It's Canada Day :
French fries were the most-ordered item in Canadian restaurants in 1998. About ten years ago, I remember reading another article that claimed Canada had, per capita, seven times as many doughnut stores as any other country on Earth. I also remember that during one of the four miserable days I worked at Wendy's, the floor manager showed me how to use the french fry vat : When I poured the fries in, he counseled, I should hold the [50lb] bag like it was a baby.
M.J. Milloy on the St.Jean parade
"After that it dissolved into nothing more exciting than acres and acres of marchers holding up the clean logos of corporations: Vidéotron, Hydro-Québec, la Caisse de Depôt.... The organizers, having stripped the parade of its more overt nationalist and separatist emblems, had replaced them with the symbols of Quebec?s corporate elite." It's fascinating and scary how this stuff works. In <a href = "http://www.commonreader.com/2/2159.html ">Faust's Metropolis</a>, Alexandra Ritchie notes that, many Germans following World War II, translated their national identity from one of cultural heritage into one of money making.
It's Canada Day :
which means it's Garbage-picking Day in Montreal. Most of the city rents, and about an overwhelming majority of the leases start on July 1st. To celebrate moving day, the Montreal Mirror has a special feature on
houses you won't be moving in to.
It's Canada Day :
and everyone is talking about child pornography. " 'Making it an offence to possess expressive material, when that material may have been created without abusing children and may never be published, distributed or sold, constitutes an extreme invasion of the values of liberty, autonomy and privacy,' Madam Justice Anne Rowles wrote." (I'm still looking for the text of the court decision.)
It's Canada Day
and
Lucien Bouchard is trying to show the nurses in Quebec who's Big Daddy. Meanwhile,
Martin O'Malley quotes Germaine Greer : "The most depressing
phenomenon in the pattern of women's work is the plight of the nurse… That
nurses can be victimized by the essentialness of their work into accepting a
shameful remuneration is an indictment of our society, which is daring them to
abandon the sick and the dying, knowing that they will not do it."