It's Canada Day, So We're Going to Roll Around in Maple Syrup and Drink Molson X

Mark Stevenson
by Mark Stevenson

Since a significant part of our staff lives north of the Freedom Border, we’re keeping it light today.

As Steph does each Canada Day, he’ll be crossing the Upper/Lower Canada border to extol the benefits of federalism to separatists. I’ll be reciting “O, Canada” with the gender pronouns intact while eating Canadian bacon and pledging allegiance to the ghost of John Candy. Tim will be counting up U.S. sales numbers. Sad!

You still have a couple of news items coming your way today, so stay tuned. Also, make sure to come back on July 4th as we will have a special piece from Jack (not Mark) Baruth.

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  • Mikey Mikey on Jul 01, 2016

    Let's see , I eat Back Bacon , don't recall ever seeing Canadian Bacon? I like my Timmys Black . Molson Ex ? Old mans Beer . My personal choice ? Coors Light , in cans. On sale at $40.95 ! For a "two four" . With the Mustang safely tucked in the. garage, I may just sit on my porch , and crack a couple . I will wish my country of birth a happy 149 th Birthday .....Cheers

    • Acd Acd on Jul 01, 2016

      "There it is men, Toronto." "It's beautiful. Like no other city I've ever seen. It's like Albany. Only cleaner."

  • Big Al from Oz Big Al from Oz on Jul 01, 2016

    Hey to our Canuckistanian bros. What's a good Canadian beer? Remember it will most likely be a larger brand (national). I'll see if we have some in Australia and try it. I don't recall ever having a Canadian drop yet.

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    • Big Al from Oz Big Al from Oz on Jul 01, 2016

      Maymar, Thanks for that. I like dark beers. One of my favourites is called Tooheys Old. It's a dark ale. I'll buy some when I go out to vote. We are having a Federal Election. I'm hoping the Liberal Party Coalition will take out the Labor Party (Funny spelling for Labour). We can bet on elections in Australia at our betting agencies. The odds for a Liberal Party victory have improved markedly. One thing great about Australia is you bet on most anything legally. So go to the election, then place a bet on who you voted for! Oh, the government get tax dollars out of the betting, they never lose whether left or right.

  • Rpn453 Rpn453 on Jul 01, 2016

    With a lot of practice, you're going to find that speaking Canadian isn't so difficult. And in fact, our alphabet and yours are fairly similar. So why don't we begin singing it together? A B C D E F Guy, H I J K L M N O Buddih, Q R S T U Fwiend, W X, Eh and [farts]. These are Canadian ABCs, Susie likes hairy balls, whattaya think of these? Alright, now everyone!

  • Orenwolf Orenwolf on Jul 02, 2016

    Mark! I know calling it "Canadian Bacon" is mostly for our US friends, but still - you know as well as I that no such thing exists here. OK AMERICANS: Here's your yearly bacon lesson! Firstly, what you call bacon - we call.. bacon! That's right, we eat the same bacon. What you call Canadian Bacon, which is wet-cured port tenderloin.. we don't really have here. It's what goes into our ham. It's ham. Just call it ham. We also have wet-cured pork backs, rolled in cornmeal. We call this "Peameal bacon", even though it's not in peameal anymore. It's delicious and much healthier than bacon. It's the closest thing we have to "Canadian bacon". There you go! When you hear "Canadian bacon", think either ham, or, a hilarious movie. But don't think of what Canadians eat as bacon. ;)

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