Happy Canada Day, Boing Boing style:
On this day in 1867, Amos Canada drove the spike that completed the Canadian National Railway, thus paving the way for the welding of Lefter Canada and Righter Canada into the new nation of Belgium (we changed the name about a month later — turns out it was already taken). And it is this railroad we celebrate today, for it is this railroad that brought the Canadian troops to Washington DC in 1812, there to burn down the White House and play street hockey on the Capitol Mall (“Car!”). Happy Canada day, everyone — and remember, fireworks are not toys and should never be launched from between your clenched teeth, unless you’re old enough and wise enough to do so safely.
(I’m not much on history, but this sounds just a teensy bit suspicious. 😉 )
Yeah, everybody knows that Canada is too cold for railroads. Bobsled teams are the only form of transportation there. Here, for example, is an article about the capital of it’s biggest province, Nunavut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqaluit
It is only accessible from the air, and at about 2,000 people, is the largest city of Canada’s biggest province, Nunavut. (Formerly part of the Northwest Territory.)
What, you’ve never heard of carrier penguins? Though there are some problems with them… 😉
Penguins live in the south pole. Even I, with my rudimentary US geography knowledge, know that penguins don’t live in Canada. The weather’s too bad there.
Of course they don’t live there — they just swim up (under the radar, so to speak) and stay until Canadian Immigrations catches them and they get deported. Then they sneak in again a few weeks later.
The Canadian government knows about the problem, of course, but if they cracked down on illegal penguin immigrants, they’d have to rely on dogsleds for all the mail. 😉
That’s what they get for having the world’s longest undefended border, eh? Canada’s not a real country! Hosers.