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 our sunny, windy patio then moved back inside for Mr Soapbox’s famous jambalaya and my neighbour’s delightful Canada Day Rice
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Dead Wild Roses: Happy Canada Day!
Happy Canada Day!
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: 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, much to be reflective and humble about, and this country does a pretty solid job of cultivating both. Not for
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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 cynicism. There is still much to celebrate in this country. Happy Canada Day.
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As factious as we can be, I hope most of us can at least agree on this: H/t Theo Moudakis Recommend this Post
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: 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 by Pierre Poilievre. Tamara Lich, who was in the capital in February, will spend the day in jail after violating
Continue readingAlberta Politics: 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 to shake the feeling of apocalyptic foreboding this Canada Day.” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announcing the “Best Summer Ever” in
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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 is so much we didn’t get right. Martin Luther King said that “the arc of the moral universe is long
Continue readingAlberta Politics: 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 of the provincial government’s edict the masks must come off, Delta variant or not. The Youville Residential School in St.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Discussing Canada Day – What we should be celebrating.
Now that school is almost over (got called into a full-time temporary contract for June), I should have more time to write on the blog. I apologize for the sporadic scheduling for the last month or so, hopefully over the summer months we can get back into a regular publishing
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: 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 to function.” In psychology, the mental discomfort experienced by an individual holding two opposing ideas at the same time is
Continue readingAlberta Politics: 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). At 9:03 a.m. yesterday, a minion on the Alberta premier’s staff sent the media the sort of Canada Day Message
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: 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 a good idea, in her column today Susan Delacourt reminds us we have much to be thankful for, especially vis-à-vis
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No public celebrations or fireworks in Edmonton this year. But that’s okay, eh… 🙂
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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 locals remind them of the rules, their response is: “There’s no COVID here!” It’s all rather surreal. In two weeks,
Continue readingAlberta Politics: 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 make the point they really think it oughtta still be Dominion Day. But these are strange times and Wild Rose
Continue readingMontreal Simon: 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 Canadians.So I'm glad to see that after leading us to a very good place….Read more »
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Canada Day Greetings???
Question: When is a birthday greeting not a birthday greeting? Answer: When it comes from a hypocrite. Canadians will be receiving Happy Canada Day greetings from politicians at all levels of government this Wednesday, but there’s one politician, Jason Kenney, who really shouldn’t bother. Assuming his greeting is similar
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Canada Day 2019
This year, in Ontario, Canada Day will be a bit strange. Doug Ford has announced that the celebrations at Queens Park have been cancelled — to save money. The suspicion is that he cancelled the event because his presence there would be greeted by a chorus of cascading boos. He’s
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Happy Canada Day! In a troubled world, Canada stands out as a genuine triumph of bureaucracy
Happy Canada Day! One way or another, our Canada always seems to end up on every list of the world’s Top Ten economies. Granted, we are almost inevitably No. 10 of 10, which may leave the intensely competitive dissatisfied. But, realistically, this also means we’re No. 10 of 193, if
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