Category Archives: Canadiana

Usquequo, Domine?

Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 by bt

Really? I mean REALLY? It’s nearly May!

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Family Day

Posted on Monday, February 21, 2011 by bt

You know the family is in rough shape when having one day of the year named after it increases its importance. The really scary thing is that in the lead-up to this fourth EVER family day in Ontario, people were already asking … Continue reading →

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The Wearable

Posted on Monday, February 21, 2011 by bt

I’ve now field tested a pair of Northern Watters oiled wool mitts on a protracted tire change in the freezing wind. I had to chip the flat out of the ice that had built up in my driveway while I … Continue reading →

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Breakfast in Thunder Bay

Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2011 by bt

I’d forgotten what a comfort the Husky gas station and diner is. It’s the only chain built on that bastion of small hospitality (and therefore of Christendom), the leathery, blunt old waitress with a heart of gold. Countless weary truckers … Continue reading →

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Fairy Tales Do Come True

Posted on Monday, March 1, 2010 by bt

And so it ended. With one goal, Sid the Kid closed the Vancouver Olympics and completed Canada’s record-setting gold medal run, putting the finishing touch on the Games that will define my generation. For my whole life, I’ve heard politicians, … Continue reading →

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National Unity…

Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 by bt

…is walking through the snow two hundred feet from an eight story apartment building with all its windows closed against the cold, and hearing the walls vibrate with the cheer for an unimportant goal. Go Canada.

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Alexander who?

Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 by bt

7 to 3. Stick that in your big red machine and grind it! LLLLUUUUUUUUUUU!

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Your Tax Dollars at Worship

Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 by bt

Any self-respecting Messiah needs at least the rudiments of liturgy and public devotion if he’s to be taken seriously. Never outdone in matters of piety, the boys at the CBC are preparing a modest musical hecatomb to the Hopeful One, … Continue reading →

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Remembrance Day

Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 by bt

It seems as though every Remembrance Day someone trots out the little trope that we remember our fathers’ sacrifices so that we won’t have to repeat them. I’m surprised it took me so long to realize the obvious error of … Continue reading →

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Oh Canada

Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 by bt

To moderate the bitterness of the last post, allow me to do a bit of flag waving: and state that Canada is my home and native land, which I love with all my heart. That’s one thing that makes it … Continue reading →

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