Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Hypnotic Al - Home Looking for some INTERESTing alternative entertainment? Well, here's another friend of mine with a slightly off-centre sense of humor. Yes, master - I've blogged the site - shall I cluck like a chicken now?

It seem old pile-o-stones is causing some confusion these days. I was always told Inushuk meant "we are here" - when it looks like it means we don't know - very typicaly Candian, eh? Inukshuk replacing the maple leaf Canada's new symbol leads us ... somewhere Joseph Brean National Post Monday, April 25, 2005 On Saturday night, when he shrugged off the absence of a maple leaf in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics logo, organizing committee CEO John Furlong heralded a new era in Canadian national symbolism: the descent of the maple leaf, and the rise of the inukshuk. "It was time for us to go on and find a new mark," Mr. Furlong said of the maple leaf, adding that the new inukshuk logo "will speak to the humanity of the country, the people, the culture, the values we have." He might have added: "Whatever those are." Because if anything is clear from the inukshuk's recent rise in the public mind -- on beer labels and in bank ads, as a...