Top 10 Things About Canada I Didn’t Know

10 Oct 2009

1. Next year marks the 125th anniversary of the 1885 Northwest Resistance.

2. The poet laureate of Edmonton is a hip-hop artist named Roland Pemberton, a.k.a. Cadence Weapon.

3. Shelburne, Nova Scotia is said to have been the fourth-largest town in North America at one point and has the third-largest natural harbour on the continent.

4. Thunder Bay is developing its waterfront much like Toronto.

5. Despite worries about Olympic crowds, the folks in Whistler say up to 95 per cent of ski runs at Whistler-Blackcomb will be open to the public for January, February and March.

6. They say there’s a guy in his 70s named Stevie who wanders from bar to bar on George St. in St. John’s most nights and delivers dance performances.

7. Up in Ottawa, the tourism folks are making farmers cool by putting out “trading cards” with their names and information to highlight local producers. Cool.

8. Moncton has free wireless all over downtown and even on city buses, which encourages folks to take public transit.

9. Calgary is finding its urban groove.

10. Northwest Territories communications coordinator Julie Warnock says the NWT is home to what she calls mercenaries, missionaries and misfits.

According to theStar.