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July’s winner is Jami of www.carminemag.com
She will be receiving a bag packed with Canadian sweets for her comment on the post: How Do You Take Your News?
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This past April the Canadian government passed a new law that bestowed citizenship to what could potentially be hundreds of thousands of people. Most of these brand new Canucks are said to be American.
Obviously Canada was feeling a little lonely. Or was it guilt at having stripped these people of their citizenship in the first [...]

Do Canadians really say, ‘eh’?
Yes. Yes we do. We do it all the time.
Why? Basically, it’s a well-integrated part of our country’s slang. We use it as a way of saying, “Don’t you agree”, or “Say that again?” or even as a check to see if you’re REALLY listening. Throwing down an ‘eh’ in the [...]