Have a happy Canada Day. Or else.
- If you were to lay the history of planet earth from its frothy formation to the present day on a timeline representing the 7,300 kilometres from Canada’s West to East coasts, Canada’s birthday – July 1, 1867 – would be about 10 centimetres from the Newfoundland shore.
- I’ve never measured this for accuracy.
- It’s easier to cycle across the country from West to East, but more rewarding to go East to West. Why? You always have the best part to look forward to.
- Someday I want to try to do this.
- To Albertans, BC is short for Beyond Canada.
- Two Canadians meet an American in a bar. The American says to them: it’s cold up here. The Canadians say: Sure is.
- That counts as humour in Edmonton.
- Some claim that Brian Mulroney was Canada’s worst post-war Prime Minister, others say that title belongs to Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Discuss.
- It is a little-known Canadian fact that Jesus was not born anywhere near Victoria, BC because they could locate neither three wise men nor a virgin.
- It’s often said that Canadians define themselves by what they are not: they aren’t Americans. True, but we’re more like Americans than we like to admit. We also have social problems, toxic waste dumps and looming environmental catastrophes, serial killers and wannabe rightwing talkshow dingbats.
And now it’s time to say a special hello to all you hospital patients and shut-ins, those who can’t get out to the game, hope you’ve enjoyed this Canada Day broadcast on CKNW.
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Happy Canada Day! My Canadian content isn’t up yet but I’ll get to it later.
As someone who attended the University of Victoria, I can totally vouch for #9.
Don’t be linking to R*c*e* M*r*d*n. She’s got a google alert on her name. She WILL find you.
Happy Canada Day!
Wow, I love the satellite transmission of “Canada Day” goodness from way over in Germany
…thanks for the Canadian content link 
, and being an ignorant self-involved Southern Ontarian (LOL), I didn’t know about #9, but I love it 
Happy Canada Day!
Re. #8: Mulroney is definitely THE WORST PM in history (though once Harper’s gone, he would make a good candidate, too). That’s just my opinion, though.
W. Coyote: maybe it’s just that he’s so in your face at the moment, but is he *really* as bad as Mulroney-dances-with-Reagan?
romi41 – omg, you’ve never heard that one before? I like how Christina backs me up on it though!
rain: wh*t? m* w*rry?
I don’t know about Mulroney being the worst PM in history, I think there are a few other shorter lived PM’s that would get my vote. I don’t think Harper is one of them, he has made a lot of changes that are good for Canadians; not everyone can see that yet, people are too busy making fun of him still.
Happy Canada Day to my friends with the better view of Niagara Falls.
Okay okay, you had a point when you were on my sight about Starbucks. Yes we will still be able to get coffee. I actually do not go to Starbucks to often, because of the prices, but when I do I love it. As for the employees they said they will try to place them to stores that are not closing. Whether starbucks follows through with that I guess will be another whole blog post.
(Thanks for your comment)
Hooray. Love it Ian. Proud to be CANADIAN, really I am.
We all KNOW ‘national boundaries’ are diminishing in ‘importance’ as the ‘global’ behemoths increasingly take over the world through their assorted ‘financial’ structures … Trudeau UNDERSTOOD this, got us OUR CONSTITUTION, and then, Mulroney opened the gate, with NAFTA …
EVEN SO, there is such a thing as ‘tribal allegiance’.
Be ‘Canadada’ to the hilt.
Re-create the myth, not the destiny, as beautiful as it is.
In our hearts and in our minds.
Love & kisses.
Canadada,
I had never been moved to work politically before came along, but wherever I was living at election time during the Mulroney era, I helped out the candidate in my riding I thought best able to defeat the Tory. Now that it’s been so long since I’ve left and can’t vote anymore anyway, I don’t care much about what’s going on politically there, though I got pretty worked up a while back after noticing there had been a push on for monetary union with the States. Now that the Loonie is worth more, have these idiots got off the stage?
Ironically, I think the push is increasingly NOT to align financially with the States. it’s ‘tanking’ down south. The economic situ is dire, contrary to ‘uplifting’ propaganda reports. Who wants to be tied to a sinking ship? They are clinging to ‘dinosaurs’ and failing to EVOLVE … Blunt to some, but, admit it, increasingly true …
Loved #6. I’m a native Minnesotan, which I know isn’t the same as being Canadian, but we must share the same humor because I thought that joke was hilarious.