Word: canadianism
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...press conference then at Dillon Field House, a little-known Canadian Football League (CFL) coach named Joe Restic was given the reins of the Harvard football team, one of the most historic programs in the country...
...turned out, the new coach did come from the professional ranks--but from the Canadian professional ranks...
Most black people know that a perverse motivation leads cops to continually "mistake" them for criminals. Racially-motivated police misconduct affects black Americans from Brooklyn to Beverly Hills. And the Canadian cops who follow the racist example of some of America's police--who deserve to be called pigs--are perhaps more accurately described as Canadian bacon...
...signs have been there for some years. In the '70s, the Canadian writer Mordecai Richler tried to rent a tuxedo in Hollywood for the Oscars and, he later wrote, confronted "rack upon rack of outrageous evening wear. Purple velvet, ruffles, suede." Richler described what happened when he asked if the store had such a thing as a conventional black tuxedo:"'Yes, certainly,' the tailor said, bringing something out of the back room. 'And now tell me, sir, will you be wearing high heels...
Suponcic calls the Canadian back--it is now 5:30 a.m. in that time zone, and he is only too happy to wake the dude up--and he demands to know what is going on. The guy explains, vaguely, that he was merely answering an "ad on the Internet. You know, the one about horny housewives...