Re: [OT] CBS Makes a Big Beautiful Change to its Late Night Schedule

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.