You Know You're in Canada When...

[DNO]

I thought, and would certainly prefer, that politics were banned from this forum. Kindly keep your opinions to yourselves.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Good point. Here's a moose in a swimming pool.

 

[MisterCairo]

Quebecois always sounds to me like the speaker has a bad cold, and is preparing to punch someone in the face.

That's usually the case!

 

[MisterCairo]

One of your mint's coins, in a collection in Germany, is stolen, and found to be worth about $4.5 million USD:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...ld-coin-worth-45-million-stolen-german-museum

 

[MisterCairo]

Ouch:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/giant-chicken-egg-1.4042422

 

[MisterCairo]

The x-rays are in - turns out it is an egg inside an egg:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/giant-chicken-egg-uncracked-1.4069786

Ouch:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/giant-chicken-egg-1.4042422

 

[MisterCairo]

A herd of cattle follows a beaver:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/sask-ranchers-stunned-beaver-1.4073018

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154970471005269

 

[MisterCairo]

...when Skippy peanut butter is taken off the shelves, and you didn't know it was sold here in the first place:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/skippy-peanut-butter-hormel-1.4095453

 

[Frunobulax]

...when Skippy peanut butter is taken off the shelves, and you didn't know it was sold here in the first place:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/skippy-peanut-butter-hormel-1.4095453

Oh, gosh. I'd have a meltdown. I can't live without my Skippy.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[MisterCairo]

Oh, gosh. I'd have a meltdown. I can't live without my Skippy.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

Something to do with too much competition and the costs of distributing within Canada.

We buy a chain brand, President's Choice, all natural. If it takes too long to use it up, the oil separates and it's like peanut concrete at the bottom...

 

[MisterCairo]

Nothing creepy about this home for sale in Brantford, Ontario.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/clown-house-1.4105527

Nope, nothing at all...

 

[MisterCairo]

And, Halifax, Nova Scotia is now home to Peanuts (well, 80% ownership, that is):

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/pea...awberry-shortcake-children-tv-shows-1.4107903

 

[MisterCairo]

...when a girls' rugby team, named the Bears, has a practice interrupted, by a bear:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/banff-bears-grizzly-148-rugby-practice-1.4112404

 

[MisterCairo]

...and then a Toronto suburb gets its knickers in a twist, because the police had to bring in the ETF to kill a black bear in someone's backyard:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-bear-kill-1.4114073

 

[MisterCairo]

You know you're in Montreal when this is considered acceptable road work in preparation for a road race:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-asphalt-rene-levesque-1.4138349

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ In NYC, that car would have been very, very quickly towed, impounded and the owner would only get it back after paying both for the tow and a fine for having parked there (and that would add up to several hundred dollars). But the street would have been fully paved.

 

[MisterCairo]

⇧ In NYC, that car would have been very, very quickly towed, impounded and the owner would only get it back after paying both for the tow and a fine for having parked there (and that would add up to several hundred dollars). But the street would have been fully paved.

Precisely why the city of Montreal's public works dept. is being vilified. It would have taken ten minutes to haul that thing away.

Turns out, the driver just drove off.

 

[MisterCairo]

You had ONE job, part 2:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/revelstoke-school-1.4141411

There are three stencils - SC and HO and OL - clearly placed the HO one upside down...

Is the definition of irony, by the way???

 

[MisterCairo]

...when you just gotta mow the lawn, no matter what...

Three Hills, Alberta:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/three-hill-tornado-lawn-mower-1.4145466

 

[MisterCairo]

Yup.

Mounted Mounties at a drive-thru (would have been more Canuckish if they had gone to a Canadian chain though...):

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...ot-through-sherwood-park-drive-thru-1.4149445