Tuesday, May 1, 2012
![[venez] m'aide[r]. Photo: Pedro Moura Pinheiro/Flickr](http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/120-width-scaled/node-images/Mayday.jpg "[venez] m'aide[r]. Photo: Pedro Moura Pinheiro/Flickr")
The other Mayday is a distress call. It comes from the French "m'aidez," or help me. When repeated three times on a radio frequency, Mayday signifies grave and imminent danger. If such a call had gone out May 2, 2011 -- the night of the election of a majority Harper government -- a significant number of Canadians would not have thought it a hoax.
The other Mayday is a distress call. It comes from the French "m'aidez," or help me. When repeated three times on a radio frequency, Mayday signifies grave and imminent danger.