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> "Another potent influence for bringing Canada into spiritual subjection to the United States is the moving-picture-show. The films are made for American audiences,naturally, to suit their taste. Then, they come to Canada. We originate none, practically. I dropped into a "movie" theatre in a small Nova Scotian town. It was filled with noisy, excited children. The point of the plot was the continual thwarting of a villain through the agency of several small boys and girls. They occurred and recurred in a sort of procession, the leader carrying the Stars and Stripes; and whenever they appeared the little Bluenoses cheered like mad." :woah: > The protective tariff has forced many American firms to establish branches in Canada Huh. wonder what the mechanism of that is? > the establishmentof the automatic chewing gum machine, that monument of progressive civilization, are all to be reckoned with. :confusedparrot: >We have imported Thanksgiving Day, a heathen festival of autumn, as Goldwin Smith points out, Labour Day, Arbor Day, Mothers' Day. As soon as our cousins south of the line decide to celebrate Great-grandmothers' Day we will uncritically adopt it too 🤣 🌈 >Our children call cents "pennies" (thus showing that the half is at least equal to the whole), and our pretty five cent silver pieces they call "nickels," after their ugly American equivalents. :blob_rofl: :blob_rofl: :blob_rofl: :blob_rofl: @Soy_Magnus >The Rotary Club is another instance. It is, no doubt, an admirable organization,though intrigued by the title I was personally disappointedto find that the Rotarians did not rotate on their own axes like the Whirling Dervishes :blob_rofl: :blob_rofl: :blob_rofl: https://mega.nz/file/gwhHWTba#XHe5T2Ft9yutx_hZaQglurBlUl5MZzYTKjOSXe2Hp_I #canada