A sharp eyed teacher tipped off the Sun that the new dress code for the Toronto District School Board calls for students to cover up their nipples, bums and groin areas — but is indifferent when it comes to hats and the anthem.
A sharp eyed teacher tipped off the Sun that the new dress code for the Toronto District School Board calls for students to cover up their nipples, bums and groin areas — but is indifferent when it comes to hats and the anthem.
What do you expect? Unions gonna union; don’t matter who dies, don’t matter what falls diwn, don’t matter what burns.
No biggie.
One doesn’t have to take it off for the army, RCMP, chattelhood, or motorcycles either
Need a supply of Make America Great Again hats and see how long it takes for them to change their minds.
As a boy growing up in the 60’s I remember getting reprimanded for wearing my hat inside a building. If it was 40 below I had to wait until I was outside to put on my hat. It wasn’t fair. My sisters never had to take their hats off even inside school or church.
The age of men’s hats – in the traditional sense of those black and white TCM movies and Ward Cleaver in “Leave It To Beaver” – is pretty much dead.
But it was always a given that men removed their hats as a mark of respect on solemn occasions.
For the anthem, only male civilians need remove their hats – with the exception of the kippah or the Sikh turban; uniformed personnel stand to attention, commissioned officers salute.
O Canada is the work of a bitter French-Canadian who refused to accept the result of the battle of the Plains of Abraham.
“Et ta valeur, de foi trempée,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits—”
What values? What faith?
And what rights? The French lost any right they had to Canada when the British fought them for it and won.
No Briton living abroad need remove his hat for the anthem Pierre Trudeau forced on him.
Save that for God Save the Queen—or, when President Trump or Kushner finally decides he’s had enough of the Libranos’ antics, the Star-Spangled Banner.
And we can’t sing The Maple Leaf Forever any more, either. Wolfe, of course, isn’t seen as a dauntless hero in certain circles for planting firm Britannia’s flag on Canada’s fair domain.
If you think that tinkering with the lyrics to O Canada was excessive, take a look at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maple_Leaf_Forever#Alternative_lyrics
“If you think that tinkering with the lyrics to O Canada was excessive…”
The neurotic tinkering with the lyrics of O Canada occurs only in the English version.
Happily, that leaves me the option of proudly singing the national anthem in the original French.
And so I do.
Stop blaming Quebecers for Quebec.. It was a Scott by the name of Murray (first Gov of Quebec) that setup the existing Upper/Lower Canada status….You where screwed by a sheep humper..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murray_(Quebec_governor)
“It was a Scott [sic] by the name of Murray (first Gov of Quebec) that setup the existing Upper/Lower Canada status…”
Nope. Upper Canada only came into being in 1791, over 20 years after Murray’s tenure as Governor of Quebec had come to an end.
The Crown aimed to make the Church of England the established church in Upper Canada, but this was never successfully implemented. The Catholic Church in the Canadas was too politically powerful and Loyalists settling in the new British province represented too many other Protestant denominations i.e., Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists.
For a brief period, all marriages in Upper Canada had to be solemnized in the Church of England.
Except for Roman Catholics.