A new independent group wants to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary by staging Expo 2017 here, using the old Expo 67 site and adjoining shores as the setting.

I'd like to feel more enthusiasm, but I have a feeling it won't come off, not least because security issues have so dampened the openness of international travel and cooperation.

Also, cheap jet travel and the internet have made the world much more accessible to us, so that exhibiting bits and pieces from exotic lands now has a kind of quaint 19th-century Crystal Palace Exhibition feel to it. There will be events and celebrations for the 150th, but I doubt we'll see a revival of Expo.
posted at 11:15