Canada's lighthouses, museums and libraries

In psychology, desensitization is defined as "the diminished emotional responsiveness to negative stimulus after repeated exposure to it."
During the year 2012, I experienced feelings of shock and deep sadness because of the following national political pronouncements:

My sister, my niece and I in front of the  Canadian  Museum of  Nature  (The Victoria  Memorial  Museum)  during the summer of 1984.

1.  The Canadian House of Commons moved to the Museum of Nature after a 1916 fire that destroyed the Centre Block, on Parliament Hill.  Much of the green space that encircled the building is gone, paved over for parking lots
2. Corrections Canada may close the Kingston Pen museum. The Isabel McNeil House, opposite KP, has been empty for years.
3. Downsview Park will be redeveloped.
4. Canada's national libraries are being relocated.
5. In 2010, Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced the divestiture of 1,000 lighthouses.
6. A tourist attraction called "The Glacier Discovery Walk" is on the side of a mountain in Jasper National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.