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Canadianism Podcast | S2 E7 | Quebec Is About to Show Canada What’s Wrong With Our Voting System
Montreal at 3 A.M. Used to Taste Better: The Legendary Late-Night Eats We've Lost There was a time when last call in Montreal didn't mean finding a drive-thru. Smoked meat, eggs, burgers, fries and enough grease to make tomorrow slightly more manageable were waiting all over the city. Some of the places that fed generations of Montreal night owls are gone now. There was a particular moment during a Montreal […]
Two of the most recognizable actors in the world managed to have a private wedding, keep most of the details to themselves and then celebrate with family and friends largely on their own terms. In modern Hollywood, that may be the real story. There are celebrity weddings, and then there are celebrity productions that happen to include a wedding. Tom Holland and Zendaya appear to have chosen the former. After […]
An old Canadian restaurant menu from 2018 has resurfaced online, and the prices look almost ridiculous beside what we're paying today. It wasn't 30 years ago. It was eight. Try to remember what going out for dinner cost in 2018. Not 1985, when we're told you could apparently buy a house, a Buick and a steak dinner for fourteen dollars. I'm talking about eight years ago. An old Canadian pub […]
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 […]
