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On the other hand
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Location: I walk along the avenue
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That prompted me to do my own google, on Toronto's Coat Of Arms.
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Oddly enough, the old Coat Of Arms was actually more reflective of a diverse population, since it features an honest-to-god First Nations person as a Standard Bearer, whereas the new one dispenses with human Bearers altogether, likely out of fear that somebody somewhere will take offense at any cultural depiction that they put forth.
And I should say that, p.c. banalities aside, Toronto's motto is no more asinine than Edmonton's City Of Champions, which dates from the days when "Lighting Larry" Decore presided over a populace of hockey-obsessed yokels with a pretty oversized phallic complex.
Mind you, at least we had the good taste to keep our banal sloganeering off the town crest, which apparently still reads Industry Integrity Progress. |
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mises
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:34 am Post subject: |
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| On the other hand wrote: |
That prompted me to do my own google, on Toronto's Coat Of Arms.
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Oddly enough, the old Coat Of Arms was actually more reflective of a diverse population, since it features an honest-to-god First Nations person as a Standard Bearer, whereas the new one dispenses with human Bearers altogether, likely out of fear that somebody somewhere will take offense at any cultural depiction that they put forth.
And I should say that, p.c. banalities aside, Toronto's motto is no more asinine than Edmonton's City Of Champions, which dates from the days when "Lighting Larry" Decore presided over a populace of hockey-obsessed yokels with a pretty oversized phallic complex.
Mind you, at least we had the good taste to keep our banal sloganeering off the town crest, which apparently still reads Industry Integrity Progress. |
Don't forget the Eskies.
Grey Cup Championships: 13�1954, 1955, 1956, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1993, 2003, 2005
Runner-up: 9�1952, 1960, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1986, 1990, 1996, 2002
Though, given the size of the CFL it isn't hard to win lots.
I didn't actually bother to look up the actual Toronto COA. Wow. Now, OTOH, I know your down the with left. But isn't that a pretty good representation of prevailing dogma? A bear, a beaver and an eagle holding a crown of love sitting atop a bland T. And all on a green hill. Does Toronto's diversity extend to the bear community? How many beavers are gettin coffee at Tim's right now? Does the gay eagle community have a voice to express their narratives?
I'm going to resize it and make it my avatar.
In Canada, we speak to one another about public issues with a limited series of meaningless platitudes that none of us really believe. Right? |
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On the other hand
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| Now, OTOH, I know your down the with left. But isn't that a pretty good representation of prevailing dogma? |
Well, if you mean a certain type of leftist, the kind of person who obsesses over small gestures of near-meaningless significance, then yeah, I'll agree with you that the Toronto crest is representative. But I find that kind of thing rather silly, and I suspect that, in the case of Toronto's tooting the horn of its own diversity, it has as much to do with civic boosterism as it does with any serious commitment to social justice.
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| A bear, a beaver and an eagle holding a crown of love sitting atop a bland T. And all on a green hill. |
Yeah, that's gotta be the most hippy-dippy anthropomorphization of an animal that I've ever seen on a coat-of-arms. The dopey grin speaks volumes. |
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