Last night at the bar after our Perl Mongers meeting, a guy who's new to town explained that his young son is soon going to have five citizenships
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Friday's citizenship ceremony was a reasonably banal exercise in officialdom (not High Officialdom, but certainly not minimal either). The judge was the same man who presided over melted_snowball's citizenship last year. There were 48 New Canadians, from 20 countries. Unlike d's, there was no one from Iran or Afghanistan. The judge spoke at length about the
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My citizenship ceremony isn't scheduled yet. I went downtown and sat in their big marble waiting room until they released a few more morsels of information, which I'm adding to my meger collection.
I went to the Citizenship office this morning and learned that I'm not gonna become official in the next three weeks. The officiant for June hasn't booked his ceremony-dates yet, so they haven't scheduled our ceremonies yet. I might learn this week. Maybe
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The recent UN report on climate change released in Paris last week seems to be affecting Canadian politics much more strongly than those in the US, though I was interested to see that the NYT article on that report is currently their most emailed and blogged story. But not so for a few other papers I just looked at, namely the Cleveland Plain
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