Well, now that the looting and pillaging is done, perhaps we can speak calmly and rationally about the Habs’ progression into the Eastern Conference finals?
God dammit! Someone beat these bastards and shut their smug fans up!
Ahem. Okay, so, it’s the Habs. Calm rationality might be off the table. So let’s just briefly address the question [...]
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The Montreal Canadiens: Canada’s team?
Let’s boldly go where no governor general has gone before
As we learned earlier this year, Facebook can actually be a remarkably effective mobilization tool when it comes to Canadian politics. But while the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament group established the template, I’m now prepared to hitch my wagon to this country’s cause celebre du jour… endorsing William Shatner as the next governor general.
As of [...]
Fuck, Ann Coulter was right — we DO hate freedom
Fear not, Ann Coulter is still a buffoon. But the takeaway message from her recent trip north (and the accompanying “controversy”) is that to some extent, Canadian society actually is a little bit terrified of actual free expression.
For rock-solid evidence, look no further than our preposterous human rights “commissions” and “tribunals”. Excoriated regularly (and rightly) [...]
Hockey without head shots is like…
I’ll finish that thought in a moment. But first, let me say: I’m not a “hockey guy”.
That’s not to say I’m not a fan of the game. I love the game. I love watching it. I loved playing street hockey as a kid. And though its status in our national consciousness is usually quite overblown, [...]
Connecting The Dots, Edition #5
In this hectic world, often we don’t have sufficient time to connect the dots between seemingly disconnected stories that flicked their way through our collective consciousness. To help bridge this gap, say hello to Connecting The Dots, where I’ll endeavour to bring together and seemingly disparate stories into a contextualized, cohesive whole. Or I’ll just [...]
O Canada, The Politically Correct Edition
Really? That’s what we waited an extra six weeks for? That’s what the government was thinking about when it took time to “recalibrate”?
A proposal to amend the national anthem so that it can be more gender-neutral?
(What’s that, you say? This particular Pandora’s box was opened, in yet another cynical move by the Harper government, to [...]
When a goal is more than a goal
Let’s make one thing clear, lest we all get swept up in the cacophony of jingoistic noise being churned out by the mainstream media in order to justify its own expenditures on covering the Olympic Games: Sidney Crosby’s gold-medal-winning goal in overtime yesterday was, in fact, not the greatest moment in Canadian history.
I can’t tell [...]
No one remembers a shaky start if you finish strong
Delayed events, shitty weather, a dead athlete before the opening ceremonies even took place. Not to mention the looming specter of Canadian athletes never having won a gold medal on home soil in two previous attempts.
Yeah, things didn’t start well for the Canadian hosts of these Olympics.
So we lost. How come the sky isn’t falling?
Well, that sucked.
Need I say more?
I will anyway. Canada’s 5-3 loss to the USA in a round-robin game last night is — as if this preposterous statement needs reaffirmation — not the end of the world, either for the team or the nation in general.
I know, you’d think that there’d be riots and looting after [...]
Retro Squizz: “There goes the neighbourhood. Again.”
Retro Squizz is a blast from the past, a “gem” plucked from my six years’ worth of blogging archives. It’s also an easy way to post something on days when I don’t have time to come up with anything fresh. But hey, they’ve held up pretty well, I think. Today’s post was originally published to [...]