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Bingo.
2022 CPC Leadership Discussion: Et tu Redeux
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All nightmare fuel.
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Drifting from the CPC here, but most of that seems to be the US focus on “teams”.
Pro sports obviously, but think about how many US alumni wear their college merch vs Canadian university alumni. Aside from Homecoming weekend (if that’s a thing with all universities in Canada), it would be unusual to see people wearing U of T or Queens gear after graduation. Contrast that with any of the big (or even small) US universities.
I’m just glad that we in Canada don’t generally go as merch-happy for political parties.
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Interesting observation. it used to be common to see someone where a university or college jacket (I had one). Maybe it's the cost, maybe it's not considered cool anymore.
The US is very tribal.
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Indeed. The importance of Alma Maters, sororities/fraternities, etc., voting for the same party your great-grandfather did just cuz.
While I was at Costco today hoarding toilet paper, I saw someone wearing a “uOttawa Proud Father” hoodie. Carleton doesn’t seem to sell those for some reason…
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Actually so are we. BC is a tribe all its own, The Western Tribe is Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba but Alberta sorta kinda is the boss. Ontario has two - the Golden Triangle, and the rest of Ontario. Quebec is a distinct tribe. As for the Maritimes they are similar to the West with no one in charge. Newfoundland - god love em, are a very distinct tribe.
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…until folks are outside Canada, then it’s “close ranks and defend against outsiders besmirching our hockey and maple syrup”Careful - you're starting to sound as if you believe Canada has no mainstream, no core identity
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Canadaland goes over the PP Video.
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At the end of the episode, Jesse and his guest host (a teacher and Tik Toker Frank Domenic) go on this odd tangent on how conservatives are able to make fun of themselves (ala Jeff Foxworthy). I'm still trying to figure out what they were getting at. Is it a bad thing that conservatives have inside jokes? Are lefties that puritan that they are unable or unwilling to laugh at themselves?
Also Jesse puts a plea to future Jesse that he is not a person that should be named to the Senate (re: Charles Adler and the unmentioned Mike Duffy)
#1017 The Selling of Kamala Harris
TikToker Frank Domenic joins to assess the return of optimism to political discourse in the US and Canada.
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At the end of the episode, Jesse and his guest host (a teacher and Tik Toker Frank Domenic) go on this odd tangent on how conservatives are able to make fun of themselves (ala Jeff Foxworthy). I'm still trying to figure out what they were getting at. Is it a bad thing that conservatives have inside jokes? Are lefties that puritan that they are unable or unwilling to laugh at themselves?
Also Jesse puts a plea to future Jesse that he is not a person that should be named to the Senate (re: Charles Adler and the unmentioned Mike Duffy)
Strangely when I travel, Canadians say they are Canadians while travelling. Americans almost always identify with their state when asked where they are from.…until folks are outside Canada, then it’s “close ranks and defend against outsiders besmirching our hockey and maple syrup”
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Then we get asked if we know Fred from Toronto.
When I get asked from Americans where I'm from and I say SW Manitoba, I get a "Where the heck is that" look. Then I say its just across the border from North Dakota and the look never changes.
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“Just North of Minot…”Then we get asked if we know Fred from Toronto.
When I get asked from Americans where I'm from and I say SW Manitoba, I get a "Where the heck is that" look. Then I say its just across the border from North Dakota and the look never changes.
Oh, got it!
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Funny thing, I was in the Starbucks line at Carling and there was a US Space Force Guardian beside me and we got to chatting. She asked where I was from in Canada and I said. "A place you've never heard of" She replied "I was posted to Minot, I know where you're from!" LOL.“Just North of Minot…”
Oh, got it!
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Get the same thing in ItalyThen we get asked if we know Fred from Toronto.
Similar to many responses I get when I tell Americans I’m from north of MinnesotaWhen I get asked from Americans where I'm from and I say SW Manitoba, I get a "Where the heck is that" look. Then I say its just across the border from North Dakota and the look never changes.
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I'd be more worried if someone from one of the US intelligence branches walked up to you and, unprovoked, said "I know where you're from!"
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Years ago, I was on course in Texas, one of four "international students" (Jordanian, Malaysian, El Salvadorean and Canadian) along with 120 US Army officers. On day one, after we (the foreigners) had been introduced as part of the opening brief, a couple of the Americans (one of several married couples who were posted to the same course) came up and started chatting. They were very proud to inform me that the parents of both had been born in Canada (sorta); they suggested that I might not know of the towns where they had come from, Port Aux Basques and Carbonear. They were tickled pink when I told them I was from the Rock (St. John's), moreso that my grandfather was from Carbonear.
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