You've all probably heard the meme going around, of an "Arab Spring", in mention of all the rioting/freedom fighting/youth gnarling going on in the ME right now.

Well, I'd like to use this particular thread to use as a placeholder where we all can talk, riff, muse, put in news stories, rants, reasoned diatribes, silly, solemn, etc, that we think of aboot the concept of a Canadian Spring.

I'll start: