From toque to stagette to keener, there are many words uttered only in the Great White North. "The thing that surprises me the most is how just ordinary every day they are," Katherine Barber told CBC ...

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Canadians are often identified (or ridiculed) by the rest of the world for our dialect. And the second edition of the dictionary of Canadianisms is trying to define what makes up the Canadian language ...

NBC gets a lot of flak for editing the Olympics into bite-sized bits and shaping its own narrative to suit the American mindset. In truth, maybe this isn't such a bad idea. For NBC and its viewers.

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An online magazine owned by the Washington Post is the latest international publication to take a jab at the Harper government and its environmental record. In a provocative column published Friday, ...

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Ouch. It’s hard not to feel Stephen Harper suffers from a strain of anti-Canadianism, mixed with a heavy dose of pro-Americanism – a winning combination for a Canadian leader, it is not. Stephen ...

From toque to stagette to keener, there are many words uttered only in the Great White North. "The thing that surprises me the most is how just ordinary every day they are," Katherine Barber told CBC ...