I'd also really like an explanation. Someone was pretty passionate about the topic since CBC charged ahead despite backlash. The folks who accuse our Nat. broadcaster of being state-owned propaganda must be perplexed!

Can't see our other allies agreeing to expel us! But worrisome nonetheless.

you are wiser than me it turns out

like if @ianhanomansing.bsky.social was going to take this risk, I assumed he had thoroughly researched some counter-points in defense of Canadian sovereignty.

I listened to it, Ian. Awful job. Shouldn't have done it in the first place, but you poorly articulated the risks in selling Canadian sovereignty. You were very polite though, if that was your goal.

Buy Canadian! (Or at least not USA) Never going back

Thanks Tony, I wanted to reflect on its significance for a moment :)

😂 thank you Kim! I was very inspired at least

how do I join??

And though we grieved our once proud neighbour, now enduring a slow, unseemly decline, we were grateful that their arrogance and spazzed-out foreign policy had made us even stronger!

Thank you America! 🍁

Canada had won again! Just like last month when the US President clumsily tried to strong-arm us with tariff threats. We were honestly getting tired of winning at this point.

It was over. And there can be no rematches with a once-in-a-generation game that so perfectly captures the dynamics of the day's political maelstrom. The US would have to eat their humble Boston Cream pie, and savour it forever.

When Connor McDavid sniped the US net for the game-winning overtime goal, the whole place exploded. Simon, in a Winnipeg Jets jersey and Canadian flag cape, pounded the pool table and collapsed on it in prostrated thanksgiving.

Mika, a 22-year-old who didn't care about hockey at all, had work early the next morning but stood on-guard by the screen, “This is the type of thing my kids will ask me about,” she said.

While I was watching the final game against Canada’s less-than-friendly neighbour, it was clear by the tension in my local pool hall that this game had the same flavour of national significance.

My friend fondly remembered his professor bouncing out of his front-row seat when Henderson slid the puck past the Soviet goalie with only 34 seconds left in the game. Truly a Heritage Minute.

During the final game, one of John’s peers had brought a portable TV to class so they could watch during a scheduled lecture. When the professor spotted the student, he beckoned him to bring the tiny TV to the front of the hall, and the whole class huddled around to watch.

The day before the final, I was walking with my friend John who volunteers with me. He is in his mid-seventies and recalled being in his undergrad during the Summit Series.

This week’s historic and dramatic hockey game, buoyed by the involvement of both countries’ leaders, echoes the same national themes. It is democracy versus authoritarianism. It is the forging of a national identity out of the aggression of an imposing common enemy.