#canadian

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me!" - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#cancer #cancer-survivors #hope #inspirational #love-story

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship." - John Hanlon, the sailor ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#children-s-books #heroes #inspirational #non-fiction #non-fiction-books-inspirational

Nonsense. Everyone knows Canadians are a peaceful people.” He was laughing now. “Tell that to the White House circa 1812,” I told him. “Oh? Why?” “Because that’s the year the peace-loving Canadians burned it to the ground.” Dominick grabbed an empty bottle and jumped onto his chair. The room got silent in an instant as everyone paused to look at him. “Cheers to 1812.” He lifted his empty bottle. The whole room whooped and raised their full glasses, howling in unison. I could barely hear over the sound of my own laughter. ↗

— Sierra Dean

#dominick #humor #secret #love

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. ↗

— Brett Hull

#because #boo #canadian #every #every time

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#broad #canadian #humor #i #i think

In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#america #american #bring #canadian #comedy

When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it. ↗

— Owen Hart

#canadian #ever #held #i #kind

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films. ↗

— Ted Kotcheff

#american films #canadian #ended #films #i

This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#any #canadians #country #distinctions #french

Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#academy #academy awards #awards #canadian #genies