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Entries Tagged as 'Canadian Content'

Canadian Superheroes

June 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

“Creating a Canadian superhero is rather like growing bananas in Nunavut. With enough ingenuity and willpower you can do it, but is it worth doing?”

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Tags: Asides · Canadian Content · Comics

Wichita Mind Control

December 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments

The Wichita, Kansas Public Library in 1952 was probably the last place on Earth you’d expect to get your mind blown.

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Tags: Canadian Content · Favorites · Old Blog · Old Weird America

Let Them Eat Wireless

September 14th, 2005 · 5 Comments

In which our hero tries his hand at that most diverting genre of blog posts, impotent griping about lousy customer service.

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Tags: Canadian Content · Favorites · Old Blog · Real Life · Telephony

Canada Recycles

July 1st, 2005 · No Comments

Canada is a country with too much geography and not enough alternate history. Until now.

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Tags: Alternate History · Canadian Content · Favorites · Old Blog

Goin' Down The Road

June 22nd, 2005 · 2 Comments

Thank you, America, it’s been a hell of a decade.

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Tags: Ben Franklin · Blogging · Canadian Content · Old Blog · Real Life

A Zooter from a Googly

May 4th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Why don’t North Americans play cricket? And what does this have to do with rebuilding Iraq?

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Tags: Canadian Content · Favorites · Old Blog · Real Life

Go Western, Young Man

February 26th, 2005 · 11 Comments

In which our hero lands a job, and bids adieu to the Chronicle of Higher Ed.

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Tags: Academia · Canadian Content · Favorites · Old Blog · Real Life

Blame Canada

December 23rd, 2004 · 3 Comments

Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson vs. Canada. Nobody wins.

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Tags: Canadian Content · Favorites · Old Blog · TV

World War, Too

November 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off

Letters from the front: more on my grandfather, killed in action during WWII.

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Tags: Canadian Content · Favorites · Old Blog · War and Peace

For Remembrance Day

November 11th, 2004 · Comments Off

Major Robert MacDougall, KIA January 1944.

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Tags: Canadian Content · Favorites · Old Blog · War and Peace