HUMOR

All Canadians Love Hockey, and Other Lies

You’re mistaken about us Canadians

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3 min readAug 8, 2022

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Lie 1. All Canadians Love Hockey

A flat-out falsehood. I could take hockey or leave it, but I prefer to leave it. And there are many other Canadians who agree.

I’m not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in…

Tim Ebl

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