Canada, Thanksgiving, and the Right Wing Threat

It's Thanksgiving Day in Canada, and in this crazy screwed up world we do have a lot of things to be thankful for.

We're a big, beautiful, still relatively young country. 

At a time when the hard right-wing is on the march, and would be dictators are popping up like mushrooms, we're governed by a leader who, whatever else you might think about him, is decent, polite, and very Canadian.

And most of us can be grateful, that in a world being slowly poisoned by bigotry, or convulsed by xenophobia, we're still celebrating diversity and living together in relative harmony.

But that might be changing, in the worst possible way.

The Abominable Horror of Harper Night in Canada

I haven't been a regular viewer of Hockey Night in Canada for a long time. 

The thuggish goons, the concussion casualties, the grotesque Don Cherry, as well as the sad fact that a Canadian team hasn't won the Stanley Cup for more than twenty years, having gradually turned me off the game.

So I didn't watch the new Rogers version of the show with George Stroumboulopolos the other night.

But after reading what happened on the broadcast, I think I can safely say that I will NEVER watch Hockey Night in Canada again.