CBC seven wonders

[spiritedenergy]

Manitoba has 3 finalists:

Manitoba Legislative Building
Grand Beach
Narcisse Snake Den

They are all faring very badly, so go and vote!

http://www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders/index.html

[spiritedenergy]

vid you should be proud, the sleeping giant of Thunder Bay is one of the most voted.

[Brokenhead]

The winners of this things are likely to be where the higher populations are, so bias.

[1ajs]

the floodway did not make it wtf

[vid]

Originally Posted by spiritedenergy

vid you should be proud, the sleeping giant of Thunder Bay is one of the most voted.

It's number 1! The first to pass 40,000 votes! The city tourism department is ecstatic.

I voted for the Manitoba Legislature. The symbolism alone makes it a wonder.

[spiritedenergy]

Originally Posted by vid

It's number 1! The first to pass 40,000 votes! The city tourism department is ecstatic.

I voted for the Manitoba Legislature. The symbolism alone makes it a wonder.

go Thunder Bay!!!! Canadians love you

Brokenhead, if you were right, Thunder Bay wouldn't be first.
I voted for the legislature too and everything Manitoba plus Quebec City, the prairie sky and the Saguenay Fjord. Manitoba legislature is still the only legislative building nominated... a great honor indeed.

[vid]

Well the Sleeping Giant is in Ontario. It's the only Ontario Provincial Park. That might have something to do with it, but I doubt it. Thunder Bayers are really good at getting together and doing things like this. We raise about 2 million a year for the United Way alone and there are only 120,000 of us so how hard can clicking a mouse be? Thunder Bay Televisions hourly updates on the damn thing help too, every radio station has caught on. It's kinda creepy..

[spiritedenergy]

Originally Posted by vid

Well the Sleeping Giant is in Ontario. It's the only Ontario Provincial Park. That might have something to do with it, but I doubt it. Thunder Bayers are really good at getting together and doing things like this. We raise about 2 million a year for the United Way alone and there are only 120,000 of us so how hard can clicking a mouse be? Thunder Bay Televisions hourly updates on the damn thing help too, every radio station has caught on. It's kinda creepy..

oh my gosh Thunder Bayians are lobbying hard... that's it!

Manitobans can't get up from their deep freeze sleep, all they think about is to cut the lawn, go to the cottage, and... i can't really find anything else Manitobans are very passionate about

[vid]

Slushies. They loooove slushies.

[Brokenhead]

Current Standings

Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick / Nova Scotia
(39820) 8%
Cabot Trail, Nova Scotia
(25834) 5%
Cathedral Grove, British Columbia
(10756) 2%
CN Tower, Ontario
(14660) 3%
Confederation Bridge, Prince Edward Island / New Brunswick
(16683) 3%
Crooked Trees, Saskatchewan
(3153) 1%
Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan / Alberta
(4371) 1%
Dawson City, Yukon
(2593) 1%
Dempster Highway, Yukon / Northwest Territories
(2575) 1%
Drumheller, Alberta
(15759) 3%
Grand Beach, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba
(2979) 1%
Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland
(18254) 4%
Haida Gwaii - Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia
(8089) 2%
Hartland Covered Bridge, New Brunswick
(7319) 1%
Ice Roads, Northern Canada
(8174) 2%
L'Anse Amour - Village of 7, Labrador / Newfoundland
(7071) 1%
Library of Parliament, Ontario
(3695) 1%
Manicouagan Crater, Quebec
(3112) 1%
Manitoba Legislative Building, Manitoba
(1905) 0%
Manitoulin Island, Ontario
(13771) 3%
Mt. Thor - Auyuittuq National Park, Nunavut
(2317) 0%
Mum's House in Scarborough, Ontario
(1677) 0%
Nahanni National Park, Northwest Territories
(14496) 3%
Narcisse Snake Dens, Manitoba
(2435) 0%
Niagara Falls, Ontario
(37733) 7%
Nonosabasut Rock, Labrador / Newfoundland
(4426) 1%
Northern Lights, Northern Canada
(33835) 7%
Northwest Passage, Canada
(5093) 1%
Number 5 Road, British Columbia
(1190) 0%
Old Quebec City, Quebec
(12150) 2%
Perce Rock, Quebec
(5828) 1%
Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia
(6392) 1%
Porcupine Caribou Herd, Northern Canada
(3308) 1%
Prairie Skies, Canadian Prairies
(7270) 1%
Rankin Inlet Inuksuk, Nunavut
(3131) 1%
Rideau Canal, Ontario
(7175) 1%
Saguenay Fjord, Quebec
(3808) 1%
Saugeen Shores Sunsets, Ontario
(3533) 1%
Singing Sands Beach, Prince Edward Island
(5142) 1%
Sleeping Giant, Ontario
(41585) 8%
Spiral Tunnels, British Columbia
(4650) 1%
The Canoe, Canada
(7460) 1%
The Montreal Bagel, Quebec
(2140) 0%
The Rockies, British Columbia / Alberta
(30692) 6%
The Stanley Cup - Canada
(10553) 2%
Trans Canada Hwy, Canada
(7735) 2%
Tuktoyaktuk Pingos, Northwest Territories
(2719) 1%
Vegreville Egg, Alberta
(2095) 0%
Vimy Memorial, France
(8435) 2%
Wreck Beach, British Columbia
(3190) 1%
The Igloo, Northern Canada
(8317) 2%
Museum of Civilization, Quebec
(2460) 0%
Total Votes: 503543

[spiritedenergy]

Originally Posted by vid

Slushies. They loooove slushies.

did you mean slurpies?

Another thing that Manitobans like is to open the windows in the bus when outside is 5 degrees... geez.

people vote! Let's bring Manitoba to its place in the sun!

[vid]

We call them slushies here. Deal with it.

[Brokenhead]

I call them slushies, so does everyone I know.

Doesn't 7-11 call them slurpies? and likely own the rights to this name?

[IntotheWest]

Originally Posted by vid

Well the Sleeping Giant is in Ontario. It's the only Ontario Provincial Park...

Vid - am I misreading what you said here? The "only" provincial park in Ontario?? I believe there are quite a few, like any other province...or, did you mean the only provincial park on the list??

[IntotheWest]

^I passed this list out to a few friends to vote, and of course, all of them voted for their local attractions...pretty sad actually, that "Prairie Skies" is beating out something like Mount Thor.

...which isn't even that far ahead of the Vegreville Egg and the "Montreal Bagel" (what about "Winnipeg cream cheese"? They go together quite well :-).

This just shows that most don't venture to even look at the different nominees.

[vid]

Originally Posted by IntotheWest

Vid - am I misreading what you said here? The "only" provincial park in Ontario?? I believe there are quite a few, like any other province...or, did you mean the only provincial park on the list??

I meant the only one on the list. I thought I wrote that, I guess I didn't. Sorry for the confusion.

They're having technically difficulties. Niagara Falls' propaganda scheme has put them in a 700 point lead over Nanabizhoo. The bastards.

[Boreal]

The Bay of Fundy is still my top choice.

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by IntotheWest

^I passed this list out to a few friends to vote, and of course, all of them voted for their local attractions...pretty sad actually, that "Prairie Skies" is beating out something like Mount Thor.

...which isn't even that far ahead of the Vegreville Egg and the "Montreal Bagel" (what about "Winnipeg cream cheese"? They go together quite well :-).

This just shows that most don't venture to even look at the different nominees.

the conumist party of Manitoba owned the company that made the cream cheese that was so famous you know....... with the former owner of borelis books was in charge of for a period of time

shame they did not listen to richard or we would still have that famouse cheese being made :'(

[LilZebra]

Originally Posted by vid

Well the Sleeping Giant is in Ontario. It's the only Ontario Provincial Park. That might have something to do with it, but I doubt it. Thunder Bayers are really good at getting together and doing things like this. We raise about 2 million a year for the United Way alone and there are only 120,000 of us so how hard can clicking a mouse be? Thunder Bay Televisions hourly updates on the damn thing help too, every radio station has caught on. It's kinda creepy..

Too much media concentration. That IS kinda creepy.

Of course what they do in Fargo is just as... KVLY (NBC) and KXJB (CBS) news are done from the same studio, same desk, except that the monitor in the set has the different logo... I used to remember in the 70s and early 80s when they were totally separate statons.

[vid]

Lol, Thunder Bay Television used to have two sets but only one camera, and news on two channels at once. When channel 2 went to commercial, they would move the camera around so it faced the set of channel 4, and then they would air that news until the end of the commercial on channel 2, then switch back and air a commercial on channel 4. Back when their set was a giant oval covered in shag carpeting suspended from the ceiling.

The 80s were fucked up.