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NEW - Fifty Bucks for a Canada Day Flag. The Pole Is From China.
Bob Addison went back to read the label on a six-foot Canada Day flag at Costco. Made in Canada, imported fabric, pole and bracket from China. Fifty dollars. The irony runs deeper when you consider Canada probably sold them the coal that fired the furnace that made the pole.
That observation opens into something the algorithm has been quietly building for a while. Nostalgia for the sixties, seventies, and eighties is everywhere on social media — Vancouver street footage from sixty years ago, old hockey cards on T-shirts, Jim Morrison at YVR, top-ten song intro lists that disappear the…
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