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From: Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] CBS Makes a Big Beautiful Change to its Late Night Schedule
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 08:00:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:31:11 -0700, The Horny Goat wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:47:13 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
> <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
> 
>>I like to point out the ambiguous symbolism of Canada moving its
>>American embassy to its present location at the foot of Capitol Hill
>>where is flanked on three sides by U.S. federal buildings. Has Canada
>>been enveloped by the U.S., as if to suggest 51st state? Or has Canada
>>infiltrated our system, perhaps with sleeper cells in our media,
>>universities and other institutions?
> 
> Then how would you describe the location of the Canadian High
> Commission? (the states of the former British Empire have "High
> Commissions" for other Commonwealth countries and Embassies for
> everybody else)
> 
> I.e. on the NW corner of Trafalgar square with big signs up telling
> Canadians NOT to come in except on official business. (Several of
> Canada's provinces also have their own offices in London - BC's is about
> a mile W of Trafalgar Square near Picadilly Circus and goes back 100+
> years (judging by the date on a statue built into the side of the
> building - though most of the provincial offices are about facilitating
> tourism and trade)

The looseness of the Canadian federation is a surprise to me.
But it's not a surprise that I didn't know about it until now. 
American journalism is deficient in explicating the varieties
of parliamentary democracy.