Happy Canada Day!

1. 24Slashing
   July 1st, 2008 at 11:28 am

   Happy Canada Day! I'm working, but it's slow, so need to pass the time.
   A few things to ponder about my home and native land:
   - Americans watch out! We've quietly amassed 90% of our population along the border
   - We truly are not an independant country. We couldn't alter our own constitution until the early 1980's, and our Head of State is a foreign dignitary (Queen Betty....)
   - Only one Bilingual Province (New Bruinswick)
   - Canadians have the best bladders in the world. Our cities are so far apart, but I can get from Ottawa to the East Coast with one stop.
   - One flag submission during the contest for a Canadian flag in the 60's was 9 beavers peeing on a frog.

   Thanks for birthday wishes....you're next.

2. The Falcon
   July 1st, 2008 at 11:54 am

   Oh Canada! A tribute to thee: Canadian Music Mega Mix.
   http://www.vimeo.com/703338

3. brandon
   July 1st, 2008 at 12:03 pm

   i usually dress up as a huegnot, slay some indians, murder the local fauna, infect someone with small pox and breed like a rat. it's fun when you get the whole family to do it, and then feast on the carcasses later that night.

4. Zakk?
   July 1st, 2008 at 12:23 pm

   It's been a long standing tradition among my group of friends to get blind drunk and pass out, then wake up just in time for the fireworks.

5. Liz
   July 1st, 2008 at 12:50 pm

   Zackk?:
   Seconded.

6. 32-P
   July 1st, 2008 at 12:56 pm

   Go to Churchill Square in Edmonton, pet something strange at the petting zoo, get maple leaves painted on my face, splash in the pool, get in a fight with a panhandler, and get smashed before fireworks. Zakk? I think we met last year...

7. jenjen
   July 1st, 2008 at 1:22 pm

   The difference between the U.S. and Canada: the U.S. got independence by going to war. Canada got it by asking nicely for 100 years.

8. Ali S.
   July 1st, 2008 at 3:42 pm

   Hehehehe! I live in Mississauga, Ont., right by the City Hall and all I have to do is walk 5 steps and I can overlook the festivities. I'm waiting for 10pm when the fireworks will be going off then I'm spending all night out on the balcony going,"Oooooh! Ahhhh! Eeeeeh!?"

   Happy Canada Day!

9. Jacob from Group Writing Projects
   July 1st, 2008 at 3:42 pm

   Wow, I'm embarrassed that I'd forgotten it was once called Dominion Day.

   jenjen - hysterical. Americans are always so surprised at 2 facts:
   1) that we beat them at the only war we've ever fought each other
   2) that we took so much longer to get our own country

10. rhinny
    July 1st, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    Drinking at breakfast.

    Maybe that's just me.

11. Shelby
    July 1st, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    Traditions? Or ATTEMPTS at traditions? We were already in town for our friend's 7/1 nuptials to be held that afternoon and we thought 'why not go there as a married couple?' and trump our own wedding that was planned for a few weeks later in August? This would be HILARIOUS right? My husband and I attempted to get married that morning (9 years ago) right across the Michigan border.

    Well the woman we got on the phone at some [empty] government number laughed when we asked if there was a judge somewhere to marry us that morning. She thought it was the oddest thing that people would get married by someone other than a religious figure. Not that trying to get married on a national holiday was enough for her ha ha!

    We'll never forget our friends' wedding date nor our tries to marry under the family radar in Canada eh!

12. prophet
    July 1st, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    How do canadians celebrate this day?

13. Ali S.
    July 1st, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    @ prophet

    Well, we usually hold large outdoor festivals with lots of music, games, and food. Then at our own backyard parties we gets lots of beer, food, and more beer! Some of us start off impromptu street hockey games...CAR! Then at night everyone participates in the fireworks display all over the cities. The cities display their own firework shows and folks at home will shoot some from parks and backyards. It's the one night when everyone is all at once looking at the sky. Lots of fun!

    

14. bean
    July 1st, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    Jacob from Group Writing Projects -

    Technically, we lost that war to England, since Canada wasn't independent then. But I will say the Canuckistani Navy was a great help in WWII.

15. Some Canadian Skeptic
    July 1st, 2008 at 9:22 pm

    We Canadians usually like to celebrate our Canadian Identity by naming off the ways in which we're not like Americans.

    We're a very secure country, you see.

16. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    July 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 am

    Well, I certainly won't be making yesterday's activities a tradition. Getting stuck in traffic in the summer heat in an un-airconditioned car because a bridge was closed by a "police incident" (jumper) wasn't much fun.

17. fireflicker
    July 2nd, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    I drink many Caesars. For you Americans who don't know what that is, it's a bloody Mary but with tomato and clam juice. Ah yes Clamato Juice, ddddelicious! If you come here you must try it

18. lionheart
    August 14th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    Happy Canada Day!!!!!

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