I think it is outrageous that there continues to be this absurd disparity in earnings between women and men. No matter how many allowances are made for childbearing et cetra the fact is women are still being shafted.

However I cannot fathom how some commentators seem to think there is some significance in the fact 20 cities were chosen to represent the urban population. One suggests there are 160 cities in Canada. In fact the 20th largest "city" is Burnaby. I would scarcely call it a City but maybe I'm just a snob. It does have close on a quarter of a million people as residents. The criteria for inclusion were clearly not size as Victoria is not in the top 50 having considerably less than 100,000. But if we go as deep as 100 the size of the towns is less than 50,000. They call it the City of North Vancouver but really. It's a suburb. And a very nice one I might add. I lived and worked there quite happily.

I still remember when one of our sports teams was playing a New York team for the North American Championship and the NY sports commentator referred to the Village of Vancouver. Now that was something to get annoyed about. But to claim that Canada has more than lot more than twenty Cities is a indication of misplaced chauvinism. Indeed twenty is probably pushing it. (We won by the way. By that I mean the Vancouver Whitecaps won. I personally had no part in it.)