And Japan has a connection to Nanaimo, too. I don't really understand it, but I find that there are a disproportionate number of Japanese people who have lived in that town. When I detect a Canadian accent in a Japanese person's English, I ask them where they learned the language. They'll almost always say, "Vancouver". But when you ask where in Vancouver, they'll admit that it was actually Victoria (the province's capital) or .. Nanaimo.
There's a college there that attracts young people from Japan for some reason. That explains a lot of it. But when I ran into a young man at the bank who spoke "Canadian" English and he turned out to have lived in Nanaimo during his high school years, it didn't surprise me.
Three good things that happened today:
1. Finally finished with the banking
2. Fantastic weather
3. Met a fellow former Nanaimo resident
On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."
—Denzil Minnan-Wong