Upon being introduced to the crowd Sunday at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, a 15-year-old performer was greeted with applause. As soon as she launched into “The Star-Spangled Banner,” however, the booing commenced.
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The scene, which took place before the Raptors faced the Los Angeles Clippers, continued a recent trend among fans in Canada: using renditions of the American national anthem to show their displeasure with their neighbor to the south.
Boos already had been heard Saturday during the anthem before NHL games in Calgary, where the Flames lost to the Detroit Red Wings, and Ottawa, where the visiting Minnesota Wild were routed by the Senators. Then, Sunday evening, it was the turn of Canucks fans in Vancouver’s Rogers Arena to boo “The Star-Spangled Banner” before their team took on Detroit.
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The unhappy reaction to the U.S. national anthem by at least some fans in Canada comes in the wake of tariffs imposed on that country by President Donald Trump that are set to take effect Tuesday. In actions taken Saturday that also affected China and Mexico, he invoked emergency economic powers as the White House claimed an “extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl.”
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Canada, in response, announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S.-made products such as orange juice, peanut butter, wine, spirits, beer, coffee, appliances, apparel, footwear, motorcycles, cosmetics, and pulp and paper.
“We’re certainly not looking to escalate,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday during an address to the nation. “But we will stand up for Canada, for Canadians and for Canadian jobs.”
The trade war threatens to disrupt long-standing supply chains and could inflict financial pain on households on both sides of the border, with some economists projecting Canada as under greater threat of slipping into a recession. Goods ranging from cars and crude oil to tomatoes and tequila might get more expensive for American consumers.
One Raptors fan at Sunday’s game told the Associated Press he would have preferred for his fellow fans to have chanted “Canada” rather than boo during “The Star-Spangled Banner,” but he said he understood the sentiment.
“I’ve taken my hat off to show respect to the American national anthem,” said the fan, Toronto resident Joseph Chua, “but today we’re feeling a little bitter about things.”
After Toronto defeated the Clippers, Raptors forward Chris Boucher, a Canadian citizen, was asked whether he had ever experienced anything during an anthem rendition like the booing at Scotiabank Arena.
Get concise answers to your questions. Try Ask The Post AI.The scene, which took place before the Raptors faced the Los Angeles Clippers, continued a recent trend among fans in Canada: using renditions of the American national anthem to show their displeasure with their neighbor to the south.
Boos already had been heard Saturday during the anthem before NHL games in Calgary, where the Flames lost to the Detroit Red Wings, and Ottawa, where the visiting Minnesota Wild were routed by the Senators. Then, Sunday evening, it was the turn of Canucks fans in Vancouver’s Rogers Arena to boo “The Star-Spangled Banner” before their team took on Detroit.
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The unhappy reaction to the U.S. national anthem by at least some fans in Canada comes in the wake of tariffs imposed on that country by President Donald Trump that are set to take effect Tuesday. In actions taken Saturday that also affected China and Mexico, he invoked emergency economic powers as the White House claimed an “extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl.”
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Canada, in response, announced retaliatory tariffs on U.S.-made products such as orange juice, peanut butter, wine, spirits, beer, coffee, appliances, apparel, footwear, motorcycles, cosmetics, and pulp and paper.
“We’re certainly not looking to escalate,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday during an address to the nation. “But we will stand up for Canada, for Canadians and for Canadian jobs.”
The trade war threatens to disrupt long-standing supply chains and could inflict financial pain on households on both sides of the border, with some economists projecting Canada as under greater threat of slipping into a recession. Goods ranging from cars and crude oil to tomatoes and tequila might get more expensive for American consumers.
One Raptors fan at Sunday’s game told the Associated Press he would have preferred for his fellow fans to have chanted “Canada” rather than boo during “The Star-Spangled Banner,” but he said he understood the sentiment.
“I’ve taken my hat off to show respect to the American national anthem,” said the fan, Toronto resident Joseph Chua, “but today we’re feeling a little bitter about things.”
After Toronto defeated the Clippers, Raptors forward Chris Boucher, a Canadian citizen, was asked whether he had ever experienced anything during an anthem rendition like the booing at Scotiabank Arena.
