Why Canadian patriotism isn't blind nationalism

Hey there Canada, it's me, Gavin Crawford, host of the Because News Podcast, a weekly show where I quiz my good-humored friends on the latest headlines. Joining me this week, comedian Miguel Rivas, YouTuber Carly Thorne, and the improv goat Colin Mockery. I'll be asking, what time will the AI uprising be exactly? And if Trump wants Canada so bad, why don't the American hockey players? Also, what took so long to get Yacht Rock in the Merriam-Webster dictionary?

If you want unlicensed therapy for the news, subscribe to the Because News Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you download find podcasts for free. This is a CBC podcast. I'm Nala Ayed, and welcome to a special Canada Day episode of Ideas. If this Canada date somehow feels bigger, it's maybe because we've been threatened with annexation by the US to become a 51st state. So it seems fitting on this occasion to bring you a programme about the idea of Canada, which happens to be the title of a 1992 groundbreaking documentary that won international awards and honors.

My name is Christos Hatsis. I'm a composer, been in Canada since 1982. I and currently I'm teaching composition at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Christos Hatsis was the composer of the documentary The Idea of Canada. Until 1982, Christos had been studying music in the United States and was doing his PhD in Buffalo, New York, just a stone's throw across the border.

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