(Audio) Celebrating Canada Day and the Fourth of July This Week On A Continent Gone Mad

I’m a ‘from away’ who’s lived in Canada for twenty years and I’ve never lost that sense that I’m still a bit of an outsider. ‘From away’ is an Atlantic provinces expression meaning someone who’s not from here or has moved from way the hell somewhere else in Canada.

This is ‘Freedom Week’ for this ex-pat From Away, when I feel most conflicted about where I come from and where I am.

O Canada public domain music from Wikimedia Commons

Star-Spangled Banner instrumental - public domain from Internet Archives. Public domain tag for U.S. site