30-06-2017 22:36 via edmontonjournal.com

Paula Simons: Happy 150, Canada. Celebrate – but don't rest on your laurels

There is no Canadian word  – or at least no English-language word – for Schadenfreude.
We’ve had to borrow it from the German – as we’ve borrowed wieners and sauerkraut and giant soft pretzels.
But Schadenfreude may be Germany’s greatest contributions to Canadian identity. 
It means the joy we take from the sorrow of others. The sort of joy you take, for when Vancouver gets more snow that Edmonton. When the Flames go out of the Stanley Cup playoffs b
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