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Brian Lilley

Gold medalist Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Canada poses with silver medalist Chloe Dufour-Lapointe. The sisters competed in the women's freestyle skiing moguls at the Sochi Winter Olympics. A Canadian TV host criticized how CBC announcers were pronouncing t

During the Olympics, Canadians are willing to drop their language arguments

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When a TV host criticized other announcers for their “pretentious” pronunciations of French names during the Olympics, Canadians of all stripes got upset. For once, the language card didn’t work in Canada.

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