Torontoist: You’ve already dissected Canadian vs. American humour; do you perceive Canadians as having a fascination with anything that might resemble the American preoccupation with memorializing its history of political violence? Sarah Vowelll: You sort of have to have political violence to memorialize it. I mean, let’s say you were a culture that didn’t just resolve most of its differences sitting in nice rooms, agreeing to disagree, then you might have one. We just have more of that stuff than you. (excerpt) —Sarah Vowell in a Torontoist interview Canadian Political Violence Day of Note: On this date in 1885 Louis Riel was hanged for treason in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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