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BONOKOSKI: What if the beaver had a birthday and nobody came?


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A couple of weeks ago, the beaver, that bucktoothed rodent that is Canada’s national animal, officially turned 46.
It’s birthday passed again without acknowledgement.
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When it turned 25 in the year 2000, usually an anniversary worth huge celebration, the House of Commons made nary a mention of it.
Instead, it marked National Epilepsy Month, World Tuberculosis Day and Greek Independence Day.
But nary a word on the beaver.
I can lay claim to more than a modicum of infamy for the beaver being recognized as Canada’s national animal. Not the stately moose or the iconic polar bear, but a relative of a rat. ....

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