Thanksgiving
Yes, today is Canadian Thanksgiving day. I thought I would take a cue from proud mum and list the 10 Canadian things for which I am thankful (in no particular order):
- Public health care
- Tight gun ownership laws
- “Peace, order and good government”
- Great chocolate
- Four Seasons
- Canadian English
- True separation of church and state
- Multiculturalism
- Tim Horton’s
- My Family
posted by Mike at 10:28 p.m.
5 Comments:
How could I leave out Tim Horton's?
Probably because you are not reminded daily by seeing the crowded drive-throughs every few blocks.
No, that's right. There are two on the same street in Whitehorse; but none, of course, in LA.
Tim Hortons is now owned by Wendy's, and is therefore wholy American Owned. Besides, the cofee sucks. The only good thing you can say about it is that it is marginally better than most local diners. Their donuts are no longer made in the stores, they thaw them out just to let flies land on them for a few hours before they pitch them out.
You left out Lacrosse (awesome sport dude!)Hockey Night in Canada, Don Cherry, Molson Ale, MooseHead, and Labatts Pilsner Lager Beer.
Public health care means 9 months delay to get my dad in for an MRI. Two hundred people die per month due to delays in transplants, bed spaces, MRI's and we STILL have a lack of Doctors and Nurses are still retiring early because of burnout. Bad choice of things to be thankful for here....
The chocolate is pretty good, I rather like Laura Secord and Ganog, as well as Lowney. Hershey is still a contender....the stuff made in Smiths Falls consistently is "very fine".
Canadian Cheese is the best in the world. Well, Canadian Cheddar anyways. Forfar dairies in Ontario...winner overall in blind taste tests in Cheddar England 9 years out of the last 14.
Niagara wine, abundant inexpensive energy, good roads, a mostly uncorrupt municiple, provincial, and yes, even federal governments. Corruption is so rare that it makes news!
Tight gun ownership laws ensure that nobody but a criminal can have a gun. Thats handy, because there are fortunately, not too many criminals.
And the ultimate thing to be thankful for.....100km speed limits.
Cheers! Have a pint of Alexander Keiths, and remember, Moosehead is a beer, not a misdemeanor.
Stag:
Good thing we drink tea at Tim Horton's. ;-) The donut situation has gone downhill in the past couple of years, but I've never seen a Tim Horton's with a fly problem. You should report that to head office!
Hockey is okay if you watch it. Beer is okay if you drink it. Lacrosse is a very underrated game, I'm sure.
Sorry to hear that about your dad. However, I think all the Americans out there with no health coverage whatsoever would be happy to wait for a free visit to a hospital or clinic.
Hershey's chocolate tastes like stomach acid, no matter where it's made (IMHO). Not sure who rates it "very fine" -- but are they judging a bag of Hershey's Kisses from the local grocery store? Ugh! I didn't know Canadian cheddar does well in taste tests in Cheddar, England, but having been there, I'm not surprised. It's a pretty backward place. (Okay, I'm kidding. They're bound to know good cheese when they taste it.)
You make good points about the wine, energy, roads (mostly, I guess) and yes, corruption does make news because we have a free press, too, something else to be thankful for. In Canada, opinion on gun laws is strongly polarized between urban and rural people (not sure where you are in that mix). They are thinking of different issues and different types of guns, I guess. City people look at Canadian murder rates compared to American cities and are thankful for tight gun control.
We visited the Alexander Keith's brewery (historical exhibit) when we were in Halifax a couple of years ago. It was fun!
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