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.
by Bryan
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.
"It's better to be six feet apart right now than six feet under."
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
"Blognito ergo sum!"
"Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius."
"Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."
"Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему."
"Кто что ни говори, а подобные происшествия бывают на свете, - редко, но бывают."
"A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them."
Mark Twain
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7 comments
…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.