Juno News - September 12, 2026


The Country You Grew Up In No Longer Exists

Topics
Hockey Night in Canada disappearing
Hosted by
Harrison Faulkner
Mentioned
Hockey Night Don Cherry Rogers Justin Trudeau Foster Hewitt
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10 minutes

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1,810

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97

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00:00:00.000 have you noticed that so much of what made Canada such a great place to live
00:00:11.040 what connected you to your country and your communities no longer exists that
00:00:16.440 feeling you have when you walk around Canadian cities that emotion you have
00:00:21.000 when you watch something on TV or listen to a song on the radio and to be
00:00:25.140 honest most of you likely don't do that anymore anyways I know I don't so I
00:00:28.920 wouldn't blame you. So many Canadian cultural institutions no longer exist. And the ones that
00:00:34.980 remain, they don't feel or look very Canadian anymore, do they? And perhaps the most tragic
00:00:40.460 example of this is the death of Hockey Night in Canada. After 95 years, Hockey Night in Canada
00:00:47.000 is officially dead. The corporate mercenaries at Rogers and the corporate executives at the CBC
00:00:52.120 couldn't hammer out a deal to conserve one of the last truly great Canadian cultural institutions.
00:01:00.240 Hockey Night in Canada is gone, and it is to be replaced by Saturday Night Hockey. Another
00:01:05.600 Canadian national institution replaced by a sterile corporate recreation of Canadian culture
00:01:11.960 and Canadian identity. How sad and how symbolic of modern Canada. You see, these things actually
00:01:19.220 matter. Not everything in our country should be defined by whether or not it generates revenue,
00:01:24.960 by whether or not it adds to the national GDP. There's a lot more to our nation than just the
00:01:30.420 monetary value that the people or the institutions generate. We are not just individual economic
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00:02:45.800 and the common question for the episode is this. Do you mourn the death of Hockey Night in Canada?
00:02:51.760 Let me know your answer in the comments below, and let's get into it.
00:02:54.760 Goodbye, Hockey Night in Canada. Hello, Saturday Night Hockey. Yet another corporate sterile
00:03:01.320 recreation of a national institution. Let's be honest, we all knew that Hockey Night in Canada
00:03:06.220 died when Don Cherry was fired, when we lost Coach's Corner. But nonetheless, the fact that
00:03:12.220 Hockey Night in Canada remained, the fact that you could do something that your grandparents did in
00:03:18.380 this country, you could connect on an intergenerational basis with your country,
00:03:23.820 lock in to those shared memories, you could still do that. It wasn't great, but you could still at
00:03:30.520 least do it now you can't it's all gone you might say to yourself who cares there's more important
00:03:36.540 things to worry about in our country right now than hockey night in Canada and you would be right
00:03:41.260 to an extent but I don't know how you view it but to me this is a clear pattern in our country
00:03:47.000 we are slowly watching the country that we grew up in disappear and I for one I'm just not having
00:03:54.320 it anymore the demographics in our communities in our major cities they are completely changing
00:03:59.940 Canadian culture due to mass immigration is changing along with it. We are watching radicals
00:04:05.840 tear down our statues and erase Canadian history. We are watching iconic national institutions like
00:04:12.640 the Hudson's Bay Company, the Canadian Snowbirds, and now Hockey Night in Canada disappear. You
00:04:18.000 remember when Justin Trudeau was talking about Canada being a post-national state? Well, guess
00:04:23.480 what? This is what it looks like. Hockey Night in Canada defined our country. It was one of our
00:04:29.440 greatest cultural exports. When people thought about Canada, they probably heard and understood
00:04:35.440 about Hockey Night in Canada and what it meant for our population. It connected generations of
00:04:40.820 Canadians together with shared memories. Great grandparents gathered around the radio to listen
00:04:46.540 to Foster Hewitt. Children were able to connect with their grandparents and parents around the TV
00:04:51.980 to listen to Don Cherry and Coach's Corner. Hockey Night in Canada actually unified our country. No
00:04:57.620 matter your political affiliation, your age, or quite frankly, your ethnicity, if you arrived
00:05:03.020 in Canada and you wanted to tap into what it meant to be a Canadian, you watched Hockey Night in
00:05:07.760 Canada. It was probably the most unifying cultural element in Canada. And Hockey Night in Canada
00:05:14.200 really was all about Coach's Corner, Don Cherry's weekly address to the nation. He would take events
00:05:20.620 on the ice and transform it into life lessons for young Canadians and Canadians of all ages
00:05:27.040 watching. It was a weekly patriotic sermon. We haven't had that since 2019. I'm not saying that
00:05:33.320 losing Coach's Corner is some breaking news event. We all know that it has been gone for a long time
00:05:39.480 but you could hold on to that idea as long as Hockey Night in Canada still existed. You will
00:05:43.800 recall for example if you ever watched Hockey Night in Canada and Coach's Corner at the time
00:05:48.820 that I did growing up during the Afghanistan war Don Cherry would use his airtime Coach's Corner
00:05:54.160 to talk about and highlight and remember Canada's fallen heroes.
00:05:59.740 He made sure that every Canadian in the country knew the names of Canadians
00:06:04.740 that lost their lives fighting for our country and our flag in Afghanistan.
00:06:08.780 He put their names and faces on the screen.
00:06:10.980 He talked about who they were.
00:06:12.460 He talked about their families.
00:06:14.220 Probably no other national broadcast in Canada did more to connect the Canadian people
00:06:21.020 with our fallen heroes than Hockey Night in Canada,
00:06:24.420 which tells you that the program was a lot more than just hockey.
00:06:27.860 It really was a lot more than hockey.
00:06:29.980 Don Cherry and the Hockey Night in Canada executives
00:06:32.460 made sure that Canadians understood the true cost
00:06:35.540 and true bravery of our Canadian soldiers.
00:06:37.900 When it comes to things like that,
00:06:39.000 you really can't just put a price tag on it.
00:06:41.320 It matters far more to the country and to the people
00:06:43.480 than the revenue it generates from advertisers.
00:06:46.960 But once Rogers purchased the NHL broadcasting rights,
00:06:51.020 the entire package the writing for hockey night in canada was on the wall hockey night in canada
00:06:55.900 went from being the golden goose the untouchable cultural element that no canadian could ever
00:07:01.980 imagine living without to just another revenue generating broadcast segment for corporate rogers
00:07:09.020 rogers corporate executives ripped the program away from its cultural meaning to the people
00:07:14.540 when don cherry offended the mainstream woke sensibilities of corporate broadcasting executives 0.75
00:07:21.020 For daring to tell immigrants that they should probably put on a poppy during Remembrance
00:07:24.820 period, something, by the way, that is glaringly obvious if you spend any time in the GTA,
00:07:30.520 for example, during the Remembrance Day period, he was unceremoniously fired.
00:07:34.740 If any of you spent time watching Hockey Night in Canada post the Don Cherry firing,
00:07:40.520 you would have quickly realized that it became a woke, politicized broadcast.
00:07:45.060 It lost its connection with the people.
00:07:47.240 Its revenues and viewership decreased, and now it's gone.
00:07:51.020 Just like the Canadian snowbirds, it became too costly.
00:07:54.580 Just like the Hudson's Bay Company, the revenue model had changed.
00:07:58.240 Just like so much in Canada.
00:08:01.020 The shell of what remains of our national institutions
00:08:04.000 don't look or feel very Canadian anymore, do they?
00:08:07.800 this is what tim horton's workers does when they're supposed to be working on the counter
00:08:22.680 is there anybody working on the counter
00:08:26.320 see that's the problem if canadians can't connect with and feel their own culture
00:08:37.720 how can we expect that culture to possibly survive?
00:08:40.500 We need a cultural conservatism that goes beyond tax cuts and economic policy,
00:08:45.540 that taps in to these elements that we're talking about,
00:08:48.780 that taps in to the intangibles,
00:08:52.040 the things that make you feel something inside about your country.
00:08:56.040 Like the Quebecois, we need a national policy that actually is focused on conserving the nation.
00:09:01.320 You may be of the opinion that Hockey Night in Canada is just a media broadcast.
00:09:07.160 It's sports ball. It distracts the people from the real issues taking place today.
00:09:13.180 I actually think it's far more important.
00:09:16.040 The people who are running Hockey Night in Canada understood that.
00:09:19.400 That's why it became far more than just a hockey broadcast.
00:09:23.300 And it was more than that.
00:09:25.500 It was a part of our nation.
00:09:26.960 It was a cornerstone of Canadian culture and identity.
00:09:30.760 It has been ripped apart and thrown into the trash heap of history.
00:09:34.220 As an update, CBC has announced that they will retain the copyright for Hockey Night in Canada,
00:09:40.400 but the Saturday evening broadcast will now be used to highlight Canadian Olympic and amateur sport.
00:09:47.420 Hockey on Saturday nights will remain in Canada, but like I said, it is now under the branding Saturday Night Hockey.
00:09:55.080 No different than Sunday Night Football in the United States. There's really nothing Canadian about it.
00:10:01.020 And I don't want to speak for you, but for me, I don't want to see Canadian culture and Canadian
00:10:06.960 cities resemble American culture and American cities or every other culture and cities and
00:10:13.520 identity that exists in English language speaking places. I want Canadian culture to be unique.
00:10:20.840 I want it to exist. I want it to be different. To me, this stuff actually matters. And if we keep 0.95
00:10:27.180 going down this path, it'll all be gone a lot quicker than we all are expecting.
00:10:32.960 All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us this week on this show. A reminder that you
00:10:35.700 can use my code junonews.com slash HarrisonReturn to get a discount on a Juno News subscription.
00:10:41.920 A further reminder to answer the comment question of the video,
00:10:44.740 do you mourn the death of Hockey Night in Canada? Let me know your answer in the comments below.
00:10:48.980 My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Ratio.