Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Say No Evil

People You Can't Meet On The Bus

Niqabi Emoji

Justin Ascending In Popularity

Canada Election 2015 Trick Or Treat

Canadian Multicultural Islamic Women's Choir

Now that the Supreme Court of Canada has declared wearing "niqab" constitutional for taking the Oath of Citizenship, I have some cartoons making commentary, as a Canadian woman, on this aspect of my Canadian culture: (third one)

Look The Same?

Now that the Supreme Court of Canada has declared wearing "niqab" constitutional for taking the Oath of Citizenship, I have some cartoons making commentary on this aspect of my Canadian culture: (first one)

Stephen and The Three Senators

Better Late Than Never

A musing, based on some ideas from Ezra Levant's "Ethical Oil", on last year's haute couture offering by the UK Tar Sands Network for Kate Middleton's visit to Canada, that is, "Haute Couture Canadiana Hats Designed for Kate Middleton on Visit to Canada":

Let Them Make Reservations

 

Our local BC Ferry that serves our harbour, Sturdies Bay, is called "The Queen of Nanaimo".  When the BC Ferry Corporation cut back on the number of staff per passenger and raised fares in order to make the public service "profitable", there was a decrease in the number of passengers, including foot passengers, that the vessel could legally carry.  As a result, one weekend when there was a big wedding on our island, there were so many guests who came to visit as foot passengers that when they wanted to return to the mainland at the end of their weekend visit, the ferry staff refused a large number of them to embark.  The refused foot passengers staged a demonstration and "occupied" the ferry landing deck, and demanded to be allowed to board.  The ferry could not leave the dock while there were people on the landing apron.  So the ferry corporation called in the RCMP to "clear the deck", with threats of arrests and so on if the footsies did not comply.  Finally the ferry was able to leave, and those people left behind had to fend for themselves until the next ferry sailing which was not until the next day.  BC Ferry Corporation's reply to the refused passengers, when they complained, was "You should have made reservations!" (Which was news to many because we had always understood that it was not possible to make reservations for foot passengers, only for cars on the boat.)  Therefore, my cartoon on the event is based upon the famous high and mighty misunderstanding of Marie Antoinette.  This cartoon will appear in Issue #90 of "The Islands Independent" (www.islandsindependent.com).

woman driver

Reading in the Islands

According to the Canadian Council
on Learning, by 2031, more than
15 million Canadian Adults will have
low literacy levels.