Basic (and boring) recipe of a Canadian Caesar follows the "one, two, three, four" rule. The recipe calls for 1–1½ oz of vodka, two dashes of hot sauce, three dashes of salt and pepper, four dashes of Worcestershire sauce and topped with 4–6 oz of Clamato and served with ice.

MARSHA LEDERMAN
The Globe and Mail Last updated: Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016 8:53AM EDT

In Canada, a country where national identity is so elusive that it’s often oversimplified, equated with hockey and a certain brand of coffee, it’s a beautiful moment when we have something real and profound to unite us. Even if it’s, well, tragic.

Who needs a double-double – or even the Olympics – to pull a country together when you’ve got a country pulling for a national icon and his mates? What’s uniting Canada this summer is a rock band that sings of Jacques Cartier, Millhaven maximum security and, yes, the Leafs; a genius life being cut short by a brain tumour; and a long cross-country goodbye. It has left a vapour trail of heartbreak and exhilaration, this act of enormity.

Over the past few months, and especially these past few weeks, Canada has rocked with the Tragically Hip and rallied behind Gord Downie, its lead singer. Fans have railed against scalping bots, marvelled at Downie’s shiny courage, sung along to every lyric, wept openly with strangers in packed arenas. The Hip hype will reach a deafening climax on Saturday as the band plays the final show of its Man Machine Poem tour in its hometown of Kingston, Ont. Across the country – and beyond – Canadians will be watching.

The news that stung the country broke on May 24. “A few months ago, in December, Gord Downie was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer,” read a message on the Hip’s website. The band (also Rob Baker, Gord Sinclair, Johnny Fay and Paul Langlois) said it would still tour this summer and vowed to “dig deep, and try to make this our best tour yet.”

The nation did not whisper. It wept.

And tweeted. "Gord Downie is a true original who has been writing Canada's soundtrack for more than 30 years. #Courage" Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote.

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The final two episodes were both brilliant!!! Some other seasons I've been left scratching my head (like I can't believe Bran was missing for a WHOLE season), but this wrap up was just AMAZING .

What Bran saw - As the end of the episode was nearing I was stomping my feet and yelling, NO NOT ANOTHER SEASON NOT FINDING THIS OUT, and then.... !!!!! Ahh I need to go and brush up on the books again while I wait.... It is going to be a torturous ~ 42 weeks for more. I think I need a binge watch of this season again already! I might cry the day the series ends.

Paging Vincent van Gogh lookalikes: Douglas Coupland wants to transform you into a work of art — and he’s willing to pay.

The Vancouver-based artist is embarking on a global search for an individual who most closely resembles the legendary Dutch painter.

The person Coupland thinks best fits the bill will be given 5,000 euros (approximately CDN$7,200.)

The individual will be flown to Vancouver to be 3D-scanned, and will have their facial data used as van Gogh’s likeness on a two-by-three-metre bronze sculpture.

The work will be the first in an ongoing series of commissioned monumental outdoor works titled “Redheads.”

Individuals can upload a photo to iamvincent.com, where submissions can be viewed and voted on. Entries will be accepted until Aug. 20.

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Next time we delete your account, we promise to notify you.

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Um, REALIZE is spelled with a 'Z'.

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I sense some ill feeling. Point proven. Again.

I don't hate Jack. Much. I know I need to lighten up some. My point is, being disrespected (to put it kindly) upsets people and doesn't upset others. We aren't all the same. Just because it upsets only a minoroty, does that make it ok to do it in front of everybody?

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Cuntcake! Lol.

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Did you just indicate we are on the same page because you don't like me either? I hit a nerve? You say it didn't bother you but your post indicated otherwise. This was a test too but we really are on the same page.

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I don't like you either but you already know that.

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You have said on your Lush blog in the recent past that youre "not gonna pretend to like people who pretended to like me" then deleted me. You're a two faced whiny little bitch. Seriously I think you are. I really DID like you before you did that to me without asking me about it. You were doing the very thing you THOUGHT I was doing to you. Pretending to like me. Are you going to "choose whether you're going to let my post upset you? Or are you going to log the fuck off? I hope it's the latter.

Told you, you should've locked this thread when I had won it.

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I am so tired of people bullying you! Honestly. This thread can't be about you though. A serial troll? Whatever. Haters gonna hate.

I will also admit that the bickering that goes on is quite entertaining. like the dead fake girlfriend. Or was it the girlfriends fake death. I agree with OMKN. I also know people will always get their "feelings" hurt, and go and blame a troll or cartoon or a video game, etc. because, they can't accept they actually choose to be upset. Victims. Poor babies.....but look, some of you DO bully Jack. Many of you try to bully him, have him banned, what fucking ever.

Y'all keep bitching about online bullying. Log off for fuck sake. And only trolls create these troll poll threads anyway. Stupid. But still entertaining.

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That's the complete opposite to what you say to me in private.

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You reverse-image search people's profile pics?

Well I guess it's a good thing they're not using pictures of themselves. Sorry - but that seems a bit... invasive. What are you trying to do by hunting down people's pictures online at other websites?

When people confess that kind of shit it makes me really want to just delete all my shit and never put up a single pic of myself ever for any reason.

There's no rule or standard that ever says 'this picture MUST be you' - so they don't have to be *the person*. . . they can be taken from anywhere.

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I don't know about that, it got pretty heated in here last night so much that we were told to knock it off, it's not a playground. So, there are limits. But pushing the limits is so much fun!

Honestly, though. I prefer to have a good, fun intellectual conversation with good fun intelligent people. Unfortunately there are those that require you to put on the gloves, so why not. If the choice is A. Leave if you can't take it, ya big baby! or B. Stay and knock them out, I'll go for B everytime. But, I'd rather not have to make the choice.