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Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:52:13 -0500

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(via theworldwelivein) Lake Ontario, Toronto, ON.

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:47:00 -0500

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Lake Ontario, Toronto, ON.

darth-vader: Oh, I see.

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:39:36 -0500

darth-vader:

Oh, I see.

treeroots: Project 365 Day #14 - Red Maple - Acer rubrum Photo...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:28:55 -0500

treeroots:

Project 365

Day #14 - Red Maple - Acer rubrum

Photo by Up Nort

Support the Canadian Athletes! Buy your mittens! (submitted by allshewrote)

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:18:00 -0500

Support the Canadian Athletes! Buy your mittens!

(submitted by allshewrote)

Team Canada Vancouver 2010David Bissett Bobsleigh

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:58:38 -0500

Team Canada Vancouver 2010
David Bissett
Bobsleigh

Canadian Tire launches $1 coin CBC Canadian Tire is adding a $1...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:16:22 -0500

Canadian Tire launches $1 coin

CBC

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...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:14:00 -0500

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.

More info here and here.

(photo by amy allcock)

Team Canada Vancouver 2010Mylène Brodeur & John...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:18:51 -0500

Team Canada Vancouver 2010
Mylène Brodeur & John Mattatall
Figure Skating

theplanet: Banff National Park

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:14:25 -0500

theplanet:

Banff National Park

inothernews: WHITE OF WAY A polar bear is seen walking along a...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:58:25 -0500

inothernews:

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)

theplanet: Cavendish Beach, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:52:58 -0500

theplanet:

Cavendish Beach, Prince Edward Island, Canada

sierracore: British Columbia

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:47:06 -0500

sierracore:

British Columbia

Team Canada Vancouver 2010Megan Imrie Biathlon

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:50:00 -0500

Team Canada Vancouver 2010
Megan Imrie
Biathlon

Team Canada Vancouver 2010François Bourque Alpine Skiing

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:34:43 -0500

Team Canada Vancouver 2010
François Bourque
Alpine Skiing

I, for one, welcome Canada's coming military overlords

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:34:00 -0500

I, for one, welcome Canada's coming military overlords:

The Globe and Mail

It turns out that, apart from everything else it has going on at the moment, the Department of National Defence is in the midst of a $25,000 pilot project aimed at determining which uniform designs would best camouflage Canadian soldiers if our troops were deployed in our own cities.

Do they know something we don’t?

…

And I’m betting that there are people in Vancouver who would head over and start taunting Seattle right now, just to stir something up, if they thought it would ultimately thin out some of the extra-sporty official Olympic knitwear headed for their streets.

I’m pretty sure that there are international conventions barring some of the particularly deadly Christmas sweaters the military has allegedly been testing out in Alberta.

It is a pretty funny editorial. The whole thing is worth a read.

The Fathers of Confederation by Robert Harris Photo by James...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:55:00 -0500

The Fathers of Confederation by Robert Harris

Photo by James Ashfield of Canadian artist Robert Harris’ 1884 painting, “Conference at Québec in 1864, to settle the basics of a union of the British North American Provinces”, also known as “The Fathers of Confederation”. The original painting was destroyed in the 1916 Parliament Buildings fire.

Interesting side note: my second cousin, five times removed, was a Father of Confederation.

alexnoise: silentverve: The Broken Pier III (via Peter...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:07:00 -0500

alexnoise:

silentverve:

The Broken Pier III (via Peter Bowers)

My city.

Golden Valley by ecstaticist Saskatchewan needed some love.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:11:00 -0500

Golden Valley by ecstaticist

Saskatchewan needed some love.

christielouwho: (via pie0)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:13:16 -0500

christielouwho:

(via pie0)