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Happy Canada Day! Recognize anybody in this Trudeau-era anthem film? Where are these Canadians today? I’m particularly nostalgic for this little film as it informed a lot of what I thought this country was — it was used as a TV sign off and also played before movies (in theatres!) when I was young — but watching it today it’s striking how little urbanity there is in it, despite that even then Canada was a fairly urban country. We’ve progressed in our view of ourselves since then somewhat, but our national mythology still skews to the rural, the wild and the unpaved (the Great Plains – Tom Thomson – Farley Mowat – Rocky Mountain machismo – The Idea of North<\/a> – open highways – Canadian Shield lakes – the Tar Sands – Southern Ontario farmers – East Coast fisheries) though we are an entirely urban nation. This may be why we have such trouble getting urban issues on the federal agenda: the national conciousness is conditioned to think cities aren’t central to our way of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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