A prototype of a Tim Hortons “Restaurant of the Future” at the company’s owners conference in Toronto on Wednesday, July 16, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
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Did you know visiting Canada with a DUI is difficult? If a US citizen has a DUI or DWI they could be denied entry at the Canadian border! Even a misdemeanor for reckless driving, or a traffic ticket for impaired driving, can prevent an American from entering Canada. In order to enter Canada with DUI charges many people hire an immigration lawyer. Going to Canada from USA with other criminal convictions like theft or assault can also be challenging.
This was the very first strip in Calvin and Hobbes, on Nov. 18, 1985 - all in all, I think Calvin and Hobbes was the world's best comic strip. Moving on, some comments about the current scene:
I never wanted to live in in...
Thanks, Justin!Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday a suite of new measures meant to alleviate some of the affordability pressures people have been experiencing in the post-COVID era โ including a two-month G...
CBC calls out the Conservatives version of "freedom":Christian Noel / CBC
Poilievre's office maintains tight control over what Conservative MPs say and do
Party staffers monitor caucus for signs of message indiscipline and fra...
Following up from my post last week, I have been seeing more commentary lately which discuss misinformation and disinformation as the main problem that progressives now have in getting their messages out to the public. Several ...
So Poilievre thinks bluster and combativeness will intimidate Trump? Or is he just trying to impress Canadians by boasting about what a great fighter he would be for the Canadian economy - you know, the economy he has been...
As Canada hunkers down to survive another Canadian winter, we may be starting to see some signs of a turn-around in Liberal fortunes. Liberals are trending a little higher in the polls:
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If we are going to save liberalism in Canada -- the federal Liberals and maybe even Justin Trudeau also -- then we have to reach Canadians and tell them the story of what Liberalism is. The more we learn about what went wr...
As we watch the United States take a right turn and go sailing off the Trump cliff, I have been looking for articles and tweet threads that give advice on what for God's sake we can do about it. Here's the initial batch th...
"Stories from the Internet" is an occasional series.Here's a story I saw on Facebook:
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge...
The Taking of Vimy Ridge, Easter Monday 1917 by Richard Jack
...Supported by a creeping barrage, the Canadian Corps captured most of the ridge during the first day. The village of Thรฉlus fell during the second day, as did the ...
Remember this? That terrible photo of Alan Kurdi, age 3, washed up on a beach in Turkey when he and his family tried to escape Syria in 2015. That little drowned child is one of the main reasons Harper lost the 2015 electi...
Well, I don't know if this feeling is just my own, or something others share. But I realized today that I just don't care what Donald Trump does anymore. In his first administration, every day there was a "he said WH...
More comments about why the Trump election happened, and how to (maybe) survive it:New York magazine, Jonathan Chait: Trumpโs โUnprecedented and Powerful Mandateโ Is a Lie Do not surrender in advance.
...There is a quadre...
Here are some tweets and comments and blog posts, reading the tea leaves.The election: No More Mister Nice Blog Steve M Trump is toxically masculine......Trump is seen by millions as a capable problem-solver because most A...
So sad. America just Brexited itself.โ Cathie from Canada ๐จ๐ฆ โ๐ป๐ท๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฑ (@CathieCanada) November 6, 2024 And the impact of a Trump win on Canada is incalculable -- on tarrifs, cross-bord...
Beautiful photo of (I hope) President Harris and the First Gentleman.โHope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.โ โMe right nowโ Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) November 2, 2024
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The closing moments:The Next President of the United States #SNL #NailedIt pic.twitter.com/tMl8iFdD5oโ Abraxsys (@Abraxsys) November 3, 2024
Kamalaโs SNL hit was a Slamala Dunkala!โ Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) November 3, 2...
Things are certainly weird in the Trump campaign these days: I grabbed this great photo combo from an X post
Trump seems to be unable to stop himself now from talking about sex all the time -- first it was Arnold Palmer's...
I think we're reaching "Fuck Around and Find Out" time: In Canada, Poilievre's blithe "Of course I'm going to cancel programs to fund a GST reduction on new houses" and his equally-blithe "of course I'm not going to get a ...
We always used to yell "Halloween Apples" when I was trick-or-treating, I'm not sure why because if anyone ever gave us an apple we threw it out because razor blades. Anyway, Halloweening is a great memory - circling throu...
Just a short post tonight, to highlight some remarkable articles published recently. First up, look at this "corrective map" of the world: It is one of the fascinating maps from this great article at Everything is Am...
So NDP leader Carla Beck came close, but it doesn't look like she will be Saskatchewan's new premier:Latest update from Saskatchewan election website44.53% so far270,000 advance100,000 election day ? pic.twitter.com/a6mqROe2i7โ...
I just saw this amazing thread from Regina Poster Boy about the Sask Party's parade of screw-ups and I had to share it tonight -- our Saskatchewan election is Monday! Its very long, but I'll break it on Monday night when ...
Can't really describe how terrified I am about the US election -- I hope and pray that Harris can close the deal with the American people. Her rally last night in Houston was epic, as was the Kalamazoo rally today.But talk...
On October 1st 2022, the Government of Canada removed all COVID-19 border measures such as required proof of vaccination, random testing, and mandatory isolation for high-risk travelers. For the first time since early 2020, the...
As of April 1st 2022, the Canadian border will no longer require a pre-arrival negative COVID-19 test from fully vaccinated travellers entering or returning to the country. Previously, a rapid antigen test or a PCR test indicat...
After being closed for nearly 19 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on November 8th 2021 the United States land border officially opened to all fully vaccinated Canadians. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced ...
On August 9th 2021, Canada opened its border to all fully vaccinated Americans allowing tourists from the United States to visit the country once again. The US border remains closed to Canadians, however, and American authoriti...
Most Canadians are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Consequently, Canadians are starting to think about international travel again, and are beginning to research possible vacation destinations. This leads to the question,...
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