Blog: State Magazine

For reasons that seem to confuse a lot of Irish people, Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving a full month and a half before their neighbours to the south. While Americans celebrate their own peculiar foundation myth – the coming together of English settlers and Native Americans for a spot of dinner at Plymouth – Canadians celebrate not being American. It's why Canadians are sometimes perceived as being a little smug, but it's a mindset we Irish should understand completely: time may be a great healer of colonial wounds, but we'll always secretly hate the British for being bigger and stronger than us, [...]