Thursday: (A Quiet) Canada Day

It was a public holiday for Canada Day.  Having been away earlier this week we spent it in relatively quiet fashion.  That aside, it did feel like a different type of Canada Day this year, with many of the usual celebrations and fireworks missing.  

That’s less to do with Covid but more to do with the continued discovery of children’s remains in the grounds of former residential schools.  At the last count it was 1,100 but that number will rise further.  This article provides further background.  It also helps explain why there is such sensitivity around how Canada Day should be marked now, and going forward.

In other news, I mentioned a couple of days ago that Lytton became the hottest place ever recorded in Canada.  This was during the intense heatwave we have had.  We visited it last year when we went rafting.  Well, Lytton is now gone - completely destroyed in a wildfire that took just 15 minutes to tear through the town.  

Not the cheeriest blip in terms of subject matter but it’s what’s going on here.  This was just a shot from my walk in the neighbourhood.