{"id":40471,"date":"2025-05-02T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/canada-has-long-been-seen-as-the-cool-cousin-next-door-heres-the-truth-noel-ransome\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:41:07","slug":"canada-has-long-been-seen-as-the-cool-cousin-next-door-heres-the-truth-noel-ransome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/canada-has-long-been-seen-as-the-cool-cousin-next-door-heres-the-truth-noel-ransome\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada has long been seen as the cool cousin next door. Here&#8217;s the truth | Noel Ransome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country has exported a myth of progressivism. It\u2019s time to confront who we really are<\/p>\n<p>Canada has been canonized \u2013 safely, predictably.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the great, grave story we\u2019ve exported \u2013 retold in economic rankings, stitched into tourism ads, held up in classrooms and cable news panels. We\u2019re the cooler, mellower cousin nextdoor. The country that has it figured out. Where healthcare is universal, democracy is calm and diversity is politely managed.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/may\/02\/canada-trump-us-progressivism-mark-carney\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has exported a myth of progressivism. It\u2019s time to confront who we really are Canada has been canonized \u2013 safely, predictably. It\u2019s the great, grave story we\u2019ve exported \u2013 retold in economic rankings, stitched into tourism ads, held up in classrooms and cable news panels. We\u2019re the cooler, mellower cousin nextdoor. The country &#8230; <a title=\"Canada has long been seen as the cool cousin next door. Here&#8217;s the truth | Noel Ransome\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/canada-has-long-been-seen-as-the-cool-cousin-next-door-heres-the-truth-noel-ransome\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Canada has long been seen as the cool cousin next door. Here&#8217;s the truth | Noel Ransome\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}