O Canada

Just in time for Canada Day, Bruce brought up the highly contentious issue of the national anthem. I'm being facetious, of course, I don't consider the anthem contentious, but Bruce sure did!! I'm still not quite sure what the fuss was about and now I have O Canada stuck in my head. Thanks Bruce!

Rick heard through the grapevine that they may start charging 5 cents a bag at one of the major grocery chains. They do that at some of the No Frills and Food Basics stores in Ontario and they do it in Germany as well. Everyone in Germany uses cloth bags for everything! You have to specifically ask for a bag if you buy something. I'm glad to see they are jumping on this in Canada now - just think about all that plastic wasted. It was shocking to hear the stats I found about a Tim Horton's drive-thru in Edmonton. Apparently, Owen Sound, Ontario is dealing with the issue of drive thrus too. Some people have stepped forward and opposed a new Tims opening up that has a drive thru. They cited research compiled from someone studying 1 Tims in Edmonton. That person said cars idle an average of 5000 hours a day in drive thrus - creating 23.5 tonnes of greenhouse gases. Here's the article:

http://www.saultstar.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=551736&catname=Ontario%20Life&classif=News%20Live

During the first hour, caller Sandy (whose son is in Afghanistan) told us a story about being jeered on a highway in Quebec over the weekend. They thought it was because they had a "Support our troops" sticker on the car...but eventually we figured out that it was because they have a Canadian flag on their car and it was St. Jean Baptiste day - the fete National in Quebec! It's still pretty ridiculous that someone would give you the finger for flying your own flag in your own country.

I had this weird call off the air today. The caller wanted me to pass on to Dave Rodenhiser and Rick this question: "Do they think Bill Black as leader of the Conservative party would have handled and negotiated the Atlantic Accord better than Rodney MacDonald?" I was almost tempted to ask if it was Bill Black on the phone!!! Are the knives out for Rodney? Was this caller just testing the waters for Mr. Black? Politics in this province might be exasperating, but that also makes it so damn interesting!!

Don't forget if you're trying to get on this Vitamin D bandwagon to talk to your doctor or pharmacist first! Thanks to Mrs. Simone, my grade 10 Family Studies teacher, I learned Vitamins A, D, E and K are fat soluble, meaning they are stored in your body fat and you could poison yourself. Things like Vitamin C are water soluble, meaning they pass through your body. Was there ever family studies out here? In high school in Upper Canada we took swimming in gym class (something Moosehead Mike recommended) and we also had art, family studies (cooking) and shop (woodworking, etc.) Since I recently learned a lot of N.S. schools don't have textbooks, I would be suprised if students learned how to sew.

It's great to walk outside and actually have it feel like summer, eh? Keep it coming!!

Cheers!

Amber