The colour of street slush
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November 19th, 2016by Patrick – 3 great comments. Room for one more!
I suppose it the headlines wouldn’t have had quite the same ring to them if they’d read:
“American nature magazine’s drab choice for Canada’s national bird”
Yet, in some ways the bureaucratically-coloured “Gray Jay” seems like the perfect choice to represent Canada and its government: few people will ever get the chance to interact directly with the elusive bird, known to the Cree and Algonquin tribes as a trickster that destroyed the world, and despite the fact that it was (by a long shot) neither the first or even second popular choice of birds to represent Canada it has nevertheless been chosen by a select committee as the top finalist, being a “poster child … for climate change“.
Don’t get me wrong, it seems like a nice bird but it’s about as inspiring as the slush on the streets of Toronto come February. Couldn’t have a kick-ass bird like the snowy owl; no sir, that might send the wrong message.
![By Cephas (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.torontocitylife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Perisoreus_canadensis_mercier2.jpg)
By Cephas (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
... with pictures
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... with opinions
... that's shorter
... that's longer
December 16th, 2016 12:46 pm
I might have to make some edits lol.
December 16th, 2016 2:31 pm
Ummm… May I please edit something oñ here?
Xoxo
Love,
Ollie’s mother lol
February 3rd, 2017 11:06 pm
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