plumbing

But these blue-collar women have more in common than X chromosomes

He loved the Saskatchewan Roughriders almost as much as ice fishing. To learn to be a plumber, he moved to Edmonton.

First, it was “maintenance work” on city pipes that brought Parliament to a squelching halt; then, a burst water main shut down the patio at Hy’s on the Friday before the Victoria Day long weekend — and now this:

A videoblogthing report from the front – well, the Hot Room, anyway – with a bonus conspiracy theory involving Diane Finley!

NDP MP Paul Dewar is So Not Impressed by — oh, I’m going to journalistic Hell for this one — NoWatergate:

UPDATE: Colleague Wherry has the details.

Just after Question Period, the House of Commons was shut down for the rest of the day, by unanimous consent, due to the (temporary, we hope) demise of the parliamentary plumbing system, which crashed earlier today due to unspecified water pressure issues in the downtown core. Committees are cancelled, MPs’ offices are closing early, staffers are going home, and ITQ is going for ice cream, but will report back later. Hopefully with actual answers on what went so very wrong with our institutional innards, and when we can expect to be back at work. Further bulletins as events warrant.