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Jacobs, Jane

American-born urban critic and scholar who settled in Toronto during the Vietnam War to protect her children and her sanity. She has become a national treasure, and a beacon to U.S.-born immigrants for her commitment to and understanding of the differences between local and cosmopolitan values, and how they rarely have any resemblance to government policies and urban development practices. See Amer-Canadians

James Bay I

Hydroelectric development designed to drown Northern Quebec's native and caribou populations while providing separatist Quebecois with economic dowry for entry into the North East Power Grid. Primary drownee to date is Quebec Government, in red ink.

James Bay Ii

Indian lands, along with 60 cent of Quebec's land area, if the PQ attempt to sever Quebec from Canada.

Japanese Restaurants

One of the pleasures of Vancouver is that it has the best Japanese restaurants in North America, and the only good ones in Canada. It's almost enough to make you miss the place, if you've left it.

Je Me Souviens

Quebec's license plate slogan: Freely translated, it means, "We're going to get You English pigs may have defeated Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, but we're going to punish you with our bad manners-and get all the federal civil service jobs in the process. Kind of makes you wish they'd remember that this has been the most benign 230 year military occupation in human history.

Jobs

We don't seem to have enough jobs to go around, or governments that recognize that the lack of meaningful work is the primary threat to Canada, not a debt crisis that is nearly pure ideology. How can you have a just or happy society unless the abilities of its citizens are wanted?

Johnson, Ben

Jamaican sprinter, steroid user, comeback artist, now personal trainer for Moamar Khaddafy's brats. Was he a hoax or the victim of a hoax? If he was the victim, just exactly what was the hoax, and when is it going to be over?

July 1st

Formerly Dominion Day, now Canada Day. It was more fun when we were still sure there was something to celebrate other than American domination and the availability (in Ontario) of poor quality Taiwanese fireworks.

Junos

Canadian Music Awards given to musical performers acceptable to parents. This explains why Anne Murray, Murray McLaughlin, Corey Hart and various friends of David Foster have basements filled with Juno trophies. Things are getting better, if you think Alanis Morissette is a step in the right direction.