THE FOUNTAIN OF BETHESDA, MD: Claw of the Conciliator writes,

Just saw your new Weakerthans article. Just FYI, in case you don’t know: St. Boniface and St. Vital are the names of two neighborhoods here in Winnipeg. St. Boniface is the historically French one, and St. Vital is a fairly upper-middle-class one that people make a lot of jokes about. I guess because it’s got a high proportion of rich kids with time on their hands there’s a lot of wild parties and whatnot.

I did not know that! Because the alternative would make me look dumb (and, to be fair, the line does specifically ask for the saints’/neighborhoods’ intercession), I stick to the story that it’s a double reference….