Happy belated Canada Day, and also happy Fourth to the Americans.
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The Swamp House
Possibly the most iconic house in my home province that isn’t on the #1 highway is now in Google Street View:
I must say I’m amused at the idea of calling a provincial trunk highway a “street”. I guess it’s paved…
Happy Louis Riel Day!
So Manitoba has a long weekend in February, still relatively new, called Louis Riel Day, named for the only Father of Confederation hanged for treason.
It’s a provincial holiday, not a federal one, which means the mail still comes. Which means that today, I got a package of chocolate chip cookies from my sister in Alberta.
Woo hoo, happy Louis Riel Day to me!
(If you’re interested in Louis Riel, this graphic novel is a pretty solid introduction.)
Ha ha ha waah
This is not a political blog, nor will it become one, but:
Stephen Harper appoints senators
“Stephen Harper keeps telling Canadians to tighten their belts,” said NDP democratic reform critic David Christopherson. “But these 18 unelected senators will cost the taxpayer over $6 million a year. When will the Conservatives start practising what they preach?”
Standing on guard
W00t! It’s back!
Canadian World Domination has returned! Here I thought I was going to have to go trawl the wayback machine’s Internet archives, but someone’s resurrected the site for me.
Some gems:
- The redrawn world map, in the Cartography section
- The little pull-quotes at the bottoms of all the pages, like:
- The Generals. Which one is hotter? That’s up to each and every true red-blooded Canuck to decide for him- or herself.
- “You dismiss all beers under 6% as ‘for children and the elderly’.”
I’ll leave you with a piece of Canadian music, one that’s been stuck in my head for a couple days now, so it might as well be stuck in yours too.
Locked in the Trunk of a Car
And while I’m posting videos from the Tragically Hip, here’s one of my favourites:
At the Hundredth Meridian