The Con Media and the Canada I Love

After a long and hard week this was just the image I really needed to boost my spirits. An image of the Canada I love.

Sebastien Toutant a.k.a. Seb Toots, from L’Assomption, Québec, Canada, moments after winning the gold medal in the Big Air competition. 

With a big smile on his face, as usual.

HISTORY MADE

🇨🇦🏂@SebToots is the first gold medallist in mens #Snowboard big air!#PyeongChang2018 #Olympics

WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/Cv8TtbxyH0 pic.twitter.com/zFJfQH8EWa

— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) February 24, 2018

A nice guy who finished first. A symbol of the young, cool, confident, happy country I'd like to live in.

Instead of the grim, dark, place it's in danger of becoming. Again.

For this is not my Canada.

Mark McMorris and the Road Back to the Olympics

I watched our athletes march into the stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea, this morning.

As always it was a proud moment, and I'm looking forward to cheering for all of them.

But I have to admit I will be cheering for one of them even more than all the others.

Because he is my kind of Canadian hero.

And the fact that he's at the Olympics is the closest thing to a miracle.