And they say no one’s excited about the 2010 Olympics.
I just got back from Whistler where things are ramping up like crazy. Steve Podborski was bringing the torch down the mountain and you could feel the electricity in the air.
This little video by Classified–someone sent me the link via Twitter–says it all: Oh Canada. Go [...]
It’s sad times in the world, my friends, so I offer this tiny excuse to chuckle courtesy of our own righteously irreverent TV God, Rick Mercer.
Enjoy!
(Oh, and can anyone tell me: is that As It Happens’ Mary-Lou or Barbara narrating?)
I was visiting Montreal, Quebec last November when an American tourist stopped me on the street and asked, “Why is everyone wearing those little red flowers on their coats?”
Until then I hadn’t realized that in North America, the tradition of wearing a poppy as a remembrance of the horrors of war was unique to Canada.
Since [...]
The world divides into sugar-and-butter people and salt-and-butter people.
Those who, like me, fall into the latter category do not heed the siren call of those bags of little chocolate bars that seem to be everywhere at this time of year.
We are not tempted to tiptoe into our sleeping children’s rooms and steal from their trick-or-treat [...]
Learn something new every day and today I learned something via a Tweet from @YouTravel: that the province of Quebec has something called l’Association des plus beaux villages du Québec–or, the Association of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec.
It turned up in a gentle piece by Intelligent Travel blogger Andrew Evans, who wrote “The Cutest Kingdom [...]
You can tell how old a Canadian is by whether or not they remember waiting patiently for a train to rattle by just so they could have the eventual thrill of waving to the man (and it was always a man) in the bright red caboose–the exclamation point at the end of a long and [...]
I just got this video sent to me via Twitter (@theseboots in case you’re wondering) and it’s too good not to share.
Enjoy et bon weekend tout le monde!
And the treat goes on…freelance writer and editor Michele Sponagle recently took up the challenge to write a Three Things list about her hometown: Toronto, Ontario.
(And about time, too, given that Calgary, Ottawa and Newfoundland have already weighed in! Who’s next then, hmmm?)
Three names I go by:
1. Hogtown
2. T-dot
3. The Big Smoke
Three places I have [...]
You know that thing Canadians do–that passive-aggressive wearing-the-Maple-Leaf-on-the-backpack thing that drives Americans crazy?
It means we are either massively overconfident or profoundly insecure–or likely a bit of both.
Sure we’ve grown up in the shadow of a bigger, more confident relation and are desperate to carve out our own identity and territory. But we’ve also learned from the [...]
You gotta love people who love their backyard. Here’s Sarah Geddes, owner of Calgary-based Sass Communications, with her addition to our growing Three Things list about Canadian places…
Hi Julie, greetings from Calgary, Alberta!
Three names I go by:
1. Cowtown
2. Centre of the Universe (sorry Toronto!)
3. Gateway to the Rockies
Three TV shows I watch:
1. Dragon’s Den
2. Real [...]
