Friday, April 29, 2011

Royal Nuptials Kick-start Busy Weekend

So, busy weekend. Royal wedding, world figure skating championships, second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, intense few campaign days leading up to election day... am I missing anything?

Anyway, speaking of the royal wedding, the prime minister extended his congratulations to the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge via Twitter this morning. (A few elderly ladies in the grocery store the other day were deploring the date of the election, since Laureen Harper must have really wanted to go to the wedding! At least, maybe she would have looked happier than she does in any of Stephen's photo ops...)

Here are some perspectives on the royal wedding and how it fits into the federal election and our democracy (constitutional monarchy) more broadly: pro-monarchy and anti-monarchy.

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