Tag: canadian
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October 15, 2008 11:44 AM EDT --
I Want My $17 Back!!!
AARRGGHH!!!!! Stupid polls weren’t near a bus stop, so I took a taxi. Y’all read about my voting experience yesterday, and I know the rather patronizing polling people slowed . . . more
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July 04, 2008 01:22 AM EDT --
July 1 st was Canada day the day that Canada became a nation in 1867. There were only four provinces that entered confederation at the time. The provinces were Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, . . . more
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March 24, 2007 07:35 AM EDT --
A British newspaper salutes Canada...... . . . this is a good read. It is
funny how it took someone in England to put it into words... Sunday
Telegraph Article From today's UK wires:
Salute . . . more
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October 12, 2008 01:36 PM EDT --
It's another wonderful Thanksgiving here in Canada. Walker's back in Arizona, making arrangements to get up here as soon as the first retirement check rolls in. We'll celebrate American Thanksgiving . . . more
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July 05, 2007 05:06 PM EDT --
Are you a Canadian writer, whether published yet or not? Would you like to be? Or, even, are you just doin' what needs doin' to get through a creative writing course?
Do you have . . . more
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July 04, 2008 06:43 PM EDT --
In 1535, French explorer Jacques Cartier landed at the Native village of Stadacona but he did not stay. Seventy-three years later, Quebec City was founded on July 3, 1608, by the famous French . . . more
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January 16, 2008 08:04 PM EST --
and I seem to be fresh out :(
I am eligible to enter the university's writing competitions again this year... but I have not written a single new short story or a single new poem since the last . . . more
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October 15, 2008 01:17 PM EDT --
I just received a really nice e-mail from a blind lady who is on the AM 740 radio club with me. She heard me on Goldhawk's show this morning (Goldhawk Fights Back For You), and was extremely pleased . . . more
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January 15, 2008 01:58 PM EST --
Once again, bureaucracy rears its ugly head in my life.
I was filling out yet another application for grad school (keep having visions of not getting accepted anywhere - that would SUCK) - and loaded . . . more
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January 19, 2008 12:27 PM EST --
It has apparently been snowing pretty steadily here
Took Ross about 5 minutes of kicking to locate the morning paper
Ah...finally! Success
. . . more
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September 06, 2007 01:08 PM EDT --
What Aunts Do Best/What Uncles Do Best by was written by Laura Numeroff.
The publishers are Simon & Schuster. It has 32 pages and I bought if for $12.00
Richardson's marching aunts arrive . . . more
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July 05, 2008 06:15 PM EDT --
"No nation can send a more precious resource to help a people in need than the young men and women who wear their nation's uniform," Rick Hillier 2004.
Rick Hillier, the Soldier's . . . more
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October 19, 2007 11:02 AM EDT --
So ... hubby wants to buy a set of Ryoki tools... and since I have earned Home Depot gift cards, it would make sense to buy them at Home Depot, right...?
But since I'm on an extended rant . . . more
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October 20, 2007 12:19 PM EDT --
... on about 300 items... I suppose its a start - but seems to me that many Canadian retailers still have a long way to go.
According to this article , Wal-Mart is saying that they've already . . . more
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April 25, 2008 06:28 PM EDT --
The moment is finally here. The Canadian Goose I have been watching, forever it seems, sitting on her nest showed up this morning with her mate and six newly hatched gosling! I was beginning . . . more
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August 09, 2006 10:35 PM EDT --
Ella Cora Hind was born on September 18, 1861 in Toronto, Ontario. She was the youngest of three children, her older siblings being two brothers. Cora's mother died when she was two. Her father died . . . more
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July 09, 2007 03:26 PM EDT --
has joined gather... (link isn't working yet *sigh*)
we're sitting by her pool right now... she very nicely invited me over this aft to kill the time between this morning's class and this . . . more
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October 12, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
Herewith are a few of the better known Canadian inventions, listed in alphabetical order from A to Z. That's Ay to Zed , not Ay to Zee.
1. Alkaline battery
2. . . . more
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July 11, 2008 05:57 PM EDT --
I am so happy that people are joining my group all things Canadian from all over,
I encourage everyone to participate, but please remember this group must have Canadian content,
If you are . . . more
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October 07, 2008 01:02 AM EDT --
I have been reading about poetics in recent months. I have been especially fascinated with Robin Skelton's books, of which I've read the first two: The Practice of Poetry , The Poet's . . . more
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