When I showed New York journalist Michael James this photo, he responded with the words in the title.
Common folks in Canada may be willing to wear that Never-51 jersey but plutocrats don’t seem to mind which side of the border they locate.
John Molson began brewing beer in Canada during the 1700s. Succeeding generations of the Molson family expanded business operations throughout the country. One important segment was the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens, which had glory days under early Molson ownership.
In 2000, Molson Brewery created this commercial. It was performed by an actual Canadian, Jeff Douglas, but was directed by an American, Kevin Donovan.
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Molson Brewery was proudly Canadian until five years later when it joined the American Coors family business and became part of a company headquartered in Chicago. Writer Russ Bellant believed the new partners had an ugly history:
Through their philanthropic donations, Joseph Coors and other family members have bankrolled a right-wing agenda of union-busting, homophobia, sexism, racism, and covert operations. The Coors family has served as the cornerstone of the right-wing movement known as the New Right. The Coors Connection details the individuals, organizations, and causes supported by Coors philanthropy. A picture emerges of a family’s frighteningly narrow vision of the American dream, and its willingness to support extremists who would undermine American democracy.
The Coors Connection
LifeLabs is another business sold to Americans. The company had early roots in British Columbia and after mergers and acquisitions, it grew to be Canada’s preeminent diagnostic laboratory. With success, LifeLab’s owners chose to cash in. They sold the company to Quest Diagnostics of New Jersey.
After six months of American ownership, the company’s BC division is embroiled in a labour dispute, with rotating closures of labs. Need a medical test? Just wait.
Build-grow-sell stories are repeated endlessly. It’s a result of our neighbour’s economic imperialism but also the lack of confidence in this country held by our corporate rulers.
Sure, Canada beat the U.S.A. in a best-on-best hockey final, but in the national economy game, Americans are winners almost every time.
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Just a quick mention that USians are equal-or-more-intense losers in what’s currently unfolding. Misery will know no borders. Perhaps it’s just our quaint notion that a sovereign nation should determine its course that makes the current greedfest seem to be visited principally on Canadians.
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It’s not the first time Canada has become “mad” at the USA, it’s just we don’t bitch about it.
As our Canadian history is being erased by the establishment, Canada was extremely pissed at the USA back in the 40’s (as was the UK) when the USA refused to share atomic secrets, despite the fact of heavy academic and financial involvement in the Manhattan Project.
Evidently Canada invested heavily and many Canadian scientists were loaned to the project. It is now been revealed that Canada was far ahead of the USA in atomic research!
What Trump has done is to focus the fact that in American eyes, Canada is a nobody a nothing, well the groundswell of resentment, is now turning into a tsunami against the USA and to top it off, Canada has a real king, well versed in constitutional law, instead of a grifter, pretender wannabe, who also happens to be a convicted felon and sexual predator.
Canada has got the real deal and that is something the Americans will never have. We are slow to be aroused, but poke the bear too many times and unhappy things happen to those who poke.
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Tube Alloys, Hiroshima&Nagaski, and the US Atomic Energy Act 1954 show that the idea of the US being an untrustworthy ally is very far from new.
The Commonwealth is family.
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I looked back on a book by Kurt Vonnegut, his last book before he died, published in 2005 titled “A Man Without A Country”. A quote from the book is “The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there”.
What Trump is doing is really no different from what America has done all over the world post WW2, or even before. The biggest difference now is that it is doing it to it’s biggest allies and neighbours.
I think we were cozy in the fact that as good members of the empire we were immune, but the Czar(S) has decided different.
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Canada is a short tribes man carrying a trophy on his head so he doesn’t get eaten by the tiger. It was hockey. A game. Played by millionaires. Changes nothing but lets you forget the tiger will eat again, at will.
Nice to see Nanaimo found its price. Even the thought of economic warfare got them thrilled to host the enemy. (When threats are made against your countries they are not friends or allies anymore).
Canada is brave and bluster until it is the US then it is a bunch of suck up and kowtow. . Reference Danielle Smith, Kevin O’Leary, Doug Ford and a bunch of premiers paying 85K to stand outside in the cold. More pimping the resources than dealing with dignity. They think they won too.
When it all breaks down like light through a prism ….. just play that “remember the time we won the hockey game” card.
And in the end we both have chosen the exact same system of economic inequality, and a thousand other corrupt parallels that will result in climate collapse and the 6th great extinction.
It is bread and circuses without the bread of course.
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Rafe Mair said.
Beware of Sam Slick the American trader.
Say it to yourself , three times daily.
TB
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Canada should be seizing this opportunity to immediately devise an intelligent immigration policy that targets tradespeople, healthcare specialists, and scientists. As the US self-destructs, grab the folks who have much to offer. The US will rebuild in time, although it might be a very long time given the damage the current administration is planning for their country and the strife that will be necessary to eventually repair it. Canada could benefit if it strikes while the iron is heating up.
There has been much head-scratching about where the tradespeople and healthcare workforce we need will come from. There’s likely to be a ready and motivated supply to our south as the current insanity continues there. We should be providing and promoting Canada as a viable alternative for disaffected individuals ready for selection.
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