Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:45:44 -0700
From: "[]" <kanztanz@YAHOO.COM>
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
Subject: a subjective definition

July 1 was Canada day here.


...water, land, space, that i can still see the stars
at night from my yard, aurora borealis, pristine, snow
on Christmas Eve, snow in July, possibly snow in
August, but rain year round in Victoria, chinooks,
C.P.P., referenda, rain forest, the Princess Patricias
- God bless'm, John Candy - God rest'm, k.d. lang,
Shania Twain, Theresa Stratas, Celine Dion, Wayne
Gretzky, Banting, Best, insulin, Bethune, Intrepid,
Northrop Frye, Norad, ice-wine, excuse me, universal
standard time, Robertson Davies, Bobby Orr, Gordie
Howe, Guy LaFleur, Rick Mercer, Mike Meyers, Killer
Kowalski,  Peter Gzowski, Juliette, Luba, Robert
Goulet, Ross Porter, not at all, the best polka bands,
the Kubasonics, the D-drifters, Nylons, garlic sausage
rings, diamond mines, Grossman's on Spadina, Donwchild
Blues Band,  knishes, borscht,  perogies!,  kobassa,
pizza pops, ROM, Susan Jacks, Poppy family, fields of
sugar beet and wheat, rape, oats, barley, poutaine!
montreal-style smoked meat! you're welcome,
Trans-Canada highway, two major coasts, bilingual
school programs,  the great White North, MacKenzie
brothers, brewskis, Husky gas stations,
multi-culturalism, Leonard Cohen, Bryan Adams, William
Shatner, Betty Kennedy, Margaret Atwood, Margaret
Lawrence, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, BTO, Guess Who,
Dan Ackroyd, Pamela Anderson, Christopher Plummer,
Shannon Tweed, Air Farce, Lighthouse, Trooper, Alice
Munro,  basketball, hockey, hockey night in Canada,
Rideau Canal, the X-men,  Captain Canuck, President's
Choice, Yvonne DeCarlo, In Flanders Field,
Massey-Ferguson tractors, Raymond Massey, Raymond
Burr,  Mary Pickford, Seagrams, Bronfmans, Reichmans,
Aspers, Labatt's, Molson, Canadian Club, but not
Canada Dry, Conrad Black,  Beaverbrook, Thompson,
Cunard Lines, Richardson and Searle, Donald
Sutherland, Alexander Graham Bell, Lilith Fair and
what's her name McLaughlin, SCTV, the divine Cathrine
O'Hara, Eugene Levi,  Robbie Robertson, Ronnie
Hawkins, Keanu Reeves, Bare Naked Ladies, bif Naked,
lacrosse, beavers, beavertails, hard-cross balls,
hard-cross buns, Leslie Neilsen, Jack McLelland, Tim
Horton, timbits, a double-double, Bobby Curtola,
Churchill, polar bears, Winnie the real bear - not the
pooh,  marmot, muskrat, loon, the north pole,
P.N.E.,  C.N.E., Red River Ex. purple gas, Calgary
Flames, Petro-Canada,  Dan Akroyd, summer kitchens,
root cellers, screech, hooch, bootleggers, Rich
Little, George F. Walker, Jason Priestly, Knowlton
Nash, The Tea Party, trebleCharger, Robert LePage,
Michel Trembley,  Blue Bombers, Nickleback, Just for
Laughs, Blues Festivals, Fringe Festivals, Jazz
festivals, Festival of Light, Winter Carnival,  guy
wot designed "garbo" for Umbra whose name escapes me,
banana slugs, stink cabbages, La Maudite, blackflies,
no see-ums,  fish-flies, Les Voyageurs, Westjet,
Saskatoon berries, choke-cherries,  Zed not Zee,
scones, Bravo! chruch teas and bazaars, G.I.T. Lotta
Hitchmanova, Glen Gould, John Ralston Saul, Greg
Moore, Gabrielle Roy, Adrienne Clarkson, Jacques
Villenue, Marshall Macluhan, David Suzuki, Bruno
Gerussi, Jean Chretian, June Callwood, Farley Mowat,
Maureen Forrester, Micheal J.Fox, Michael Ondaatje,
Royal Mounted Police, Rohan Mistry, David Foster,
Daniel Langlois, LaLaLa Human Steps, Attila Lucas,
Riopelle, Jack Shadbolt, Robert Service, Susquatch,
Cirque de Soliel, The Hart Brothers, Jim Carrey, Anne
of Green Gables, Nancy Green, Lorne Greene, Jalna,
Quebec City,  Louis Riel, Metis, The Golden Boy,
Front Page Challenge, Robert McNeill, Tommy Hunter,
Romeo Dallaire, Gordon Sinclair, Inuit art,  cottages,
arts and crafts, CN and CP Rail, The Last Spike, all
the provincial legislative buildings, Terry Fox,
Hudson's Bay - the bay, the posts, and Hudson Bay the
blanket and the store, the Forks, St.Lawrence Seaway,
Fraser River, Columbia River, Red River, Bay of Fundy,
Toronto the Good, Montreal, Vancouver, Cape Breton,
Vancouver Island, the keystone province, Klondike,
Peggy's Cove, Flin-Flon, Canadian Tire money, snow
shoes, lacrosse,  Stradford Festival, Laura Secord,
Durham Wheat, real winter, real weather, lot's of good
clean water, vinegar on chips, McCain's french fries,
smoked goldeye, spring salmon, pink salmon,  smoked
salmon, salmon berries, trout, grizzlies, coyote,
hunting, fishing, camping, can-con, can-lit, Douglas
Coupland, Douglas fir, cedar, maple, birch, pine,
bush, bark, cougar, Buffy Saint Marie, Paul Anka, Atom
Egoyan, snow mobiles, the Yukon,  hoodoos, skiddoos,
Oscar Peterson, Sable Island,  Ben Heffner, Elvis
Stoyko, Mary Walsh, Karen Kain, Karsh, Stompin Tom
Conners, The Maple Leaf Gardens, syrup, Chateau
Laurier, Fort Garry Hotel, The Palisar, Royal York,
the Petroleum and Granite Club, curling, Buchardt
Gardens, Assiniboine Downs, Mosport raceway, Native
Dancer, Josef Skvorecky, Whistler, The Empress,
Stanfield underwear, Stanley Cup, Eaton's, the Peace
Tower, the half-hour difference in the maritimes, Bay
Street, Peggy's Cove, Cabbage Town,  Dave Thomas, and
his brother Ian,  universal healthcare, geographic
profiling, roof, colours, flavours, favours, a prairie
thunderstorm, a westcoast downpour, drought,
grasshoppers, Confederation, high tides at Long Beach,
The Swinging Shepard Blues, mucklucks, great beer,
Grande Prarie, Grande Rapids, Grand Beach, Wreck
Beach, beaver, fur pelt, fur coats, trappers, Stanley
Park, Lion's Gate Bridge, the Rockies,  Whister, Sea
to Sky highway, Pierre Berton, prairie dogs,
foot-longs, Salibury nips,  the raven and
thunderbird,   NDP, the Friendly Giant, Kids in the
Hall, Blackfoot, Crow, Iroquois, Mohawk, Salish,
Haida, Squamish, Innuit, Sto:lo, all the first
nations, waves of immigrants, China Bar, Linda
Evangelista, Nellie McLung, last stop on the
underground railway, Moosehead beer, potatoes,
sunflowers, Spitz, the mighty Red, the mighty Bow, the
mighty St.Lawrence, spring thaw the thing, and Spring
Thaw the show,  the Gatineaus, Bridal Lace Falls,
Laurentians, Foothills, Cascades, Yoho, Banff,
Algonquin, the National Parks system, the Great Lakes,
Muskoka, provinces, the little lakes, the land of 100O
some odd lakes, Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake,
hydro-power, Pre-Cambrian Sheild, beg your pardon,
ore, tundra, the CBC TV and radio 1 and 2, toque,
curling, micro-breweries, pubs, liquor boards, Toller
Cranston, Orpheum,  Ottawa in  Spring, slush,
slushies,  fuddle-duddle, wind-chill factor, Windsor
in the summer, heat, 401 at rush hour,  Joey
Smallwood, the  canoe, the moose, the Bluenose, Red
Rose tea, pardon me, Simple Plan, Blue Rodeo, Calgary
Stampede, Stampeders band and team,  CN tower, after
you, the trailer park boys, Kapuskasing, Medicine Hat,
the wheat board, Winnipeg style cream cheese and rye
bread, McGill University, Kakabekka Falls, eh, the
beaches once again and the lakes all of them, floods,
floodways,  St.Andrews by the Sea, IMAX, Holly Cole,
Diana Krall, Ross Porter, David Cronenberg, Norman
Jewison, Mordecai Richler, Rocket Richard, the zipper,
Alannah Myles,  Group of Seven, Klik, Todd McFarlane,
no, please YOU take the last one, Spider Robinson,
William Gibson, the Yukon, Emily Carr, Hank Snow,
bpNichol, John McCrae, Celia Franca,
Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the National Ballet School,
you're welcome, #1 kd per capita consumer in the
universe,  couer de bois, petit pois, petit fours, two
languages on every can, bottle, box, bag, tag,
birchbark, Smarties, Corel, Don Cherry, carol ships,
Carol Pope, Carol Taylor, aspartame, Slade, Lester B.
Pearson, and Lester B. Pearson, not the airport but
the college, Rochdale, Margaret Trudeau and Pierre,
Trivial Pursuit, Yorkville, wheat fed meat,
draft-dodgers, good rye whiskey, real beer, Blood
Sweat & Tears, good cigarettes in hard packs,
Thanksgiving in October, Long John Baldry, after you,
Mayne Island, Salt Spring Island, PEI, Jacques
Cartier, John Cabot, the brides, the blackrobes,
General Wolfe, wolves, Steppenwolf, lovely day, eh,
The Pas, and Piapot, Sharon,Lois & Bram, Raffi, Mr.
Dress-up and Casey,  Fred Penner, The Red Green Show,
snowshoes, the Canada Arm, Canada Post, National Post,
Canada Goose, gooseberries, snowbirds,  Canadian
Peacekeeping,  Alanis Morrisette, mosaic, Don Messer's
Jubilee, Rita McNeil, Acadians, Quebecois, Quebec
city, Roots, roots, routes, rues, bloulevards,
Granville Island, all the Newfie fiddlers and
fishermen, Newfie jokes, longshoremen on both coasts,
farmers, miners, slag-heaps, Sudbury, Jack Webster,
Ralf Mair, Gale Garnett, The Beachcombers,  buffalo,
bison, buffalo coats, beaver hats, buckskins, the
vanishing cod, tugboats, barges, fishing boats, the
Edmund Fitzgerald, canneries, candy factories, steel
mills, ranches, Hy's Steakhouse,  Ashley MacIssac,
Mennonites and Hutterites, Dukkabors, the loonie and
the twoonie, Don Harron, Tommy Douglas, Diefenbaker,
UIC, The Speaker of the House, Hume Cronyn, the
clarion at the Peace tower, The Globe and Mail, Club
Monaco, Alfred Sung, gun control, gay wedlock,
canadian bacon, back bacon, Mad Dog Vachon, Vachon
bakery, Mac's milk, the brain-drain, the NFB, Red
River cereal, Ann Murray, Gordon Lightfoot, the
Homecoming melody, Folkfests, folk festivals, just
folks, Ukranian weddings on the praries, Greenpeace,
Graham Greene,  Malcom Lowry, treehuggers and tree
loggers, stand-offs, activists, conservatives,
pacifists, nihilists, supremists, socialists,
generalists, specialists, list-makers, Niagara Falls,
The Thistle Shamrock Rose Entwined, Loblaw's,
Vegerville and the egg there, Edmondchuck, Drumheller,
dinosaurs,  two solitudes, Ian and Sylvia, Four Strong
Winds, Bill Reid, Portage and Main, Lloyd Robertson,
stop/arrete
Peter Mansbridge  > > And take a breath


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Sarrazin, Jay Silverheels, Alan Thicke, Genevive
Bujold, Kim Cantrell, Colleen Dewhurst, Marie
Dressler, Margot Kidder, Kate Nelligan, Sarah Polley,
Jennifer and Meg Tilly, Fay Wray, Helen Shaver, Norma
Shearer and her brother, Kate Reid, Dorothy Stratton,
Alexis Smith, Alex Trebeck, Art LInkletter, Monty
Hall, Doug Henning, Edward Dmytryk, Authur Hiller,
Claude Jutra, Ivan Reitman, James Cameron, Louis B.
Mayer, Lorne Michael, April Wine, Bruce Cockburn,
Crash Test Dummies, Glenn Gould, Hart Corey, Jeff
Healy, Marc Garneau, Jon Kimura Parker, MacGarrigle
sisters, Guy Lombardo, Chantal Krevasiuk, Nelly
Furtado, Rush, Paul Schaeffer, Jane Siberry, Deanna
Durbin, Tragically Hip, Gino Vanelli, Stephan Leacock,
 Mort Sahl, Martin Short,  Mack Sennet, Wayne and
Shuster, David Steinberg, Saul Bellow, W. Kinsella,
W.O. Mitchell, Robert Bateman, Michael Snow, Peter
Jennings, Morley Schaffer, Dionne Quintuplets, Norman
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