I decided that this month I wouldn”™t mention Coronavirus (it didn”™t take long for me to fail on that count, did it?) because it has dominated so much of the news that I wanted to give you a break from thinking about it. I hadn”™t fully grasped how pervasive Covid has become until I tried to come up with a topic for this column that didn”™t involve Coronavirus, and I failed. Every topic I thought of somehow came back to the pandemic.
As I said, I wanted to give people a break from Coronavirus because of the negative effects the virus is having on our society. I was about to list some of them, but you are probably as aware of them as I am, and if I did list them I would fail even more spectacularly in my effort to give you a break from thinking about Coronavirus.
The best I can do at this point is to offer an alternative to the bleak news, so below you will find links to videos of Canadian humor. I”™m proudly Canadian, and I”™m sorry that many of my incredibly talented fellow Canucks haven”™t received more attention here. In doing this, I do not want to simply wish Coronavirus away or tell people to cheer up.… Read the rest “Peace House Community”“A Place to Belong: Canadian Humor (which I spell “Humour”)”
Peace House Community”“A Place to Belong: Canadian Humor (which I spell “Humour”)
By MARTI MALTBY
I decided that this month I wouldn”™t mention Coronavirus (it didn”™t take long for me to fail on that count, did it?) because it has dominated so much of the news that I wanted to give you a break from thinking about it. I hadn”™t fully grasped how pervasive Covid has become until I tried to come up with a topic for this column that didn”™t involve Coronavirus, and I failed. Every topic I thought of somehow came back to the pandemic.
As I said, I wanted to give people a break from Coronavirus because of the negative effects the virus is having on our society. I was about to list some of them, but you are probably as aware of them as I am, and if I did list them I would fail even more spectacularly in my effort to give you a break from thinking about Coronavirus.
The best I can do at this point is to offer an alternative to the bleak news, so below you will find links to videos of Canadian humor. I”™m proudly Canadian, and I”™m sorry that many of my incredibly talented fellow Canucks haven”™t received more attention here. In doing this, I do not want to simply wish Coronavirus away or tell people to cheer up.… Read the rest “Peace House Community”“A Place to Belong: Canadian Humor (which I spell “Humour”)”