A few years ago, when I was in the US, a cashier brusquely informed me that "[they] don't take Canadian pennies." WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?

This just might be my favourite graph ever. (context)

I am also remembering reading of a small but statistically significant spike in the birth rate in Canada in the year following the hockey strike a few years back. In other words, you know what Canadians' second favourite activity is?

I'm not a hockey fanatic by any stretch, but I fully support the idea of having a day off in February.

I just gave up on an online survey that, in an attempt to suss out the demographics of its respondents, asked ( Read more... )

Nooooooooooooooooo!

(cow and Tim know what I'm talking about. Actually, so does telso, I think.)

Should I take comfort in the fact that it's not only the National Post, to say nothing of 61% of British Columbia voters, who think that all them newfangled voting systems are hard?

To wit:

Hollywood has become embroiled in a row ahead of the Oscars over a new 'transferable vote' system which critics claim could mean the award for best picture ( Read more... )

I just signed up for Translink's new Transit Alerts service, which promises "up-to-date information" about delays and cancellations.

As of today, February 18, the service's homepage proclaims, "The Olympic games are fast approaching!"

So I figure that if my bus this evening isn't running, I should find out by next week.

Treasury Board President Stockwell Day whaaaaaaa?

A few months ago, I was commenting that I don't actually hate the Olympics; I just hate the way that apparently nothing (Celticfest; my job; Parliament) can coexist with them. In this sense, I likened living in Vancouver during the Olympics to being a Jew in the weeks surrounding Christmas - I wouldn't mind either celebration if I felt I had the ( Read more... )

After winning Canada's historic first gold on Canadian soil, skier Alexandre Bilodeau modestly declared that he's not the best skier in his family. If there's anything more Canadian than that, so help me God, I can't imagine what it is.