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Friday June 30, 06
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08:53 AM - Clearly Canadian
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As I’ll be out of the city tending to matters rather urgent come July 1st (Canada Day), I thought I’d take a moment to hype my nation prior to its birthday…
Metric, Arcade Fire, the Organ, the Dears, Broken Social Scene and the Stills... Canadian music!
Universal healthcare, freedom of speech, bilingualism, same sex marriages and legalized pot… Canadian ideals!
Toronto, the most multi-cultural metropolis on the planet and home to the tallest tower on earth, the 3rd largest theatre district in the English speaking world and voted the cleanest, safest major urban centre on the planet… a Canadian city!
The telephone, penicillin, the zipper, Superman, basketball, hockey, Greenpeace, and Moosehead beer… Canadian creations!
Morrissey-Solo users Redpathetic, Lucretia, Goddess1, Haze/Sullen and many, many others… Canadian residents!
Donald Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland, Norm MacDonald, Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, James Cameron, David Cronenberg, Lorne Michaels, Joni Mitchell, Oscar Peterson, Keanu Reeves and thousands more... Canadian entertainers!
Douglas Coupland, Eckhart Tolle, Ernest Hemmingway... authors inspired by their Canadian surroundings!
Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains and the hot, cactus infested desert regions of Osoyoos… Canadian tourist destinations!
More oil than Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Kuwait put together, more fresh water than the rest of the planet combined, millions and millions of acres of trees and the largest coastline in the world… Canadian resources!
Liberating the Netherlands from the Nazis, freeing American hostages from Iranian terrorists, creators of the U.N Peace Keeping forces… Canadian backbone!
Dismantling ourselves of the world’s 2nd largest navy following the end of WWII… Canadian humility!
Living a prosperous existence without flaunting our overall wealth in the most confrontational of ways… Canadian style!
Indeed Canada, the second largest country on earth, is a place we all love and cherish and, dare I say, if the rest world’s nations were more like Canada we’d be living in a far more tolerable, fashionable, peace loving world.
Happy Canada Day,
Sullen
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Love Alma xxx