2008 Manitoba Jennifer Jones, Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Officer, Dawn Askin
2007 British Columbia

Kelly Scott, Jeanna Schraeder, Sasha Carter, Renee Simons
2006 British Columbia Kelly Scott, Jeanna Schraeder, Sasha Carter, Renee Simons
2005 Manitoba Jennifer Jones, Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Officer, Cathy Gauthier
Casual conversation is a fundamental human activity, and one in which most of us engage many times a day. It may take the form of small talk about the weather at hte supermarket check-out, or gossip about colledagues around the office coffee machine, or an extended phone conversation with a close friend about the meaning of life. Before getting down to the business at hand, sales reps chat with their clients, doctors chat with their patients, waiters with diners, and teachers with their students. Strangers at a bus stop will start up a conversation to vent their frustration about the service. Taxi drivers famously air their opinions, seldom solicited. Your dentist will chat away even when your responses are reduced grunts. Fellow passengers on a long-haul flight will exchange pleasantries before settling in to watch the movie. Listeners will phone a radio talk show to sound off about local crime, and teenagers will talk for hours on their cell phones about matters of apparently enormous consequence.