Your Literary Dinner Party Experience:

moorsprite:

Wuthering Heights: The food is as unappealing as the host’s personality. You find yourself fleeing the estate and taking refuge in the surrounding moorlands before the second course is served.

Great Expectations: The host wears a mildewed wedding dress as she cuts what looks to be a thirty-year-old piece of vanilla cake. You sit quietly and try to fake a smile.

Northanger Abbey: You think your host is the type of person who might have murdered his wife and hid her body in a dusty old dresser. As you take a bite of the pot roast it doesn’t even occur to you that he might just be a dick.

Jane Eyre: The fare is far better than the stale bread and bitter tea provided at your boarding school, but that’s little comfort when the host’s wife keeps setting the table linens on fire.

Dracula: You know that you are sipping on a fine Cabernet, but what is he drinking?

Pride and Prejudice: Over dessert, one of your guests confesses that he has fallen in love with you in spite of your family’s terrible table manners. You stab your pudding with your spoon and tell him he’s the last man you could ever be prevailed upon to marry.

When we talk about #RemembranceDay, Canadians remember the 2nd World War. And the First…. the…

When we talk about #RemembranceDay, Canadians remember the 2nd World War.


And the First…. the one originally called “The War To End All Wars.”


Which didn’t.


#Canada has been at war for almost the entire 21st Century. But we don’t even see it. Isn’t it time we stopped remembering and began working for real peace?


Why did Canada stop being a peacekeeping nation?


Why is Canada determined to spend $19 billion on 88 new F-35 fighter jets inappropriate for Canadian defense? Perhaps you’ll recall Justin Trudeau campaigning on scrapping the purchase to save tens of billions in 2015, instead saying


“We will launch an open and transparent competition to replace the CF-18s, keeping in mind the primary mission of our fighter aircraft is the defence of North America. ” https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/09/20/liberals-would-scrap-f-35-jet-purchase.html


And yet Mr Trudeau’s government has done no such thing.


Instead of investing ridiculous sums of money in military white elephants, why don’t we make sure Canadian veterans and their families actually have the medical and economic support they need?