Canada
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Party like it’s 1992 or 1993
October 23, 1993 Where the hell is Tony? Joe Carter had just hit his 1993 World Series winning home run 5 minutes ago, and now I am on the Esplanade lost in a sea of fans wearing blue that disappears… Continue reading
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José Bautista’s bat flip 10 years later
It is hard to believe that this October 14 it will be 10 years since José Bautista hit the notorious home run that sent Toronto to the American League Championship Series in the first Blue Jays postseason appearance since 1993.… Continue reading
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Drinking Baco for Canada
This past weekend, I was pleased to see that my local LCBO at Bloor West and Runnymede had removed all US wines from the US wine aisle and replaced them with Baco Noir from Ontario. Interestingly, Baco is a fusion… Continue reading
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Buy local buy Canadian
One of my proudest moments as a Canadian was watching the Unity Rally in Montréal during the 1995 Referendum where tens of thousands of Canadians from coast to coast to coast demonstrated their love and appreciation for Quebec a nation with… Continue reading
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Brian Mulroney citizen of the world
When Brian Mulroney won the 1983 Progressive Conservative race in Canada as the “Cadillac candidate” and was talking about “consumer confidence” he seemed to me like yet another neo-Conservative politico cut from the same cloth as Reagan and Thatcher. Subsequent… Continue reading
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