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Canada is often mistaken for a cultural monolith, full of hosers in toques clutching double-doubles. The reality, of course, is quite the reverse – so here’s a tongue-in-cheek guide to the different characters of its cities Canada revels in order. Canadians love to police queues they are in for violations of the common understanding. Visit [...]

August 24, 2024

You may have recently read a passionate defence of Sir John A MacDonald (one of Canada’s worst prime ministers) in the Atlantic. It came on the heels of a series of defacings and removals of monuments to Canadian historical figures with ties to our residential school system, a re-education camp/concentration camp hybrid designed primarily for […]

June 29, 2021

When non-essential workers went on Work from Home in March of 2020, many left snacks and personal items in their desks, thinking that the situation would be temporary, probably lasting maybe one month or two. Little did they know that over a year later, those workers are looking at an uncertain in-office future and a […]

May 25, 2021

The pandemic should prompt a reassessment of the Soviet handling of the Chernobyl disaster among anti-communists.   In May 2019, viewers gathered for what was billed as a classic TV spectacle: the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. Upon release, many column inches were spent discussing how the series ‘shone a light’ on ‘what really happened’ in the […]

May 11, 2021

Over the years, when people have found out I’m Canadian, I’ve had to field numerous weird questions: Do you ever get summer? (Yes) Was Celine Dion’s Wedding the top rated television program in Canadian history? (Also Yes) Do you eat Loons? (For the record: we don’t, generally speaking!) But lately, I’ve been consistently getting only […]

April 18, 2021

Canada should keep political ads off of television and social media. With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government recently threatened by the possibility of a Conservative-led non-confidence motion, Canada could be thrust into another election and, with that, an onslaught of campaign ads that will damage the country. We need to prep for what that […]

March 10, 2021

The Monarchy is a representation of what makes Canada’s history shameful and rotten. It’s time we parted ways. As the world turns Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle’s departure from royal life into incessant tabloid stories about dual loyalties, the woman who “stole” the prince and spurned brothers, the question Canadians ought to be asking […]

February 4, 2020