July 4th, 2007, No Comments »
I promise this is my last Canada Day post of the year. I must be missing the homeland a bit.
My friends Eric and Leslie have a house in Point Roberts, a curious thumb of American soil created by unflinching adherence to the 49th parallel.
Last weekend Eric rented a log splitter to, well, split some logs. He can pick up the story–with its very Canadian ending–from there
Bryan and PJ came by early in the day, followed a short while layer by Joey who had just returned into town. Our neighbour Bill (also Canadian) came over to see what all the racket was about and joined us for about 8 hours worth of work. All day long the team worked diligently until there was no wood left to split.
And then, tired but not hungry (Les made great fried onion cheese burgers for us and there was lots of beer to be had) we did the most Canadian of things- we went over to our American neighbour’s house (he was out of town) and split his wood for a couple of hours.
Heh.
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July 3rd, 2007, 7 Comments »
As per this discussion earlier in the week, I thought I’d run a quick poll to see, empirically (because web polls are irrefutable, don’t you know), which bit of television history is the most Canadian:
Those of you visiting via the RSS feed will probably have to actually visit my site to vote.
I liked Filmgoerjuan’s suggestion, so I also included the seminal Paddle to the Sea. And Fraggle Rock, in case none of the other options appealed.
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July 1st, 2007, 5 Comments »
Tonight we’re going to a Canada Day dinner hosted by the Canadian-Gozitan (Gozitans are people from Gozo) Society. It should be fun.
In 2001, we celebrated Canada Day in a slightly dodgy Austrailian bar in Dublin (the city didn’t have any Canadian bars that we knew of). The Hip was on the stereo, the Molson flowed and Don Cherry was on the big screen. It was a tad surreal, but a good time was had by all.
In celebration of Canada Day, I cruised through my Flickr photos and found some that felt particularly Canadian:
There are more after the jump.
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May 28th, 2007, 9 Comments »
Over at Inside the CBC, I read about the Ceeb (can I call it the Ceeb?) partnering with Facebook to launch The Great Canadian Wish List (Facebook account required).
It’s basically 43 Things with voting to celebrate Canada Day. You submit a wish for the country and get fellow Facebook users to vote it up. They’re a little too self-congratulatory when they call it “a ground-breaking experiment in civic engagement and journalistic partnership”, but it’s a good idea.
Here’s another idea: wouldn’t it be fun to get something wacky to the top of that list? It won’t be hard if we start soon. The top vote-getter only has 32 votes.
Maybe it’s because I’m not on Canadian soil anymore, but nothing great springs to mind. “I wish our prime minister would come out of the closet” is just lame. “I wish Canada would adopt the 29-hour day?” “I wish PEI would secede?” I got nothing.
You people are smart. Have you got any amusing suggestions?
UPDATE: Hmm…in the early going, the contest seems to be led by the Religious Right. The top vote-getter today is “Abolish Abortion in Canada” while #5 is a wish “For a spirtual revival in our nation”. Personally, I can really get behind “I wish the CBC would stop creating stupid youth-outreach campaigns”.
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