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Okay, I Made a Poll on the Canadiana Question

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

As per this discussion earlier in the week, I thought I’d run a quick poll to see, empirically (because web polls are irrefutable, don’t you know), which bit of television history is the most Canadian:

Those of you visiting via the RSS feed will probably have to actually visit my site to vote.
I liked Filmgoerjuan’s suggestion, […]

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What’s More Canadian: The Hockey Sweater or the Log Rider’s Waltz?

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

In wishing Boing Boing readers a Happy Canada Day, Cory Doctorow committed a sin that shames his Great Northern heritage:
There is no more potent symbol of Canadianness than the National Film Board of Canada’s musical short, The Log Driver’s Waltz: more than Leonard Cohen’s groans, more than Dan Ackroyd’s rampant toryism, more than “timbit” jokes […]

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Happy Canada Day

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Tonight we’re going to a Canada Day dinner hosted by the Canadian-Gozitan (Gozitans are people from Gozo) Society. It should be fun.
In 2001, we celebrated Canada Day in a slightly dodgy Austrailian bar in Dublin (the city didn’t have any Canadian bars that we knew of). The Hip was on the stereo, the Molson flowed […]

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George Stroumboulopoulos Tries Too Hard
When Government Websites Go Wrong

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