Canada Day is quickly approaching and I can’t help but feel incredibly lucky for living in this beautiful country. It’s far from perfect but it’s a country worth fighting for and worth improving. This year we Canadians are celebrating the 150th birthday of our nation. 150 years old. Looking at the rest of the world, we’re actually pretty young. Mind you that’s not to say that there was nothing happening before 1867, history knows that First Nations peoples were here well before anybody called themselves ‘Canadian’ or claimed the land for anyone. But if I were to discuss that we would be here all day, trust me. So instead I want to talk about 150 things that you probably didn’t know about my homeland.Read More
