Happy Canada Day!!

[Derrico]

I know we have quite a few fellow Canuck’s that frequent this site. 
 

A big Happy Canada Day to you all!!

 

[Taro T]

It just doesn't feel like Canada Day w/out the Free Agent Frenzy.  Kind of like Memorial Day Weekend minus the Indy 500.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Happy Canada Day yous hosers.

Is it your Independance Day holiday today?  My guess is Monday.  So yous all should tell the boss that you are going home because NS said so.  4 day weekend baby!!

[Eleven]

You hosers really could have come up with a more creative name...even Dominion Day was better.  But Happy Canada Day!

Edited July 1, 2022 by Eleven

[That Aud Smell]

[Zamboni]

 

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Edited July 1, 2022 by Zamboni

[Marvin]

WNED played only Canadian composers on Canada Day and will be playing only American composers on Monday.  They are playing a much higher proportion of each country's composers this weekend.  Even though BPO Conductor JoAnn Faletta programs way more American composers than virtually any other orchestra on the planet, I have been pleasantly surprised with even more composers whom I have been exposed to.

[sabremike]

[Sabres Fan in NS]

On Canada Day I reflected on how my country failed and continues to fail our Indigenous Peoples.

It's the shame of the Nation.  The man that founded Halifax was a most scoundrelous figure to be sure.  He placed a bounty on the Indigenous People of Nova Scotia.  Our first Prime Ministrer was an unabashed rasict.  He helped set up the shameful Residential School system for Indigenous Children mostly run by the Catholic Church.  Many of these children never made it home and mass graves are being found everywhere.  These schools were finally closed in my lifetime.  The last one was closed in the mid 1990s ... 1990s!!  The shame of the Nation indeed.

I thank Allah for His grace in willing me to be born in a very good and safe country.  That said, I am privaleged.  We must come to grips with out past and somehow make amends.  A good and easy place to start is to make sure there is safe drinking water on all our First Nations lands.