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Team Canada Vancouver 2010
David Bissett
Bobsleigh
Canadian Tire launches $1 coin
Canadian Tire is adding a $1 coin to the famous multicoloured bills considered by many as the country’s unofficial second currency.Canadian Tire Corp. announced Wednesday it will begin offering the new addition this weekend for a time-limited period. Customers will get the coin if they spend $25 or more.
Canadian Tire money, which debuted in 1958, can be used like cash at the retailer’s stores and gas bars. It was previously available in denominations between five cents and $2, all stamped with the grinning image of Sandy McTire, the company’s tam-o’-shanter bedecked and mustachioed fictional character.
The $1 coin will be manufactured at the Royal Canadian Mint, just like its official cousins, the loonie and the toonie.
Did you know that during the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government built a series of underground nuclear fallout shelters, known as Diefenbunkers, across the country? Neither did I. I knew the US government had one under the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virgina, but I didn’t know about Canada’s. They were built, like the American’s, to house the most important civil servants, politicians and senior military leaders.
The largest of these shelters (entrance shown in the photo), near Carp, Ontario, is now a Cold War museum and is open to the public. It is called The Diefenbunker. It has four floors, compared with the other bunkers which only had two. The facility was in operation from 1959 to 1994, when it was decommissioned.
(photo by amy allcock)
Team Canada Vancouver 2010
Mylène Brodeur & John Mattatall
Figure Skating
Banff National Park
WHITE OF WAY A polar bear is seen walking along a road as the Olympic flame arrives in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. (Photo: AP via the Telegraph)
Cavendish Beach, Prince Edward Island, Canada
British Columbia
