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Posted: 01 July 2026 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
As our cousins north of the Forty-Ninth Parallel today celebrate their own version of Independence Day, it seems like an opportunity to remind everyone once again that I am a damn Yankee.

I became a full-fledged American citizen in 1988, almost forty years ago. I have been American for half my life.

I have plenty of fond memories of life in the Great White North, and still have friends there, but I am no longer attached by even partial citizenship.

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Trevor Smith
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Posted: 01 July 2026 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
You're in good company. Canadians still claim "ownership"
of Shatner!
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Posted: 01 July 2026 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Bill kept his Canadian citizenship. He was slightly confused when I told him that I was Lapsed Canadian.
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Michael Penn
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Posted: 01 July 2026 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
You no longer stand on God.
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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 01 July 2026 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
As if on cue, it's just been announced that Canada will be joining the Eurovision Contest for the first time next year. Because one assumes the Canucks can throw down middling watered down white-boy techno dance numbers just as well as any former Iron Curtain country.
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Posted: 01 July 2026 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
Time to resurrect Don Messer’s Jubilee!!
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Peter Hicks
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Posted: 01 July 2026 at 5:12pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Happy Canada Day from Waterloo, Ontario!
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Trevor Smith
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Posted: 01 July 2026 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
Wow, you may have mentioned that here before, JB, but if
so, I missed it. Did not know that about Shatner!
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Posted: 01 July 2026 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply
I've now called Canada my home for more than 20 years, and nearly half my life! 

Speaking of the Canadian national anthem, as a teacher who has been subjected to children singing it wrongly for many years, I'd like to clarify that we stand on GUARD, not "God," and that hearts can be GLOWING, but certainly not "gloring." (WTF even is "gloring?") 

Back before things got a bit more testy, I used to joke that Canadians were such great allies to the United States that we always start celebrating the 4th of July a few days early. 
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