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Entries Tagged as 'Canadian Content'

The Secret Origin of Canada

January 4th, 2010 · 10 Comments

Métis grooviness, hard working brackets, and my beef with John Ralston Saul’s “A Fair Country.”

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Tags: Books · Canadian Content · Favorites · What I'm Reading

How Anne of Green Gables Destroyed The World

September 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

An apocalyptic alternate history from my buddy Mark Rayner. Contains 100% of your CanCon RDA.

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Tags: Alternate History · Asides · Canadian Content

From The Vault: Alternate Canadas

July 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

What the hell, it’s Canada Day, I can re-recycle my alternate Canadian histories from six (egad) years ago.

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Tags: Alternate History · Asides · Canadian Content · Paleoblogging

Happy Dominion Day

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Fun with Canadian History (not an oxymoron!) from Sir Mark A. Rayner and HRH Kate Beaton.

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Tags: Asides · Canadian Content

Perky Canada Has, Um…

December 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Remember that old Onion headline: “Perky Canada Has Own Government, Laws”? Apparently, for the next eight weeks, we don’t!

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Tags: Asides · Canadian Content · Have We Learned Nothing From Footloose?

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

November 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Two good friends of mine have just launched Social Ch@nge, a blog about using the net for nonprofits, with some constructive criticism of Joe the Plumber’s official (!) website.

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Tags: Asides · Canadian Content

American For A Day

November 5th, 2008 · 38 Comments

Post-election euphoria: I feel so full of “less shame,” I can’t tell you.

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Tags: Canadian Content · Favorites · Have We Learned Nothing From Footloose?

Giant Ants?

May 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Kate Beaton is awesome.

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Tags: Canadian Content

Weighty Historical Matters

April 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments

Beards, bots, and were they hot?

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Tags: Ben Franklin · Blogging · Canadian Content · Favorites · Found History

Damn Right Your Dad Drank It

January 18th, 2008 · 18 Comments

Closing the generation gap… with whisky, damnit.

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Tags: Canadian Content · Daddyhood · Favorites · Found History