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Canadianisms

A love letter to Corner Gas

21 April 2009 Canadianisms

Love this delightful essay in the Globe and Mail comparing and contrasting Canada and the United States — via a love letter to Corner Gas. Worth the read!

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A rambly ode to the Canadian health care system

15 February 2009 Canadianisms

By Friday of last week, Lucas had been sick for three days. Fever, green snot, bad cough and most troubling, increasing lethargy. I gave up waiting it out and tried to get an appointment with our ped, but by the time I got through around 11 am, the answering machine said they were completely booked [...]

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Name that RCMP puppy!

12 February 2009 Canadianisms

I knew the RCMP holds a contest each year inviting kids to new foals from the Ottawa stables that may be part of the Musical Ride program, but I didn’t know they also had a Name That Puppy contest for future police service dogs. Kids 16 and under can enter, but you have to send [...]

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(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday: First skating lessons

8 October 2008 A thousand words

They’re Canadian; of course I had to sign the boys up for skating lessons! They’d never been on skates before. The morning started out with a lot of this: After a while of crawling around on the ice, Tristan had progressed to this: I honestly never expected him to get to this during his very [...]

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RUSHing

21 September 2007 Canadianisms

I’m *so* excited! I bought my tickets back in April, but I swear, I have been waiting to see this concert since I was ten years old. Finally, tonight, we’re going to see Rush! With 100-level seats, no less! I’m beside myself with anticipation. I’ve always loved Rush. For my 12th birthday, my folks replaced [...]

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Go Sens GO!

24 May 2007 Canadianisms

When I heard that there would be a rally to cheer the Senators on to a Stanley Cup victory on the very day I was home with the boys, I couldn’t resist bringing them downtown for what could be a once-in-a-lifetime event. It was hot – damn hot, to quote Robin Williams – and crowded, [...]

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Birth of a hockey fan

17 May 2007 Canadianisms

So we’re not exactly sporty people. Beloved, bless his literate artsy heart, couldn’t care less about the difference between an infield fly and a hanging curveball. The athletic education of the boys has fallen largely to me, which, if you know me at all, is pretty darn funny. Pity my poor boys, who are just [...]

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The Great Canadian Rimroller Contest

12 March 2007 Canadianisms

Late last week, I was telling you about Paul Kind, the Ottawa inventor who created the Rimroller, a “plastic device the size of a bottle opener that cleanly slices open and unrolls a rim in one fluid motion.” Apparently a lot of people are intrigued by the idea, because the google traffic on Rimroller has [...]

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The Canadian-est invention ever

8 March 2007 Canadianisms

It’s a reliable sign of the end of the Canadian winter. No, not the lengthening days, the appreciable warmth of the sun on a frosty day, not even the first day you decide you can safely leave the house in shoes rather than fur-lined mukluks. Spring is truly on the way when the already long [...]

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You can’t get there from here

6 March 2007 Canadianisms

Link surfing is a wonderful thing. I can’t even remember where I was, but I caught sight of something about a lunar eclipse on March 3. Turns out it wasn’t visible from here, only in a wide swath on the other side of the planet through Europe and Africa. Disappointing. I love stuff like eclipses [...]

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