Happy Canada Day...

A lovely Canada Day morning, and I'm sitting in a hotel room in the largest city in Canada feeling mellow. I just finished watching the Doctor Who Confidential from last week; I'm thinking about breakfast. It's a beautiful sunny day, and we're driving home after we have something to eat.

I used to be such an internationalist that I was uncomfrotable with patriotic sentiment - as if the ideologies conflicted.

Now, I think Canada is a terrific place and I am increasingly rather proud of my country, despite our current Prime Minister and his policies. It isn't just the lordly rivers, much as I love them, but things like gay marriage and medical care multiculturalism and Little Mosque on the Prairie and Paul Gross and Leonard Cohen - and think of each of the above as symbolic of so much more.



Canada has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad. - Arnold Edinborough