Canada: Proud Sponsor of Tim Hortons
When Stephen Harper snubbed Gaddafi by avoiding a UN meeting to preside over the return of Tim Horton’s from American to Canadian hands, he shone a spotlight on two significant national problems: one resolved, and one exacerbated. Resolved was the foreign ownership of a company so strongly linked to Canadian identity. Exacerbated was the fact that the link existed in the first place.
Not long ago, the Olympic committee produced a series of commercials entitled “The Best of Us”. One such commercial displays giant sized Olympic athletes, each standing on their home continent, holding an enormous rope. Bracing their mighty feet against buildings which mark the crowning achievements in architecture and engineering of their respective civilizations (the rest of us), they proceed to pull on their ropes, thus bringing the continents of the world together and restoring Pangaea.
If you listen carefully, you can hear it. There is a quiet buzz across this country, from coast to coast to coast, almost, but not quite muted by the trumpets of manufactured Canadian pride and Olympic spirit being blown right next to our ears. The opening ceremonies were just last night, but the real games began a long time ago.
And the Award for Being Margaret Atwood Goes to…
The Toronto Star’s Geoff Pevere described the Giller prize as being given to “serious writers for serious readers”. He goes on to say,
“That's right, not a runaway popular page-turner among them – and featuring despair to burn”
Is Democracy a Swine Flu Risk Factor?
By now Canadians are well aware of the warning from our conservative government that an election could destabilize our fragile yet "recovering" economy. Now, in an unprecedented show of bipartisan cooperation from the far left, the Federal N.D.P. has given us yet another reason to fear the ballot box this fall: the dreaded swine flu.
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