Neil Young, one of Canada’s best imports. He has lived in the United States for the past 50 years. Same Canadian heart. New shiny song!
p.s. leave the fireworks for the professionals. It’s good to keep all our digits on our hands.
Stand up for what you believe
Resist the ‘powers that be’
Preserve the land and save the seas
For the children of destiny
The children of you and me
Should ‘goodness’ ever lose and ‘evil’ steal the day
Should ‘happy’ sing the blues and ‘peaceful’ fade away
What would you do?
What would you say?
How would you act on that new day?
Stand up for what you believe
Resist the ‘powers that be’
Preserve the ways of democracy
So the children can be free
The children of destiny
When money matters most and war is good for gain
The capital is yours, the people feel the pain
They feel the pain, they walk the streets
While the bombs fall in the rain
The children hide, somewhere inside
While the bombs fall in the rain
Stand up for what you believe
Resist the ‘powers that be’
Preserve the land and save the seas
For the children of destiny
The children of destiny
© 2026 – SoulSequel
11 responses to “Happy 150th Canada!”
Canada must realize our basic need for //-living-space-//.
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Just so long as that doesn’t involve becoming the 51st state of North Montana!
the fireworks have been going off in our parking lot and neighbourhood since june 30 hahahaha will it never end?! canadians love an excuse to buy stuff out of the trunk of someones car (thats shopping local fer ya )and then blast it off just as all the neighbours are finally starting to relax. will it never end?! i mean wait what?
There’s a fine line between celebrating a nation and just celebrating your right to make noise!
(That’s what Harleys are for!)
ive noticed that :D
Think of all the soldiers with PTSD. This god damn holiday is a nightmare for them. The fireworks part that is. Families and friends getting together is lovely. I could do without the loud noises all day and night.
We all have “triggers”. I am a vocal proponent of each person learning to install the psychological equivalent of trigger locks on these; so one doesn’t go through life being “triggered”: unto being controlled by outside happenstance — whether intentional or innocent.
But Society doesn’t seem to be in that mode right now. It is in the mode of accentuating and polishing and lubing up those triggers with copious emotions so they are hair triggers; things we then ” require” others to guard against triggering in us.
And then we celebrate the victimhood this visits upon us.” That is actively choosing to ” not heal”.
I’ve had PTSD, as the aftermath of being the first and only responder to a horrific accident. Even when you are ” prepared” for it to happen you are not really prepared. It’s still “takes” and “owns” you for a while.
I don’t want to be overly glib or insensitive in saying “Just choose to heal from it, and become stronger from it”.
But really, that’s what it comes down to. And it is hard work: because the feelings and emotions are powerful and there is no pill or set of magic words a therapist can say to “make it better”.
I endorse the spiritual path I am on; because it gives great assistance and empowerment to this end.
Thank you for your response. I don’t think we can understand or compare any of our trauma to a soldier who has been in a war, a soldier who has had to return to war over and over as we have done in our current war(s). It’s a whole different level of PTSD. On top of the stigma of mental health, and getting help for it.
20 military vets commit suicide every single day. That is appalling.
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/2016/07/07/va-suicide-20-daily-research/86788332/
I am aware that wartime trauma produces a deeper injury, and greater challenges in healing. Challenges that may well go beyond common understanding.
And some child may have experienced a trauma that goes beyond a soldier’s understanding who has not had similar experience. But that should not keep us from relating for the greater good.
What is common is what the injury does and how one heals from it. The circumstances differ but the human organism remains pretty much the same in how it responds to psychological duress.
These are the common points that I reach for and speak of. There are victim attitudes and survivor/overcomer attitudes. And regardless of whether the process is triggered by wartime trauma childhood trauma grief depression or some gievous personal injury, the path to healing ( or to not healing) will have similarities that we can all relate to; and make use of in our individual and collective lives.
And remember that different nations have different social structures when it comes to procuring soldiers and taking care of their health after the fact. Canada still has her problems relating to the mental health of those who serve in our military. But the requirement to serve is perhaps different; and universal healthcare is a huge factor too. A lack of personal funds or “a plan” generally doesn’t keep someone from getting the health care they need.
I wish I didn’t mention fireworks. This video is amazing, and that should have been the focus.
Sounds like a worthy call to action to me.