Citations:Canuckistan

English citations of Canuckistan

Proper noun: "(informal, derogatory or humorous) Canada"

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• 2005, Adrian Mack, "Top of the Pops", The Georgia Straight, 28 April 2005:

  Fistfights aside, Day is looking forward to her band's first Canadian tour as she anticipates a more European flavour up here in Canuckistan.

• 2005, James Travers, "Hillier invades political terrain", Toronto Star, 16 July 2005:

  Hillier's messages have a certain appeal. Dehumanizing the enemy is as old as war and reminding the United States that its neighbour stands shoulder-to-shoulder at the front meshes nicely with Ottawa's efforts to convince Washington - and Fox News - that this country isn't a rubber-willed, terrorist-harbouring, defty-lefty Canuckistan hiding behind Pentagon skirts.

• 2006, David Olive, "Data belie resilient economy", Toronto Star, 7 January 2006:

  Meantime, the loonie's buoyancy this year reflects growing interest in Canuckistan from offshore admirers.

• 2007, Liam Durcan, García's Heart, McClelland & Stewart Ltd. (2007), →ISBN, page 36:

  A well-known right-wing American radio personality had, in the midst of his daily invective, taken up Hernan García as his cause célèbre: a man falsely imprisoned on trumped-up charges to be tried in a court that had no authority, a situation that no American would countenance, but one that the weak-kneed folks up in Canuckistan would bend over backwards for.

• 2009, Jody Berland, North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space, Duke University Press (2009), →ISBN, page 35:

  During the Cold War, U.S. government officials accused “Canuckistan” of being soft on communism and drove one high-ranking diplomat to suicide with their denunciations.

• 2010, Greg Weston, "Harper's shuffle demons", Niagara Falls Review, 21 January 2010:

  The prime minister who shut down parliament to smother a political fiasco has given a dozen of his ministers new mandates to follow orders from the Prime Minister's Office.

  Here in Canuckistan, we call it a cabinet shuffle.

• 2011, Raju Mudhar, "Mudhar: Bills cashing in on Toronto series", Toronto Star, 30 October 2011:

  Early in the morning on the NFL Network, comedian Jason Jones did a mock interview with Buffalo wide receiver Steve Johnson making lame jokes about playing in “Canuckistan.”

• 2012, Warren Kinsella, Fight the Right: A Manual for Surviving the Coming Conservative Apocalypse, Random House Canada (2012), →ISBN, page 28:

  Republican political consultants regularly ply their trade with Conservatives up in Canuckistan […]