Ask a Canuck

[mikey3000]

Oh man, you should meet my neighbours then.

 

[bankside]

Does anyone eat Canada Mints?My Mom used to keep her large purse full of pink ones,green(winter green)and white ones(peppermint-my least favorite as a kid)I would eat a ton of them while in church.I loved when they would get soft from high humidity.Were they really made in Canada?

Never heard of them! As a kid we had neighbours with tins of British mints though. I thought of them as "old people candy" because my grandparents had them from time to time too.

Coffee Crisp would be our indigenous chocolate bar though. Mmmmm so good.

 

[rareboy]

My question for other Canucks. Have you been coast to coast to coast yet?

I've not seen Atlantic Canada yet, nor the north.

Yes...kind of.

East, west and Baffin Island.....the north coast is pretty difficult to define though. What is really north versus north east or north west?

 

[rareboy]

How do you heat your dwellings?

(I know that your houses are usually better built than the ones in the USA, but I still have the impression that you waste a lot of energy, to be honest.)

Ours is heated and cooled with geo-thermal with an electric blower and supplemented by wood fires.

Eventually we'd like to add solar to the mix...once the technology is worth it.

 

[mikey3000]

We use whale blubber.

 

[bankside]

Yes...kind of.

East, west and Baffin Island.....the north coast is pretty difficult to define though. What is really north versus north east or north west?

Baffin Island counts as north. Any coastline in any of the territories.

 

[ClevelandTodd]

Never heard of them! As a kid we had neighbours with tins of British mints though. I thought of them as "old people candy" because my grandparents had them from time to time too.

Coffee Crisp would be our indigenous chocolate bar though. Mmmmm so good.

I agree with Coffee Crisps, but my favourite are Aero Chocolate Bars, yum!. I wish we could get them in the States.

 

[gsdx]

^ I had to Google them. I've never heard of nor seen them before.

Never heard of them!

I'm wondering if it's like Canadian Bacon? We don't have that, either. (At least we don't call it that.)

 

[Alistair]

Is there still a requirement that a certain percentage of Candian TV must be produced in Canada? Does that go for all channels or just your PBS?

 

[rareboy]

Yes. There still are Can-con requirements for all radio and TV broadcasters.

 

[gsdx]

Is there still a requirement that a certain percentage of Candian TV must be produced in Canada? Does that go for all channels or just your PBS?

According to the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), there are 3 types of broadcasters in Canada: public broadcasters, conventional television, and community-based media. Canadian content requirements vary with the licences.

http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/cancon/t_cdn.htm

 

[bankside]

Is there still a requirement that a certain percentage of Candian TV must be produced in Canada? Does that go for all channels or just your PBS?

We don't really have anything like PBS. We have private broadcasters, and then the CBC, which is more like BBC than PBS.

 

[Vannie]

Never heard of them! As a kid we had neighbours with tins of British mints though. I thought of them as "old people candy" because my grandparents had them from time to time too.

Coffee Crisp would be our indigenous chocolate bar though. Mmmmm so good.

I'm wondering if it's like Canadian Bacon? We don't have that, either. (At least we don't call it that.)

Made by Necco Candy Company based in Massachusetts.Each mint was always stamped "Canada"as far as I remember.It seems they were started/sold in Canada in the late 1880’s(I wasn't born yet

Anyhoo...I solved my own mystery.Thanks guys


http://www.necco.com/About.aspx#canadamints

 

[gsdx]

We don't really have anything like PBS. We have private broadcasters, and then the CBC, which is more like BBC than PBS.

We do. TVO (TV Ontario) is publicly funded and has been on the air since September 1970. I watch it all the time and I'm even a member.

The only time the American PBS stations I get are worth watching is during pledge times. Between pledge weeks, there is rarely anything worth watching whereas I watch TVO 4 or 5 nights per week.

 

[rareboy]

^ There is also Knowledge Network out in BC. We are members of it as well.

 

[gsdx]

^ What are its letters? I've never heard of it, and I don't think Cogeco has it.

 

[SaskGuy]

We do. TVO (TV Ontario) is publicly funded and has been on the air since September 1970. I watch it all the time and I'm even a member.

The only time the American PBS stations I get are worth watching is during pledge times. Between pledge weeks, there is rarely anything worth watching whereas I watch TVO 4 or 5 nights per week.

Yes. In SK, there was also SCN, but now it's privately owned and running as City Saskatchewan. Brad Wall originally wanted to shut it down, but it was eventually sold off.

 

[gsdx]

^ TVO is going strong. Then again, it's based in Toronto and there's a huge audience. It has kids' programming all day, every day. Weekday prime time is devoted to adults and, on weekends, prime time begins around 4 or 5 PM. They broadcast a lot of documentaries, and I would say that half of their prime-time programming and docs come out of Britain.

 

[otters]

Another topic:

Enid Blyton or Astrid Lindgren?

 

[bankside]

Another topic:

Enid Blyton or Astrid Lindgren?

Pierre Burton.


And both of them.