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Multicultural Brawl: Canada Day and Parliament Hill

multicultural brawl: There are various conferences branded with both logos that would probably have happened anyway, according to Globe and Mail. But excitement Not so much except in discussions of how CBC Television's Canada The Story of Us forgot about quite a lot of Us as it hurtled through the centuries. Here in my hometown of Ottawa, there are competing logos for the city, a multicoloured maple leaf composed of triangles; for the federal government, well, a slightly different multicoloured maple leaf composed of triangles . There is chatter about Canada Day; stay tuned for the usual feverishly multicultural brawl on Parliament Hill. At my local independent bookstore, there is a table at the front laden with titles capturing the 150 moment. Are they being snapped up No, the bookseller sighed. Books about beer labels, tourist destinations, immigrants, inventors, landscapes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.