Today’s google.ca logo: Mr. Dressup, who passed away in 2001, would have turned 85 today. Casey and Finnegan were his puppet boy friend and puppet dog! Here’s a long 10-minute clip of the show if you feel very nostalgic. It starts out with the Tickle Trunk!   ok now this just has to become a [...]

Check out Share Thanksgiving if you live in Toronto (and hopefully next year we can expand it?).  It’s a great way to meet new immigrants to Toronto, and share your expertise in Canada with them. In my opinion, it’s also a great way to end up with a wonderful mix of food! It’s a great [...]

I recently received this sad letter from Elections Canada – both because I can’t vote in Canada anymore, and because it means I could have voted in the last, incredibly important Canadian elections even though I thought I couldn’t.  Anyway, I am officially unable to vote anywhere (I am still a Canadian citizen of course…) [...]

I was talking to a friend about ridings (like districts) in Canadian politics and he asked what the origin of the word riding was.  I had never even thought about it, and we decided it was probably something like how far a British person could ride his horse before hitting someone else’s territory or to [...]

Happy Canada Day!!! First, proof Canada is extremely slowly taking over the world (and by Canada I guess I mean every country on the metric system…but trust me, this is a conspiracy).  My friend in New York posted this on his Facebook complaining about his phone being broken: And in honour of Canada Day, another [...]