STAMP OF APPROVAL

It’s by no means a strange thing for a nation to commemorate influential inspirational people on their currency and their postage products like stamps.

Every time you touch money, or every time you post a letter, you’ve been hands-on with this idea.  Honestly, if your picture makes  a currency denomination or a postage stamp, then you’re a big deal, and almost always in a good way.

That’s why I’m absolutely convinced that Donald Trump will be commemorated on a national postage stamp.

I just happen to believe that the postage stamp in question will be Canadian.

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CANADIAN UNITY MAKING A COMEBACK

Canada is a glorious country.  Canadians are a fascinating people.

Over the course of my lifetime, I’v seen much in the way of both national unity and national disunity.  I’ve seen much to be proud of, yet much to despair about.  

Sadly, it seemed that the despair had overwhelmed the pride and optimism as I witnessed an ever-hostile population, at least a seemingly oppositional population, gain the upper hand in our national discourse.

Canada is broken.  Canada is this, that, and the other thing, all of it bad.  To hell in a hand basket was the where we were heading and how we were going to get there.

Sentiment advanced by one of our two major political parties, one that polls show would win an overwhelming majority government should a federal election happen today, despite not having a single policy on anything that I can identify and reasonably articulate.  Ironically, I feel the only thing that can save us from this party is their leader, who is easily in my Top 10, maybe even Top 5, of the most unlikeable human beings that walk among us.  If I exclude Americans, he jumps to Top 2 status immediately, duking it out with the deplorable Jordan Peterson and just ahead of the reprehensible Kevin O’Leary.  But I digress.

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