Word: canadianization
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...mandate, and therefore, does not reach true universal coverage). The leading Democratic contenders also include provisions that would allow people to buy into a government-run plan, similar to Medicare, which would amount to a test of both the support and feasibility of a "single-payer" system similar to Canadian and European systems...
...many firsts in a season as Formula One's Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. After motorsport's top competition got underway in March, Lewis Hamilton, the English team's rookie driver, strung together five podium finishes in a row, the best start to a season by any debutant driver. At the Canadian Grand Prix in June, the Briton took his first chequered flag. And following two more Grand Prix wins, Hamilton and his Spanish teammate - current World Champion Fernando Alonso - head into this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix in the top two slots in the drivers' championship; in the race...
Take Tia Cibani, the Canadian-born designer of Ports 1961, a line that is produced in southern China and shown in New York. While Cibani commutes between New York City and Xiamen, inspiration can come from as far away as East Africa, as it did this season. Her collection, called Safiri, pays homage to African women's spontaneous sense of style and their imaginative fabric treatments such as tie-dyeing, rolling and wrapping...
...every bit as rapturous as the ones in the movie; and when Harvey Weinstein, the indie mogul titan who's made a few enemies over the years, stood up, he too was greeted with all cheers, no boos. For Moore's part, he's given the love back to Canadians at least since 1995, when he made his only fiction film, the war satire Canadian Bacon, here. He shot his TV series The Awful Truth in the Great White North, and visited Canada to make admiring contrasts to the U.S. in Bowling for Columbine and Sicko...
...finding complexities and contradictions in the standard tropes. You'll learn plenty about the perils of disappointing a strong patriarch, not to mention the iconography of Russian gangland tattoos. Cronenberg orchestrates all this, and his dedicated cast, to turn out an exercise that is brisk, dark, compelling ... everything but Canadian...