Despite the mass conspiracy perpetrated by local media about "severe" weather alerts and "extreme" cold, winter is behaving, well, like winter. Frigid temperatures are to be expected.
Snow in all forms is what is supposed to happen. It is also what unites us as Canadians as the definitive experience that shapes our national character.
We have true grit, a toolbox essential, from sheer endurance of the winter marathon. It informs everything we see, do, read and create. Forget hockey. We are the cuddle champions of the world because winter is our civic glue.
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