Quote of the Week

“When I can’t buy a bagel in French, it really bugs me.”
Jonathan Valois, Parti Québécois president, at a PQ workshop.

Viva la Revolucion

Walking own from Mcgill Uinversity, just off campus, when I pass a Prayer Station.  Whatever, just passing through, till one of the older men at the station points at me, and with a laugh asks
"What's with the Communist hat?"
I was taken aback.  Too stunned to comment, but annoyed enough at his viewpoint not just to smile and nod in a placatory fashion.  As with all occasions like that, all the good ripostes came as I walked away.

Turning round the corner, I walk past a demonstration outside Indigo, calling for a boycott on the store by some pro-Palestinian group or other.  The man there holds out a flier.
"You have a progressive hat sir, have a progressive flier!"

I have a new hat.  You may have seen it in some of the pics from Cuba.  I like it, but I didn't think it was all that different.  In fact, back in the UK, I doubt it would have drawn any comment, certainly wouldn't have in Glasgow.  I thought Quebec was actually quite left wing, but left wing in a North American setting obviously means a different thing.



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