Jamie Benn, the Vancouver-born left wing whose name sounds like an off-brand British bank, has spent the better part of fifteen years proving that even in a league that stretches from Helsinki condos to Arizona parking lots, one mildly irritable Canadian can still tilt the planet’s emotional axis. While the NHL remains stubbornly North-American-centric—like a…
**Pop-Punk Diplomacy: How Avril Lavigne Became an Accidental Geopolitical Pawn in the Great Canadian Culture War** In the grand theater of international relations, where nuclear treaties are negotiated over canapés and trade wars erupt over dairy subsidies, one might not expect a Canadian pop-punk princess to emerge as a figure of geopolitical significance. Yet here…
Montreal, Wednesday—Somewhere between the racket-smashing melodrama of the Balkans and the polite Scandinavian welfare-state forehands, Felix Auger-Aliassime has emerged as the polite Canadian compromise: a tennis prodigy who apologizes after aces and thanks the net post for cooperation. In a world that can’t decide whether to blow itself up or binge another season on Netflix,…
