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Canadianism Podcast | S2 E7 | Quebec Is About to Show Canada What’s Wrong With Our Voting System
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 […]
From Carnival and world-class tennis to baseball trades, hospital technology and race cars in Markham, the GTA has already packed plenty into the opening days of August. The GTA doesn’t ease gently into August. It puts on feathers, fills the fairgrounds, trades half a baseball team and starts converting city streets into a racetrack. The long weekend may be behind us, but the region isn’t exactly settling down. Toronto is […]
