If I could just see the big picture
If we were to sketch our personal worlds based on the news broadcast from a local radio station, what sort of image would we achieve? Well, maybe one that looks like those collages done on Bristol board for a grade six current affairs class. Confused.
I happened to head home in the middle of a huge thunder storm, so I did some standaround in a bus shelter while the rain lessened. Happened that my radio was tuned to the local CBC outlet, so I had a chance to become “more informed”. Or less. Everything is relative in a rainstorm where the thunder is speaking in a voice that blanks out salient details. Let’s try and review what I learned.
Graduation class at a Taliban finishing school saw the group ready to set out for missions in Canada, among other places. Guess they missed the section on world geography. Assuming the group makes it on to an airplane, and their baggage isn’t lost (does that happen?), their arrival in the Great White North should be noticed. After all, a person dressed like this:
with a baggage bundle containing this:
won’t mix in easily.
On the local ferry between our North and South shores, an alleged Basque terrorist was arrested as he set out for St-Pierre & Miquelon off the coast of Newfoundland. Tourist maps really shouldn’t carry such detailed information on our transit systems.
A group of local business people, politicians and other “well-dressed types” ponied up between $300 and $500 each this afternoon for a speech by a retired president of a rather large country south of here. 1200 of them, which meant that the hall rental was probably covered. Hope refreshments were tasty. Anyhow, the guest (are you a guest when you are paid a million, give or take a loonie or two?) mentioned that this was his first visit to our fair city, in spite of his having spent two terms travelling the globe in his former job. For a city that calls itself “La Capitale”, that might be a sign that the local Chamber of Commerce isn’t doing as good at advertising as they would have one believe. He probably said some other things, but all of the people interviewed on CBC were too giddy to remember what he had actually talked about. Guess the refreshments were outstanding. As well, practice makes perfect; this was the 352nd presentation in the last year.
There are only 108 forest fires burning at present, in spite of the rain. Good quality camp fires are so hard to find.
And that’s my current events poster. Do you like the way I used my scissors, teacher?
