Go North Young Man
6 August 2007 - 23 אב 5767 by Huw
From the Hamilton Spectator… which is the local paper in my home away from home, More Americans heading North:
It was a popular vow of apprehensive Democrats in 2004, a pledge made in the heat of battle to move to Canada if George W. Bush was re-elected. Turns out, some of them did…
…anecdotal information points to politics, health care, social issues, possibly even the strengthening Canadian dollar as lures northward, he said.
For 34-year-old labour organizer Tom Kertes, the move last April from Seattle, Wash., to Toronto was based on human rights.
“The words `human rights’ are foreign words in the U.S.,” Kertes said.
