Comments on: Rideau Canal named World Heritage Site

By: michael holloway

michael holloway — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:29:16 +0000

The Athabasca River is a world heritage site as well, so we’ll NEED this one, sadly, to replace the one we’re destroying with the tar sands development.

(Is this grammar good? I’m very insecure about my grammar.)

By: graeme

graeme — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:40:51 +0000

Dude, UNESCO stole your goat? My God. Lyndon Larouche was right.

By: Matej

Matej — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:14:09 +0000

Great news, but I’m concerned by the questionable grammar in this sentence:

“Instead, a series of dams were built to back up river water to a navigable depth and a chain of 50 massive locks were created.”

Shouldn’t that be “a series of dams was built,” and “a chain of … locks was created?”

I expect better from an organization such as UNESCO.

Sorry, bad grammar really gets my goat.

By: The Forbes

The Forbes — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:55:52 +0000

Sure it’s special to a few people, but it doesn’t really gain complete recognition until it’s recognized by me. And I refuse to recognize the Rideau Canal until it apologizes. It knows what it did.