Pursuing Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
The Niagara Independent, June 30, 2023 – Many Canadians now appreciate the full context of Justin Trudeau’s comment back in 2015, when he surmised that Canada would become the “first post-national state.” Having just become Prime Minister of the country, Trudeau stated in that often-quoted New York Times interview, “There is no core identity, no…
The Niagara Independent, July 1, 2022 – From his earliest revelations about wanting to transform this country into a post-national state, PM Justin Trudeau and his enablers have been on a mission to hollow out the idea of Canada. There is to be no core identity, no proud history, no mainstream traditions, no sense of…
Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it’s own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. — June Callwood The huge advantage…
By George Journal presents some of our favourite quotes on Canada and Canucks – so you might spice up your toasts on Canada Day! Cheers! A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe. — Pierre Burton We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong…
Q: What do you call a sophisticated American?/ A: Canadian. Q: What are the two seasons of weather in Canada? / A: Six months of winter and six months of poor snowmobiling. Q: What does a Canadian say when you step on his foot? / A: “Sorry” Q: How do you empty a swimming pool…
Here is a compilation of some interesting facts about Canada Day, our country’s national celebration. A proclamation signed by the Governor General on June 20, 1868, asked all Canadians to join in the celebration of the anniversary of the uniting of Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia as the dominion of Canada…
1. Giant beavers roamed Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene era, rubbing shoulders with mastodons and mammoths. They were 10 feet in length, including tail just smaller than a MINI Cooper and weighed up to 800 pounds. 2. The modern beaver is the second-largest rodent in the world (the capybara of South America is…
In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, By George is producing a Top-10 List of Canadian Symbols. For this list By George consulted the following: WatchMojo.com, Yahoo Answers, The Canadian Guide and Canada.com. Ultimately, however the By George braintrust selected and ranked the top ten list. Here are Honourable Mentions: The Bluenose, totem poles, toque, ice…
In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, By George is producing a Top-10 List of Canadian Inventions. For this list By George consulted the following: CBC’s Greatest Canadian Invention, CBC survey, Yahoo and Thought Company. Ultimately, however the By George braintrust selected and ranked the top ten list. Here are Honourable Mentions: Canoe, jetliner, the pager,…
In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, By George is producing a Top-10 List of Canadian Songs through the modern times. For this list By George consulted the following: CBC Music, Strong Words, Billboard’s 100 Canadian #1s, Zoomer Magazine and Indie 8. Ultimately, however the By George braintrust selected and ranked the top ten list. Here…
In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, By George is producing a Top-10 List of Canadian Foods. For this list By George consulted the following: Hostelworld.com, Readers’ Digest, Yahoo, Canadian Living, and the Taste Atlas. Ultimately, however the By George braintrust selected and ranked the top ten list. Here are the Honourable Mentions: Nova Scotian Lobster…
In celebrating Canada Day in 2020, By George is producing a Top-10 List of Canucks selected through the years of our Nationhood. For this list By George consulted the following sources: The Pantheon At M.I.T., Insider.com, CBC Greatest Canadian, Amazon’s IMDb.com, Quora.com, TheMagazine.ca, The Canadian Guide (historical figures), Global News 150 birthday selection, and TopTenz….
A few years ago AskMen.com listed the top 10 Canadian icons “that have been branded as our global symbols and that define our Canadian identity.” In ascending order, they picked: maple syrup, Canada goose, beaver, Tim Horton’s, the loon, totem poles, Mounties, the CBC, the maple leaf and their number #1 icon is hockey. In…
Through the past few weeks, the By George Journal conducted a Canadiana contest to select the most-Canadian of symbols. Based on the feedback of our followers, here are the top-three, most-beloved symbols of Canadiana. In reverse order, the top-three selected symbols are: #3 The RCMP #2 The Game of Hockey #1 The Beaver …
Here are the words of the chorus and first couple of verses of the song that first united our land – the song that our soldiers marched to in WWI – establishing forever the maple leaf as an enduring symbol of all that is Canadian. Chorus: The Maple Leaf, our emblem dear, The Maple Leaf…
Have you wondered where the name ‘Canada’ comes from? It’s the Huron-Iroquois word ‘kanata’ which means ‘settlement’ or ‘village.’ Jacques Cartier first heard it in reference to Quebec City, but soon it was used to describe the whole region. Upper Canada Parliamentarian Thomas D’Arcy McGee argued the adoption of Canada as the name for the…
The Niagara Independent, June 25, 2021 — Oh Canada, is there anything left of our country and its history for us to celebrate? Does it not seem that, in reading news headlines, Canadians’ new national sport is self-flagellation? We now live in a country where our nation’s past is being removed from public squares and…
The Niagara Independent, June 26, 2020 – Back in October 2015, the newly-elected Justin Trudeau’s seemingly obtuse comments on the country he was about to lead are now understood as a foreshadowing of his debasement of “Canada” as Canadians once knew it. In the now infamous New York Times Magazine interview, Canada’s new PM declared “There is…
This quiz is different in that there will not be any wrong answers… your goal is to get the most Canadian of answers to the question “What best defines Canada?” We have taken the responses from a national poll of Canadians conducted by the Dominion Institute within the past few years. We have then weighted…
“And so the new Flag, joining and rising above the milestones of our history, today takes for the first time its proud place as the emblem of Canada, “The Maple Leaf Our Emblem Dear.” May the land over which this new Flag flies remain united in freedom and justice; a land of decent God-fearing…