“It is not squalid like Birmingham, or cramped like Canton, or scattered like Edmonton, or sham like Berlin, or hellish like New York, or tiresome like Nice. It is all right. The only depressing thing is that it will always be what it is, only larger, and that no Canadian... More
“The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.” - Marshall McLuhan 1. Grand Theft Auto and The Price is Right use the same font. 2. We call the animal “turkey” because the English used to think it came from Turkey. The Turks call it Hindi for the same resason. ... More
“Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.” - Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West (1937) 1. In most of the world, people don’t pay for incoming calls or texts. 2.... More
“Canada is a country built against any common, geographic, historic or cultural sense.” - Pierre Trudeau 1. The McBain clips in the Simpsons form a full movie. 2. In olden times sailors wore gold earrings so that if their body washed ashore the gold would pay for a... More
“We are an ironic people; irony and some sourness is mixed in our nature. It is a matter of climate. We are a northern people.” - Robertson Davies 1. Rick Moranis is no longer working– he retired after his wife’s death, so he could raise his children. 2. Michael Bay... More
“Of course Toronto might as well be Buffalo, because we get each other’s TV.” - Kevin McDonald 1. The man who invented the polio vaccine, Jonas Salk, refused to patent it, and instead gave it away for free. 2. Article II of the U.S. Constitution states that “No person... More
“Houses of ill-fame in Toronto? Certainly not. The whole city is an immense house of ill fame.” -C. S. Clark, Of Toronto the Good (1898) 1. Ice is a mineral. 2. In 1994 the US Surgeon General was fired for saying masturbation was a part of sexuality. 3. Mr... More
“Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it’s doing in the Maritimes.” -Tommy Douglas 1. Michael Cera was the voice of the brother on the Berenstein Bears cartoon show. 2. Sea otters hold hands while sleeping... More
“It is not squalid like Birmingham, or cramped like Canton, or scattered like Edmonton, or sham like Berlin, or hellish like New York, or tiresome like Nice. It is all right. The only depressing thing is that it will always be what it is, only larger, and that no Canadian... More
“The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.” - Marshall McLuhan 1. Grand Theft Auto and The Price is Right use the same font. 2. We call the animal “turkey” because the English used to think it came from Turkey. The Turks call it Hindi for the same resason. ... More
“Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.” - Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West (1937) 1. In most of the world, people don’t pay for incoming calls or texts. 2.... More
“Canada is a country built against any common, geographic, historic or cultural sense.” - Pierre Trudeau 1. The McBain clips in the Simpsons form a full movie. 2. In olden times sailors wore gold earrings so that if their body washed ashore the gold would pay for a... More
“We are an ironic people; irony and some sourness is mixed in our nature. It is a matter of climate. We are a northern people.” - Robertson Davies 1. Rick Moranis is no longer working– he retired after his wife’s death, so he could raise his children. 2. Michael Bay... More
“Of course Toronto might as well be Buffalo, because we get each other’s TV.” - Kevin McDonald 1. The man who invented the polio vaccine, Jonas Salk, refused to patent it, and instead gave it away for free. 2. Article II of the U.S. Constitution states that “No person... More
“Houses of ill-fame in Toronto? Certainly not. The whole city is an immense house of ill fame.” -C. S. Clark, Of Toronto the Good (1898) 1. Ice is a mineral. 2. In 1994 the US Surgeon General was fired for saying masturbation was a part of sexuality. 3. Mr... More
“Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it’s doing in the Maritimes.” -Tommy Douglas 1. Michael Cera was the voice of the brother on the Berenstein Bears cartoon show. 2. Sea otters hold hands while sleeping... More
