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SHOW ME ON THIS MAP WHERE YOUR TEACHER FAILED YOU
RadioTMI - August 1, 2014

I just had another "am I on Candid Camera (Punk'd to you young folk)" moment.

I stopped at the local Automobile Association's Travel office to pick up a guidebook for BC & Alberta ahead of our trip next month and watched as the High School summer student (or University summer student, I'm sorry Children, but since I turned 30 you all look alike to me) spent five minutes (a veritable eternity in internet speed) pulling out guide books from AROUND North America trying to find "BC" and/or "Alberta".

There are only four books covering Canada: Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario and Western Canada. She wasn't anywhere near them until I guided her. (To which she said, and I kid you not, "You should work here.")

Are my expectations too high that teenagers should have at least a passing familiarity with what region the Provinces are in their own country? I'm no longer surprised that people don't know the Provincial capitals (there are a whole 10 of them after all), or that few can name more than 6 Canadian Prime Ministers (5 are still alive and three more are on our money), or that most people can't even point to which blob on the map is specifically which province, but at the very least shouldn't you know which end of the country BC is before graduating, getting a license, being able to buy beer, having sex, voting??

And even if that's too much of an expectation, how about you don't work at a Travel office for DRIVERS without that knowledge?

Seriously, it was Candid Camera. Wasn't it?