Their Summer Lasts About 10 Minutes

If you were ever going to rank oxymorons in terms of relevance, “Canadian summer” would be at the top of your list. Everyone knows that Canadian winters are cold. It’s not uncommon to see your breath turn into ice the moment it leaves your mouth. Cold and Canada are synonymous, everyone knows that. However, what you …

They Spent Childhood Watching a Giant Talk to a Rooster in a Sack

The following tip only works on Canadians of a certain age, but it will definitely help you weed some Canadians out of the pack. As always, spotting even one Canadian is preferred to letting them run wild. The Friendly Giant was a children’s television show that aired on the CBC for almost thirty years. Much like …

Tim Horton is known more for Coffee than Hockey

Canadians love hockey. This isn’t an insider tip that will help you spot a Canadian, it’s a well-known fact. To a Canadian, hockey is a way of life. It’s what tea is to the British, what a kilt is to the Scottish or television violence is to the Americans. It’s part of their society. So …

A Beer Commercial is a Source of National Pride

In the United States, beer commercials showcase parties, girls and talking frogs. In Canada they play a completely different role. Canadian beer commercials are filled with hockey, beavers, snow and everything else stereotypically Canadian. Canadians aren’t a very openly patriotic people. They typically wear their Canadian pride underneath a snowsuit, rather than hang it from a …