"For the purpose of employment equity, "members of visible minorities" means persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour. Based on this definition, are you a member of a visible minority?"

this question is just wrong

for the poetry lovers

For those of us who like poetry, I give you Hello Poetry

This is why babies are so squishy

redheads as 'visible minorities'... ?!

When you apply for most jobs in Canada, escpecially government jobs, you come across the 'visible minority' question at the end of the application. You are asked to state your 'ethnicity' and if you are a visible minority, or better yet aboriginal, you will have a better chance of getting the job. One application I looked at today actually specifically "strongly advised aboriginals and visible minorities" to apply in the job description - not specifically stating they would have a better chance but it was quite clearly implied. Being just as unemployed as my "visible minority" equivalent of course I find this very frustrating - but that is another debate I'm not getting into today.

On the other hand I'd like to discuss what counts as a 'visible minority'. Can I count myself as a visible minority? To most of the population on an unofficial basis I quite clearly am. The official definition of 'visible minority' refers to skin colour - but what about hair colour?! If we considered hair colour as well as skin colour then there wouldn't be any debate... I am quite clearly part of the smallest visible minority group in the country. I mean if we are going to superficially favour people with a certain skin colour why can't we extend that to hair colour as well? Why don't we include height too? Shall overly tall people and overly short people continue to be discriminated against?! Oh the injustice...

Don't even get me started about how I feel about ticking off the 'white' box when identifying my 'ethnicity'. I think next time I'll go for the 'other' box. And when asked to specifiy I'll just write 'I can legally work in this country, you don't need to know anything else'.

Strange to think that words, when placed together in a certain way, can evoke emotions. How strong a few letters can be when they are placed in the right order. Simple lines and curves can cause a body to shake, tremble, cry, laugh - how important language is! Of all human developments, language must be the most impressive.

you might not wake up in the morning...

i admit it... i am quite a lot of crap at writing blogs. oh but life goes on... on and on and on... that is something i can almost gurantee. although the catacombs we were in in paris today would like you to think differently. translated from french one of the quotes said something like, "wake up in the morning thinking you might not make it through the day, go to sleep at night thinking you might not make it to the morning." i suppose if you can manage to go to sleep happy and wake up to something you love than these words dont have to be so ominous. ah and so we continue

I wish I had a river to skate away on...

...No matter how much world there is still out there to see and no matter how far away from home I'll go to see it, I don't think I'll ever spend a winter away without having this sentiment exactly. It's just about this time at home that the canal opens up and those bright sunny frigid days begin to settle in. I don't think there's too many people in the world that love those bright sunny frigid days as much as I do. There's no denying it, I'm definitely at my best in winter. Sometimes others just put it so much better than I can, so I'll leave this one to Joni Mitchell's River it's a little out of season but it still hits the spot.