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With the help of a cute little program called WireTap, I recorded a bunch of radio programs from NPR and other sources and burned a disc for my roadtrip to the March for Women last weekend. One of the programs I put on the disc was Who's Canadian - notes and stories about the Canadians among us. It's my favorite episode of This American Life, and one of my favorite radio shows ever. The first portion of the show talks about how many of the prominent people in American culture are actually Canadian, and in this clip (about two minutes) a Canadian talks about how Canadians always know who the other Canadians are. It's as if they have a Canadian-recognition chip implanted in their brain, he says.

Off the top of my head, I can think of several Canadians on my LJ friends list: [livejournal.com profile] bassringer, [livejournal.com profile] choucroute, [livejournal.com profile] ert, [livejournal.com profile] jasonkelly, [livejournal.com profile] ladymondegreen, [livejournal.com profile] emerlion... I got to thinking, who else is Canadian? Are there any on my friends list who I don't realize are Canadian, or I've just forgotten? They do tend to blend in.

So, come on! You Canadians on my friends list should be able to tell me who the other Canadians are, right? Fess up and reveal yourselves and your countrymen!
Date: 2004-04-30 05:42 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] tashari.livejournal.com
Oh, c'mon, you know I'm Canadian too. Musta slipped your mind. ^_-
Although I haven't run into other people and suddenly my brain told me they were Canadian ('cause I don't meet many other Canadians), I have been discovered by people who caught my slight accent. Someone once guessed it from the way I said "tomorrow". O.o
Date: 2004-04-30 05:46 (UTC)

beowabbit: (un flag at icj at the hague)
From: [personal profile] beowabbit
I’m an honorary Canadian. :-)
Date: 2004-04-30 11:01 (UTC)

beowabbit: (un flag at icj at the hague)
From: [personal profile] beowabbit
My Canadian friends told me I was too polite and rational to be an American. :-)
Date: 2004-04-30 06:13 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] laurens10.livejournal.com
I used to tell people in high school I was Canadian.

Thanks for pointing out this application! This completely makes my day.
Date: 2004-04-30 08:35 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] sandhawke.livejournal.com
I used to be....

(For two year of my life, I had lived more in Canada than the US, and far more of the formative ones, so I considered myself Canadian. I think I can still sing O Canada and God Save the Queen, like we did every day in Grade One (not "first grade").)

These days I have fun recognizing people from the Bay Area.
Date: 2004-04-30 08:38 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] forgotten-aria.livejournal.com
I'm legally a Canadian, still have my citizenship and all, but I spent 8 years in Canada and 21 in the states, so, I'm not sure I'm really a Canadian any more.
Date: 2004-04-30 09:05 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] somehedgehog.livejournal.com
I gots Canadian ancestors, who fled to Nova Scotia when they realized that the colonies were not a safe place for Tories like them. I don't think that counts, though.
Date: 2004-04-30 14:35 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] murph-grrl.livejournal.com
I pretend I'm Canadian. But that's about the extent of it.
Date: 2004-04-30 20:52 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] beavertails.livejournal.com
I'm not on your friends list, but I am Canadian :)
Date: 2004-04-30 21:35 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] choucroute.livejournal.com
and cos, [livejournal.com profile] beavetails is cool.

and also. I am so totally canadian, even if I've spent the last 3 months and will be still here for another month in the states.
Date: 2004-05-01 17:51 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] choucroute.livejournal.com
I haven't, yet...
Date: 2004-05-08 11:56 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] somechicksings.livejournal.com
i was made an honourary canadian buy a guy named wesley from alberta. i've also slept with a canadian in toronto, so perhaps i have sexually-transmitted canadia?
Date: 2006-12-11 23:21 (UTC)

geminigirl: (Canadian Hug)
From: [personal profile] geminigirl
I'm married to a Canadian.
Date: 2006-12-11 23:29 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] bike4fish.livejournal.com
Well, I used to live north of Canada. As in directly north of.

After 3 days in Toronto, people mistake my accent for that of a local.

Of course, for the majority of my life (28 years of it) I lived in states adjacent to Canada. I still listen to CBC radio.
Date: 2006-12-12 00:26 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] wendolen.livejournal.com
Having spent time in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and Montreal, I gotta say that Toronto has more in common with Canadian cities than with American cities -- but it's something I can't put my finger on, or put into words.

It probably is the most American of the Canadian cities, though.
Date: 2006-12-12 00:32 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] bike4fish.livejournal.com
Directly, as in if I went in a straight southerly direction, I would run into Canada.

I could find places in any Ontario city where I could get buttered cucumber sandwiches with tea. Are there any such places in Boston?
Date: 2006-12-12 02:13 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] scherzoid.livejournal.com
My ancestors got kicked out of Nova Scotia by the British in 1755. Does that count? :)
Date: 2006-12-12 02:59 (UTC)

From: [identity profile] ellipticcurve.livejournal.com
[livejournal.com profile] gyesika is a Stealth Canuck: born in Montreal, raised in the US. I'm her best friend, which I guess lets me bask in the reflected glow of her hidden Canadianness.

(I have French citizenship! Can I still be cool?)

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