The rivalry between Canada and Norway has always seemed to reflect the nature of their residents: mannerly. Consider what happened during a cross-country skiing event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. A Norwegian coach gave a Canadian skier a pole so she could compete after her own had broken, enabling Canada to win a silver medal. The showdown continued in last year’s Winter Olympics, when Norway upset Canada in a team curling competition. “You had to bring that up, eh?” Fraser Tolmie, mayor of the Saskatchewan city of Moose Jaw, said in an interview on Saturday.

Source: New York Times January 20, 2019 10:00 UTC