I just changed the timezone my blog is on... and it changed all my posts. Now, that makes sense in some world, but not mine. I used to live in a GMT - 8 (or 7 depending on the time of year) time zone... and have now moved to a GMT - 5 time zone. I wish it would at least give me the option of keeping my time zone as is and continue on with the rest of the blogs. Or give me the option to display the time zone as well. Now that I think about it, google would have thought of that. Let me go check.
I have celebrated more than 20 Canada Days in Canada. While this nation is far from perfect and we have so much further to go, there is hope. We are a nation, at 153, looking at the future with a mixed record: we have immense prosperity, peace, safety and a relatively good standard of living for most . We are welcoming to immigrants, refugees and guarantee people with a wide range of rights. We are a leader in respecting people's human rights and punch above our weight internationally. We are also a country that is in the midst of a reckoning right now. We have systemic racism, we are at war with the environment - we are actively digging things out of the ground to sell to the rest of the world. Climate change is ravaging our country - we have floods, fires and drought. Our past and present deeds towards indigenous people is shameful. We have a long way to go yet, but there is hope. In the midst of a pandemic, with social upheaval to correct past wrongs, or at least make amen...
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