Canadian Politics Today

'I urge all Canadians to read this and to feel real fear,' one journalist wrote about Shoji Ushiyama’s deadpan tweets on the unsettling horrors of living in Canada

The most important piece of Canadian culture produced in 2019 first appeared online Monday night at 10:55 p.m. For several hours thereafter it unspooled without attracting much notice. Tweet after tweet. Drip by drip. It unravelled. Eventually, inevitably it began to spread.

By Wednesday morning it was everywhere and it was drawing rapturous praise. Writer Rebecca Tucker called it “the greatest work of Canadian literature that has ever been written.” National Post contributor Terry Glavin described it as the “best Canadian thing on Twitter ever.” Neil Gaiman, one of the most popular novelists alive, found it. So did venture capitalist Paul Kedrosky.

The young fella has talent...   hope he stays and calls Canada home.  We need people like this.

Of course the comments at the bottom of the National Post article are absolutely horrific.  All I can do is hope they're bots and not actual Canadians.

Some of his posts are funny.  Not sure why it's news, or the leading story on a national newspaper website.  Guess they got to report something.

But it's weird that it's the featured #1 headline on a national newspaper site.

Canadians have always been overly interested in how others see us, so this Hong Kong student's observations appeal to that aspect of our national psyche.

 -k