Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw Quotes

“You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.”
― Will Ferguson, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada

“More polar bears live in Canada than in the rest of the world combined, which raises the question, Why the hell did we choose the beaver as our national emblem? We could have had Nanuk of the North, Lord of the Arctic, as our symbol. Instead we got stuck with Squirrelly McTeeth. Sheesh.”
― Will Ferguson, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada

“The sun rises on Newfoundland, sets on British Columbia, island to island. Chilly Atlantic mornings and warm Pacific sunsets. An arc that traces a path from the dawn of an empire to its twilight.”
― Will Ferguson, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada

“We have inherited an easy life in Canada. A life of calm. It is freedom of a lazy sort, a freedom so pervasive we barely notice it, and one that we claim by virtue of our citizenship. But it is also worth remembering that people -- in the words of Bulgarian-born Canadian philanthropist Ignat Kaneff -- 'crawl across minefields to get here.”
― Will Ferguson, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada