National Pride

[tealin]

THIS JUST IN

CANADA MAKES TOP NEWS STORY ON BBC NEWS SITE


Oh Ottawa and your petty squabbling politicians ... and miserable icy weather, judging by that photo (coldest capitol city!) ... I know I'm out of touch with Canadian news but seriously, what's going on up there? Are they just bored or what?

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

One must always consider the character of the individual ... Knowing Canadians, I suspect the vast majority of those who could be arsed to take the poll are 'truly scared' (or indignant, or in some sort of funk); the people with more typically apathetic or measured views have better things to do with their time.

A few years ago someone pointed out to me that the National Post, which is run by whatever conglomerate owns canada.com, treats surveys as front-page news an inordinate amount of the time. I love the National Post in many different ways but ... it's true. In fact for a while I think the typesetters (or whatever the modern equivalent is) had two pre-set forms for the top headline, one was 'Bush Vows ______' and the other '__% of Canadians ________' and they'd alternate randomly over the course of the week.

Mery Steyn

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

"There’s been a backroom deal between the liberals, who are sort of the soft left party, the New Democratic Party, who are the hard left party, the socialists, and the Bloc Québécois, who are the secessionist party, to in effect remove the government from the Tory Party, and install themselves as what I called a pantomime horse comprised of three rear ends."