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9/06/2004
Labour Day, Canada-style
Bloody hell. Today would be the first where I haven't a camera handy. It's Labour Day, which in Texas means beer, barbeque and football, if I remember correctly. Canadians apparently celebrate the day off a bit differently. Just walked up to Queen and Spadina to discover a ragtag sort of parade in progress. Unions, showing their colours, waving flags, and shouting incomprehensibly into bullhorns. Everyone else seems to be wearing a bemused expression. It's not hard to see why. The theatre hands union float had a bunch of stagelights on their float, and speakers blaring "Dancing Queen." Some other union - I guess it probably has something to do with the airlines - had a gigantic blowup shuttle, not completely inflated. The tail sagged to the side, like Shamu after a batch of rotten fish. The Lions Club - are the Lions union-affiliated? - even had a steel drum band float. There seems to be a union for everything here, each with its own unpronounceable acronym. Not in Texas anymore, indeed.
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by Chris @ 9:28 AM
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Well, my friend, I happened to attend the Texas AFL-CIO Labor Day celebration a few days back, and there was a turnout of several hundred people. Good fried fish, and free beer, too.
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