canada day

Canadian stereotypes, eh? There's a lot of them, some true, some really true and some not so much. Here are some of my favourite ones even though some classics have been omitted since they are pretty stupid and I don't know how they became associated with us in the first place.

We don't have roads, live in igloos, and drive dog sleds.

Not true, in fact, probably only true in Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Yukon, and even then I don't think too many people live in igloos. Our roads are usually paved, but there is lots of rural roads that are still dirt, but they are roads nonetheless.

We play hockey 24/7.

Also a slightly skewed view. We argue about it 24/7. Everyone in Canada is a GM. Which is cool, I've backseat GM'd the Leafs for like 20 years now (with little success). But hockey has become less of a winter sport these days with the Cup finals barely over two weeks ago, well into shorts season, and it starts back up again with training camps in September, making the sport, like the three other major leagues, a year round thing. Hockey just happens to have seven Canadian teams, with two other in the other major leagues combined. 

We all wear toques.

Just in the winter. And toque is a way better name than "beanie." That sounds really stupid. 

We are really nice.

Piss off.

We drink a lot of beer.

Yes, yes we do. We love our Canadian beer, since we know it's far superior to that of the US. But we love beer from all over the world and as long as it's cold, most Canadians will drink one without batting an eyelash. Canadians do have surprisingly good knowledge of beer though, in some cases it is the only thing any one beer drinker can speak intelligently about. 

We have monopoly money.

Let's see… Purple is for $1000, brown for $100, pink/red for $50, green for $20, purple for $10 and blue for $5. Hmm, well I think some of the colours are assigned wrong, maybe to avoid a lawsuit from the Monopoly guy who wear the monocle. 

Eh!

I don't think I ever say this, but maybe I say it SO much that I don't even know I do it anymore.

We put maple syrup on everything.

Just pancakes/french toast/crepes? What else would you put it on?

I'm going to stop.. so Happy Canada Day (and Canada Day long weekend) and drink some beer and rebuild those igloos!

Nickleback sucks. Canada apologizes.

Perpetuating the stereotype before I wrote this blog.. Irony!

Toronto skyline

Play safe out there!