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Category Archives: Geography
The Canadian Duel
(Showdown at the Number 12 Bus) There I was, embarking on the simple task of taking the number 12 bus. A crowd had built up as the bus pulled up and let out its passengers. That went orderly enough but … Continue reading
A Perfect Storm of Groundhogs
For the purposes of this article I have used this list of prominent groundhog prognosticators. First of all I want to ignore the southern groundhogs. By 6 more weeks of winter, in my parts it means 6 more weeks of … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Science
Tagged 6 more weeks of winter, a perfect storm of early spring, Alabama's Smith Lake Jake, Balzac Billy is too confined by prairie temperatures and Chinook winds, Balzac Billy of Alberta, Buckeye Chuck of Ohio, Canadian groundhogs are better prognosticators because of global warming, early spring, Georgia's racist General Beauregard Lee, Global Warming Day, Groundhog Day, groundhogs, North Carolina's Sir Walter Wally, prognosticators, Punxsutawney Phil of Pennsylvania, Shubenacadie Sam of Nova Scotia, Staten Island Chuck of New York, this year the Canadian reliables said early spring, Wiarton Willie of Ontario, will global warming make the two reliables always say early spring?
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How India Could Field the Next Olympic Gold Medal Winning Ice Hockey Team
This is intended as a guide to how India can become the best country in the world at the sport of ice hockey. Firstly, India must struggle through the lower tiers of hockey since they would be just a beginner … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Geography, Humour, Sports
Tagged call center, computer programming, gold medal Olympic champions of hockey, higher tiers of hockey, hockey check, how to blow nose with long fingernails, how to eat with long fingernails, how to wipe butt with long fingernails, Ice Hockey, India, lethal hockey hit, lower tiers of hockey, playmaking, puck hog, rich parents, skating, soon the rich countries will field a team with super long fingernails, stickhandling, Taj Mahal, twenty-five foot long fingernails, worry about being enveloped by fingernails
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Change of Heart
Posted in Cartoon, Geography, Humour, Politics
Tagged Alternative vote - Boo!, Cap'n Canada, don't change your mind about electoral reform, First Past the Post - Boo!, Jacques O' Christmas Tree, Justin Trudeau, Justin Trudeau being self centred, Justin Trudeau quit his geography program, Justintrudeauia, proportional representation - Yeah!
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Don’t Cry for Venice
Well you can cry for Venice if you are a citizen of that fine city and it is completely submerged in a few years. But I, as a mere tourist with nothing of import in Venice, will not cry. Because … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Science
Tagged any port city will become a Venice, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, global warming will make sea levels rise, gondola ride in Manhattan, Las Vegas with its stunted Eiffel tower sucks, lets copy landmarks in our own continents, make tourism more competitive, New Orleans, there might be a Venice within bussing distance, thousands of Venices, Venice, Venice is sinking
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I Come From a Long Line of Sons
When Quebec was being settled along the beautiful St. Lawrence River it was thought to be a shame to deny settlers the serenity of the might river. So the farms that were built were long farms, all with a small … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Humour, Mathematics
Tagged "I come from a long line of sons", a farm became so thin that a weed whacker could harvest the field, basketball line markings, early Quebec seemed like an egalitarian society, families that went to sons had to splite the homestead, farms became thin enough it only took one pass of the tractor, farms became thin enought that they were part time money makers, Max Lecoutier has the thinnest farm, nice view, Quebec, skinnier farms were the result, St. Lawrence River
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Greetings From the Left End of Toronto
It’s angered me at least three times this year that Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph and Brantford have all been included in maps that were said to represent the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). I have always felt that these cities were just … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geography, Humour, Politics, Social Science
Tagged Blackberry, Brantford, Cambridge, Central Park, GTA, GTA has 6 million people, Guelph, Hamilton, Kitchener, left end, left end of Toronto, maps showing the cities west of Toronto as part of the GTA, Mississauga, New York, Oracle, Silicon Valley, the Green Belt, the left end of Toronto has shy of a million people, Toronto, Waterloo
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The Answer to Toronto’s Condo Wall
A wall of condos and other high rises presently blocks part of the waterfront from the rest of Toronto. Real Estate is location, location, location and the waterfront is part of Toronto’s downtown area. There is money to be made … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geography, Humour, Politics
Tagged board walk, condos, downtown Toronto, Front St., Hamilton, high rises, infilling, Lake Ontario, Lake Shore Blvd., Queen's Quay, real estate, the future of Toronto is St. Catharine's, Toronto, Toronto's waterfront, towers, wall of condos
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Superior to Superior
[Most of this post’s ideas are from Wikipedia’s stats about the largest lakes in the world. I was unaware of many of these comparisons until the last decade so I bring them here to you as many more people might … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour
Tagged Canada, Caspian Lake, Caspian Lake is bigger in area than all the great lakes put together, Caspian Lake is deeper than Lake Superior too, Caspian Sea, European settlers gave Lake Superior its name, Lake Baikal contains more water by volume than all the great lakes combined, Lake Huron, Lake Huron-Michigan, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Superior is the fourth largest lake by volume, Lake Superior is the third largest lake by area, Lake Tanganyika contains more water than Lake Superior, Lake Victoria, the great lakes, USA
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Annoying Americans (Geographically)
Generally the atlases sold in Canadian bookstores are either of British or American origin. The American ones are easy to spot. They use a cartographical method that makes the United States appear larger than Canada. Canada is of course the … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour
Tagged Allegheny, America is too big in American atlases, Americans, Canada is larger than the USA, continental divide, Erie, Gulf of Mexico, Jefferson, Mississippi, Mississippi-Missouri-Jefferson is the fourth longest river on earth, Missouri, Missouri has more flow than the Mississippi, Mount Allegheny, Ohio, Ohio has more flow than the combined Mississippi-Missouri when they meet up, suspicious that the Mississippi flows north=south, the Jefferson Mountains, the Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri becomes the United States divide, the United States divide
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