Shenbei Fan: Canada shoots for bronze

In the twilight of our sesquicentennial year, let us abandon the familiarly self-glorifying clichés of our nation and contemplate the shortcomings of our collective reality as we continue to make history.
Questioning Canada’s greatness is admittedly an undesirable task in 2017, with our prime minister achieving notable popularity at home and abroad, our economy outpacing much of the developed world and our international reputation admirable as ever.
Indeed, a surface-level dissectio