Canada’s complicated history July 1 – Canada’s birthday. Appropriately, there are no parades this year. We are hiding covidly. Not just in the country, but regionally, for Canada is not so much a nation, but a community of jurisdictions united by an amorphous set of ideals, history and legal frameworks. * Let’s clarify ‘eh’. Endemic to the English Canadian accent (and something I inadvertently use all the time), ‘eh’ is not at all complicated. It is simply a result of our bil

Travel is often called the best education – both structured and unintended. The visitor, one would hope, should be the most affected by the experience in a learning context But of course the visitee will also be altered through the meeting. From economics to social interaction, travel has made the world smaller and more interwoven. In preparation for travel abroad, people often go through an introspective process of examining how ‘we’ may be received. With this we can dress d