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Chris Selley: The hysterical nostalgia for Hockey Night in Canada is classic Canadian unthinkingness

For a great many Canadians, over-the-air CBC hasn’t been available for ages

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I’m generally happy to roll my eyes at pearl-clutching urban sophisticates in private. Sane National post readers don’t need me to explain why Hockey Night in Canada signing off the public airwaves for good doesn’t matter, despite all the column inches and airtime it has taken up.

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“A fundamental betrayal of what CBC is supposed to be,” wrote one columnist. “Sacrilegious,” it says in the New York Times. “A major shock. … very detrimental to Canadian culture” one observer told CBC News. “The CBC’s loss … ought to impel us to ask what we want and expect not just from our national broadcaster but from our country,” ruminates a Walrus contributor. And on and on and on.

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The problem is, I think all this........

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