Happy Dominion Day!
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ChevChelios
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Isn't it sad that the national holiday barely registers to most people anymore except as a day off work -- or at most as a chance to see fireworks, and even then only if grifting survivors of a first-class education at residential schools or AIDS-spreading veterans of the Toronto bathhouse raids don't get the celebration cancelled due to their "historical trauma". What a hollowed-out shell of a country we have become
Happy Dominion Day!
ChevChelios
Peripheral visionary
Just out of curiosity, is there anyone else on FCW who remembers the national holiday actually being celebrated as "Dominion Day" rather than "Canada Day"? I do, but it was changed the year after I arrived here from the UK
ayn_rands_ghost
Commie Crusher
I only remember it insofar as I recall reading Sun columnists like Mackenzie Porter and others criticizing the change in the mid to late 80s when I started reading newspapers.
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ChevChelios
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I also used to read the Sun columns when I was a teenager, and learned a lot from Lubor Zink, Peter Worthington, Doug Collins etc.
@ChevChelios
Lubor Zink turned out to be extremely prescient in describing the ultimate emptiness and evil of the communist system before its collapse in Eastern Europe. George Jonas also wrote for the Sun during this period and his columns were similar.
Incidentally, that early to late 80s Sun was surprisingly good, balancing Sunshine Girl titties and a great sports section with an actual, separate book section pullout in the Sunday Sun, partially due to when Barbara Amiel - Jonas' wife at the time - was editor. It was definitely the paper of choice for bus drivers and cops but it did have some erudition for awhile.
Lubor Zink turned out to be extremely prescient in describing the ultimate emptiness and evil of the communist system before its collapse in Eastern Europe. George Jonas also wrote for the Sun during this period and his columns were similar.
Incidentally, that early to late 80s Sun was surprisingly good, balancing Sunshine Girl titties and a great sports section with an actual, separate book section pullout in the Sunday Sun, partially due to when Barbara Amiel - Jonas' wife at the time - was editor. It was definitely the paper of choice for bus drivers and cops but it did have some erudition for awhile.
ChevChelios
Peripheral visionary
@ex_libris: Amiel always had the strange duality of being a Botoxed golddigger and a serious intellectual at the same time, which was perhaps symbolic of the Sun's dual mission to bring both titties and political enlightenment to the working class
But yeah, I remember those nice hefty weekend editions with fond regret. Nowadays a Canadian newspaper costs $5 and it's about 16 pages with mostly ads. When I was in the UK last year I bought a Sunday Times and even with all the supplements included it's only about half as thick as it was in the 80s
But yeah, I remember those nice hefty weekend editions with fond regret. Nowadays a Canadian newspaper costs $5 and it's about 16 pages with mostly ads. When I was in the UK last year I bought a Sunday Times and even with all the supplements included it's only about half as thick as it was in the 80s
@ChevChelios
Fun fact about Amiel: she was on the first cover of Toronto Life magazine. She admits in her autobiography that she came from the UK - her chief two assets clearly opening doors for her - determined to become rich and famous, and she succeeded. She was described by Jonas, among many others, as being absolutely insatiable.
Fun fact about Amiel: she was on the first cover of Toronto Life magazine. She admits in her autobiography that she came from the UK - her chief two assets clearly opening doors for her - determined to become rich and famous, and she succeeded. She was described by Jonas, among many others, as being absolutely insatiable.
ChevChelios
Peripheral visionary
@ex_libris: One can only lament the passing of the times in which even nymphomaniacs could be highly educated
@ChevChelios
Eh...I've known one or two, but the current generation of girls like that will probably just start an OnlyFans instead, getting simps to pay for the privilege of looking at boobs while she discusses Hegelian logic or Picasso's Blue Period.
Eh...I've known one or two, but the current generation of girls like that will probably just start an OnlyFans instead, getting simps to pay for the privilege of looking at boobs while she discusses Hegelian logic or Picasso's Blue Period.
Koba
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I am contemplating whether I'll start treating the 4th of july as a special day
Nuremburger
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ayn_rands_ghost
Commie Crusher