[NEWS] Five Canada links: Refus global, Gimli, refugees, right to roam, beavers

[rfmcdonald]

• Anne-Marie Bouchard wrote at Huffington Post Québec on the 9th about the anniversary of the publication in 1948 of Refus global, the artistic manifesto that changed Québec.


• Global News reported on Gimli, Manitoba, as its Islendingadagurinn--the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba--approached.


• The fact that Canada is managing the refugee crisis on its southern border so well is something Canadians should take pride in. CBC has it.


• The introduction of the right to roam to Canada, as suggested at The Conversation, does make some sense to me.


• The beaver, introduced to Patagonia in 1945, has shown itself to be so prolific and ecologically disruptive that Argentina and Chile are planning a massive cull. The National Post reports.

Comments

[dewline]

3. We ought to be taking pride in how we've been handling this latest round of high-refugee-numbers influx. At least one of the troubles, is that we've got this 25-30% of our population that keeps digging in their heels in the more paranoid and hateful ways about such things. Reflexively.