Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12487464)

.and babies are born every day.

Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12487464)

...I'm not a big fan of the royal family...

Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5 (Post 12487473)

Sport is played every day. Apparently some people have more than a passing interest in a bunch of very rich people kicking/hitting stuff. People are interested in inconsequential things.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 12487478)

I read a headline in the Guardian this afternoon which said that someone who lives in Cambridge and has the unusual name of Duh! Chess had a baby.

I didn't pursue this further. Typical Graun typo I thought.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12487365)

I heard on CBC radio this morning of Vancouver's apology for discrimination against the Chinese.

Included as an example was Chinese Permanent Residents being denied the right to vote. They specifically said PRs. Of course, PRs don't get to vote.

I understand that the apology concerns some time in the past, even back to the 1800s. So was there a time in the past PRs could vote or did they just get it wrong on the radio?

CBC news website talks about Chinese immigrants being denied the vote so presumably that was about Citizens. Or was there no such distinction back then?

Originally Posted by Shirtback (Post 12487535)

I found this interesting and am still digging...

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12487475)

Originally Posted by Shirtback (Post 12487535)

I found this interesting and am still digging...

The history of voting in Canada | Canadian Immigrant

Right to Vote in Canada - The Canadian Encyclopedia

Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12487464)

Yep..forgot that.

I'm not a big fan of the royal family having a role even ceremonial here in Canada. I find it all very mawkish. When I buy stamps at the post office I usually request 'any stamp but the one with the Queen on it'. I know what a rebel I am.

I get it, they seem like a nice young family..they've had a third child who will likely never be the monarch..but they haven't discovered a cure for cancer or figured out the meaning of life....and babies are born every day.

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12487701)

Didn't realize Canada had so much racism in it's history, the links show more then I realized, I knew there was some, but not to this extent and length of time.

Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 12487790)

That's surprising given the amount of time you've been around Vancouver. There were even riots reminiscent of the pogroms in Europe where their dwellings and businesses were burned. Our relationship with the Chinese was strictly self serving; getting the maximum out of them and then treating them like dirt. In 1974 some friends cleaned out a barn north of Regina that had been a dormitory for Chinese labourers building the CPR tracks in about 1910. When screening out the straw they found an octagonal brass opium pipe and a black diamond ring.

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12487829)

I have not done much reading/studying of Canadian history, and Canadian history was not taught in my So. California schools so I have very limited knowledge of the history of Canada and BC.

Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 12488061)

That is not unusual.

You'd think that soldiers machine-gunning people in Quebec City at Easter in 1918 would be in the history books. It ain't. You have to dig bloody hard to find any sort of reference to it. My wife and son had never heard of it. My neighbour, who is an amateur historian, had never heard of it.

Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 12488061)

That is not unusual.

You'd think that soldiers machine-gunning people in Quebec City at Easter in 1918 would be in the history books. It ain't. You have to dig bloody hard to find any sort of reference to it. My wife and son had never heard of it. My neighbour, who is an amateur historian, had never heard of it.