The G7 meeting to be hosted by Canada next year will be far from the easily-reached urban centres where it has been beset by rioting vandals and police haters on both sides of the Atlantic. Prime Minister Trudeau said today the event will take place June 8 and 9 some 40 km. east of Quebec City in rural La Malbaie in the Charlevoix Region The G7 brings together seven of the world’s biggest economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. It is traditionally the scene of enormous protest which becomes the focus of any news. There is not much news out of the meeting itself except staged events and group pictures.
IS X A SEX?
Ever forward-looking Canada can’t move fast enough for activists who want to see that silly old Adam and Eve thing banished forever. The government announced Friday it will soon be possible to mark X to express one’s gender (or at least not state it) by marking an X on passport applications. M and F will continue to be available but there is a keening cry for removal of those two old monickers from activist Fran Forsberg of Saskatoon. Just so you know. CBC
