Now that the earth has stopped shaking ... sorry, just had to mention Wednesday's earthquake ... Vancouver & Seattle just don't get much play up in here!
Anyway ...
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Originally posted by gphi2k:
The seperatist movment is very small and mostly centred in Quebec. I am by no means suggesting that it is rampant in the province and/or that there aren't many people who are against it both within Quebec and the rest of the country. Sorry if it came out that way....
Leslie[/B]
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The first thing that I saw when I logged onto aol Canada this morning was this headline:
"Bernard Landry becomes Parti Quebecois leader and says sovereignty is a must"
To all the skeptics of the sovereignty movement of Quebec, please don't be lulled into the false sense of security that has come with the silence of the past few years. From what I've heard, Bernard Landry & the PQ are quite serious & will be pushing for another referendum SOON -- we all know the results from the last one, and the weren't very pretty ... something like 50.6 to 49.4!
As far as BGLOs here in BC, I have not heard of any undergrad or graduate chapters either. Having become acquainted with a few BGLO members from UW, I asked about the BGLO absence in Canada - I was told that the black community is almost too small here in Vancouver to support an organization.
Like Siobhan, I too have been a member of UBCs greek system for a number of years, and in that time, both rush & our chapter's membership have continued to grow more & more diverse, yet we have not seen any black Canadians participate. I personally feel that a BGLO chapter would be a great asset to the UBC community -- as it is, membership in our greek community represents maybe 3% of our campus (about 800-900 members at a school of over 30,000 students).
The fact that there is an incredibly strong greek system only 2.5 hours north of Vancouver -- Seattle, which is home to a number of strong BGLOs at UW (from what I've heard), could also be a great help & resource to colonizing a BGLO here.
... just my thoughts.
(definitely *stepping down from the chair* now)
Delta Zeta chapter
Alpha Gamma Delta
University of British Columbia
[This message has been edited by canadajen (edited March 03, 2001).]
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