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One of the most infamous sporting dry spells is on the verge of extending for yet another season. The 30-plus-year streak no ...
His wasn’t the only attempt to leverage the sight and sound of Edmonton’s boisterous hockey fans against Alberta’s oft-misrepresented desire to secede from Canada. There has been plenty of back and ...
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There was Québec-born Calixa Lavallée (1842–91), who would become best known as the composer of “Chant national” (“O Canada”), a song he wrote after performing across the U.S., and as ...
My mother, born and raised in Canada, would from time to time burst into song: “O, Canada.” Usually she was inspired by something that provoked her memories of, or associations with ...
O Canada was composed in French for Saint Jean Baptiste Day in 1880. The music is by Calixa Lavallée and the lyrics are by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. The song gained popularity in English ...
Boos turned to cheers as singer Elizabeth Irving finished the song, and those cheers grew louder once she started a rendition of “O Canada.” Trump announced the tariffs, which risked ...
It stopped briefly, but became much louder as she finished the final phrases of the song. When the singer began singing O Canada, the cheering was loud, with a lot of people singing along.
Irving, who’s only 20 but has been singing O Canada at Vancouver Canucks’ games for a decade, held up the microphone Sunday night for the crowd to belt out a few lines of the song before Game ...