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No, we're not going liberal! What we are doing is standing on street corners handing out candy canes and tracts! Saturday was our second annual Candy Cane Blitz. In November my husband orders a couple thousand tracts from Bearing Precious Seed Canada that tell the legend of the candy cane ; then the two Saturdays before Christmas our church goes out onto the street corners of North Vancouver and we give a candy cane with each tract to everyone who will take one. This is just one more way to get the gospel into people's hands and to hopefully talk to a few people and maybe see them come to church. We get varied responses. Some people are very suspicious. They stop for a second, look at us a little closer, look at the candy cane again . . . suspicious people don't often take the candy or tract. Then we meet those who don't eat candy; very common up here as Vancouver's a health-conscious city. Then we meet those who won't let their children eat candy. That's a ...

Tomorrow, November 11th, is Remembrance Day in Canada. The holiday corresponds to Veterans' Day in the US, and is widely celebrated in this country. Most everyone wears a red poppy to remember the veterans of Canada who have given their lives in the service of their country. We've been invited to attend the annual Remembrance Day ceremony in Victory Square in Vancouver tomorrow morning, then for lunch with our friends. We're honoured to be included in yet another facet of Canadian life. One thing I've noticed about Canadians and war. They don't like war - they are very vocal about President Bush and the Iraq war - but they greatly honour their war heroes. From my recollections of Veterans' Day in the US, Canadians put Americans to shame with Remembrance Day ceremonies and observations - and Americans are the ones who are considered more patriotic! To any veterans who may be reading today, American, Canadian, or otherwise . . . thank you for serving your...