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Good news and bad
Oct. 7th, 2007 04:27 pmPicked up my new glasses today. Apparently my eyes are getting better, but the astigmatism is getting worse, so my eyes are really freaked out by the glasses. It'll get better over a couple days, I hope. Got black eyeglasses by Brooks Brothers and silver-coloured Aviator sunglasses by Ray Ban. Very nice, if a bit pricey.
I was looking through the Hamilton Spectator online, and one of the newest articles said that vandals slipped into the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and punched a four-inch hole into a Monet painting before fleeing in cowardice. Morons.
And the latest clash between aboriginals and European, etc-Canadians is boiling over again. They claim that a new housing development is being built on land they own, but other sources say they sold the land (they say the same thing about parts of Cambridge along the Grand River, but the records clearly say they sold that). Now they've decided to remind everyone of their long-lasting standoff and protest by swarming someone building a house for his daughter and breaking his cheek bone and collar bone.
If these guys aren't careful about how they negotiate this conflict, they and the Canadian government are going to be flashing back a hundred years when the government's answer to native protests was to send the army in to lock them up or gun them down. I think the government needs to convene a large panel made up of native, provincial, and federal representatives to investigate every last native land claim and settle them once and for all. This is starting to get ridiculous.
I was looking through the Hamilton Spectator online, and one of the newest articles said that vandals slipped into the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and punched a four-inch hole into a Monet painting before fleeing in cowardice. Morons.
And the latest clash between aboriginals and European, etc-Canadians is boiling over again. They claim that a new housing development is being built on land they own, but other sources say they sold the land (they say the same thing about parts of Cambridge along the Grand River, but the records clearly say they sold that). Now they've decided to remind everyone of their long-lasting standoff and protest by swarming someone building a house for his daughter and breaking his cheek bone and collar bone.
If these guys aren't careful about how they negotiate this conflict, they and the Canadian government are going to be flashing back a hundred years when the government's answer to native protests was to send the army in to lock them up or gun them down. I think the government needs to convene a large panel made up of native, provincial, and federal representatives to investigate every last native land claim and settle them once and for all. This is starting to get ridiculous.
