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Entries Tagged as 'Canada'

you’d be looney to refer to it as ‘monopoly money’

October 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

For the second time in my life on this planet, the Canadian dollar is worth more than the US dollar!
Many people don’t care. But for me, it’s a small victory. You see, on many an occasion in the past 12 years, I’ve been the only Canadian in a room full of Americans. [...]

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Tags: Canada · finance

don’t look a day over 120

July 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments

Happy 140th birthday to a certain 9,984,670 km2 of awesomeness!

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Tags: Canada

iPod buying power

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s Friday, so let’s enjoy a laugh followed by a “huh?”. The Commonwealth Bank, a large Australian bank, has used the 2nd-gen iPod Nano as a measure of currency buying power. Using a consumer product to measure a country’s buying power seems strange, but C|Net reports that this is the case.
The Commonwealth Bank [...]

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Tags: Apple · Canada · Money

let’s make a 2006 tetralogy

December 31st, 2006 · No Comments

2006 NHL MVP is Joe Thornton from London, Ontario.
2006 NBA MVP is Steve Nash from Victoria, British Columbia.
2006 MLB American League MVP is Justin Morneau from New Westminster, British Columbia.
Let’s get Green Bay Packers kicker Jon Ryan from Regina, Saskatchewan voted in as an NFL MVP this year so that Canadians are MVPs in the [...]

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Tags: Baseball · Basketball · Canada · Football · Hockey · Sports

remembrance day

November 11th, 2006 · No Comments

Especially for the Canadian troops currently kickin’ terrorist ass in Afghanistan.

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Tags: Canada

happy canada/chico day!

July 1st, 2006 · 1 Comment

139th and dirty-30!

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Tags: Canada · Life

vote!

January 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

Today’s the day. Vote in the federal election! We live in a democracy and it’s your duty to do so.
Now I don’t want to influence your vote - you should be able to make up your own mind. Don’t listen to stupid slander. Paul Martin is clueless. Jack Layton rocks [...]

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Tags: Canada · Election · Politics