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Happy Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day, everyone!

In honour of this day, and as a Canadian now living in the United States, here’s the most appropriate tribute I can find: Stewart “Brittlestar” Reynolds’ video, in which he explains Canada to its neighbour to the south. Here’s the video…

…and here’s the story behind the video, courtesy of the Stratford Beacon-Herald.

I’ll close with this classic video by Tom Brokaw about Canada, which was broadcast just before the 2010 Olympic Games’ opening ceremonies in Vancouver, Canada on February 12, 2010:

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