{"id":34520,"date":"2026-06-30T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=34520"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:20:47","slug":"tomorrow-is-canada-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/tomorrow-is-canada-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow is Canada Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BambiCanadaMerci.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BambiCanadaMerci.jpg 624w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BambiCanadaMerci-300x75.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Every July 1st, for 30+ years, Bambi calls the beloved mother of a DEAR friend to wish her a Happy Birthday (Bonjourno Cleta \u2764\ufe0f :)) . Tomorrow, she will honour this beautiful tradition. She looks forward to their phone chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, Bambi will also take the time to sing O&#8217; Canada, several times and in both official languages (sorry Louis for your ears), while reflecting on her first 36 years in our wide and great country, hoping for more years to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Importantly, she will pause to pay tribute to her mom and dad, thanking them for having brought her to her adoptive country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robine and Antoine may have left Canada a few years ago, before leaving our world to their final destination, yet Canada did not leave them. It remained vivid in their hearts, memories, conversations, and in their enriched identities. Symbolically, Canada also remained alive on the balcony of their apartment in Beirut, as a beautiful flag that sat in the soil of a big plant, next to the great Lebanese flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As highlighted on this blog in an older post, these two meaningful flags miraculously remained intact, despite the heavy destruction following the Beirut explosion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the Canadian and Lebanese flags survived Robine and Antoine. May they both keep flying HIGH in the skies of Canada and Lebanon respectively, with much pride and with hope for a renewed sovereignty and prosperity\u2014despite all the challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To conclude this post, may God bless Canada, especially on the eve of its birthday! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"O&#039;Canada in English and French\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MB-jCl2iY-Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"This Is My Canada \/ Mon cher Canada (Official Video)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAYhT5f0i-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every July 1st, for 30+ years, Bambi calls the beloved mother of a DEAR friend to wish her a Happy Birthday (Bonjourno Cleta \u2764\ufe0f :)) . Tomorrow, she will honour this beautiful tradition. She looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sackvillesmemorialpark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34520"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34529,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34520\/revisions\/34529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}