Canada

There were "several shooting incidents in downtown Ottawa" Wednesday morning, according to Ottawa police. The shooter or shooters have not been identified, though at least one is believed to be deceased.

HitchBOT is 3 1/2 feet tall and weighs fifteen pounds. It's made out of household and salvage items and traversed Canada by hitchhiking, going from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Victoria, British Columbia! Oh yeah, hitchBOT speaks with a female voice but, in reality, is gender neutral.

In Calgary, Canada there is AMP a Top 40 radio station which has decided on their own accord cut songs from their original length to run less than two minutes.

Corey Hart, the Canadian singer best known for "Sunglasses at Night" and "Never Surrender" has retired from music. After 30 years, last night he said goodbye at the Bell Centre in Montreal and put down his shades for good.

In Northern Ontario, Canada, Monday (May 19) Stephan Michel Desgroseillers rescued a newborn moose calf. He said he found it near a highway, still damp and unsteady on its' legs. He was afraid to leave it in the wild alone, so what did he do? What any true Canadian would do...take it to a Tim Hortons.

I love this. There are 8,000 markers that define the border between the sister nations of Canada and the United States, establishing the 'no touching zone'. ( MOM, Canada is touching me again!!)  This video will explain a lot of the 'whys' of all of that.

This may be a good summer to check out Canada. The Canadian dollar could be at 85 cents US say experts.

Continuing on the theme of the Olympics, and my thoughts about what NBC promotes as “rivalries.” Is it really a rivalry if generally speaking if the ones who really care are the athletes and fans of only one team?

My Netflix favorite, 'Trailer Park Boys' has seven seasons on TV with an 8th on the web, plus a third movie which is set to be released on April 18, 2014.

It's not very often unless we look for it do we get news from Canada. Right now the big story is about Rob Ford the Toronto mayor who from all accounts has smoked crack. In fact he's so much of a story SNL dedicated their cold-open last night to lampooning him.

According to the AP, one person has died after the train carrying crude oil derailed. Fire crews from Maine are helping at a disaster in Quebec. Following a train derailment, 80 tankers of gasoline caught fire forcing the village of Lac-Megantic, in the province of Quebec, to be evacuated.

Today the year is half over. July 1, 2013. It is also Canada Day. I’m not a Canadian, nor will I pretend to get inside the psyche of a Canadian, but I will rattle off a few facts and dispel a few stereotypes.

Are you watching the World Baseball Classic? Yes I know, it’s only the third installment and it is referred to as a “classic”, I get that but it’s still baseball that means something. The U.S. won two games out three in the first round for the right to move on to the second round. That second round for the U.S. starts tonight as the U.S. takes on Puerto Rico. I don’t quite understand the tournamen

Two thousand Canadian cyclists who planned to spend a week pedaling around central Maine this summer with a Canadian bike touring group won’t be coming after all. That is unless someone can help out right way with their U.S. customs issues.

We’ve been planning a vacation to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick this summer, hotel and minivan are reserved. The only thing left really is getting the passports. Getting passports is a long time overdue, meaning that we should have probably gotten them four years ago.

A penny saved is a penny earned is no longer something Canadians will be saying as the Royal Mint as done away with pressing new pennies. It costs more to make a penny than a penny is worth. It costs 1.6 cents to make a cent. Canada has stopped making the penny because it no longer makes cents. Okay, I’ll stop with the puns.