Did anyone else notice that the national broadcaster re-aired its ‘critically acclaimed’ 2-part, 4-hour mini-series on Pierre Trudeau on what may be, perhaps, the eve of the dissolution of parliament (and thus the election campaign) by Paul Martin?
While the CBC claims no bias in its broadcasting (it does, after all have an ombudsman), the timing of the pro-Trudeau mini-series makes this claim questionable.
Leave it to the CBC to broadcast a free four hour Liberal commercial coast-to-coast-to-coast on what may be the eve of the election campaign. Next week we might just see the rebroadcast of the Avro Arrow movie portraying the evil Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker canceling the Arrow project. “Canada’s broken dream” is how the CBC puts it.
In Afghanistan, where our armed men and women are fighting the war on terror, a surprise came this week. The ‘relish-green’ uniforms are now merely a choice for Canadian troops (depending on the type of operations). The Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan have finally received their long overdue desert camouflage, which is as Col. Alain Tremblay, commander of Canada’s army in Afghanistan puts it “safer and more comfortable”.
Here’s Iraq’s new flag. It was approved by the Iraq Interim Governing Council on April 26th. The most striking features of the flag are its colours and its crescent. The crescent obviously represents Islam, but I don’t understand the blue colour. The two blue bands at the bottom are said to represent the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, so the overall blue colour may represent water and thus life as the Iraqi region is often labeled the ‘cradle of civilization’. However, many Iraqi’s are complaining that the blue and white flag looks like the Israeli flag and less like the flags of its Arab neighbours. The white colour, as it does in the flags of many other countries, may represent peace.