The other day I ran into an old friend. Like so many university educated Canadians of my generation, Angela had spent time teaching English in Japan. I myself had spent my “working holiday” there in the mid nineties, so we began talking about our common experience. What she told me blew my mind.
More and more, on those occasions when I do watch mainstream news, I find myself thinking that the reporter did not bother to ask any of the questions that I would have asked in that situation. Consider the oddness of this statement: “Bargain-hunting consumers crossing the border to find deals on Bombardier snowmobiles are frustrated by a company policy that prevents U.S. dealers from selling to Canadians.”
