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“Moving to Canada” has become a common response for many Americans looking to escape the United States’ political ails. But, in the video above, native Canadian Ellen Page notes that there are many problems the country is currently facing that parallel problems in the U.S., including dealing with their own legions of…
Good news for that friend you have who’s always threatening to bail on the U.S. and move to Canada: The northern nation got even cooler this week, updating its criminal code to remove laws outlawing witchcraft, fortune-telling, and dueling. (Potential new fortune: ”You are going to get yourself stabbed to death in a…
Sam Panopoulos, a Greek-Canadian restauranteur who spurred a worldwide phenomenon by deciding to add pineapples to pizza, has died. Panopoulos, credited as the inventor of the Hawaiian pizza, died suddenly at a hospital in London, Ontario last Thursday, family members said. He was 83.
Since its release last month, Netflix’s YA fiction adaptation 13 Reasons Why has attracted a heavy dose of controversy for its depiction of the suicide of a young high school student. On the one hand, there are those—like Jay Asher, author of the show’s source novel—who claim that its depiction of suicide…
Canada is currently celebrating its 150th anniversary, looking back at a long history of being the planet’s nerdy neighbor to the north. To commemorate the event, the Bank Of Canada is issuing a new version of the country’s ten dollar note, one that’s absolutely jam-packed with all sorts of obsessive details about its…
Bolstering its reputation as the cool North American country where you want to hang out, getting publicly funded health care and listening to Rush, Canada has revealed plans to legalize marijuana by July 1, 2018. CBC News reports that, during the week of April 10, the Liberal majority in Canadian Parliament will…
Canada has everything: Universal health care, a handsome and beloved head of state, Drake, the foie gras Double Down, You Can’t Do That On Television. And now, as if America needs another slap in the face, Canada will, for now, be the exclusive home to bottled McDonald’s Big Mac sauce. Huffington Post Canada has…
Apparently everyone in Canada really does know each other: Not only did former Friend Matthew Perry and the internet’s boyfriend Justin Trudeau attend the same elementary school, but apparently Perry kicked the shit out of the future Canadian Prime Minister when they were in fifth grade. Perry told the story on last…
Hard Powder—a very Canadian-sounding action movie in which Liam Neeson plays “an honest snowplow driver” who goes all Liam Neeson on a local crime boss after his son gets killed—has run into a rough patch of snow, with Uproxx reporting that the Canadian parks service has denied the film shooting access to its locales.…
We’ve all done it. Overwhelmed with jealousy over Canada’s free health care, we imitated our friends up north by adding “eh” to the end of a sentence, knowing it’s the one, true way to own them. And, in a new piece on Atlas Obscura, writer Dan Nosowitz acknowledges how, no, Canadians “are not particularly amused when…
Unless someone is an international traveler, most of the countries of the world are little more than names on a map. Wendover Productions, a YouTube channel devoted to “explaining how our world works,” is aiming to change that with a two-part video series called “Every Country In The World.” The first part, covering…
Kensington police are taking drastic, pseudo-hard-rock measures to curb drunk driving in their part of Prince Edward Island. While acknowledging that the most wonderful (read: booziest) time of the year is upon Kensington citizens, the police department wants them to take all manner of precautions to stay safe on the…
Smashed by the force of a million Twitter jokes turning from satire, to anxiety, to a sudden, desperate escape plan, the Canadian government’s immigration web site has crashed. We don’t know for certain that http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/’s current problems were brought about by concerned Americans looking to duck out…
With more than 5.2 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or remembering the last time the Cubs won the World Series. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,273,590-week series, Wiki Wormhole.
Did you know that if you lived in Canada, you would have a Netflix alternative called Shomi? Actually, there’s decent odds that even if you do live in Canada, you’re unaware of this option. This northern VOD service, which launched more than two years ago, has been having kind of a hard time building up its subscriber…
While covering the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, this writer often found himself walking alone at night in Canada’s largest city. This brought back memories of Night Walk (and its successors, Night Ride and Night Moves), a program he’d first discovered years ago during a period of obsession…
Television’s hottest trend in 2016 is Margaret Atwood. Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale miniseries is getting most of the buzz, especially since it stars Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley, who are two of the most captivating actors on television and yet don’t have a mountain of awards to show for it. (Moss never won an…
The Canadian metropolis of Toronto (population: 2.6 million) was briefly menaced by the rise of the non-mechanical machines yesterday, with the Toronto Police Department’s official Twitter account reporting that they’d been called in to investigate a “person with a gun” that was later revealed to be an advertising…
Lest anyone worry that Guns ‘N’ Roses might be losing its edge after the band stunned Chicago fans by starting their Soldier Field show 15 minutes ahead of schedule—or two hours and 15 minutes earlier than they would have at one time—they did something to make everything right. They got caught traveling with a gun. On…
