Just kidding.

I am reading with fascination the tales of the protests by students in Montreal today.  There is a Formula One race going on there, and people from around the world show up.  (I hope that Austin, Texas is ready for them come November.  F1 fans are really quite something.  I’m still laughing about the culture shock when they tried Formula One here in Phoenix twenty years ago.  To say that almost nothing went right is an understatement.)

The students are protesting tuition hikes at their universities, and capitalism in general.  Their hope was to create such a disturbance that the race would be shut down.  That worked in Bahrain last year, but I would venture to say that the average Canadian student has it a bit better than the average impoverished goat-herder in a Middle Eastern country with limited liberties and no economic opportunity.  So protest seemed unlikely to find success in the land of poutine.  read more »