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World’s Most Boring Place
The Internet is rife with rumours that Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex are honeymooning in Jasper National Park. Yeah, right. And I’m the Queen of England. What I find most remarkable is that...
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Happy Birthday, Queen Victoria!
Are you tired of all the royal baby talk? There’s been an awful lot of it this month. Bear with me though, because we should all take a moment to mark a significant anniversary of yet another royal...
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Red Arrows Over Burrard Inlet
Every once in a while, I manage to be in the right place at the right time. Such was the case this afternoon. The Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows have been on a North American tour. This afternoon, they...
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Happy Birthday, William Wordsworth!
I wasn’t planning on writing a post to celebrate the birthday of the English poet William Wordsworth, but somewhere on the Interwebs today, I came across the last verse of his most famous poem. That...
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Remembering John Keats
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the...
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Queen of Canada
To you, she was your Queen. To us, she was the Queen. — Emmanuel Macron, President of France I don’t remember how old I was when I became aware that I shared my name with Queen Elizabeth. But you can...
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Coronation Day
Many years ago, I toured the Tower of London with my parents and my siblings. Included in our tour was a viewing of the Crown Jewels. I remember entering a room that seemed (to me, anyways) something...
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Paris 2024
I cannot lie. Paris 2024 hit all the right notes for me. I love the spectacle of the Olympics. The biggest sporting event on the planet bringing together thousands of athletes from more than 200...
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Happy Birthday, Canada House!
Canada is a great country: alike in the literal sense of vast extent from sea to sea and great in achievement and in promise, and it is right and necessary that its official representatives here...
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Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!
I wasn’t planning to write about the semiquincentennial of the birth of Jane Austen, born on this day in 1775. After all, I’d already written a post on the bicentennial of her death some years ago. But...
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