For many Canadians, Monday\u0027s \u0027holiday\u0027 means at best a regular weekday, at worst a childcare emergency
. Ontario joined Quebec in declaring a purely symbolic day of remembrance. Others, however, including Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and British Columbia have arrived at what seems like the most galling possible option: Governments will shut; schools will shut; everyone else, not least parents of school-age children, will have to work around it.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
If you want to kill an afternoon, ask a monarchist about Ottawa’s decision not to mint Platinum Jubilee medals — and then point out what a good idea not minting them was. Canada’s political class made a royal hash of the Diamond Jubilee medals, with each side accusing the other of inappropriately bestowing them on the wrong kind of people. This being Canada, the biggest headlines inevitably concerned abortion: Jubilee medal recipients included Dr.
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