FUCK YEAH CANADA

Self Parody, National Identity and the Canadian Culture Industry

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:35:41 -0500

Self Parody, National Identity and the Canadian Culture Industry:

somersaultmag:

During Canada’s most recent prime ministerial campaign, Nickelback happened to be playing a concert in Ottawa about a month before the election. As the band launched into their hit song “Photograph,” a picture of Stephen Harper appeared on the screen behind lead singer Chad Kroeger. There may not be a more telling image of Canada in 2012 than that of the anti-charismatic Harper staring dead-eyed into a camera while Avril Lavigne’s husband-to-be grimaces his way through a second-rate Creed impersonation.

I wrote a thing for Somersault Magazine, and I hope you like it. Be sure to read everything else on there too, it’s wonderful.

newyorker: Cartoon of the day. Don’t forget to enter this...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:34:24 -0400

newyorker:

Cartoon of the day. Don’t forget to enter this week’s caption contest: http://nyr.kr/r46had

garethsimpson: douglashaddow: YOU AINT A CROOK SON, YOU JUST A...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:46:20 -0400

garethsimpson:

douglashaddow:

YOU AINT A CROOK SON, YOU JUST A SHOOK ONE

It’s like he’s never heard of Rob Ford.

For Chris.

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:46:20 -0500

For Chris.

Mayor Rob Ford calls police after ambush by 22 Minutes actress

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:17:00 -0400

Mayor Rob Ford calls police after ambush by 22 Minutes actress:

ROB FORD *FART NOISE* SADTROMBONE.COM

Photo

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:56:28 -0400

elevators: This is a phone conversation with CBC Radio’s Stuart...

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:48:24 -0400

elevators:

This is a phone conversation with CBC Radio’s Stuart Mclean, edited down to just Stuart’s fake stutters.

I don’t know if there’s a point to this. It’s not good to say “uh…” on the radio, so sometimes y- y- you gotta s- stutter. Plus it- it… well, it makes your… speech sound more sentimental and… and heartfelt.

garethsimpson: From the “Only in Canada” department: something...

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:22:22 -0400

garethsimpson:

From the “Only in Canada” department: something that is neither English nor French gets printed in both English and French.

Every article about Toronto ever

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:17:30 -0400

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 Chicago

Unironically, ‘Canada is full of elites! Just look at all those elites!’

‘We elected an incompetent mayor and his insane older brother! Woe is us! Why aren’t you pitying us for the officials we democratically elected?’

‘BUT SERIOUSLY, DID WE TELL YOU ABOUT OUR MANY DIVERSE COMMUNITIES? LET US REPEAT OURSELVES, JUST SO YOU HEARD.’

Every article about Winnipeg ever

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:15:54 -0400

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 TRYING TO KILL YOU

"I want to thank our champions and Canada’s greatest TV network, the CBC and Kirstine Stewart except..."

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:34:01 -0400

“I want to thank our champions and Canada’s greatest TV network, the CBC and Kirstine Stewart except for the fact they cancelled 18 to Life….and thanks to the greatest country in the world except for the fact that Jack Layton will never be prime minister.”

- Peter Keleghan

"The big news is that while last year’s [Gemini] award for Best Drama went to The Tudors, an..."

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:29:00 -0400

“The big news is that while last year’s [Gemini] award for Best Drama went to The Tudors, an international co-production with very little Canadian involvement, this year’s award went to The Borgias, an international co-production with very little Canadian involvement. Basically, British shows with some Canadian money invested.”

- Canadian Content!

(from a post by the inimitable Jaime Weinman)

Goodbye, Jack. (via Vancouver is Awesome)

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:14:29 -0400

Goodbye, Jack. (via Vancouver is Awesome)

garethsimpson: Jack Layton was the best Canadian politician of...

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:35:33 -0400

garethsimpson:

Jack Layton was the best Canadian politician of a generation, and one of my personal favourites. 112 days after his greatest victory, he died of cancer. Canada and I will miss him tremendously.

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So..."

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:37:28 -0400

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”

- Jack Layton

(via georgiastraight)

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Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:05:00 -0400

This has been your all-too-infrequent reminder that Jason Kenney...

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:23:00 -0400

This has been your all-too-infrequent reminder that Jason Kenney can and should fuck off.

cbcradio: Talking with Sarah Liss over at @CBCRadio2 on how to...

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:28:48 -0400

cbcradio:

Talking with Sarah Liss over at @CBCRadio2 on how to get more Twitter followers. This was our best idea.

Get on this. All of it.

garethsimpson: It’s at moments like this when I regret calling...

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:17:03 -0400

garethsimpson:

It’s at moments like this when I regret calling things “the worst” so often, because it devalues pictures like this, which are actually the worst.

(via @DouglasHaddow)

KILL IT. KILL IT WITH FIRE.

christopherkelly: Second This Is That story of the year....

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:18 -0400

christopherkelly:

Second This Is That story of the year. Canadian Tourism campaign calls other countries stupid.