LOL,

Thank you Admiral!

Are you saying the British delegation lied?

The BBC says its source is an official in the British delegation who indicated that Harper, in the BBC’s words, “was having a comfort break during the photo op.”

Someone needs to pull out the tape from the security camera! Although Harper would just claim it was doctored.

Clearly the PM was over stimulated. Hope he didn’t have some curry- in- a hurrry the night before.

Official photo has been published here: http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/2009/04/pmo-releases-official-picture-of-harper.html

I’d punt in the links but I suspect the post might disappear into limbo.

The point I’d make is the University of Calgary, as an independent institution, dates from about 1966, Harvard from about 1780.

Let’s check back in a century or two and see how things have shaken out?
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From Wikipedia:

Initially called “New College” or “the college at New Towne”, the institution was named Harvard College on March 13, 1639, after a young clergyman named John Harvard, who bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and £779 (which was half of his estate). The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a “university” occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.
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From The Gauntlet, the U of C student newspaper:

After years of intense lobbying by students, faculty and university officials, the provincial Universities Act was revised to allow a second autonomous degree-granting university in Alberta. Finally, after delays at the legislature, Grant MacEwan gave Royal Ascent to the revised Universities Act on April 1, 1966, granting the UAC full autonomy from the U of A to become the University of Calgary.
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From Wikipedia:

Rankings and Reputation
The School motto on display

Webometrics University Rankings[7], which ranks universities on their presence on the Internet, ranks the University of Calgary 45th in the USA and Canada category and 50th in the world. It is ranked 3rd in Canada.

Research Infosource[8] ranks the top 50 research universities in Canada each year. Calgary is currently ranked 7th.

The Times Higher Education Supplement ranks the school 166th in the world.

The University of Calgary is ranked in the 203-304 area, but in the 100-200 area last year, in the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It is given a regional rank (encompassing the Americas) of 99-138. Its national rank is in the area of 8-17.

Calgary’s Haskayne’s School of Business is renowned for strengths in undergraduate business, although this is disputed, such as in Maclean Magazine’s popular ranking system. In 2006, at the Inter-Collegiate Business Competition, hosted annually by Queen’s University, Calgary continued to rank at the top in each area. Twenty-eight Canadian Undegraduate Business schools, with three from outside Canada, competed to solve business problems, and complete business cases. Calgary topped the rankings in business policy, debating, finance, labour arbitration, marketing and management information systems. It ranked third in accounting. Calgary came out the most successful school, one of four in the top 3 in more than one category (seven out of eight in Calgary’s case). [9]

The University of Calgary ranks 7th in the medical-doctoral category of Maclean’s annual university rankings[10]. However, the rankings have been met with criticism.

The University of Calgary and other universities have argued that Maclean’s Magazine takes data out of context and is an inaccurate reflection of performance . In 2006, 21 Canadian universities along with the University of Calgary, many being part of the leading group of research universities known as the G13, opted out of the rankings.[11] Other universities opting out in 2006 included Dalhousie, McMaster, Simon Fraser, Alberta, British Columbia, Lethbridge, Manitoba, Montreal, Ottawa, Carleton, Toronto and Queen’s .
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I have a lot of problems with Harper, as Prime Minister, myself. I don’t think I can blame them all on the U of C.

However, I think the U of C may have some regrets that Harper has squandered the benefits higher education bestows upon the fortunate.

Full disclosure: The University of Alberta at Calgary was my first institution of higher learning. At the time first-year engineers built pipe-bombs as a scientific experiment and created the tradition of Bermuda Shorts Day, which is in the Urban Dictionary, that exists to this day. No way can the institution be held [entirely] responsible for the empty suit.

Full disclosure redux; I am aware citing Wikipedia is flaky. So what. So’s Harper.