Today’s story: Skating scandal remedy: U.S. buys Canadian. My favorite quote, from the manager of a store here that sells Canadian-logo clothing: “Americans were coming in saying, ‘You were robbed! We need a hat! We need a scarf! We need to support you!’”
On the bus ride into the office today, the driver was showing Rush Hour up on the video monitors. It seemed kind of wrong, at first because those bus rides had been blissful silence for the last two weeks here. After a few minutes, it also seemed wrong because my hotel is about half-filled with Japanese TV folks, so the lengthy string of Asian stereotypes coming out of Chris Tucker’s mouth seemed somehow inappropriate.
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20 February | 13:08 | Jennifer
I know what you Americans are really doing, you're just buying our stuff to wear for your next backpacking trip across Europe.
You know, I don't think I've seen one person wearing any of the Roots Canadian stuff around here, probably because it's so bloody expensive.
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