Cool Facts About Canada

10 Mind-Boggling Facts About Canada

The very first one shows a picture of Saskatoon, although the "mind-boggling fact" has nothing to do with that fair city. Some of those cool facts include:

"If you walked and walked and never stopped — not to eat, not to rest your feet, not to get some sleep— it would take you four and a half years to walk the length of Canada's coastline. While our country might not conjure up images of blue waters and white sandy beaches, Canada has the world's longest coastline, bordered on three sides by three different oceans: the Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific. To put that in perspective, Canada has 202,080 of the world's total 356,000 kilometres of oceanfront property. The only other country that even comes close is Indonesia, which has 54,716 km of coastline."

and

"Canada is so big that even our parks are bigger than countries. Just look at Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories: not only is it a sight to behold with massive waterfalls, it's also an incredible 30,050 square kilometres — bigger than Albania and Israel. Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta and the Northwest Territories is even bigger at 44,807 square kilometres, which makes it bigger than Denmark and Switzerland."

and

"...we also have more lake area than every other country in the world? It's true. The Great White North has 563 lakes larger than 100 square kilometres. The Great Lakes alone contain about 18 per cent of the world's fresh lake water. That's a lot of water."

and

"The vastness of our great country seems to be a little known secret to outsiders. Here are some facts to put Canada's size in perspective: It's bigger than the entire European Union (33 times bigger than Italy and 15 times bigger than France), more than 30 per cent larger than Australia, five times as big as Mexico, three times as big as India and about the same size as 81,975 Walt Disney Worlds put together."

Har. Har. Canuckistani Jokes...

...,some of which are actually funny: Life in Canada is a Little Bit Different Than Everywhere Else

Oh My, My, My

Aren`t we smug.

Holy Smokes!!

Winnie the Pooh is 100 years old.

More From The Useless Nations Commentary Magazine Contentions The UN Human Rights Farce Gets Worse

The UN Human Rights Farce Gets Worse

"Over the past few decades, the bias against Israel at the United Nations has reached the level of caricature. The disproportionate interest in anything that the Jewish state does matched with the world body’s general indifference to real crimes being perpetrated anywhere else is an object lesson in the definition of prejudice. But just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the choice of a man to head a UN Human Rights Council probe of the fighting in Gaza who has already called for the prosecution of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrates just how ridiculous the anti-Israel farce there has become.

That the UN Human Rights Council, whose membership is made up of many of the worst dictatorships and human-rights offenders in the world, wouldn’t give Israel a fair hearing was already a given. The Council devotes most of its attention to attempts to undermine the Jewish state’s legitimacy or to promote libelous attacks on its policies. While a lot of the attention on this panel was devoted to the decision of George Clooney’s fiancée to decline participation in the probe, the appointment of Canadian law professor William Schabas demonstrates that the Council is not even interested in the appearance of fairness.

Schabas has already demonstrated his animus for Israel and actually called for Netanyahu to be hauled before the International Criminal Court in The Hague for prosecution. Lest anyone think he takes sides in Israeli political debates, he also advocated the prosecution of Shimon Peres in a comment in which he compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to the genocide in Darfur."

RTWT

I'm ashamed to be the same nationality as Schabas.

Finally!! A Canuck Who Actually...

...says "aboot".

I've lived in Canada for very close to 65 years and I've never heard anyone say "aboot" - until this:

Ahhhhh!!

Too bad, so sad.

Political activities of PEN Canada under investigation

"PEN Canada represents more than 1,000 writers and supporters, including Canadian literary luminaries Margaret Atwood..."

Margaret Atwood is a luminary??!! If we weren't forced to read her garbage in high school, nobody would have heard of her.

Quintessentially Canadian

Mountain - Mole Hill - Lamestream Media

The lamestream media is at it again, making a big deal out of Aussie PM's slip of the tongue in mis-pronouncing Canada. Big freaking deal. At least he knows we're not the fifty-first state.

Happy Canada Day!

O Cana-duh!

Charitable Scams

Vivian Krause spends nearly half an hour detailing scams (mostly American) aimed at eliminating Canadian oil and gas exports.



More.

Two Hours...

...and a bit about American-Canadian relations:



More.

Random Humour

Did You Know...

...Canadians drink more than Americans.

Canadians spent 4.5 times more per capita on beer, wine and liquor than Americans did last year, says the study.

LOL!!

Police on standby as Montreal Canadiens fans to pack Bell Centre for giant-screen viewing

'awkey riots predicted. Some things never change.  

GO HABS!!

For Those Of You...

...Canucks who suffer from our proverbial inferiority complex, this is one way to get noticed:


Community Fears 80-Ton Blue Whale Carcass Will Explode on its Shore


Bloated whale carcass could explode in Canadian town, locals fear

Canadian town worried rotting blue whale will explode on beach

Rotting blue whale carcass worrying Canadian fishing village

Help with beached whales

Newfoundland town worried washed up blue whale will explode

A Whale Of A Problem: Town Faces Threat Of Exploding Carcass

Blue whale carcass raises a stink in Newfoundland

Yes, Beached Whales Really Do Explode

I like history, but not this much:

A Brief History of Exploding Whales

"It happens! Pretty often, actually. And the results are ... really, really gross."

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"Jack Lawson, a scientist affiliated with the Canadian fisheries department, told the media that his main concern was neither the stench nor the possibility of an explosion. He warned that the worst thing would be for a person to get too close to the whale and fall inside it: “The [whale] skin is starting to lose its integrity and if someone were to walk along, say, the chin — that is full of all that gas — they could fall in the whale. The insides will be liquefied. Retrieving them would be very difficult.""

ROTFLMAO!!!

Runaway Budweiser blimp floats over New Brunswick

Television?

What's that?


More Canadians hanging up on traditional phones and cutting traditional TV

Yawn

American Veterans Endorse Keystone XL Pipeline

The Keystone XL Pipeline will increase energy independence by transporting much-needed domestic and Canadian oil to American refineries.

Broad coalition backs Keystone XL oil pipeline

Veterans: Keystone XL in America’s best interest

Vets Join Rep. Terry, Sens. Hoeven and Manchin at Keystone XL Press Conference to Discuss National Security (Lee Terry)

BWHAHAHAHAHA!

Canada, The Only Place You’ll See Something Like This.