Uneasy Feeling

The country is in the midst of hysteria. Yes yesterday's historic victory over the dreaded US of A was a watershed moment in Canada's brief history. It is indeed 1812 on Yonge Street again. Kudos to our boys for pulling it out.

The patriotism expressed though is definitely an an uneasy one. We are all bringing out the Red and singing the anthem(the wrong one, the real one was bought by TSN for a few million). But is Canada more together now then it was two weeks ago?

Yes and no. The joy brought by the hockey game is indeed inspiring, but the one thing it does even better is, cover, rather then heal continuing problems against Canadian unity. I suppose though as long as Sid scores, its okay to ignore proroguing parliament, attempted coalition coup's, a crippled economy, an estranged Francophone sibling. etc.

I guess its sour grapes to question patriotism, but I think part of being Canadian is not going into things blindly. So maybe that is patriotism in a twisted way.

-Todd Colin Vaughan

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