Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd & thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

...poor Stephane, always the bridesmaid..

Hopefully, the Conservatives will now realize that the Liberals and NDP are ahead of them with nominations and organizing on the ground with a candidate.

North Van, Richmond, Van South, Quadra and Southern Interior, Van Center, all the Island ridings. Skeena, Burnaby New West, Burnaby Douglas and even Van East need to be called this week in order to hold meetings in mid-April. A week prior to the 3 week zone for the Writ drop.

Alex - The brave six hundred took the canon and won the day.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

ahem,

History was obviously not your strong sleeve in middle school, I gather...

The Charge of the Light Brigade was an absolutely disastrous cavalry charge led by Lord Cardigan during the Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 in the Crimean War.

The brigade was almost completely destroyed, and suffered terribly, with 118 men killed, 127 wounded, and 362 horses lost. After initial counts, only 195 men were still mounted (out of 600). The insanity of the moment and its recklessness made the French Marshal Pierre Bosquet to state "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre." ("It is magnificent, but it is not war.") The Russian commanders originally thought that the British cavalry were actually plastered to have been so stupid.

How you equate that with one canon (there were several, not just the three referenced by Tennyson, and they were short cannons favoured in the day for their accuracy and blast)and that they "won the day" is beyond me and any other war historian worth his salt.

Sorry to have unfairly challenged the feeble.

Then again, revisionism is why the Liberal Party of Canada currently exists.

and revisionism is how the Conservative Party of Canada survives today...

But it gets better. I heard from someone who knows someone who was at the meeting that Bruce Young promised that if anyone could find him a qualified woman who was willing to run in Prince George, he would treat that person to a three course dinner and a bottle of rye.

I've been to a Bruce Young lunch and it's considerably better than that!

Your sources must be off.

First it's the bottle of bourbon, then.....

No one knows the landscape better than Bruce.

Besides, what's the problem with (in context) skirtchasing?

The Grits have a fine tradition of bumpatting!

It would be the only reason I would ever switch, frankly.