Canada, hockey and all that

4. First national broadcast of The Great White North

3. Timmy Horton desires more coffee with his morning donut.

2. A solemn pledge by the entire nation to pretend "Tears Are Not Enough" never existed.

1. publication of anne of green gables

1. The mysterious disappearance of Don Cherry (pending).

Off the top of my head: Confederation, the October Crisis, repatriation of the Constitution, the Conscription crisis, Newfoundland joining the country, two referenda on Quebec sovereignty, Pearson's Nobel Prize for resolving the Suez Crisis and the birth of UN peacekeeping, the building of the national railway, the discovery of insulin, ...

4xpost OK, Ned wins.

Okay that whole Newfoundland thing still bemuses me. Were there border guards and attack Labradors preventing people from escaping Halifax?

Some poetic license...in my demographic (so named), it looms large. Was it important like the War of 1812, or the FLQ crisis? No. But if you've followed the coverage this week, I think you'll agree that remains an extremely resonant benchmark.

Here are the results of a poll (conducted by the very official sounding "Dominion Institute"--they ran a supermarket chain, too) that places it fifth:

http://www.1972summitseries.com/greatestevent.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvbN-Grj7CY

two years in a row

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68YECPIrrQo

that was pretty horrible, yes

i love the liiga

but i can't help but feel happy our team won

tbh i'm happy too; i just wish perry wasn't the captain

this is doing the rounds today (it does so every now and again though)

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/canadian-soldiers-hockey-korea-1952/

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5qmViyQtuLg/WFtnPnNwEVI/AAAAAAAAMFw/7SMVQprYjX8GeuQSCcf5EpaPhuMbYr9bACLcB/s1600/canadians_soldiers_hockey_korea_1.jpg

a break from the nightmare that was the korean war:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kapyong

Although heavily outnumbered, the 27th Brigade held their positions into the afternoon before the Australians were finally withdrawn to positions in the rear of the brigade, with both sides having suffered heavy casualties. The Chinese then turned their attention to the Canadians on Hill 677, but during a fierce night battle they were unable to dislodge them. The fighting helped blunt the Chinese offensive and the actions of the Australians and Canadians at Kapyong were important in assisting to prevent a breakthrough on the United Nations Command central front, and ultimately the capture of Seoul. The two battalions bore the brunt of the assault and stopped an entire Chinese division during the hard fought defensive battle. The next day the Chinese withdrew back up the valley, in order to regroup. Today, the battle is regarded as one of the most famous actions fought by the Australian and Canadian armies in Korea.