As far as national touchstones go, it stands somewhere above poutine and “Eh?”
For those of us who grew up on Voltaire’s “few acres of snow” over most of the past century, Hockey Night in Canada – its familiar theme song and blue blazers, Murray Westgate wishing “Happy motoring” and on-air controversies over flipped pencils and poppies – was our Saturday night neighbourhood.
CBC will air Transgender Cricket matches starting this fall.
