JOG IN THE ROAD
About ten wonderful comments came in this morning about the new Province column, for which I thank you. For reasons known only to the gremlins of cyberspace, these got posted to HUGE NEWS from yesterday's postings.
You can read them all here.
To clarify...the column will appear only once a week on Fridays. And it will only appear as long as the Province is happy with the work.
I have no idea what I will write for next week, but I have already planned a piece about some Hopeful Signs of Things to Come for the 21st, before Christmas.
Stay tuned....
1 comment:
Perhaps next week you could write about the joke called multiculturalism. Blair cancelled this policy in Britain because of the problems(see Christopher Hitchen's recent article in Vanity Fair). So did the PM in OZ--the one who was just defeated (for sidling up to Bushie too much says my niece). Here were are spending zillions of bucks for ESL when earlier arrivals learned English themselves. The $ should go to special needs programs. One day while teaching in Richmond where no one speaks English in the hallways, I said to a class "We only speak English here" and the kids clapped. The BCTF needs to push a policy of Eng. only in the schools. Yesterday at Sears in Richmond I bought some bedding. I said to the Chinese clerk " Oh look, this is made in Canada."
"Yes. it won't be toxic" was her reply. At the Richmond library I had a chat with the archivist and told him I heard his Mayor (one of your favourite subjects) taking calls on NW. One caller told the Mayor that he works in a hotel in
his town and the international travellers complain that all the signs are in Chinese. The caller said their hotel gets lots of complaints about this. The Mayor sputtered. He hadn't noticed! The archivist nodded his head & said yes, that's him.
Or, you could take a drive down Granville St. towards 16th Ave &
check out that monstrosity of a house that's been sitting unfinished for months. Same thing going on in Richmond on #3 Rd. & along Williams,etc. Looks like these builders have run out of money. I think the so-called shortage of workers is a myth.
Or, write about something else.
Cheers.
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