Canada is 140 today. I intend to spend the day like any good Canadian would: golfing and drinking! I’m also going to try and catch the Under 20 World Cup game between Canada and Chile on a TV somewhere. Hundreds of thousands of tickets have been sold for this tournament, and all anyone can talk about around here is soccer.

The only thing missing today is a Tragically Hip concert in Toronto. Ironically, they’re playing in Lewiston, NY today.

To celebrate the day, here’s a link to 139 reasons to love Canada, a Vancouver Sun article from last year. Here’s the first few:

1. The toque. For inventing hat hair, Canuck-style.

2. Joni Mitchell. The Prairie priestess of poetry. For singing Butterbox Babies and A Case of You.

3. Tim Hortons. For brewing coffee that tastes as good as it smells. And for chocolate sour cream Timbits.

4.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Because he could do handsprings, and drove a
gull-wing Mercedes roadster. Because he made us think about what our
country means to us.

5. Polar bears. Big, white, beautiful.

The list goes on. An interesting read, even if I don’t agree with the whole list of 139.

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