This is not a new idea to Canada (or to this blog). But this article is timely in light of a recent post that came across my Facebook News Feed about how “We all pay taxes so the government can give it to someone who doesn’t work as hard as you do.” That misperception that […]
This song will always remind me of high school but even after listening to this song hundreds of times in my life, it took this slowed down acoustic version to make me realise I’ve misheard the lyric I quoted in the title of this post as “Joe went east/she went west” as if the narrator […]
My picks for Conference Finalists: Detroit Red Wings vs. New York Islanders in the East and LA Kings vs. Minnesota Wild in the West which becomes NYI versus LA with the Kings winning.
How aboot make a viral video where the “American” looks more like a Canadian stereotype than the guy playing the Canadian? 😉
Like the title says, I’m voting “Yes” in the Regina Waste Water Treatment Plant Referendum. But it’s not for the reason you might expect… I think I’ve mentioned in passing on this blog that I sometimes regret getting more heavily involved in party politics, first by joining Ryan Meili’s 2009 Sask NDP Leadership bid […]
So my two favourite NHL teams are playing an exhibition game tonight in Regina and I made the tough decision not to go… There are a couple reasons… – the biggest reason is the price. Even though it’s an exhibition game, tickets range from $98 for the *lowest* priced to $148.50 for the highest (of those […]
Bev Slopen is a Canadian Literary Agent who is experimenting with e-books to “learn what authors and publishers already know about the area”. Oyster, a “NetFlix for books” has launched. The obvious rejoinder is “A Netflix for books? We call that the library.” But the reality is that libraries operate on a loaning model and […]
Boo – no Canada in this list of national flags made from 18 countries’ most representative foods – how easy would it be to make the red stripes of our flag out of back bacon and the maple leaf out of…maple syrup of course! Geez, one of the first results when you Google “Canadian flag bacon” […]
Two New York sisters (who are obviously future copy editors) re-work one of Alanis Morrisette’s most famous songs so that it’s finally accurate. Or to put it another way, “The only ironic thing about the [original Alanis Morrisette] song is that it’s written by someone who doesn’t know what irony is.” “It’s Finally Ironic” – […]
What better songs to post for Canada Day than a couple tracks from a new Canadian super group called “The Mounties”? The group features Hawksley Workman, one of my favourite Canadian musicians of all-time and the video for their first single contains a few prominent shots of the Canadian flag: “Headphones” – The Mounties …while their […]
