Before Ripley’s Believe it or Not, before the Wax Museum, before Marineland, there was this.
h/t Bouphonia
Archive for the ‘Canada’ Category
*Niagara Falls…Before
Posted in Canada, Nature & Science, tagged Niagara Falls on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
*No Honour
Posted in Canada, Politics & Economy, tagged honour killings, polygamy, Shafia on July 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Today the parents and brother of three teens in Kingston, Ontario were arrested and charged with the first degree murder of their three daughters (and sister) and another woman believed to be the first wife of the girl’s father. They are immigrants from Afghanistan via Dubai. In carefully couched language, the police said that every [...]
*Gabriel Dumont, Metis Hero
Posted in Canada, First Nations, tagged battle between Metis and Sioux, Gabriel Dumont, Grand Coteau, Metis, Northwest Rebellion on July 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
While researching material for my current novel, I did a lot of reading about the Metis and Cree resistance, referred to in our history books as the Northwest Rebellion. Resistance or rebellion is a matter of perspective. Like all reading about First Nations history, it was heart-breaking and gripping and I felt that it should [...]
*Booker Prize
Posted in Canada, tagged Alice Munro Booker on May 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Alice Munro has won the Man Booker International Prize for her life’s work and I am here to give her a standing ovation while yelling “Hurray! Brava!!!”
Alice Munro is Canadian, which would be an okay reason in and of itself to applaud but that’s not why.
I think that she is an amazing short story [...]
*Island News
Posted in Canada, My Life, tagged Cabbot Park, Prince Edward Island on May 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As I’ve mentioned before, Prince Edward Island is Canada’s smallest province. Population is about 140,000, swelling by a few hundred thousand visitors in the summer. My husband and I used to spend summers there and in Nova Scotia, pre-children. It’s a place out of time, in some kind of Norman Rockwellian universe, friendly, trusting, often [...]
*Everything You Wanted to Know about Canada
Posted in Canada, Politics & Economy, tagged Coalition, Progroguation, rick mercer explains Canada on February 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s true–we are not stuck with a Prime Minister who goes off half-cocked, or loses it, or digs us deep or simply stops representing the people’s will. Our democracy provides an out.
H/T The Vanity Press
War and Numbers
Posted in Canada, Politics & Economy, tagged casualties afghanistan, casualties iran on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The cost of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan has been written about in a number of ways to make sense out of the enormity (outrageousness) and enormousness (size) of the numbers. Nobody, however, that I could find has looked at the cost per casualty. Of course not! War is supposed to be about something [...]
The Messiah and the Economy
Posted in Canada, Politics & Economy, tagged bail-out, economic recovery, Economic stimulus, environmental economy, green technology, new economy, Punch cartoons, recession solution, solution to the economic crisis, the great game on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This economic crisis is not like others. We’ve all heard that said and argued. Is this a recession, a depression, the worst since the 1930’s or is it worse still? Or maybe not. There’s an old Jewish story that the Messiah can come fast with a flaming sword and in the wake of war and [...]
Ignatieff is a Citizen
Posted in Canada, tagged Bloc, Bob Rae, Citizen, Coalition, Michael Ignatieff, New Liberal Leader on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well he came out and said it. He used the word that politicians have been avoiding for years: Citizen. He used the word not just once but a number of times. Citizen. A breath of fresh air in that word. I’m tired of being a “taxpayer.” Would I stand for being referred to as my [...]
Coalition or Prorogue?
Posted in Canada, tagged 62%, Coalition, Governor-General, Michaelle Jean, Progroguation, Prorogue on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I feel for Michaelle Jean. She signed up for a kushy job that involved ribbon cutting and making warm-hearted speeches, receiving royal visitors and heads of state, and formalities of parliament, like swearing in the Prime Minister. But now, as governor-general of Canada, she has to make a decision that will have lasting impact and [...]
The 62% Feeling: Coalition Excitement
Posted in Canada, tagged 62%, 62% Facebook, 62% Petition, Coalition, Harper Minority on December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I heard about the coaltion between the Liberals and NDP, supported by the Bloc, I was excited, I was amazed. It was supposed to be same old, same old in Canadian politics.
I mean we all know the perils of first past the post. Harper is leading a government of Tories based on only 38% [...]
A Sweet Hijacking
Posted in Canada, tagged Baader-Meinhof, hijacking, Parliament Hill on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is what I love about Canada.
During the 1970’s and 80’s, hijacking was a scary phenomenon. Airplanes were forced here and there by people who swore allegiance to groups with initials: PLA, RAF. It was the era of the Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and the SLA (of Patty Hearst fame) in the States, of bank [...]
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