Canadians make fun of Toronto for calling the army after 1999 snowstorm | From the Archives

From the Archives: After days of headlines making fun of Toronto after a massive snowstorm, Mayor Mel Lastman lashed out.

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8 comments

  1. American here: why Canadians sound Irish in old clips? Amazing.

    Also, Halifax is coastal, they can’t talk

    1. Brilliant obersation. Canadian English was partly shaped by early immigrants from the UK and Ireland. It was affected much more by the arrival of about 45,000 loyalists to the British crown during the American Revolutionary War.

  2. It called Aid to the civil power and covers a wide range of situations at least that’s what it was back then

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