I don’t know what’s worse: the wildfires or America singing “Blame Canada.”
And by singing, I mean wheezing and pointing fingers to the north. The front page of the New York Post on Thursday framed our neighbour’s cranky mood: “EH! POCALYPSE NOW. Canuck wildfires plunge NYC into eerie, smoky hell. BLAME CANADA!”
The footage on cable news, in heavy rotation with “Canadian Wildfires” in every chyron, was certainly eerie. The Empire State Building, cloaked in a tangerine haze, looked like it was on Mars. The Yankees game was cancelled Wednesday as the team cited “poor air quality due to smoke from the Canadian wildfires.”
Curiously, the Bronx Bombers did not sneak in a cheap shot at Vladdy.
“Blame Canada” was not the only reaction to the woodland infernos that have torched more than 3.5 million hectares while blocking out the sun to millions. In this age of…
