Canada's Cowboy Calvinism and the Polyester Gospel
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It wasn’t the man himself that hit me first, but the hat, an obscene little crown of polyester tyranny, lopsided and ridiculous, perched on hair so white

“Given the chance, I could see the old man’s anti-immigrant rant sliding seamlessly into a screed about Ottawa strangling Alberta as he moaned about what he paid for at the pumps. But here’s the cosmic joke, like all gospel, it was based on myth and like most prairie scripture, it was printed on the thinnest […]

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