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Canadianism Podcast | S2 E7 | Quebec Is About to Show Canada What’s Wrong With Our Voting System
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 […]
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 […]
