Charlatan

I think the white thing is a letter opener... the yellow thing is a "clip it" milk bag opener... they either clip to the pitcher or you can stick them to the fridge with the handily attached magnet... I suppose you could put them in your drawers as well, but that's your business...

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skier

I was there when it happened. It was so cool seeing this ceiling collapse when this water pipe burst trying to get rid of the water and hail on the roof. Mall was evacuated, and there was a ton of damage.

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Charlatan

1) The world's longest covered bridge was completed in Hartland in 1899. It's 390 metres ( 1,282 feet ) long and spans the Saint John River. There are 62 covered bridges in the province. Many of them are in the Sussex area of Kings County- the Covered Bridge Capital of Atlantic Canada. Be sure to make a wish as you drive through. (Oh, and ask one of the locals to tell you why covered bridges are called Kissing Bridges) !

2) Arthur Ganong returned from fishing expeditions with a sticky gooey mess in his pockets. It seems that Arthur, the son of the founder of Ganongs Chocolates of St. Stephen, had a sweet tooth and would never leave on a fishing trip without a handful of chocolates in his pockets. In 1910 tired of cleaning up the melted mess, young Arthur began wrapping his chocolates in a tin foil. Soon after, Ganongs made individually-wrapped bars of chocolate and sold them for a nickel. They became the world's first chocolate bar!

3) Approximately 40% of Canada's landmass and freshwater is north of 60 degrees North latitude. Between them, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut contains 9.2% of the world's total freshwater. The area of Canada north of the treeline is 2 728 800 square kilometres or 27.4% of the total area of the country.

4) The world's largest island in a freshwater lake is Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, 2765 square kilometres.

5) The highest mountain in Canada is Mount Logan, Yukon Territory, 5959 metres. It was almost renamed Mount Trudeau when former Prime-Minister Pierre Trudeau died... but after some protests they renamed a Montreal Airport after him instead.

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Charlatan

1) The only walled city north of Mexico is Québec; it was also the first city in North America to be placed on UNESCO's World Heritage Sites list.

2) The baseball glove was invented in Canada in 1883.

3) The world's smallest jail is believed to be in Rodney, Ontario, Canada. It is only 24.3 square meters (about 270 square feet).

4) Contrary to popular opinion, Canada does not own the North Pole. In fact, the North Pole is not owned by any country. It is believed, however, that Santa Claus is from Canada.

5) Canada is the fifth largest energy producer.

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Quadraton

I never said Canada owns the North Pole. I only said the Pole currently resides in Canada. The Magnetic North Pole is ever moving and shifting, which is why eventually it will end up back in Russia.

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Quadraton

Do you actually measure your milk containers in litres? I would have thought you would measure them in quarts or gallons.

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Jam

Yep, 4 litres written right next to the brand name

Quadraton

Canada also has the world's largest comedy festival (Just for Laughs held annually in Montreal), and the world's largest oil deposits. Yes, it's even larger than Saudi Arabia, and larger than Iraq. The only catch is that our oil is trapped in sand, which makes extraction and refinery very difficult, and very expensive.

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losthellhound

Milk looks disgusting in pictures, its just how it is..

When they used to do movies, or tv, or commercials with milk, they wouldnt use milk.. Sometimes it would even be glue

Now they can video edit it or use milk like substitutes so Im told

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Nancy

finally some sensible people who uses the Metric system!

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I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

Jam

well i dont drink milk... so not i...

Charlatan

Metric rocks!

We started learing Metric when I was in Grade one... but because so many people still use the old system we still have mixed uses... for example:

I drive in km/h
I weigh myself in pounds (don't even know how many Kilos I weigh)
I buy my fluids in litres but bake using cups rather than mililitres
I measure in feet but only for short distances like my height or when I'm building something... but larger distances like the distance to my cottage are in kilometres...

My brother, who is four years older than me, doesn't even use the metric system at all...

The reason for all of this is that when we converted to metric in the 70s, the government initially spent some money promoting metric. However, they soon lost political interest in this and stopped promoting it... People fell into old habits.

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Quadraton

Oh, I see you changed your Location. You used to have "Little America". I didn't see the wit in that, so I was asking you as though you were from the States.

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Jam

What he said


aye, sorry yeah, i figured it made sense but im wierd

Quadraton

Sifting through the European '5 things you didn't know about my country" thread, I just remembered another thing about Canada.

The death penalty was removed from the Criminal Code of Canada in 1976. Despite this, Canada still had had the death penalty as part of the Canada National Defense Act. It was only reserved for military members who committed treason or mutiny. No one was ever sentenced to death under this law, but in 1998, the law was changed to match the Criminal Code of Canada.

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Kazic

Little known fact by some aswell. Superman was created by Joe Shuster a canadian. Though when he later moved to the US another fellow Jerry Seigel helped develop him. Thus why he lives in Metropolis and was found in smallvile. Neither which is an actual Amercian city.

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Jam

Smallville is cloverdale... not to far from where I am... and one episode where they blew up a greenhouse, I knew the owners son, though hes now dead since he was in a motorcycle/car accident

Averett

I went to a Canadian grocery store this weekend. I held a bag of milk and had my picture taken. I was so grossed out. It was MILK! In a BAG! So weird.

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losthellhound

and Im so going to get that picture blown up

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Averett

Damnit. I knew I should have taken that camera back with me!

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losthellhound

bwa ha ha.. I hid it for a reason

- Heres a fact! - Canada tried a German officer after world war 2 for war crimes after it was proved he was responsible for the execution of several Canadian soldiers. Can anyone answer the trivia with the officers name?

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silent_jay

Kurt Meyer

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losthellhound

Good job.. Mr. SS himself

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silent_jay

I guess reading all those history books wasn't a waste of time. Here's a link to his charge sheet, it's rather depressing when you see the terrible things the man did.

http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/WCC/meyercharge.htm

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dk_kd

Other useful facts:

1. Brightly coloured balloons are illegle in Toronto.

2. There are no donuts in Toronto, only edible oil products.

3. Children don't have names in Toronto, they have numbers. Also, they have to wear suits.

4. I don't want to go to Toronto.

5. People don't have faces in Toronto.

(go find the song, you'll be happy you did)

6. Toronto sucks (different song, still good)

see:
Radio Free Vestibule
and
Three dead trolls in a baggie
http://www.deadtroll.com/index2.html

silent_jay

The point of your post was, oh yeah nothing. Try making an actual useful contribution, unless that is all you can contribute.

illegle? Is proper spelling illegal where you come from?

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Charlatan

My children... 2345 and 9343211 don't like those songs... it makes them cry and the tears stain their worsted pin-stripes.

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sherpahigh

All that is very true, those examples apply to a lot of people in Canada. We'll likely never be totally free of the imperial system however. All of the rural roads across the prairies were layed out on a grid system using miles. For example directions to someones farm in Saskatchewan will always be like 5 miles North Climax, then 2 miles East and 1/2 mile South.

And, yes Climax is an actual town in Saskatchewan.

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slimpi66y

3) The price of the average home in downtown Toronto is C$260,000, the average price of a home in Winnipeg C$88,500...

that cannot be more wrong, or perhaps your average home is like a one bedroom apartment,

a freehold house in Toronto, never mind downtown is around $350G CAD

slimpi66y

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Charlatan
[B]1) Yonge Street (pronounced Young) is the longest street in the world at 1,896 km
2) Toronto is as far south as the French Riviera (but sadly not as warm all year)
3) More people live in Toronto than in all the four Atlantic Provinces combined (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick)
4) Toronto has the fifth largest government in Canada
5) Toronto is one of the most racially diverse cities in the world:

Toronto and the cities near by is a very diversified, it has the second largest greek population outside of greece (largest being Queens, NY), it has the second largest chinatown and chinese population outside of San Fran, Kitchener-Waterloo (120km away) is the largest Germanic settlement outside of continental europe, this city also has a massive population of Italians, Protugeses, and Jews

slimpi66y

5) Canada's capital was originally going to be either Kingston, Ontario (too English), or Quebec City, Quebec (too French), before they decided on making Ottawa our capital.


the Capitals were Quebec City (under the french rule), Montreal, Toronto, Kingston, then Ottawa (half the city was in Quebec)

slimpi66y

3) The price of the average home in downtown Toronto is C$260,000, the average price of a home in Winnipeg C$88,500...

that cannot be more wrong, or perhaps your average home is like a one bedroom apartment,

a freehold house in Toronto, never mind downtown is around $350G CAD

dk_kd

Yikes......my bad. I'll remember my <humour></humour> tags next time. O.K., how about these:

1. Canada is a first world country with a third world economic model based on the extraction and exportation of natural resources with little or no value added.

2. Vancouver, B.C. is home to the worst (most homeless, drug use, etc.) intersection in Canada (Hastings and Main).

3. Canada has two distinct French speaking populations (Quebecois and Acadian).

4. One of the internment camps that housed people of Japanese decent in WWII (in Silverton, B.C.) was later used to hold the children of Doukabour families (a sect of Russian immigrants) that were removed from their homes by force (by the RCMP) to ensure they received a "proper" education from the Canadian government.

5. By law, Rick Mercer must appear on every new comedy on CBC.

(Uh, the last one is a joke….)

Charlatan

I though it was a bit low too BUT I did get it from a real estate website... I also spoke with my real estate agent about it and she figures the number is arrived at by factoring in all the lower priced housing in the suburbs...

I would have guessed somewhere in the 325,000 to 350,000 range myself based on looking for a home...

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silent_jay

slimpiggy, good to see you back, care to back up your stance on this thread you started earlier and then ignored. I'm sure people are still waiting to hear your responses, or your arguments to back up what was said.


http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...0&pagenumber=1

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kulrblind

Don't get too close to one, or you'll find out why they're called "mounties"

Jam

Really? Hrmm, never noticed when I was there I guess I should pay more attention

slimpi66y

It's all right, I make no attempt to convince anybody, it's just how I feel

slimpi66y

350 is about right anywhere near the GTA

highthief

Do they take condos into the equation? That would drive the price down a lot. Are they using assessed value, which almost always lower than real value, especially in Toronto...