What is Toronto?????

Watson the Jeopardy-playing IBM computer really screwed up the final question tonight (but still won the game), classifying Toronto as a U.S. city. What a stupid machine! Unless... unless it knows something we don't? I'm already quite sure it was cheating by communicating with the question board and bribing the buzzer.

American Junos Uproar

Arcade Fire aka The Suburbs aka No, Just Arcade Fire won a Grammy, causing a million confused tweets (or at least enough for a tumblr blog dedicated to people who can't use Google and/or reply 'Top 10' when asked for the name of their fave band).



Next question: Who the hell is Montreal Quebec and why did they thank her?

Canada Gets Googled

Really Guys? Really? - Imgur

Truly, (Canadian Taxpayers') Money For Nothing

Well, this is embarrassing. According to, er, Fox News:

Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" can no longer be played in Canada in its original form since the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has deemed the song offensive.

The decision stems from a listener's complaint last year calling the lyrics — which contain the word "f----t" — extremely offensive to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

I'd love to know who complained about this. All the Canadian gays I know get their music on the internet and by hooking up with DJs.

This does leave one question: If Rita MacNeil covers 'Money for Nothing,' will Canada explode in a cloud of CanConFusion?

CBC.ca | Day 6 | Giller Winners Read Snooki's Book

All right. Fine. This is funny.


CBC.ca | Day 6 | Giller Winners Read Snooki's Book

Massive Teddy Gram

Check out Canadians and their weird holiday traditions – including throwing $20,000+ stuffed animals onto the ice in aid of children's charities (the toys go to kids as does some money from on-site teddy bear stands). Awwww.

Wikileaks Cables Reveal That Canada Is Boring | The Atlantic Wire

Yawn. tell us something we don't know, right? According to this piece on The Atlantic Wire U.S. diplomats have little to do but kvetch about the portrayal of Americans on lame Canadian TV shows.

This quote from the comments section is pretty funny, though.

The last time I was in Canada, I turned on the news and caught the crawl mid-sentence at the bottom of the screen:

"...after having its head trapped in a jar for two weeks, apparently freed itself."

Turns out it was a bear! Anyway, exciting things DO happen in Canada.

RIP Leslie Nielsen

Found Footage Fest Celebrates Thanksgiving

In honor of Canadian Thanksgiving, video store bargain bin raiders Found Footage Fest featured Canadian Awareness week, including videos of a wrestler called Thor and a hockey team (the Canucks? I don't even know) singing/lip syncing "Red Hot" (remember when you used to think it was called 'lip singing'? Come on, you know you did).

While looking for a photo of said wrestler, I found out about the brave crusade of Canadian actor (and former WWE wrestler) James Preston Rogers who was, apparently, campaigning to play Thor on the big screen. At least until Swedey Whatshisface was cast.

As if anyone could top this dude.

Robin Sparkles: Two Beavers are better than one

Still not watching How I Met Your Mother due to time constraints/wasting Jason Segel, but Robin Sparkles is back with more excuses to mock Canada and drop a (aboot) bombs.



Oh Alan Thicke...