This post will be different but it is my blog after all. ;) I delayed publishing it but decided to anyway.
Calendars
This was not a good last week for
Canada Post. First, they gave
60000 calendars to it's employees but forgot to mentioned the
French-Canadian national holiday(15000 are from
Quebec). Every other holidays were in it including the best one:
St-Patrick's Day. :D Granted, that's
a real goof and because of pressure,
Bloc Quebecois, they will reissue
60000 new calendars. Why not just send a sticker that an employee could stick on it's own on June 24th? No,
Canada Post is force to
waist spend money again. Btw, I'm not against the calendar. Just don't goof again next year
Canada Post !
What will be the cost of the
calendars? 60000 x $1 or $2 or $5(big calendars)?
Stamps
The second "goof" is not what I would qualify a goof.
Canada Post will issue special stamps with 4 known singers(
Paul Anka,
Anne Murray,
Gordon Lightfoot and
Joni Mitchell). They are all English singers and none are from
Quebec. Poor little
Quebec, you don't have a
stamp. Snif! Snif!
What about the other provinces? They were left out too! Do they
whine?
The
Bloc Quebecois is whining
again on both counts and
Canada Post will redo the
calendars(2008) and do
stamps(2009) . To make it equitable for all provinces,
Canada Post should issue 4 stamps per provinces and territories in
2009.
Calendar = Yes, it's a real goofs
Stamps = Whining for nothing
And before some of you think it's an
anti-Quebec post. Think again, I'm from
Quebec City! I'm bilingual and do errors in both National languages. ;) I also went to French schools all my life.
For my foreign readers,
Quebec is the only French province in Canada and America's. French is spoken less in the rest of Canada.
And to finish on a brighter note,
Quebec City is celebrating it's
400 anniversary. It's a year-long party in any languages. So come and visit us. :D
What do you think? Please keep it clean/civil.
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