Happy Canada Day
La fête du
Canada
Day
Thank you for not yet building a fence along your southern or western border, and for brewing great beer.
Schedule of Ottawa events and some background.
As noted, Toronto has scaled back its celebrations.
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…while I’ve never personally experienced it, I am told we are also supposed to be grateful for Tim Hortons. Living in a place where Dairy Queen is cutting edge and McDonald’s (or Burger King or Carls Juniors) is a dreamy mirage found somewhere down the road, I don’t get that bit…
Happy Canada Day, anyway…
Actually, I like Tim Horton’s coffee better than most fast food places and the donuts aren’t bad, but then I lived along the Canadian border and you could once go back and forth without a hassle. Heading across to get a couple of cases of Molson’s Golden Ale [I think they call it Export these days] for a party was a normal weekend event.
They closed the nearest Dairy Queen, which was a regular stop in the summer, and you can’t get ice cream of any kind without going to a grocery store. This is a very weird place I live – a resort area without hot dogs or ice cream.
They could build it along the Eastern Border, to keep out those damned fishermen.
.-= ´s last blog ..Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes =-.
The biggest problem with building any fence would be finding out where the border actually is. It has been a very long time since it was important, so it isn’t exactly clearly delineated outside of a few towns that straddle the border.
One of the best blogs I recall many years ago was one that was a snarky Canadian one detailing how they were going to invade the US and divvy up the new territories and naming them after various beers. It was a hoot, eh. I think most of California turned into South Molson.
.-= ´s last blog ..Support Your Local Independent Day is July 3rd =-.
(make mental note…don’t drink a glass of wine before commenting on other’s blogs…makes for odd phrase-iology and such…)
.-= ´s last blog ..Support Your Local Independent Day is July 3rd =-.
Well, one really should be drinking beer to comment on Canada.
If it was South Molson I might have stayed.
It’s on the verge of becoming Western Zimbabwe with Arnold Schwartznegger starring as Conan the Bankrupt Barbarian.