Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there!
He wasn't there again today,
Oh how I wish he'd go away!
When I came home last night at three,
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall,
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door...
Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn't there,
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away...
Hi! I’m trying to find my favourite poetry book from when I was a kid. It was a paperback anthology of different poems and it might have been purple? The two I remember were a version of Antigonish by William Hughes Mearns (Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there) and a poem about being car sick. I can’t remember that poem properly but it had (sick) at the end of every line and “I FEEL SICK” at the end of each verse.
I’m British and would have probably acquired it in the late 90s if that helps at all. Would love to find it again to read some poetry with my daughter!
I want to start off by stating this should not be noteworthy at all and I don't want to suggest in any manner that those who are not born here are not worthy of being an MLA. Rather, I just want to highlight double standards.
In late 2019 during question period, Brad Cathers told Sandy Silver in an off-mic comment to "go back to Antigonish" during a feisty exchange (https://www.whitehorsestar.com/News/cathers-comment-to-premier-riles-liberals). As expected, this was not well received.
Why am I bringing this up? I'm fairly certain Brad Cathers is originally from Ontario. Yes, he was raised here, but I believe he was not born here.
If you are critiquing someone to go back where they are from, but you yourself were not born here as well; you can see the hypocrisy.
I would not be looking into this, or even writing about it, if Cathers did not use this as a point of criticism for others. Again, this should not be noteworthy and it truly does not matter where someone is from.
My reasoning for thinking this:
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Nowhere in any of Brad's campaign materials does it mention he was born and raised here, which is something that is often explicitly highlighted. Closest reference to his origins states he "has lived in the electoral district of Lake Laberge since 1983".
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Cathers references his experience prior to being an MLA as part owner of the outdoor company "Cathers Wilderness Adventures". On their company about us page, it states the family started guiding canoe trips in northern Ontario in 1975 and then moved to a cabin on Lake Laberge in 1983.
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Brad states he is 43 years old. This means he was approximately born in 1978.
Reading in between the lines from these three points suggests that he was born in Ontario and grew up in the territory once he was five.
If you are talking with him, please ask him for his thoughts about this and the Antigonish comment.
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I ran across this yesterday.
https://dalneitzel.com/2017/02/08/forrest-gets-mail-13/
>I can see by the first question that your students probably are not asking what they want answered. I will answer the questions as presented and not judge them. I will also leave your students with a poem. It is not a reflection on anyone, or the questions, but something for them to think about.
Today as I went up the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today, oh how I wish he’d go away.
This was followed by a fairly standard Fenn Q & A. The "poem" he left with the students is almost a direct quote from the complete poem Antigonish, which was written about a haunted house in Nova Scotia. They surely didn't ask him about such things.
Antigonish
by William Hughes Mearns
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away...
Why do you think Fenn wanted the students to think about a little man who wasn't there?
It was a Haiku D’etat.
I dad walked into a bar
He ask for Candy in a Jar
The bar tender looked at him queer
Hey mister . we only have beer here
But I couldn't make it Rime
It's in celebration of the universe.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...
When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away...
Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there, He wasn't there again today, I wish, I wish he'd go away...
When I came home last night at three, The man was waiting there for me, But when I looked around the hall, I couldn't see him there at all! Go away, go away, don't you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair, A little man who wasn't there, He wasn't there again today, Oh, how I wish he'd go away...
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