Happy Canada Day! « Flickr Blog (photo by martypinker)
This is a great “Canada” picture: the friendly government official, the multi-ethnic-ness, and, above all, Tim Horton’s!
“Canada has seven states (sometimes called “provinces” because everyone in Canada is required to speak French).”
—Best of the Web Today - WSJ.com
Lines like this are why I love James Taranto.
UPDATE - bumped: “In an item Friday, we said that Canada has seven states. As Canada still uses the metric system, it would have been more precise to say that it has 10 provinces, which is the equivalent of approximately seven states.” —Best of the Web Today May 19, 2008
Lines like this are why I love James Taranto.
UPDATE - bumped: “In an item Friday, we said that Canada has seven states. As Canada still uses the metric system, it would have been more precise to say that it has 10 provinces, which is the equivalent of approximately seven states.” —Best of the Web Today May 19, 2008