Tag: canada
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Sports Lovers – Ep. 2: You Couldn’t Script It, Even If You Tried
A week where baseball broke hearts, the CFL bent reality, and the universe reminded us it loves chaos more than any scriptwriter ever could.
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Winnipeg Hosts Grey Cup on 140th Anniversary of Riel’s Execution
On the day Canada marked 140 years since Louis Riel’s hanging, the Grey Cup celebrated Indigenous visibility, revealing the deep contradictions of the settler state.
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How the Grey Cup Became Canada’s National Ritual
From wartime morale to reconciliation politics, the Grey Cup has served as a national ritual shaping Canadian identity when politics struggles to hold the country together.
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Toronto Baseball and the City’s Ritual of Power and Emotion
How the 2025 Blue Jays run exposed Toronto’s emotional life, state power, colonial narratives, and the machinery that turns sports into civic governance.
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Sports as Canada’s New Tool of National Statecraft
In a multipolar world defined by economic power, Canada is using sports to build cohesion, ease political divides, and consolidate the population for global competition.
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The Expos Doc and the New Era of Sports Statecraft
Netflix’s Expos documentary isn’t just nostalgia. It’s shaping a binational sports identity as U.S. and Canadian cultures blend through baseball, hockey, and memory.
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Decolonizing Hockey and Canada’s National Story
How confronting racism, restoring Indigenous history, and reshaping power in hockey challenges the myths at the heart of Canadian national identity.
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Canada’s Unity by Vibes: The Oilers as National Myth Machine
How the Oilers’ playoff run has become a national myth machine, turning political failure into feel-good spectacle, one goal and anthem at a time.
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End of the Myth: Canada Eliminated From World Hockey Championships
Canada loses to Denmark—and with it, a piece of its national identity built on hockey pride, collective memory, and the comfort of expected victory.
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Canada Collapses Late in Stunning Loss to Denmark
Canada dominated for 50 minutes before unraveling in a shocking 2–1 defeat to Denmark, blowing a likely USA showdown and delivering one of their worst upsets ever.
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Loyal to the Oil: Hockey, Statecraft, and the Manufactured Unity of Canada
How the Edmonton Oilers’ playoff run, Mark Carney’s photo-ops, and a nation’s rituals of fandom momentarily suspend its political fractures.
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