The Montreal Gazette editorial: Regardless of what they may have thought they were doing, in firing on innocent worshippers the gunmen were firing at all of us. And therefore it is incumbent on all to show solidarity in the face of this horror. In due course, the accused gunmen will have
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Cathie from Canada: Canada needs to step up
It is just tragic what is happening in the United States today. And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered I don’t have a friend who feels at easeI don’t know a dream that’s not been shatteredor driven to its kneesBut it’s all right, it’s all rightWe’ve lived
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Canada needs to step up
It is just tragic what is happening in the United States today. And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered I don’t have a friend who feels at easeI don’t know a dream that’s not been shatteredor driven to its kneesBut it’s all right, it’s all rightWe’ve lived
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Buh-bye 2016
Sorry Frank, but I’m glad to see the last of 2016.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Buh-bye 2016
Sorry Frank, but I’m glad to see the last of 2016.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Great post of the day
From GQ: The Least Influential People Of 2016 – everyone from Anthony Weiner to Ryan Lochte, from Hillary Clinton to A Rod…. And don’t miss DB Wong’s chicken wing instructional video at the end.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Merry Christmas
And from the oddest Christmas special of all time: According to co-writer Ian Fraser, Bowie balked at singing “Little Drummer Boy”: “I hate this song. Is there something else I could sing?”, Fraser recalls Bowie telling him. Fraser, along with songwriter Larry Grossman and the special’s scriptwriter, Buz Kohan, then
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Great post of the day
From GQ: The Least Influential People Of 2016 – everyone from Anthony Weiner to Ryan Lochte, from Hillary Clinton to A Rod…. And don’t miss DB Wong’s chicken wing instructional video at the end.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Merry Christmas
And from the oddest Christmas special of all time: According to co-writer Ian Fraser, Bowie balked at singing “Little Drummer Boy”: “I hate this song. Is there something else I could sing?”, Fraser recalls Bowie telling him. Fraser, along with songwriter Larry Grossman and the special’s scriptwriter, Buz Kohan, then
Continue readingCathie from Canada: And I missed the fall, too
Well, I thought at the end of August that I was recovering but instead I just kept on getting sicker and sicker. Finally I went into hospital the third week of September, followed by immediate surgery to begin to deal with an obstructed bowel, followed by a seven-week hospital recovery.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: And I missed the fall, too
Well, I thought at the end of August that I was recovering but instead I just kept on getting sicker and sicker. Finally I went into hospital the third week of September, followed by immediate surgery to begin to deal with an obstructed bowel, followed by a seven-week hospital recovery.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: The year without a summer
So I got sick in early July, and I am finally just recovering now — just the flu, originally, but then I couldn’t eat anything, then got diverticulosis — awful — and I’m finally just coming out of it now. I’m still not eating normally, but I can see a
Continue readingCathie from Canada: The year without a summer
So I got sick in early July, and I am finally just recovering now — just the flu, originally, but then I couldn’t eat anything, then got diverticulosis — awful — and I’m finally just coming out of it now. I’m still not eating normally, but I c…
Continue readingCathie from Canada: The year without a summer
So I got sick in early July, and I am finally just recovering now — just the flu, originally, but then I couldn’t eat anything, then got diverticulosis — awful — and I’m finally just coming out of it now. I’m still not eating normally, but I c…
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I’m back!
Sorry for the lack of posts — I had too much going on in “real” life, for a change.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I’m back!
Sorry for the lack of posts — I had too much going on in “real” life, for a change.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I’m back!
Sorry for the lack of posts — I had too much going on in “real” life, for a change.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I’m a patriot too
What is the matter with these people? In spite of all the positive talk at the Conservative convention, the Conservatives haven’t changed a bit.Harper isn’t at their head anymore, but he’s still their leader in their hearts. Today, the CPC is doing w…
Continue readingCathie from Canada: I’m a patriot too
What is the matter with these people? In spite of all the positive talk at the Conservative convention, the Conservatives haven’t changed a bit.
Harper isn’t at their head anymore, but he’s still their leader in their hearts.
Today, the CPC is doing whatever it can to obstruct a dying MP from making a picayune, sensible and long-overdue change to our national anthem:
Time is of the essence for the MP {Mauril Belanger], who was diagnosed with ALS last fall and whose health has deteriorated over the past few weeks. But his determination to see Bill C-210 pass is inspiring people from inside and outside his party to support him.
After question period Thursday, government whip Andrew Leslie sought the unanimous consent of MPs to allow the bill — which would change the line “in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command,” making it gender-neutral — to proceed under the whip’s name to take some of the pressure off Bélanger.
Enough Tory MPs shouted their objection to deny unanimous consent for Leslie’s motion.
Oooh — changing “in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command” obviously demands nation-wide hearings, according to CPC.
Personally, I’ve always hated that wording in the national anthem, it was a minor but definite insult to every woman in the country.
And there is nothing particularly sacred about the English version of O Canada. The song was originally written in French in 1880, and it was more than 25 years before several versions of English lyrics were written. The line used to read “thou dost in us command”. The “all thy sons command” version was introduced in 1914 — likely with the idea of supporting the troops in WWI.
But “True patriot love in all of us command” is the way O Canada should always have been translated, so I’m glad Belanger wants to change it. And its the kind of change that would never happen except as someone’s dying wish, because in the larger scheme of things, it is just so supremely unimportant that it would never rise to the top of any government agenda.
I’m glad its getting done at last.
Cathie from Canada: I’m a patriot too
What is the matter with these people? In spite of all the positive talk at the Conservative convention, the Conservatives haven’t changed a bit.Harper isn’t at their head anymore, but he’s still their leader in their hearts. Today, the CPC is doing whatever it can to obstruct a dying MP
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