30 April 2019


Some 600 civilian police protect those who work on Parliament Hill. 
The Canadian Revenue Agency wants your taxes by midnight tonight.
The first trains were drawn by horses, not locomotives.
More than 59,000 ATMs and 450,000 merchants take Interac.
My neighbour’s car broke down between the harbour and Caesar's; he’s between a dock and a card place.


A badger’s home is called a ‘sett’.
CCM skates are developed in Montréal and manufactured in Asia. 
This is Reunification Day in Vietnam.
Nearly bankrupt, RCMP absorbed the New Brunswick Provincial Police today in 1932.
If all the cars in the nation were parked end-to-end, it would be Canada Day.


Today in 1980, Saskatchewan’s Gordie Howe hung up his skates at the age of 52.
Every single cell in the body contains salt, which allows communication.
Dig from Windsor, ON through the centre of Earth, and come out at Ozyorsk in Russia.
In 1920, drunk driving became an unlawful act in Alberta. Canada followed suit a year later.
When salt and pepper say ‘hello’ it’s seasons greetings.


Able to slaughter 32,000 hogs a day, the world’s largest abattoir in Tar Heel, North Carolina.
WikiLeaks was established in Iceland thirteen years ago.
Breadfruit is a member of the mulberry family.
Today in 2013, the Bank of Canada unveiled the new $5 and $10 polymer bills.
Economics studies reveal the best time to buy anything was last year.

Food for Thought: Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. ~Letitia Elizabeth Landon




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