canada

A man of many colours from bushytailedfox 26 days old

I learnt something about words and colours on Friday. I was house hunting in Toronto in the pouring rain when I got stopped by a man asking me to read ...

I've been robbed! (briefly) from bushytailedfox 36 days old

It seems I am the victim of bank card fraud. I had call from my bank today informing me that my debit card had been used at a location being investigated ...

Happy Turkey Day from bushytailedfox 38 days old

[ ... ] General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed … to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October."

Thanksgiving in Kitchener from bushytailedfox 38 days old

We had the Kitchener-Waterloo thanksgiving parade yesterday (Canada does thanksgiving on a different day to the US). The parade is not on the scale ...

Canadian democracy inaction from bushytailedfox 351 days old

No that's not a typo. Today the Governor General agreed to suspend the Canadian Parliament until January at the request of the Prime Minister, Sephen ...

Stephen Hawking is going to be my neighbour from bushytailedfox 358 days old

Stephen Hawking is going to be my neighbour. http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/544641 Well very close by He has accepted a new position with ...

Ottawa, a sub-tropical paradise in the north from bushytailedfox 366 days old

I've been sightseeing in Ottawa today, and I doubt if I will ever be truly warm again. Mind you, Quebec was even worse Quebec is the other side of the ...

The world's most expensive peanut? from bushytailedfox 368 days old

I went to raid the hotel mini-bar here in Ottawa, looking for a snackette that would avoid me going outside in the cold. $9 (n-i-n-e) for a packet of ...

Prison rules from bushytailedfox 372 days old

Something of a gruesome story for this afternoon. Canada's first child sentenced as an adult was today transferred to an adult prison. The boy, who ...

So, what would you wear to climb a ladder? from bushytailedfox 373 days old

So, what would you wear to climb a ladder? I ask as it's now the subject of a court case in Toronto. Eight Muslim women are complaining that UPS (a parcel ...