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2025

TO BOO OR NOT TO BOO: That is the new question.

... it feels like now, more than ever, this is about much more than hockey.

It’s a lesser asked existential question and decidedly less poetic than it’s famous Shakespearian ancestor. But these are different times than William wrote in. Specifically, it’s time for Canada to play America in the hockey final of the newly formed “4 Nations Cup” in Boston. The same city where a bunch of tea was poured in the harbour some 250 years ago. Only now, that tea would be tariffed by at least 25%.

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