B.C. Bud

Canada Dept: Sure, sure, there are all the usual merchandising platitudes about prosperity, freedom, lifestyle, the great scenery and so on, but is B.C. really so different from any other part of Canada where all these things are equally true?, according to Vancouver Sun. We've been mocked as decadent Vansterdam, the laid-back, pot-smoking Lotus Land, where everybody starts work three hours after Toronto clocks in and then books off early for a Wreck Beach rendezvous with hash brownies and the nudie two-thirds of our not-so-secret office m nage-a-trois. The lead actors in this stereotype are aging hippies in hemp sarongs and banana-skin Birkenstocks who supplement their incomes growing B.C. Bud on communes guarded by tame bears - respect for animal rights and all that. Then there are board bums from the snow slopes, surf beaches and skate parks and b.C. Day is upon us. It's time to cedar plank some salmon for the barbecue, kick back with a cold one and contemplate what it is, exactly, that we're celebrating. We certainly seem to be perceived as different by our fellow Canadians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.