With Canada’s 147th Birthday in mind, Charles Adler hosts an interesting conversation with new immigrants about why they moved to Canada. You can listen to it here.
Proud to be Canadian!
h/t Mark from Oshawa
Hosting ‘The Beautiful Game’
It ain’t all fun & games! h/t Marc from Calgary
Life on the Left Coast
Here’s a combination of words you’ve probably never before seen uttered:
Art Imitates Life
Here’s hoping that Kate and all other dog lovers appreciate this brilliant ad:
Canada at the Sochi Olympics
An American sports writer pokes a little fun at his fellow countrymen, praising Canada in the process:
As of Wednesday morning here, the U.S. was in fourth place with just seven medals, a mere two gold. Canada has nine and four, respectively. The United States is also trailing Norway – which leads all nations in medals – and the Netherlands – which is in third behind Canada – but who knows anyone from Norway? Who even knows where it is? And the Dutch are too nice to hate. Or so everyone says.
Canada is a different story. They’ve been waiting for this for years, the chance to get all politely smug up there – “team’s doing well, eh?” – quietly mocking us over mogul races and dreaming that their ridiculous bastardized version of football will somehow gain supremacy.
The province of Quebec has six medals alone, so maybe the solution is simple: 51st state. The Canadians will warn that Quebec is a handful. It’s a little nutty, too prideful and always threatening to secede. This is no problem for us; it’s just Texas with poutine rather than Frito Pie.
Prairie Dog Magazine Hacked By Random Word Generator
No word on when they’ll get it cleaned up.
Small Dead Animal
Seen last night in Honolulu. Best caption?
Best Punchline?
Stats Canada Income Calculator
Breaking News: A Monster is Dead
Bob Hope’s 110th Birthday (R.I.P.)
On this day in 1903, Leslie Townes Hope was born in Eltham, a suburb of London, England. Later in life he became known as Bob Hope and entertained the Western World for many decades. Here’s a delightful slideshow documenting his career. And here’s his 1967 Christmas Special.
Your moral and intellectual superiors
Was: “Sarah Palin Joins Al-Jezeera”, now: “Sarah Palin tries to stay relevant”.
Politico has the back-story.
I guess it’s proof the education system is failing students when a reporter gets tripped up by a site called the The Daily Currant.
I guess the author of “Sex in the South: Unbuckling the Bible Belt.” projects her fear of the evangelicals under her bed.
The fun can be found at #suziparkerscoops.
At Least One Person in America Thinks Highly of Canada
Connecticut Shooting
Internship at the Sun News Network
Yesterday the following appeared on the Sun Network’s Facebook page:
WANTED! A intern for The Source with Ezra Levant. Tired of doing coffee runs and filing at a dead-end internship?
Join Ezra and the producers as they fight for freedom in the fast-paced television production environment at Sun News Network. Interested applicants can email thesource@sunmedia.ca.
The War of 1812 Redux?
For the past 3 weeks, a war of words has been occurring on Facebook over . . . too many Canadian shoppers at the Costco in Bellingham, Washington, located about 30 km south of the U.S. / Canada border.
Video here and CBC coverage here.
Update: The original Facebook page appears to have been pulled down. Another one, requesting Thursday shopping at the Bellingham Costco to be just for Americans, was up for awhile but has been pulled down too.
Steyn’s Take on the London Olympics
Even those who detest Mark Steyn have to admit that he’s pretty darn hilarious. From his recent column on the 2012 Olympics comes this gem:
On the whole, the residents of that great city would rather the honor of hosting the world’s most disruptive sporting event had gone to some joint that needs the publicity more — Alma Ata, or Ouagadougou, or Oakland. In 21st-century London, traffic moves at fewer miles per hour than it did before the internal-combustion engine was invented without the added complication of fleets of Third World thug bureaucrats and the permanent floating crap game of transnationalist freeloaders being dumped on its medieval street plan. Nevertheless, having drawn the short straw of hosting the games, Londoners felt it a point of honor that the city be able to demonstrate the ability to ferry minor globalist hangers-on from their favorite whorehouse in Mayfair to the Olympic Village in the unfashionable East End in time for the quarter-finals of the flatwater taekwondo.
Team Canada
Yesterday in Burlington, Vermont at the IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship:
h/t Andy
Sign of the Times?
The following message was on a credit card statement I received today. I don’t recall ever seeing something like this before. Have you?
