On booing anthems
“Booing the American anthem is literally the least you can do right now. It is your constitutional right. Is it disrespectful? Sure. So is threatening annexation.” – Taylor C. Noakes on CultMTL.
The NHL’s Four Nations Face‑Off starts Wednesday evening at the Bell Centre with Canada facing Sweden. No boos there, except possibly from people who can’t assemble Ikea furniture.
Chase 11:08 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
It’s really annoying reading comments online about people saying, “boycotting US products is ignorant, etc..” or “you’re such hypocrites for shopping at Costco and Walmart”. When you dig deeper into these commentators you’ll find they are just Canadian MAGAs. They are all traitors to our country.
Anecdotally, the movement of boycotting US products seems successful and has a lot of people involved. I can’t wait for the boos on Saturday night when Canada takes on the US at the Bell Center in the Four Nations tournament.
Kate 11:48 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
Boycotting US products has other purposes besides sticking it to Trump. The US will soon be unable to inspect food products properly, so they will not be safe. I read somewhere that Trump would like to break our dairy supply system, but his country allows growth hormone in dairy cows while Canada does not, so it would be best to avoid those products if they’re forced on our grocery stores.
There are good reasons we don’t have the egg panic here that they do in the United States.
Higher standards. We have them. We will keep them.
MarcG 12:12 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
Got me thinking about Amir Khadir being attacked for supporting Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions of Israel in response to much more heinous crimes than breaking a trade agreement.
Tim S. 12:39 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
I see booing as first-level diplomacy. Even many “progressive” USians start their comments with some kind of “No disrespect to Canadians” and then proceed to some kind of elaborate fantasy about it would change their electoral map. They all need to hear the boos. Also, they need to understand that we would never actually get a vote and instead be turned into a massive West Bank, with everything that follows.
Clee 13:00 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
Going to the US-Finland game tonight. I’ll be booing.
Kevin 16:10 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
The only thing stupider than the idea of annexing our country is the people proposing it.
Does the USA really think it take over Canada, wiping out the border, give 40 million+ Canadians access to firearms, and not create the largest insurrection in the world?
At least when the US sailed into Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines – or the proposed takeover of Gaza – it was dealing with territory an ocean away, but we share the world’s largest land border.
Morons, the lot of them.
Mark 17:23 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
Yeah I think a lot of Americans would support this insurrection. It wouldn’t be a USA vs Canada, more like a MAGA vs rest of the world.