Justine is a young lady who currently lives and works in Chicago. Although she was born in the U.S.A., she was raised north of the 49th Parallel in Vancouver B.C.
She currently works in Chicago, the mid-western metropolis famous for such scoundrels as Al Capone and Jerry (Never Trust Anyone Over 30) Rubin and such luminaries as Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama.
Justine visits Toronto every month or so and always stays with us when not bunking in with friends. Her job with a U.S. Public Relations Firm brings her to our city to work with Ryerson University.
Toronto has strong connections with Chicago. For instance, the hit 2002 musical “Chicago” featuring the incomparable Catherine Zeta Jones in an Oscar winning performance? was filmed right her in Toronto. Both are Great Lakes Port cities and both experience hot, humid summers and cold snowy winters!
Both nations are holding Federal general elections this fall. Justine whom, in many ways is a daughter of both countries, is a backer of the Canadian Green Party of environmentally concerned citizens and in the U.S. she is a strong supporter of the phenomenal Democratic orator Barack Obama!
We Canadians are closely watching the U.S. elections as never before. If by some supreme miracle we are fortunate enough to witness the election of the first black man to the Presidency of the United States, we will really now know that there just might be, at long last, “a new day acomin’ down south”!
