| CANADA'S SOURCE FOR HUMOUR, PARODY, AND SATIRE
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Fubrics Short
It is with some surprise
that I realized, quite suddenly, that Canada Day has come and gone, and
I missed it, only to find out with astonishment later as I picked up the
product of the local press here in our fair capital of Ottawa which was,
I am sure, on the eventful day resplendent in banners, flags and fireworks,
and I'm sure the entire day was a holiday, perhaps this was the day I
went to Sarnia to visit my aging mother, I can no longer remember clearly,
Canada Day was, I believe, the first of July, as it was every other year,
and yet I feel that somehow I should have noticed or perhaps cared enough
to partake in the rich festivities, the opulence and grandeur showered
on the citizens of our land of milk and honey by the generousity of our
federal government as it spent money without care, there being so few
national holidays of importance, only a few of us still celebrate the
hanging of Louis Riel, now that he has been revived as almost a national
hero and creator of Manitoba, home of the Winnipeg Jets hockey franchise
that no longer exists there except in the hearts and minds of those who
remember and cherish the fond memories, our magnaminous federal government
without a doubt lavished the population with tokens of goodwill and perhaps
even individually wrapped hard candies thrown from motorcades holding
the mayor and Miss where-ever-we-are-now, waving their free hands to the
crowds, as long as those were not the hands mangled in a farming accident,
lo, these many years, stay away from the threshers, father always said,
and I did.
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