Canada’s Appalling Lack of Pride in Restaurant Names

This past summer (2015 for future readers) my wife and I packed up the kids and embarked on one of the great lost family rites of passage from the last century; the cross-country road trip.  We spent six weeks on the road with our little camper driving from Alberta to Ontario, touring around the childhood … Read more

Geography Lessons From The NHL

I was watching the 2016 NHL All Star Game when I was reminded of a perturbation that’s been eating at me for twenty years now.  Actually, that’s not true.  My kids were watching the 2016 NHL All Star Game because they are still young enough to find this game fun because they have no understanding … Read more

The Invisible But Very Real Border Wall Between Canada and the USA

You crazy, paranoid Americans and your walls.  Always with the walls.  Usually you’re yapping semi-coherently about wanting one along the Mexican border, or more accurately finishing that one, but now some of the looniest in your midst, hello Republicans, have openly fantasized about erecting a wall along the Canadian border.  A 2015 survey found an … Read more