The Super Dooper Canadian Thread (now with 47% more Canadian Bacon)
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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/08/22/saskatoon-berry-juneberry-superfood_n_5699378.html
They are also a national treasure and they make the world's most delicious pie and jam.
I WILL BE DEAD BEFORE THEY ARE JUNEBERRIES.
I have been picking and eating these berries for as long as I could walk. I honestly hate that they are getting more exposure now. The local bakery I used to buy saskatoon pie from during the summer can't get them anymore from their suppliers because of a massive uptick in demand.
That's the kind of temperature that keeps me in a car all day with the AC cranked.[DOUBLEPOST=1408747982][/DOUBLEPOST]They are saskatoons YOU FUCKING MORONS!
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/08/22/saskatoon-berry-juneberry-superfood_n_5699378.html
They are also a national treasure and they make the world's most delicious pie and jam.
I WILL BE DEAD BEFORE THEY ARE JUNEBERRIES.
I have been picking and eating these berries for as long as I could walk. I honestly hate that they are getting more exposure now. The local bakery I used to buy saskatoon pie from during the summer can't get them anymore from their suppliers because of a massive uptick in demand.
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Few and far between. Though, I'd assume we have milder winters than you guys. - 40? We get that shit pretty rarely. When I watch TV and it's set to a station in the prairies and the weather guy comes on and I see that... I'm like... "Poor bastards and I was unhappy of the -25 we were getting."
I'd that that over 1 ice storm a winter.
I'd that that over 1 ice storm a winter.
Burger King in talks to buy Tim's: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-to-acquire-tim-hortons-restaurant-chain.html
CTV: http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/burger-king-in-talks-to-take-over-tim-hortons-1.1974544
Canadian Press: http://www.calgaryherald.com/busine...aders+anticipate+friendly/10146808/story.html
Sun Media: http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/08/24/whopper-tim-hortons-sale-in-the-works-report
The most interesting thing here IMO is how BK wants to move its corporate headquarters to Canada as well for tax reasons and how for the USA people that's supposedly been a trend. I'm not sure if that's true, or just hype, since there tends to be a "panic bias" with that kind of thing. What I mean is that you hear "death of Canadian business" whenever a Canadian business gets bought by somebody overseas, but when Canadian businesses are doing the same (which they are, at about the same rate) there is no news story 99% of the time. So I wonder if it's the same for the USA right now, but with businesses moving.
Overall, not a big deal IMO. Tim's was owned by Wendy's for a long time, and it was fine. I have no issues with this as long as things don't get fuc*ed up. Few enough restaurants in the small town I'm in as it is!
CTV: http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/burger-king-in-talks-to-take-over-tim-hortons-1.1974544
Canadian Press: http://www.calgaryherald.com/busine...aders+anticipate+friendly/10146808/story.html
Sun Media: http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/08/24/whopper-tim-hortons-sale-in-the-works-report
The most interesting thing here IMO is how BK wants to move its corporate headquarters to Canada as well for tax reasons and how for the USA people that's supposedly been a trend. I'm not sure if that's true, or just hype, since there tends to be a "panic bias" with that kind of thing. What I mean is that you hear "death of Canadian business" whenever a Canadian business gets bought by somebody overseas, but when Canadian businesses are doing the same (which they are, at about the same rate) there is no news story 99% of the time. So I wonder if it's the same for the USA right now, but with businesses moving.
Overall, not a big deal IMO. Tim's was owned by Wendy's for a long time, and it was fine. I have no issues with this as long as things don't get fuc*ed up. Few enough restaurants in the small town I'm in as it is!
There's currently a loophole whereby a company buys a foreign company and relocates to the headquarters of the purchased company as a means of reducing taxes (so I heard on NPR). Sounds like that is the plan here.
GasBandit
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Burger King actually ain't a bad place to eat, as far as fast food burger joints go. But yeah, ever since 2008 companies have been fleeing the US for better deals in other countries. Some of it was the recession, some of it was the perception (or reality, YMMV) of a business-hostile federal government, and some of it is just the fact that our tax code is a giant spaghettified nightmare knot of bullshit that keeps getting bigger. Think you guys could do us a solid and re-enact 1812? Burn down washington again? I know you remember how.
Tax law is so damned specific, I wonder whom can even comment on the relative complexity per country? People with international finance specialties maybe?
Basically, I have no doubt the USA is a "giant spaghettified nightmare knot of bullshit" that you said it is, I just wonder how much better anywhere else in the G20 really is. Not that we have the SAME problems, but only that I'll bet it's not the same things that trip people up is all.
Which isn't really fair. Canadians are a very polite people, they always insist you go first.
That's like that ice football, right?
I am SOO disappointed that the Internet failed me on this one.
This was the best I could do:
--Patrick
This reminded me of where I get the quotation, "Aren't we forgetting one teensy weensy, but-ever-so-crucial little, tiny detail?"
Hobo camping!
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Too bad Roots is so expensive, because I need that Log Driver's Waltz shirt
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This here's a Nova Scotia salt water beaver. The most powerful beaver in the world and can bite your leg clean off. So I gotta ask you again punk, do you feel lucky?
Swimmer annoys beaver, beaver bites his leg clean off.
Swimmer annoys beaver, beaver bites his leg clean off.
You guys need to keep better track of your toys.
Sonar finds ship belonging to Franklin expedition, missing 170 years.
--Patrick
Sonar finds ship belonging to Franklin expedition, missing 170 years.
--Patrick
They belong(ed) to Britain technically. In addition, Canada didn't exist as a country at the time. All British territory.
Our territory now.
There's no image/link man.