Canadian Things We Cannot Explain To Ourselves 1. Why mosquitoes kill people in Winnipeg but nowhere else 2. Why so many Canadians are called Debbie 3. Why the CBC broadcasts so much curling when there are sports like lawn bowling, darts, and fly fishing available 4. Why we used to laugh at American beer but now we can't get enough of the stuff 5. Why, despite the international success of Alan Thicke and Alex Trebeck, we persist in not believing in ourselves 6. Why, given the amount of newspaper space and television time she gets, Carling Bassett never wins a tennis tournament 7. Why, in terms of being qualified to run the Stratford Festival, Robin Phillips and John Neville are considered Canadian, but John Dexter is not 8. Why there is an apostrophe in St. John's, Newfoundland 9. Why Montreal is the only place where drivers have to be told "attendez la feu verte" 10. Why Canada has the largest Doukhobor population in the world