Canada’s Debate

As you may have noticed (that is, if you actually visit on a semi-regular basis) I’ve made a few changes here at Joe’s Blog. I’ve been slacking off to a fair degree and I figured it was time to get back on top of things. I’ve done two things to this site that you should notice.

1. For starters, I’ve played around with the Stylesheet, and I’ve played around with a plugin. (Continue reading…)

We’ve all heard the platitudes…

“Canada and the United States are the closest of friends…”

“Canada and the United States share the world’s longest undefended border…”

“Canada is like the 51st state…”

The problem is that nowadays these statements are hardly true. True, Canada may be a close ‘friend’ of the United States, but at the moment that owes more to America’s plummeting image abroad than the actual quality of this relationship. The fact is that these two nations have moved miles apart in the last five or six years, and it is troubling. More than that, it is complicated. Most of the time spats or disagreements that move across the border are dismissed in Canada with some off-hand remark about redneck, warmongering yanks. (If you don’t believe me, bring up the subject of America with my dad.) At the same time, the American response is all too often, “who cares? It’s just Canada.” (Continue reading…)