#Canadian country

[whereifindsanity]

Canadian Icon, Stompin' Tom Connors" (February 9, 1936 - March 6, 2013).

Live at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, 1973.

[canadachronicles]

The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top The snow is softly falling The air is still in the silence of my room I hear your voice softly calling If I could only have you near To breathe a sigh or two I would be happy just to hold the hands I love On this winter night with you

Well, it isn't technically Winter yet, but the "snow is falling softly" today, more thickly as the hours go, and I've taken a stroll, happily walking in the whitening landscape --the sheep looked at me questioningly, huddled up under their shed, as I passed by! But there was nowhere else I could be! Snow can be a rare thing here, thus a snow day is the occasion to step outside and enjoy it, and come home cold and happy, and warm up with a thick and creamy hot chocolate whilst listening to Gordon Lightfoot sing Song For A Winter's Night!

[heavy-nfld]

SHOW ALERT: Rad Gushue, The Lost and Found, Academic Prejudice, Aramaria and Rhea, and The Gutter Youth Choir @ Peter Easton Pub - Friday, March 28th, 2025. Doors at 9:00 PM. $15 cover / PWYC. 19+. Presented by Can’t Sleep Productions.

[pangur-and-grim]

HERE IT IS, the extras flash sale!

these are all risograph prints on ivory vellum, and the majority of them are retired designs that won't come back.

you can grab what you like at greerstothers.shop

[sheeps-eye]

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[bethanydelleman]

Listen, I know that you can't take anything Trump says seriously until suddenly you do, but a world leader cannot joke about the sovereignty of another nation from a nuclear superpower and neither can a nation like mine ignore clear threats of annexation, so

Dear US Americans,

In case you weren't aware because your media lies to you, Canadians do not want to be American. It's actually our whole thing. You can pry our sovereignty from our cold dead hands. I am completely serious, we did a poll and it was 90% opposed.

The vast majority of us would rather die than become an American state. If there is an attempt to annex our country, we will become the Ukraine to your Russia and the world will be on our side.

Sincerely, Canada

P.S. Canada unequivocally supports Ukraine

P.S.S If you think it's in poor taste or something to compare Canada's situation to Ukraine's, well I really hope that you are proved right in the end

[canadachronicles]

Deep as the sea and as wild as the weather We will go just you and me to pick wild strawberries together Or be livin' on our own, in a cabin in a meadow Or meanderin' alone, we can face the world forever or we'll

Hit the bounding main or be on a railroad train Hit the boundless tide or be on a steamboat ride Hit the bounding main or be on a midnight plane Hit the pounding tide or be on a rainbow ride

I don’t live in a cabin in a meadow, but my little town is pastoral enough, with sheep grazing the high grass just down the road, and Canada geese, herons and coots gliding on the pond in the park, and the woods to amble in and forage Elder flowers (in the Spring) or Blackberries (in the late Summer)... And I can’t wait for my girl to be here with me tomorrow, and do all these bucolic things together, a picnic perhaps, or enjoying the garden, where we might pick Strawberries, whilst listening to Gordon Lightfoot...

[pedrospatch]

dear non american friends

if you are boycotting america and american products and goods

please know you have my full support

sincerely

a very embarrassed american

[3416]

maybe cutest man to ever live and breathe and play hockey

[folk-enjoyer]

Song of the Day

"Call of the moose" Willy Mitchell, 1980 As you might know, September 30th is Truth and Reconciliation day (more commonly known as Orange Shirt Day), a national day in Canada dedicated to spreading awareness about the legacy of Residential schools on Indigenous people. Instead of just focusing on a song, I also wanted to briefly talk about the history of the sixties scoop and its influence on Indigenous American music and activism.

The process of Residential schooling in Canada existed well before the '60s, but the new processes of the sixties scoop began in 1951. It was a process where the provincial government had the power to take Indigenous children from their homes and communities and put them into the child welfare system. Despite the closing of residential schools, more and more children were being taken away from their families and adopted into middle-class white ones.

Even though Indigenous communities only made up a tiny portion of the total population, 40-70% of the children in these programs would be Aboriginal. In total, 20,000 children would be victims of these policies through the 60s and 70s.

These adoptions would have disastrous effects on their victims. Not only were sexual and physical abuse common problems but the victims were forcibly stripped of their culture and taught to hate themselves. The community panel report on the sixties scoop writes:

"The homes in which our children are placed ranged from those of caring, well-intentioned individuals, to places of slave labour and physical, emotional and sexual abuse. The violent effects of the most negative of these homes are tragic for its victims. Even the best of these homes are not healthy places for our children. Anglo-Canadian foster parents are not culturally equipped to create an environment in which a positive Aboriginal self-image can develop. In many cases, our children are taught to demean those things about themselves that are Aboriginal. Meanwhile, they are expected to emulate normal child development by imitating the role model behavior of their Anglo-Canadian foster or adoptive parents."

and to this day indigenous children in Canada are still disproportionately represented in foster care. Despite being 5% of the Total Canadian population, Indigenous children make up 53.8% of all children in foster care.

I would like to say that the one good thing that came out of this gruesome and horrible practice of state-sponsored child relocation was that there was a birth of culture from protest music, but there wasn't. In fact, Indigenous music has a long history of being erased and whitewashed from folk history.

From Buffy Saint-Marie pretending to be Indigenous to the systematic denial of first nations people from the Canadian mainstream music scene, the talented artists of the time were forcibly erased.

Which is why this album featuring Willy Mitchell is so important.

Willy Mitchell and The Desert River Band

This Album was compiled of incredibly rare, unheard folk and rock music of North American indigenous music in the 60s-80s. It is truly, a of a kind historical artifact and a testimony to the importance of archival work to combat cultural genocide. Please give the entire thing a listen if you have time. Call of the Moose is my favorite song on the album, written and performed by Willy Mitchell in the 80s. His Most interesting song might be 'Big Policeman' though, written about his experience of getting shot in the head by the police. He talks about it here:

"He comes there and as soon as I took off running, he had my two friends right there — he could have taken them. They stopped right there on the sidewalk. They watched him shootin’ at me. He missed me twice, and when I got to the tree line, he was on the edge of the road, at the snow bank. That’s where he fell, and the gun went off. But that was it — he took the gun out. He should never have taken that gun out. I spoke to many policemen. And judges, too. I spoke with lawyers about that. They all agreed. He wasn’t supposed to touch that gun. So why did I only get five hundred dollars for that? "

These problems talked about here, forced displacement, cultural assimilation, police violence, child exploitation, and erasure of these crimes, still exist in Canada. And so long as they still exist, it is imperative to keep talking about them. Never let the settler colonial government have peace; never let anyone be comfortable not remembering the depth of exploitation.

Every Child Matters

[heavy-nfld]

SHOW ALERT: Andrew Smith Band, Jackeens, and Rad Gushue @ The Ship Pub - Friday, March 28th, 2025. Show at 10:00 PM. $10 cover.

[caniscryptid]

Vivid shots of Wyoming by Toni Frissel for Sport's Illustrated, 1955-1958

[infamous-if]

is triple a’s signature “triple a” or “aaa”

He usually goes for Triple A since it's harder to forge but if he's drunk or just not feeling it he'll def write aaa and call it a day

triple's stage name was supposed to completely different but triple a came to my head last minute and rolled off the tongue better/felt more convincing and cool and being called "triple" is such a cool sexy funky name I couldn't scrap it

[sheeps-eye]

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