Local Singer-Activist Proud to Be 2nd-Worst Canadian

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"Why can't a good person be a bad Canadian and why do people equate good patriotism or nationalism with being a good person?" [Chris Hannah] says. "It's such an overblown, dangerous myth; it's absurd"

The band received votes from across the country to win the songwriting award, much in the same manner Hannah almost won the title of Worst Canadian in the historical magazine, which came out yesterday. The cover story in The Beaver notes that [Pierre Trudeau]'s "win" over Hannah is a "result that perhaps speaks as much about the perils of online voting as it does about the love-hate relationship Canadians have had with this paradoxical prime minister."

"If I take the results seriously, I think people should be ashamed [Henry Morgentaler] is considered for a worst-Canadians list as the guy who championed a woman's right to choose," he says. "I would like to think it's a mobilization by the fringe right to get his name on there."

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Local Singer-Activist Proud to Be 2nd-Worst Canadian

By Rob Williams

THE frontman of local political thrash-punk band Propagandhi will go down in history as the second-worst Canadian of all time.

But Chris Hannah, 36, isn't upset ...

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