When I was a kid, it just wasn’t Saturday morning without Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on the front door, and hearing my mum yelling, “We’re Catholic! No THANK YOU!”
They had a university just a few minutes down the road from us.
This does not surprise me at all.
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Donna Strickland, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, became the first woman in 55 years and the third ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing it with a scientist from the U.S. and another from France for their...
Unfortunately,
https://twitter.com/resolvingdust/status/1047124729151152128
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To all Canadian mutants, and to any of our friends who visit here, happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
#realthanksgiving
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Well, this is news to me, lol:
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PatRx2
October 20, 2018, 7:46am
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If this doesn’t define Canada, I don’t know what does. Read on, and you will see what I mean - this isn’t just catering to ex-pat Montrealers.
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“It’s a Sri Lankan guy doing Jewish food for Chinese customers”
Yep, that’s Canadian, all right.
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In today’s “even municipal elections have consequences”, if Leonard Krog becomes mayor of Nanaimo, then there will need to be a provincial by-election that could completely and utterly change the BC government.
I mean he may not win. If he does win, his seat could go to another NDPer and change nothing. But the potential to change, or trigger a new provincial election is there.
There are no elections too small to care about.
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Some interesting stuff, here, including the case of the kid whose parents inspired The Americans .
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chgoliz
November 8, 2018, 3:37am
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Which one of us is your friend?
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I can’t believe you need to ask.
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Do not mention that name in my presence. Anyway, I dealt with the insolent churl in Amsterdam a while back…
[excerpt from The Diaries of Other Pendragon © 2017 by TrilloCom LLC]
More news of the death of Immortals since I left Nuremberg. Shemp and The Worker are gone. My old nemesis Red Dog fell afoul of a music lover at the siege of Malta and is no more. I warned him: none ever mastered axe or lute without practice.
Unpleasant encounter this morning while I was strolling near Dam Square. A strange little man dressed as a fool accosted me without proper introduction and told me his name was Justalit…
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RAvery
November 9, 2018, 2:56am
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Here’s some news. I just learned that you Canadians buy your milk in plastic bags!
Did you know about this?
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Don’t tell me you fell for that old gag.
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[My grandma bought milk in plastic bags. But she lived in central Wisconsin.]
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chgoliz
November 16, 2018, 2:01pm
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Central and Northern Wisconsin and Michigan are filled with the descendants of ex-pat Canadians. (Ask me how I know!)
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