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Just a quick update. To some degree our planning for the move to France has been derailed by an invitation to travel to China this summer. Specifically we'll be staying in Chengdu, with a side trip to Beijing. All of which explains why I am simultaneously talking classes
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We all know that all politicians are terribly concerned about Fake News® and interference with elections. Really, they tell us all of the time. If you're interested the Poynter Institute is now monitoring what various countries are doing to deal with the problem. In Canada that means : ... a
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I see now that it's been a number of months since this blog was updated - August in fact. That's not because we've stopped looking at France, but because life has suddenly become a little bit crazy. In the course of a few months
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Word is in that a former head of Air Canada has been hired to run Air France, whose previous CEO resigned after the airline's unionized workers rejected an offer of a 1% pay rise after having compensation frozen for seven years. Air France-KLM has been locked in a
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Every once in a while something happens that makes me take stock and question why I'm living in Canada. Every once in a while a government somewhere else does something simple yet important that for whatever reason I can't see Canada's government ever doing.
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The words Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité were written into the 1958 French Constitution and are considered part of the French national heritage. This week France’s Constitutional Court ruled that the “principle of fraternity” protected farmer Cédric Herrou from prosecution for aiding dozens of migrants who had entered the country illegally.
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The dream lives on, and we're still poring over property listings. We've expanded our search to include Burgundy, which is also insanely cheap. Check out this property, which is listed for €220,000. I imagine a day that goes something like this.... Wake up late. Maybe
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Mirare, a sculpture by Cheryl Hamilton and Michael Vandermeer, was first placed in Deep Cove, but after outrage by people there was moved across town to Princess Park Two events are convincing me that leaving North Vancouver for France is our best choice. The first, part of the research for
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Perhaps inevitably our thoughts have turned to Provence. As Normandy is to the north-west of France, Provence is to the south-east. More sun, less rain, and of course the locale for no end of books and movies. One one hand, the improved climate, especially near the Mediterranean, is surely tempting,
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I'll admit to only a passing interest in the Eurovision Song Contest, (seriously, go look if you haven't before.) but this gem on Twitter speaks volumes.
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Admittedly the North Shore has been home to at least a handful of well known and/or respected musicians, not the least of which are Bryan Adams, Sook-Yin Lee, and of course the legendary Al Neil. Still though it's hardly a hotbed of music thrills. North Vancouver has
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I will admit to a fondness for Ace of Spades, although a lot of Speed Metal and Death Metal doesn't really do it for me. So it's probably a good thing that France has relatively few Metal bands per capita. And where is Canada in the