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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      6. I mention a book on fisheries certification and here's what I get: https://twitter.com/nepacific/status/609206356558614528 …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      7. MT @ivortossell In "The Longer I'm PM," @inklessPW has Harper sitting at his desk, actively scrubbing memorable lines from speeches.

      3 replies 4 retweets 10 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      8. You wouldn't thing that sexual perversity could be made boring, but then you've probably never sat through an Anglo-Canadian movie.

      7 replies 21 retweets 30 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      9. Where does this boringness come from? What are the roots of this profound Canadian love of stultification?

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      10. Imagine a British colony where the piquant colorful features of Britishness (eccentricity, visible class friction) were discouraged.

      4 replies 7 retweets 15 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      11. And of course, as Canada formed as a state, it looked to the USA as an anti-model. We don't want to be like them, with their Civil Wars

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      12. A thought from Robert Frost: https://twitter.com/noahmccormack/status/609208684586135552 …

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      13. Boredom is never all encompassing, it is always punctuated by outbursts of violence just to remind us we're alive (i.e hockey).

      2 replies 8 retweets 10 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      14. Countering me @EricKleefeld says many Canadian politicians have been interestingly insane, like William Lyon Mackenzie King. Yes & no.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      15. True, in private WLM King was batty (held seances, talked to dead mom & his living dogs) but in public he was staid & sober: boring.

      2 replies 3 retweets 6 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015

      16. The King example is proof that Canadian boringness isn't intrinsic: it's something we work at, cherish and reward.

      9:16 PM - 11 Jun 2015 from Toronto, Ontario
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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          17. There's an entire cultural infrastructure to reward oatmeal novels ("angst on the farm" as Russell Smith described it).

          6 replies 5 retweets 13 likes
        3. Stewart Prest‏ @StewartPrest 11 Jun 2015
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          @HeerJeet I think that's right. Canada is interesting; it's the country's narrators that are boring, that prize boringness.

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        2. Adam‏ @ChalicothereX 11 Jun 2015
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          @HeerJeet @irvinewelsh offers an opinion on the subject in Skagboys:pic.twitter.com/lkWunZLc9I

          1 reply 5 retweets 8 likes
        3. Philip Girvan‏ @pgirvan 22 Mar 2017
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          I had given up on Welsh many years ago, but that's a keen, smartly written, observation.

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        1. Chris Turner‏Verified account @theturner 11 Jun 2015
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          @HeerJeet And we adopt as ironic badge of honour, deleting strangeness of our history. Wrote about this re Klondike http://thewalrus.ca/fools-gold/ 

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        1. Chris Turner‏Verified account @theturner 11 Jun 2015
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          @HeerJeet Sam Steele, template for the steadfast Mountie, was a fearsome advocate of law and order. But he was not at all boring.

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        1. Adam‏ @ChalicothereX 11 Jun 2015
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          @HeerJeet Always like this @adamgopnik essay which touches on the subject: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22028316 …pic.twitter.com/nUMZxHkE8X

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        1. Fredrik Graver  🇺🇦  🇵🇸‏ @fgraver 11 Jun 2015
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          @HeerJeet Didn’t Peter Ustinov once describe Toronto as «New York run by the Swiss»? (late 70s IIRC) Very apt description of English Canada.

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