The Hub July 2015 | Page 30

What Matters To You Just play nice, eh? By Shelley Divnich Haggert Oh, Canada. When will you stop needing to feel superior in order to feel spectacular? When will feeling good about yourself stop requiring you to feel bad about everyone else? Not that long ago, our headlines and social media feeds were filled with the news of the “Jeopardy fail” wherein contestants on the long-running game show couldn’t give a single correct answer in the category ‘Canadian cities.’ Armchair quarterbacks, pundits and patriots alike gleefully pointed to the episode as yet another example of our U.S. neighbours’ ignorance and self-absorption. Even host Alex Trebek – a Canadian – had a twinkle in his eye as he revealed the answers to his mystified contestants. But h