12 de junho de 2006

Dispatches from the Hogtown Front: "The Portuguese in my neighbourhood were tearing up and down Dufferin St today. They were waving flags and honking car horns. They were very aggressive as usual. The newspapers portray this as good clean fun, but when you're not Portuguese, it can feel like you're in a foreign country. I can't speak for anyone else but I don't I'm think alone in feeling this way. Maybe it was my imagination, but I saw a lot of glum-looking non-Portuguese people standing around. I counted seven large Portuguese flags on my small section of the street alone. That's on houses. I couldn't count the number on cars."