Nelson: Happy Thanksgiving to all those heroic regular Canucks

Ah, but life meanders along as ever, down at Calgary’s so-blessed city hall.

It’s a place where councillors are consumed with ridding mankind (oops, peoplekind) of every perceived sin — including those fools who dare drive faster than jogging pace.

Yes, those same civic leaders have simultaneously sat, like 15 nonchalant Neros, whilst our community’s small business backbone was eviscerated on their dreamy, dozy watch.

Salmon with a very pronounced L, I kid you not.

But let’s not get too downhearted. After all, we have Thanksgiving on the horizon. It’ll be time to eat real, succulent turkey, instead of furtively feasting on the weird words of those lame, political replicas.

So, whom indeed should we give thanks to, whilst this ever-darkening cloud of chaos and conflict swirls around us?

Dull as it appears, let’s nominate our regular, fellow Canadians.

Yes, those would be the ones who’ve turned up, week after week despite the pandemic, to do jobs we once took for granted: hairdressers, gas station jockeys, grocery checkout clerks, gym attendants and assorted ilk.

They were once invisible: middle-aged women, visible minorities and so many immigrants. But, despite personally only hitting one out of three, I heartily rejoice in calling them real Canadians — similar to Ukrainians breaking prairie ground in earlier times.

Many of those people lost their jobs when our provincial government shuttered small businesses back in March. Some reopened and folk resumed their daily duties.