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Canada Day, July 1st. A National Holiday in Canada, but what is Canada Day? Well, to lots of us it's a day off work. To me, it is just that normally. But since I'm writing this blog, this year it's been on my mind a bit more. The Government of Canada website says this: It's the Day Canadians across the country and around the world show their pride in their history, culture and achievements. It's been a day of celebration, where many festivities are held across the country, since 1868. But with what's been happening in connection with racism, and other prejudices, the horrors of Residential Schools and the discoveries of so many unmarked graves, there's been calls to cancel it. Here's one woman's take on it: "I don't think it should be cancelled. I realize we've had some very troubling revelations, but the way forward is not to stop aspiring to be a better country, and it's not to try and erase the existence of a country or erase history. It's about acknowledging it and and trying to do something better. "While acknowledging the pain of our Indigenous brothers and sisters, there's lots of suffering throughout Canada's history and even today. I'm a Muslim woman, I'm a racialized person. We have our places of worship burned down, vandalized with swastikas. I've been driven out of the first home I bought, which was in a small town in Canada, because the racist locals made my life so unbearable, I had to flee. "There's a lot for me personally to be upset about when it comes to our country, our history and fellow Canadians. But I still want to look forward. I still want to be positive.... Life here can't just be suffering. It's also a little bit of community and fellowship and joy. That's worth celebrating to me." - Aziza Mohammed I agree with her myself. I think the date should be important, but why we celebrate should change. It should be a day to remember the bad and think of how far we've come, what we need to do and celebrate all our cultures. I want to look forward with people like Aziza Mohammed. We cannot make Canada a better place unless we work together, learn about and support each other and stand together and say no to hate.

Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Canada, otherwise known as America's frozen hat. It's been a beautiful 150 years, and we're looking forward to being bigger and better than before!

Happy Birthday @Wesley8890! Enjoy your birthday. Hope 27th is a good year! Let your mascara run and let your hair down.

Dear GA staff and members I think we should celebrate and congratulate each other that GA has reached the milestone of 900 authors. I also think it's cool that one in twenty members is an author. . The next important ones will be 100 million words of wonderful stories and 100,000 reviews to encourage our hardworking writers. to all the people working on the site for helping make this a happy and well functioning community. to all our authors for providing hours of entertainment. to all the members for reading, liking, rating, reviewing, and posting about stories.