This March, when the current federal Conservatives were found in contempt of Parliament and the government fell, a widespread reaction was, “We’re going to the polls again?? This is a stupid waste of money – we’re just going to end up with exactly the same situation.” (It’s been less than 3 years since the last…
Tag: Canada
BANG Book Review: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
Here’s a book that makes me feel lucky. It puts into perspective the easiness of my life. I live in Canada, in a time when cultural diversity is considered a virtue. I’m white and middle-class and educated. I’m female, but I have a union-protected job in a female-dominated field… and now that I think about…
Great Advice
It was a busy weekend, in which I had considerable reason to think about the way people’s minds work. I think we all have those times when we are bitter about something, and we’ve all hung on to things longer than we should have. Like, for example, I still get righteously angry when I think…
School Snipp…ing #3
This past Thursday, our school participated in the Terry Fox Run. These are the times that I love being part of a school community; it was positively heartwarming. First, it’s great to see the kids push themselves to run. Some of the Grade 6s ran about 20 laps of the park: that’s over twelve kilometres!…
Requestion #5: Canadian Icons
In your estimation, who is the most famous Canadian in Canada today? I suppose Stephen Harper comes to mind… but I don’t know many Grade 2 kids who care about him. In Grade 2, the boys care about Sidney Crosby and the girls care about Avril Lavigne… but not vice-versa. It occurred to me the…
BANG Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
That’s TWICE I’ve gone gallivanting to the movies in as many weeks!! What is the world coming to? My hubby and I were going to see Inception, but circumstances prevented it. If we were to go to the movies again sometime soon (can you imagine??), that would be why. Meanwhile, Sean was pretty stoked to…
A Little Sympathy for Ann Coulter
Poor Ann Coulter. Upon her recent visit to Canada, not everyone was polite to her. The more I’ve pondered her situation, the more I’m sure that some terrible things happened in her childhood. Before last week, all I knew about this woman was that she was an American right-winger with a tendency to say and…
Adventures in Surgery
On Monday, I had my surgery: removal of what was apparently a benign giant cell tumor on my left middle finger. It was a fabulous adventure, let me tell you. On the way to the hospital, with my poor mom driving, we fell into a Twilight-Zonesque dream where you first can’t seem to find the…
Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games and Canadian Pride
I know the Olympics in Vancouver have been over for a long time. I’m gonna write about them anyway because it’s MY blog… and people are still talking about it regardless. And the Paralympics are still to come! Plus, I’ve now gone through a grand Olympic struggle to get this post up… working on it…
On Being Canadian
Last night, as per my date plans, I attended a “lecture” On Being Canadian by John Ralston Saul with my hubby (after a delicious and wonderfully uninterrupted, if slightly rushed, sushi dinner). I say “lecture” because his style isn’t at all professorial, preachy, or read-y… but more on that later. It must be mentioned that…