Opinion

Ghosts of Tiananmen

It is hard to recall the last time a senior political figure spoke to the press with the candour shown by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi in Ottawa earlier this week.

Remembering the days of ‘chowse’

Dear Editor, I wouldn’t have thought that anyone else remembered the then Traffic Chief Joe Braz’s refashioning of English pronunciation until I saw the Gittenesque use of “chouse” in her condemnation of how things went during the Gala State Dinner marking the country’s Independence Jubilee.

Civilisation versus barbarism

In an online comment on a letter to this newspaper (‘Lost opportunities at the flag-raising ceremony’, May 28, 2016), which related some of the security shortcomings of the event and the boorish, violent behaviour of one section of the crowd towards a group of young Americans, Dave Martins notes, “We have become cantankerous and hostile, and both visitors and residents encounter those attitudes… Those behaviours are now ingrained, and even accepted as the norm.”

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