Reader Rants On Sports, Media, and Modern Oddities
A column catalogues grievances about curling telethons hockey analysts domed stadiums and other modern quirks. It targets figures such as John McEnroe Mike Keenan Darryl Rogers and Jim Kelly, critiquing broadcasting bias, grammar, fashion, and stadium design.
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John McEnroe
Jimmy Conners
America
Bruce McNall
Bernie Glieberman
Darryl Rogers
Canada
Harry Neale
Blue Bombers
Matt Baldwin
Joe Galat
CBC
John Madden
CBS
O Canada
John Paddock
Oak River
Winnipeg
Jets
Laurie Mustard
Knowlton Nash
Mike Keenan
Chicago Black Hawks
Mike
Jim Kelly
Buffalo
Kelly
Thanksgiving Day in Canada A Call for Renewal
This column traces Canada’s Thanksgiving origins to 1578 with Sir Martin Frobisher’s Day of Thanks in the Eastern Arctic, notes the official shift to the second Monday in October after Confederation, and urges expanding the holiday into a Canada Day Two. It argues for celebrating free speech open government and humane values, urges stronger Canadian stance with the U.S., and envisions a united national destiny.
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Canada
North America
Massachussetts
Martin Frobisher
Arctic
Frobisher
United Nations
U.S
West
Bobby Gimby
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