Oh, and apparently she’s about 3 months late on this, as all the stores and restaurants stopped serving it ages ago.
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Its just so hilariously petty!
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I have rabid NDP supporters in my family. As in, they get highly upset if you give even the faintest praise to another party leader, something like, “Hey, Trudeau did okay on that speech he gave yesterday”. That’s enough to get you a minimum hour-long diatribe on how awful the other parties are.
(Note: most of the rest of the family are also NDP supporters. Just we prefer to be quieter and more rational about it.)
Anyways, what I have learned from the rabid NDPers in the family is that if it comes down to jobs or the environment, the NDP will tend to pick jobs, because no matter what’s happened in their history, they see themselves as the voice of ordinary working folks.
If you are preparing to remind me that environmentally responsible behaviour – like, say, installing a solar farm instead of another fucking pipeline – also creates jobs, don’t worry. I’m already there.
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The booze is piped in? I’ve got to speed up my plans to move to Canada…
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Well, not booze as such, but the beer. None of those pipelines are allowed to cross provincial boundaries, though 
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Then again, if we’re comparing it to US love-in-a-canoe beer…
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I’m not comfortable with the censorship assertion. The Walrus is a magazine, and like any other magazine they can kill an article for any reason they want. The author can still publish her article elsewhere, if she can find someone to buy it.
Having said that, I totally agree that what’s going on here is that the magazine is scared of the wrath of Atwood and any other establishment writers who might disagree with the article. This is all about the cultural oligarchy of writers who declared themselves canonical in the 1960s and have been trying to call the shots on who gets to be in the in-crowd ever since.
Twenty years ago any author even writing such an article and having a chance of getting it published mainstream would have been nearly unthinkable. It’s really not that surprising that it got as far as being written, but not published.
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Sorry, but we don’t export the real beer. 
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Gotta have it to be able to export it. 
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Come down to Michigan, and find out. 
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It could be worse… Alberta could export its drunken Flames and Oilers fans to Rogers Arena in retaliation.
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Hey! There is a red flag with a certain “C” logo hanging over my desk, right now.
At least they’ve actually won the Cup, as opposed to the others “C” logo’d team whose flag hangs in the next cubicle.
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Dammit, can’t find the reference now…
Apparently someone asked Guy Lafleur what would happen if his Canadiens team played the current-day Canadiens. How many goals would his team win by?
Not that many, Lafleur replied. Maybe two or three.
That’s it? the reporter said.
Well, Lafleur explained, remember, all of us guys who played back then are in our 70s now.
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Up to six now.
But they still refuse to call him a serial killer.
Motherfuckers
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Maybe it was a hobby?
Cop-speak. Bastards.
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I have heard that they don’t want to call him that because if they do it opens up the door to look at similar closed cases… and they don’t want to do that because closed cases stay closed…
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Jeese, Tessa and Scott, could you be more gorgeous.
That was fucking amazing to watch.
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Courtesy of my younger brother (and yeah, most of it is bang on, although I am absolutely no good with a Lac St. Jean accent).
YOU KNOW YOU’RE FROM MONTREAL WHEN :
• You pronounce it “Muntreal”, not “Mahntreal”.
• You have ever said anything like “I have to stop at the guichet before we get to the dep.”
• Your only concern about jaywalking is getting a ticket.
• You agree that Montréal drivers are crazy, but you’re secretly proud of their nerves of steel.
• The most exciting thing about the South Shore is that you can turn right on a red.
• You know that the West Island is not a separate geographical formation.
• You bring smoked meat from Schwartz’s and bagels from St-Viateur if you’re visiting anyone.
• You refer to Tremblant as “up North.”
• You know how to pronounce Pie-IX.
• You greet everyone you meet with a two-cheek kiss.
• You’re not impressed with hardwood floors.
• You can watch soft-core porn on broadcast TV, and this has been true for at least 25 years.
• You were drinking café-au-lait before it was latte.
• Shopper’s Drug Mart is Pharmaprix and Staples is Bureau en gros, and PFK is finger lickin’ good.
• You really believe Just For Laughs is an international festival. For two weeks a year.
• Everyone, – drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists – think they’re immortal, and that you’ll move first.
• You think leaving 1:30 AM is an early night
• You know that Rocket Richard had nothing to do with astrophysics.
• You’ve seen Brother André’s heart.
• No matter how bilingual you are, you still don’t understand “Île aux Tourtes.”
• You know the difference between the SQ, the SAQ, and the SAAQ.
• You measure temperature and distance in metric, but weight and height in Imperial measure.
• You show up at a party at 11 p.m. and no one else is there yet.
• You know that Montréal is responsible for introducing to North America: bagels, souvlaki, smoked meat.
• You don’t drink pop or soda, you drink soft drinks.
• You have graduated from high school and have a degree, but you’ve never been in grade 12.
• There has to be at least 30 cm of snow on the ground in 24 hours to consider it too snowy to drive.
• You remember where you were during the Ice Storm.
• You’ve been to at least 2 festivals drunk.
• You discuss potholes like most people discuss weather.
• “The Futuristic City” is actually Habitat '67.
• You find it amusing when people from outside Québec compliment you on how good your English is.
• You have yet to understand a single announcement made on the Métro PA system.
• You understand that La Fête Nationale is not a celebration of “Québec’s birthday”
• You don’t find American comedians speaking “gibberish” French even remotely funny.
• You don’t find it weird that there’s a strip club on every corner downtown.
• You know the words to the national anthem in French.
• You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day.
• You use a down comforter in the summer.
• Your parents drive at 120km/h through 13 feet of snow during a blizzard, without flinching.
• You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
• You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
• Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
• You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction.
• You don’t understand anyone from Lac-St-Jean, but you can fake the accent.
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No mention of the Expos?
You are a Montrealer if you know who Bill “Spaceman” Lee is? You are a Montrealer if you know where Larry Walker got his start and who Felipe Alou was? You are a real Montrealer if you suspect that both “strike seasons” (lockouts, really), which took place when the Expos were leading the league, were predicated on the fact that a “small” market was likely to be in the World series?
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