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Canadianism Podcast | S2 E7 | Quebec Is About to Show Canada What’s Wrong With Our Voting System
When Did Concerts Get So Damn Perfect? The sound is better. The lights are better. The shows are safer. So why does it sometimes feel like we lost something along the way? I've been watching clips of Rush's current tour with Anika Nilles, and they sound great. Really great, actually. Considering we're talking about musicians whose history stretches back more than 50 years, it's remarkable. The playing is there, the […]
10 Canadian Songs Everyone Here Knows, But Americans Probably Don't There was once an entire layer of Canadian music that could be enormous north of the border and practically invisible a few hours south. If you grew up here, some of these songs weren't simply hits. They were part of the wallpaper. There's a funny thing that happens when Canadians talk about music with Americans. You mention a song you […]
10 Places You Have to Stand Once in Your Life to See Canada at Its Finest Canada is ridiculously beautiful. We say that so often that it's almost become a cliché, but every once in a while you find yourself standing somewhere in this country that reminds you exactly why we say it. Not looking at a picture of it. Not flying over it. Actually standing there. There's a moment […]
Just when you thought we'd beaten the price of beef to death, along comes vegetable oil. Yes, vegetable oil. Not prime rib. Not filet mignon. Not some imported delicacy you're buying twice a year. The bottle of cooking oil sitting beside the stove. An analysis of Statistics Canada's monthly retail-price data found that vegetable oil was up 138 percent between January 2020 and June 2026, more than any other grocery […]
Canadians are tired of tipping. Not because we've suddenly become cheap. Because we're being asked to do it everywhere. You buy a coffee. Tip. You pick up takeout. Tip. You buy a sandwich. Tip. Every payment terminal seems to swing around asking for 18, 20 or 25 percent before you've even finished paying. I understand the frustration. I feel it too. But I also think we're making a mistake by […]
By Christopher M. Michaud, The Canadianist Two pictures have been making the rounds this week. In one, a Real Canadian Superstore flyer shows Australian striploin at $10.88 a pound next to Canadian striploin at $32.88 — nearly triple. In the other, a shelf photo from an Edmonton Superstore shows the same gap on rib steak: $28.64/kg for Australian, $72.73/kg for Canadian. People are angry. My own brother sent me […]
After yet another string of heat warnings this summer, Canadians are quietly rewriting the rules for how to actually get through July and August. There was a stretch this summer when it felt like Environment Canada couldn't keep the warning maps updated fast enough. Orange one week, yellow the next, humidex numbers that made a Toronto sidewalk feel like a sauna with traffic. In mid-July, four provinces from southeastern Saskatchewan […]
Two and a half hours from Toronto, a former farming county has quietly turned itself into the wine and food destination the rest of the world just noticed. There's a particular kind of Ontario smugness that comes from being into Prince Edward County before Condé Nast was. For years it was the place your one friend with good taste in wine kept talking about, the weekend trip you filed away […]
The Blue Jays just completed one of the strangest trade deadlines in recent memory, the National Bank Open is underway at Sobeys Stadium, and both Scarborough and Brampton are hosting playoff basketball this week. August has arrived, and the GTA sports calendar is anything but quiet. The Blue Jays sell, buy and win on the same day The Blue Jays spent Monday behaving like a team that couldn’t quite decide […]
