While I don’t endorse the jingoistic, heavy-handed nationalism that normally accompanies the celebration of, say, my country’s 150th birthday, I also don’t feel I should have to… Read more “Canada 1985: Tears Are Not Enough”

I thought I’d wrap up the “1984” section of this blog with three snapshots of the eclectic homegrown talent that was filling up my favourite radio stations,… Read more “My Canada 1984 Playlist: Slugs, Spoons, and a Suite”

While I’ve written about a few Canadian political leaders on this blog, I have a special relationship with the subject of this post because he happens to… Read more “Canada 1984: Brian Mulroney – It’s All There, In Black And White”

My parents did me a huge favour in the summer of 1984, just before I entered the seventh grade, even though they might not have realized it… Read more “Canada 1984: Rising and Following John Allan Cameron”

I will always be jealous of my wife Cathy because she got to see one of the biggest moments in the history of space travel – the… Read more “Canada 1984: Marc Garneau – A Spaceman Came Travelling”

This blog post is special for two reasons: It’s the first to feature an interview that I carried out specifically for Canada Through My Eye, and it’s… Read more “Canada 1983: From Nova Scotia to Fraggle Rock”

1984 saw the launch of two major contributors to the pop-culture sensibilities of Generation-X Canadians, a 24-hour music channel and a daily music-video series on the nation’s… Read more “Canada 1984: Postcards from Samantha Taylor”

By the spring of 1983, as I approached the end of the fifth grade, I knew that most of my favourite TV shows were Canadian, and I… Read more “Canada 1983: Signed, The President of the CBC”

I had no idea what was to come as the family car headed up Nova Scotia’s Sunrise Trail on the last weekend of June, 1983. I knew… Read more “Canada 1983: What’s a Pugwash?”

As I began my twelfth year in the fall of 1983, my Canadian comedic antennae had received some direction from a year’s worth of Wayne and Shuster… Read more “Canada 1983: The General, The CBLA, and Me”