Quebec riding of Charlevoix in the 1980 federal election. Laliberte brought a Rhino badge with him when he went into space in 2009.

Today, Sebastien "CoRhino" Corriveau of Limoilou, Que., is leading the party. While Corriveau is active on social media, Canadians from coast to coast are expected to get to know him a little bit better when the party conducts a cross-country tour in October.

Corriveau told The Province that he has candidates running in all provinces but Prince Edward Island because he doesn't "know anybody" there.

State-run Tim Hortons, Senate lottery

Among their more ambitious promises for 2015 is a pledge to nationalize Tim Hortons, Canada's ubiquitous coffee shop chain.

Announcing the pledge in Montreal last week, Corriveau said that the "best way to improve and defend Canadian values and thehappy with the mix of talks and speakers. There were some (valid) complaints about the catering, but most people understood that we were unhappy about it too and that we did our best to fix it.

The committee members did a fantastic job in making it all happen, and I'm hoping that my colleagues get a good chance this weekend to recover. Particular thanks go to:

Amanda Penrose for her beautiful artwork and for keeping the website up to date. Amanda also took the meeting minutes, organised and ran the tutorials, designed and arranged printing for the postcards, likewise for the t-shirts and bags, chaired rooms and did a fair bit of the registration desk management. In her free time she also helped out in the other roles as necessary.

Richard