Canada

Will Quebec’s Demands Never End?

Will Quebec’s Demands Never End?

Population determines the number of Parliamentary seats a province is entitled to claim.  

Canadians move back and forth and around the country. New immigrants select where in the country they want to live.  Provincial populations change all the time. Therefore, the Parliamentary seats allocated to each Province should change as well.

Who was invited?

Who was invited?

On a recent road trip we visited the Revelstoke Railway Museum.  It is almost as good as the Cranbrook Railway Museum.

As we entered the gift shop, we were confronted with a very post-modern Canadian sign. It set forth the usual acknowledgement to a local Indian tribe and noted, the land was ‘unceded,’ still owned by them. As usual, the casual affirmation that the Indians still owned the land, was legally and practically meaningless.

Hiring Practices

Hiring Practices

I fear for the host of a CBC classical music program. 

While driving, I stumbled on CBC and some classical music. 

The announcer, in his best FM voice, described the piece to be played next.  It was by a Hungarian composer and conductor who lived in Germany and Hungary in the mid-1930s.  The announcer told the story of this man.