{"id":4200,"date":"2016-06-08T12:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T04:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/08\/canada-embroiled-in-debate-to-make-national-anthem-gender-neutral\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T12:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T04:25:37","slug":"canada-embroiled-in-debate-to-make-national-anthem-gender-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/08\/canada-embroiled-in-debate-to-make-national-anthem-gender-neutral\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada embroiled in debate to make national anthem gender-neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f109631%2f26d8bb9494964d4dad74d4fba6259545\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/8OR4_a3HGYv3uJWKehYgTzqQZiE=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F109631%2F26d8bb9494964d4dad74d4fba6259545.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Canada+embroiled+in+debate+to+make+national+anthem+gender-neutral&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F07%2Fcanada-gender-neutral-anthem%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F07%2Fcanada-gender-neutral-anthem%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>While America has been busy arguing over gorillas and Donald Trump, Canada has been embroiled in a controversy over a proposed change to its national anthem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/01\/trudeau-pride-flag\/\">Justin Trudeau raises Pride flag at Canadian parliament for the first time<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It would alter just two words in the song, but even that modest proposal has ignited debate in a country that&#8217;s just now recovering from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/news\/archive\/2016\/05\/elbow-justin-trudeau\/484991\/\">errant elbow<\/a> by its prime minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>What&#8217;s the proposed change?<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, Canada&#8217;s House of Commons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2016\/06\/02\/mps-o-canada-gender-neutral-belanger_n_10259350.html\">voted overwhelmingly, 219-79<\/a>, to approve a minor change in the anthem that would actually have a big impact: it would make the song gender neutral. The line &#8220;in all thy sons command&#8221; would be changed to &#8220;in all of us command&#8221; in the English-language version. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/07\/canada-gender-neutral-anthem\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/justin-trudeau\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Justin Trudeau<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/politics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/gender\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Gender<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/canada\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Canada<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1465353302' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1465353302'><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/lS6v3fWZ-AY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While America has been busy arguing over gorillas and Donald Trump, Canada has been embroiled in a controversy over a proposed change to its national anthem.\u00a0 SEE ALSO: Justin Trudeau raises Pride flag at Canadian parliament for the first time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/08\/canada-embroiled-in-debate-to-make-national-anthem-gender-neutral\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1198,1161,1549,749,1112],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-canada","tag-gender","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-politics","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}