Canada: A Child Amongst Adults

Dateline: New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina has left a huge Wake of Destruction, killing hundreds and destroying almost all property in its site. Many residents may not be allowed back to what's left of their homes for at least a month.

Dateline: Baghdad
At least 953 people were killed when Shiite Muslim pilgrims stampeded on a bridge in northern Baghdad after insurgents attacked a nearby mosque and people were running in fear.

Dateline: Vancouver
A Vancouver woman was granted a divorce Tuesday after a B.C. Supreme Court judge decided the woman's husband had indeed engaged in an adulterous affair with another man, despite the current definition of adultery involving people of the opposite sex.


Like most Canadians, I've long wondered why my country has little importance on the world stage. I now understand why: We are so obsessed with the most trivial, esoteric aspects of life, but rarely, if ever, focus on anything of real importance. For if we did, we might offend someone, and that would be very unCanadian, wouldn't it?!