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HAPPY CANADA DAY!
Everyone in the Soapbox family has or is on the verge of a horrible cold; nevertheless we’d like to wish everyone a Happy Canada Day. Canada Day is a day…
Happy Canada Day
While I am not one to engage in flag-waving, these days it seems increasingly important to value what we have. Events in other parts of the world show how easily…
Happy Canada Day
While I am not one to engage in flag-waving, these days it seems increasingly important to value what we have. Events in other parts of the world show how easily…
Canada Day 2024
We're grumpy these days. Mr. Poilievre tells us that "Canada is broken." It's Poilievre boilerplate -- over the top and mean. There is much to fix and improve. But there…
Canada Day 2024
We're grumpy these days. Mr. Poilievre tells us that "Canada is broken." It's Poilievre boilerplate -- over the top and mean. There is much to fix and improve. But there…
Canada Day
The Soapbox family had a wonderful Canada Day and we hope you did too. We had a celebratory dinner with family and friends. We started with drinks and snacks on…
A Reflection On This Canada Day
While there are many who would tell us that Canada feels broken, it is only so to those who get their news from demagogues and their ilk. There is, however,…
Canada Day 2023
Where we live, smoke is in the air. It irritates our eyes and, when we go outside, we wear masks. These are difficult days. But let’s not be overcome with…
Happy Canada Day
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Canada Day 2022
Another Canada Day. The celebrations this year will be on the other side of the river, in Quebec. Anti-vaccine protester James Topp has arrived in Ottawa, where he was joined…
Canada Day 2022 – doesn’t look like this national holiday will herald the best summer ever, either
Last year on this day traditionally reserved for national celebration, the headline of the post that occupied this space read: “While Jason Kenney promises the best summer ever, it’s hard…
Canada Day 2021
This Canada Day is like no other I can remember. The graves of all those children — recently and soon to be discovered — make this a somber day. There…
While Jason Kenney promises the best summer ever, it’s hard to shake the feeling of apocalyptic foreboding this Canada Day
ST. ALBERT, ALBERTA – It’s Canada Day. The pickup trucks with their maple leaf flags may or may not be screeching around Edmonton’s Whyte Avenue tonight, laying rubber in celebration…
On Canada Day and cognitive dissonance
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability…
Canada Day Mystery: What happened between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. to Jason Kenney’s holiday message?
It’s a true Canada Day political mystery! What happened between 9:03 a.m. and 1:02 p.m. that dramatically changed Jason Kenney’s holiday message? Alberta Premier Jason Kenney (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).…
On Canada Day
On this day it is often difficult for us not to feel smug when we look at so much of the world beyond our borders. While such complacence is never…
Canada Day 2020
Canada Day in the Time of COVID. Tourism is the lifeblood of our town. And the tourists have arrived in groups, shoulder to shoulder. They don’t wear masks. When the…
Happy Canada Day! Or, as the UCP would have it in some corners of rural Alberta, Grumpy Dominion Day
Happy Canada Day! Alberta is the only place in Canada, I’d wager, where someone who was barely out of diapers when our country’s national holiday was renamed Canada Day would…
Justin Trudeau and the Long Road To A New Majority
Since early March Justin Trudeau has been stepping out of his residence every morning to brief Canadians on the Covid-19 crisis.And what his government is doing to try to help…