According to Conde Nast Traveler, Etiquette 101: Smart Talk on Canada

[Chiliagon]

This is hilarious, look at how this article tries to tell tourists what to not talk about to Canadians..


CANADA
Absolutely verboten: Impugning Canada's national health-care system. Canadians are fiercely proud of it. In a television contest, viewers voted the founder of the system the greatest Canadian hero.
Radioactive: Remarking how similar Canada is to the United States can be tantamount to calling it the fifty-first state.
Definitely not: Any reliance on a few stereotypes (e.g., making fun of how they say, "Eh?") may unearth the sarcasm beneath their (stereotypical) politeness.
Not a good idea: Be careful in discussing Toronto and how wonderful it is; many regional Canadians, especially out west, don't like it.
Ill-advised: Don't mistake politeness for the casual oversharing so common in the United States. Canadians, like Europeans, will bristle if you get too personal too fast.
Talk away! Hockey—they really do love it as much as we think they do. The runner-up in the Canadian-hero contest was a hockey coach turned sportscaster.


here's the article, there's other good stuff here.

Etiquette 101: Smart Talk from Condé Nast Traveler on Concierge.com

 

[Trotz]

Don't mention anything East of Manitoba in western Canada...

 

[CDNBear]

This is hilarious, look at how this article tries to tell tourists what to not talk about to Canadians..

You're right, this is hilarious, especially since I've seen the results on this and other sites, time and time again...

CANADA
Absolutely verboten: Impugning Canada's national health-care system. Canadians are fiercely proud of it. In a television contest, viewers voted the founder of the system the greatest Canadian hero.

Absolutely true, to almost nationalistic proportions.

Radioactive: Remarking how similar Canada is to the United States can be tantamount to calling it the fifty-first state.

Oh brother, I can't even remember how many times I've been chastised for pointing out how similar we are. And because I'm Canadian, I get told if I love the US so much, I should move there.

Definitely not: Any reliance on a few stereotypes (e.g., making fun of how they say, "Eh?") may unearth the sarcasm beneath their (stereotypical) politeness.

Bang on. How true that is. Although I think the author has confused passive aggressiveness for sarcasm.

Not a good idea: Be careful in discussing Toronto and how wonderful it is; many regional Canadians, especially out west, don't like it.

As Trotz points out, this is another bang on warning.

Ill-advised: Don't mistake politeness for the casual oversharing so common in the United States. Canadians, like Europeans, will bristle if you get too personal too fast.

Yep, seen it, done it.

Talk away! Hockey—they really do love it as much as we think they do. The runner-up in the Canadian-hero contest was a hockey coach turned sportscaster.

For the most part, a little stereotypical, but then again, our Canadian content laws and advertisers, have pretty much been saying this for years.

 

[AnnaG]

This is hilarious, look at how this article tries to tell tourists what to not talk about to Canadians..


CANADA
Absolutely verboten: Impugning Canada's national health-care system. Canadians are fiercely proud of it. In a television contest, viewers voted the founder of the system the greatest Canadian hero.

True for some Canucks. For others, however, it may instigate a fairly good analytical discussion of the failings of our health care system. And for others, it may invoke the defensive posture "USA's is worse". lol

Radioactive:

Remarking how similar Canada is to the United States can be tantamount to calling it the fifty-first state.

Sometimes.

Definitely not:

Any reliance on a few stereotypes (e.g., making fun of how they say, "Eh?") may unearth the sarcasm beneath their (stereotypical) politeness.

Or just plain humored derision.

Not a good idea:

Be careful in discussing Toronto and how wonderful it is; many regional Canadians, especially out west, don't like it.

Or it may evoke uproarious laughter.

Ill-advised:

Don't mistake politeness for the casual oversharing so common in the United States. Canadians, like Europeans, will bristle if you get too personal too fast.

How's your dose of yeast infection going? What does your dick look like?

Talk away!

Hockey—they really do love it as much as we think they do. The runner-up in the Canadian-hero contest was a hockey coach turned sportscaster.

Hockey? It's ok as long as it isn't fulla fights. Soccer's better.

Don't mention anything East of Manitoba in western Canada...

Montreal?
Newfieland? Ireland? Sakha? Japan?

 

[YukonJack]

There should have been one more category:

Make friends for life: Bad mouth Americans to the best of your ability and beyond, and some, if not most Canadians will love you forever.