Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.
And what if the other kids laugh at me? Kerry complained to her parents as she nibbled on a piece of toast that morning. I have a Cape Breton accent! They’ll know I’m from Canada and they’ll start ask...
(n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.
...my body has becomeanother countryand I feel like an unemployedillegal alienhow will I survivewhere I do not belongI belong with you
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you...
It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a diner and share views with him; you wait behind a customer checking into a motel, a friendly man wit...
Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.
Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.
We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.
Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.
Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.
Newfoundland is a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen.
Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.
Because of the city upon a hill sound bite, is one of the formative documents outlining the idea of America. But dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might hav...
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
You are a big country now but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold you get pneumonia.
I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my count...
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity and this is one of our marvellous resources.
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