September 2011
5 posts
Sep 30th
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Every article about Toronto ever
tableclothcape: ‘Canada’s largest city,’ couched in terms that imply the Rest of Canada is utterly dependent on and revolves around Toronto, “the locus of Canadian X,” “the centre of X,” etc. ‘HAVE WE TOLD YOU ABOUT MULTICULTURALISM?’ ‘Let us compare ourselves to New York at almost comical length,’ though the Greater Toronto Area is three and a half times as small and roughly half the size of...
Sep 9th
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Every article about Winnipeg ever
tableclothcape: COLD ‘despite popular belief, it is a place that exists’ SO COLD ‘heart of the continent,’ ‘geographical centre of North America,’ ‘incredible geographic isolation’ SO VERY COLD violent crime, ‘murder capital of Canada’ I-I CAN’T FEEL MY LEGS ANYMORE slurpees CHRIST ON A CRACKER WHY WOULD YOU EVEN BUILD A CITY HERE Winnipeg Jets DON’T YOU SEE THIS IS GOD’S WAY OF...
Sep 9th
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“I want to thank our champions and Canada’s greatest TV network, the CBC and...”
– Peter Keleghan
Sep 8th
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“The big news is that while last year’s [Gemini] award for Best Drama went to The...”
– Canadian Content! (from a post by the inimitable Jaime Weinman)
Sep 8th
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