PRgal

Happy early birthday and save travels!!! :).

But @Yeah No, how far back do we need to go? Summer 2024? Or all the way back to the 2016s?

Justin Trudeau’s son releases his first single. https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2025/02/21/justin-trudeaus-teenage-son-launches-music-career-with-new-rb-song/ kiddo references weed. He’s not old enough to buy weed yet!

We're boycotting anything American up here. Supporting indies and local chains are okay if you HAVE to do anything.

Son's teacher forgot to include the upload section for this week's assignment, so we have to add it manually. And unlike a response section, it does NOT have a draft mode. Parental involvement "homework" in Grade 1 is crazy! I feel badly for kids whose parents have to work evenings and/or weekends. Nannies/grandparents often can't help much. Of course, at this level, this is more optional, but most kids do it!

Interesting. I know that Montreal's old BASEBALL team moved to the DC area, but I can't find anything on Google about hockey. The two Canadian teams I know of that moved to the US were Winnipeg (but they have since regained a team) when they moved to Phoenix and Quebec when they moved to Colorado.

@Kemper I don't think the Caps have ever been in Canada? Not according to Wikipedia, anyway. Or do you mean your family?

This is why some people always feel like they need to justify themselves. Over explain. It can get quite toxic, TBH. I do it a lot and my brain hurts. HAHAHAHA! Could also try to blast Nickelback (or Bieber) on loop in their dressing room. Or is that too cruel?

Speaking of offensive terminology, I wonder what happens if one's NAME (either legal or stage/pen name) sounds offensive in another language. Let's say "gaga" is a bad word in a language (hey, it could be). Does that mean Lady Gaga has to perform as Lady G@g@? Or Lady G**a?

I got my mail in ballot for the upcoming Ontario election! Filling it in today and dropping it off tomorrow. The election is next Thursday.

This reminds me of a more recent situation where a professor was accused of saying the "n" word but in reality was saying the word for "that" in Mandarin. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/10/us/usc-chinese-professor-racism-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

It's more for people who ONLY speak Cantonese to keep in mind, usually an older population. And/or people who are aware of this. Many older generation Cantonese speakers live in isolated communities and don't even know what they're saying may be hurtful to outside communities (or people who have connections to outside communities). This includes their children and grandchildren. I can tell you that in Toronto, there are communities that can get away with never having to speak (and to an extent, hear) any English for weeks at a time. If you're an 85 year old non-English speaking granny and unaware that your grandchild is dating a Black person, you better watch out!

I don't know why I thought it was the Raptors. My bad! I just remembered reading about it. How big is the East Asian population in Sacramento? ETA: never mind, I just looked it up. It's like 20%, with ethnic Chinese making a significant portion.

But that's different from Lunar New Year. Monkey images were plastered all over the city around that time (that year) with Happy Lunar (or Chinese) New Year in English and Chinese (well, mostly Chinese, but also in other languages too. Though other languages were more often used within cultural neighbourhoods). So yeah, you didn't even have to Google.

Because they shouldn't be jumping to conclusions. It WAS the Lunar New Year season. This happened in Toronto where there's a significant Chinese/East Asian population and many are Raptors fans. They just wanted to celebrate with the city. This is a city where mainstream stores will have Lunar New Year specials. For example, Purdy's Chocolatiers (from Vancouver, where there is ALSO a large demographic of East Asian communities) sells chocolate in Lunar New Year themed containers (I get them each year). There's nothing DIFFERENT about these chocolates though. They also sell chocolates coins (that look like loonies, or the Canadian $1 coin). Same ones are used for gelt around for Chanukkah and I've seen it used for St. Patrick's Day too. I call it "ethnic chocolate." hahaha. Department stores will also advertise for Lunar New Year. All seem to focus on the Chinese community more than other ethnicities that celebrate at that time, probably because that's their main clientele (and population). Another interesting note: In Cantonese, children are colloquially referred to as "monkeys." It's not as bad as "spawn" in English.