Of Battered Side: Canada Day
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It is Canada Day and I am conflicted. I've at all times been a proud Canadian, I've cherished this land beginning with the summer season holidays I went on with my household as a youth, proper as much as the lectures I've given in each province, however one, and each territory, however one. Our nation's magnificence is tough to explain however good to expertise. However I've struggled with my love of Canada, first as a youth who was discovering his sexuality, to the youth that fell in love with one other boy. It was unlawful then to be homosexual, in reality, the phrase 'homosexual' didn't exist then. I discovered that the famed tolerance of Canadians usually hid vitriolic hatred. I cherished my land however feared the individuals who inhabited it. The tales which can be surfacing in regards to the lifeless kids at residential colleges should not new to me. I discovered in regards to the residential colleges...