CANADA GEESE are a complete and utter nuisance. They happen to bear this country’s name, and, as such, have come to be seen as a national symbol of sorts, along with Mounties, beavers and maple syrup. But our default national bird can also be quite a pain, particularly beyond our borders. Recall Canada geese were [...]
Entries Tagged as 'United States'
Goosegate
July 17th, 2010 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Oh Canada, Unusual Punishments, Weird and wacky
Tags:America·animal cruelty·animal culling·Bald Eagle·Brooklyn·Canada goose·Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger·freedom·New Jersey·U.S.A.·United States·US Airways Flight 1549
Ukraine: How egg-citing
April 28th, 2010 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Weird and wacky
AND HERE I thought American politics had reached a partisan boiling point. On Tuesday, just before the Ukraine parliament approved an agreement to allow the Russian Navy to remain in the port of Sevastopol until 2042, opposition legislators began tossing eggs in protest and then smoke bombs were set off. Things got so eggy in there that the speaker had to be shielded [...]
Tags:Canada·Democratic Party·John Prescott·Nancy Pelosi·Parliament·partisan politics·politics·protest·Republican Party·Russia·Sevastopol·Ukraine·United States·Washington
Osama the tree hugger
February 3rd, 2010 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Media Matters
OSAMA BIN LADEN is back in the news, and not just because he’s released one of his tirades against evil America. He has issued a new tirade, only this time Osama’s got a new focus for his ire. In a taped message aired on Al Jazeera last week, the Titan of Terror blames the U.S. and [...]
Tags:Al Gore·Al Jazeera·America·An Inconvenient Truth·climate change·environment·George W. Bush·global warming·Israel·jihad·Osama bin Laden·United States
Stephen Harper's extra-long snow day
January 6th, 2010 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Media Matters, Oh Canada
IT’S HARD TO get all that excited about Canadian politics, even during an election. Whether it’s because nothing genuinely thrilling ever happens in Ottawa – compared to Washington or London, at least – or it’s simply that Canadians are apathetic about how our country is run, the fact is no one seems to care all [...]
Tags:Britain·Canada·Globe and Mail·Liberal Party·London·Michael Ignatieff·National Post·New Democractic Party·Ottawa·Parliament·politics·Rick Mercer·Stephen Harper·United States·Washington
Thanks a lot, Umar!
December 30th, 2009 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Media Matters
INTERESTING HOW the public’s response to terrorism has evolved over the past decade. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, most of us were a bit unnerved and easily convinced that another attack could be imminent. Each time there was even a hint of something bad happening – anthrax in the mail, the shoe bomber, etc. [...]
Tags:airlines·airport security·national security·Obama·Sept. 11·terror·terrorism·Transport Canada·Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab·United States
PM tunes out
October 28th, 2009 · View Comments · Currently, Media Matters, Oh Canada, Pop Culture
CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER Stephen Harper created a bit of a stink last week when he told a business luncheon that “I don’t like to watch Canadian news.” The PM, leader of the Conservative Party, said he doesn’t enjoy hearing what “everybody else is saying about me, so my hobby is to watch politics elsewhere … mainly American news.” Harper is [...]
Tags:America·beaver·boring·Canada·CNN·Fox News·ice·media·news·polar bear·politics·snow·Stephen Harper·United States
Beck is bonkers
August 30th, 2009 · View Comments · Currently, Media Matters, Pop Culture
FOX NEWS IS notorious for its parade of right-wing hosts and pundits who seem to revel in whipping their conservative viewers into a tizzy over perceived threats to the American way of life, such as socialism, terrorism and universal health care. But after watching this clip of Glenn Beck – I never realized he was [...]
Big Dog, small crowd
August 28th, 2009 · View Comments · Currently, Oh Canada
WHO CARES what Bill Clinton has to say? Here in Toronto, apparently not many people. The Big Dog is slated to give a speech Saturday at the Canadian National Exhibition, the city’s annual end-of-summer fair that for most typically consists of nothing more substantive than munching on caramel corn and cotton candy, risking your life on sketchy [...]
Tags:Bill Clinton·BMO Field·Canada·Canadian National Exhibition·CNE·fair·humanity·North Korea·president·summer·Toronto·United States
True north strong and free
August 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Currently, Oh Canada
PRIME MINISTER Stephen Harper is in Canada’s Far North this week, an annual tour/photo-op during which the PM talks about the need to protect the vast, barren Arctic territory by beefing up our military presence there. The Conservative government recently unveiled its new Arctic Strategy, a large part of which focuses on “putting more boots on the Arctic tundra, more ships [...]
Tags:Arctic·Canada·Denmark·Don Martin·icebreaker·Inuit·Michaëlle Jean·National Post·Northwest Passage·recession·Russia·sovereignty·Stephen Harper·United States
Do Canadians hate freedom?
August 12th, 2009 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Oh Canada
IN NEW YORK a couple of weekends ago, I had one of those tipsy-3 a.m.-outside-the-bar conversations with this girl, but not about what you might think. We discussed the hot button issue of the moment in the U.S.: health care reform. As a Canadian, I’ve always enjoyed universal health care coverage. Like other Canucks, I [...]
Tags:Canada·G8·health care·insurance·Manifest Destiny·New York·Ottawa·Sarah Palin·Shona Holmes·town hall·United States·Wall Street Journal
