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1. about 13 hours ago on Sherman's Lagoon

   Yup, for good or ill, as odd as it may be – after all, we don’t grow any pineapple in The Great White North – pineapple on a pizza is a Canuck thing.

   And along with poutine and Nanaimo bars, I love it….

2. 1 day ago on Red and Rover

   Up here in The Great White North, yup, we DO have to shovel snow off our sidewalks….but we don’t have to chase away the ’gators :-)

3. 1 day ago on For Better or For Worse

   Yup, I started reading this in a real paper newspaper, the Vancouver Sun, back in 1979. Bought all the books over the decades, and still read the strips (again and again) here every day…

   It was cool back when it started because it was Canadian, making Ms. Johnston something of a local celebrity….and the Pattersons were easy to relate to, good people, good parents, normal kids, everyone making real life mistakes and foibles and living real lives…

4. 3 days ago on Shoe

   Hmmm….I didn’t know that Treetops was in Ottawa…That is the precisely the line that our Prime Minister continues to use.

5. 5 days ago on Red and Rover

   Another brief jog down memory lane, and a testament to the era in which Red and Rover live…when I was a kid, in the 60s, my Grandmother used that term…technically it may not have made sense, but as we were outside shivering in -25, it conveyed our feelings perfectly.

   Of course, My Da had a much more colloquial expression, something about a brass monkey. That made more sense once I became an adolescent.

6. 9 days ago on Red and Rover

   Yeah, and while it may not have had us rolling on the floor, convulsed with laughter, it was kinda cute and well done…

7. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

   And we now have the worst, most corrupt and most tyrnnical Prime Minister in the history of the Great White North, and his goal is to do screw us the same as Australia and New Zealand…

8. 10 days ago on The Born Loser

   Certainly not if you are the Prime Minister of Canada…

9. 10 days ago on The Born Loser

   Yup. The carbon footprint for building an electric vehicle is about the same as for a petrol vehicle. Add in then the environmental impact of (here in British Columbia) the building of the massive Site C dam project, combined with an ongoing and projected energy defecit that sees our electrics provider using a variety of fossil fuels to power generators to feed the grid as well as the fact there are no facilities here to recycle electric vehicles or things like worn out wind turbine blades….

   Pretty sure it is a wash, at best…

10. 10 days ago on The Born Loser

    We lived in a very rural area in northern British Columbia, so rabbit ears did not work, ergo the antenna up on the peak of our roof. That was okay for the early years when all we had was CBC North and CBC Kamloops, both on the same tower on Dragon Mountain. The challenge came in the late 60s when we got CTV out of Vancouver, but it was up on a different mountain in the opposite direction. So, when we wanted to watch the news, or Hockey Night in Canada or The Wonderful World of Disney, it was CBC…but if we wanted to watch Star Trek or Night Gallery or the CTV movie of the night, the antenna had to be spun around. My Da did it the first couple times, but after climbing in and out of his truck all day at work, he was tired, and at 8 years old I was pêrfectly capable of navigating the old wooden ladder and snowy was a bit of an adventure, in fact. And later in the winters when there was more snow, it was fun just to slide off the roof into the massive piles around the house….again, lots of fun.

    However, teenage me was really, really glad when we got cable some years later…