An outsider’s view of Canada and things Canadian…

It was my geography teacher, when I was 17, who gave me my first inkling of what it must be like to be Canadian, when he suggested that Australians had a stronger sense of national identity because they were an island continent. Canadians, on the other hand, have been separated from the most powerful nation on Earth by only a very long, often invisible line.

Forty years and numerous visits to different parts of Canada later, I think he was both right and wrong. On the one hand, no-one can deny that Canadians do More >