn telemarketers always calling me trying to get me to buy their stuff.  Just the other day I’m sitting down for lunch, when the phone rings and here is the ensuing conversation that takes place.  Here I am expecting a call from my daughter attending The University of Saskatchewan!

Me: Hello?

Telemarketer: Hello Mr. *****,  we are from your bank and we would like to send you a credit card!

Me: A credit card?  I didn’t ask for no credit card.

Telemarketer: But you’ve been selected sir, it’s no obligation

Me: No obligation?  what’s that supposed to mean? ya’ll mean I can buy whatever I want and not pay it back?

Telemarketer:  Well no sir, it’s just that you don’t have to pay anything for it, it’s no annual fee.

Me: Oh realllly?  then what’s the goshdarn interest rate?

Telemarketer:  Well sir, it’s a low introductory rate of 3.9%

Me: hmm, that does sound pretty good, but is there a catch?

Telemarketer: No sir, no catch, just a service we offer to our loyal customers.

Me: Well then sign me up!

The point I’m making is that sometimes people judge to quickly. Here was this young gal just trying to help me and  the family out and by Jesus, she did!  3.9% is pretty sucks darn impressive, I’ll tell ya!

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Not this Yokel Again? Sheesh!

Hey Mulroney! Listen UP!

Hey Mulroney! Listen UP!

So as I am sitting down to enjoy my favourite meal of 110% pure Saskatchewan grass fed beef, guess who pops up on the ol’BOOB TUBE!  Yah, it’s our old friend Brian Mulroney (or as I call him – Brian MulGIVEMEMOREMONey).  You’d think that for once in a man’s life after a long day out working he could enjoy a meal undisturbed by this goofus, but I guess I was asking to much.

Yup, so there I am watching like a monkey, this guy give a speech about some goddam unknown thing over in some country i don’t give a damn about.  Jeez, the presumption on this guy to think I’m interested in hearing him blab on.  So I turned to the wife, and she’s got the gall to tell me not to talk with my gosh darn mouth full.  I tells ya, sometimes I wish it was the 50s again when a man could be a man.

Oh, and what about that new CBC show about that mosque or whatever?  Not in the Saskatchewan I’m from.  But whatcha gonna do.  At least I finally got to eat some steak, even if it was with ol’MulGIVEMEMOREMONey.

Give me a break.

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Vancouver? More Like VanGIVEMEABREAKcouver!

vancouver-2010-mascots3So as our faithful readers will know, I was recently in Vancouver for a wedding.  Now I must say, I did this reluctantly as Vancouver as always been my least favourite places to visit as I ain’t a fan of the locals (to put it nicely).  Anyways, I said I’d be there for the wife, and I’m starting to think that this was a mistake. How about a little run down of my take on Vancouver.

  1. Why is everyone wearing fleece?
  2. Your coffee is overpriced and expensive
  3. Everyone’s all high on themselves!

Okay, want my advice?  No?  Well you’re going to get it anyways because I’ve had just about had enough.  Hmm, I think I’ll use hand sanitizer all the time…STOP IT!  hmmm, I think I’ll ride my bike all the time…STOP IT!

If I wanted bagels, I’d go to Israel, so stop pushing them on me.  No I won’t give you money.  No I don’t want to watch your “art disguised as pornography”, no I don’t watch Oprah.  Should disposable razors cost that much?  Not where I’m from.  Oh is it raining again?

Jeez, I’ll tell you, things couldn’t have been worse.  But I will say that Jane and Shane’s wedding was beautiful and I thank the good people at the Raddison Hotel for being such gracious hosts.  No I probably won’t be headed back anytime soon, but should the aquarium be really that expensive?

You heard it here first. Canada is about truth, honour and valour.  Not indie music, fleece wearing psuedo intellectuals I see at speckled around Vancouver.  Oh good luck with 2010.  Trust me, you won’t see me there.

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The Time? It’s Come.

meWell after fighting it for years now, I’ve had it up to here. It’s time for things to change and I’m taking to the most direct route to unshackle the constraints put upon me by the powers that be.  That’s right, speaking directly to the people, the true Canadians out there who want to hear, for once, a real opinion.  I’m sick and tired of it, and I think if you’re reading this, so are you.

Alas, the PwRC was born from  a simple idea – To chance how Canadians consumer.  So who am I you ask?  Well asides from a concerned Canadian on a mission to shake up the world with a swift kick to the metaphorical balls, I am also a proud father and farmer currently residing in Saskatchewan.  I am a farmer, and a proud one at that.  And no, I don’t grow none of that sissy new “agey” stuff like soy, but good ol’Canadiana harvest fares, like wheat and potatoes. I am also a self described intellectual who has been noticing some wrongs lately with the way Canadians are shopping.

So go ahead and cut up them credit cards, and start living like me – a true Canadian.  Bookmark this site if you want to hear the truth for once in your life.

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