Antigonish goes bilingual

Yes, in a move sure to booster multicultralism, the hometown of one of our bloggers has added Gaelic to the local street signs. Now personally I thought all of Canada was already bilingual, thus making Antigonish tri-lingual, but apparently there aren't enough Acadians to merit French street signs. Personally, I hope that the Gaelic implementation is the work of the now unarmed IRA and Canada will soon throw off the final vestiges of the monarchy, but perhaps I am reaching too far. All I know is that when I visit Kevlar in Nova Scotia, he better be able to transliterate that Gaelic alphabet for me.

It seems a good practice to have multilingual street signs, especially since the Senate of the United States has recently passed a rider on the immigration bill demanding immigrants learn English (and thus abolishing a longstanding tradition in the USA of not having an official language). Perhaps when Sandy relocates to Woodstock, NB they will implement street signs which spell the town centre correctly.