jimf

Mayor of Toronto:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...n-vote495.html

Mayor of Calgary:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1762765/

Atlantic Xpat

Snowmobiling. Just in general but also specifically snowmobiling to the Gorge in Gros Morne National Park. That's one of those 'I'm not in Essex' anymore moments.

ATV'ing. Access to 100's km's of logging roads, pole-lines and general wilderness. Very different from greenlaning in the UK.

Sailing around an Iceberg. And an oil rig.

Government (provincial) control of booze distribition and pricing.

Interminable beauracracy.

Unions. Seniority and other bullshit. (Although this is North American rather than exclusively Canadian).

Having a buddy who is a Mountie.

Living in a place that no-one had ever heard of before I moved here.

Explaining to people that you can't drive from Newfoundland to Toronto or Vancouver. Or at least not in a day.

Jingsamichty

Who mentioned crackers in soup? It's just plain weird.

Going to a fancy restaurant and seeing smart, well-dressed, apparently civilized-looking people eating like chimpanzees, and wielding cutlery like they've never seen a knife before.

Souvy

Reading that a Gatineau cop recently nicked the city's mayor for jaywalking.

This, of course, has nothing to do with the fact that the cops and the city had been in a pay dispute for four years.

dbd33

Ha. An icy appraisal of one of my daughters' more dubious conquests started "he eats like a Canadian".

Souvy

Not an unreasonable observation. Canadians in general struggle with cutlery.

Some of my in-laws struggle with the concept of bringing food from the plate to the mouth. It appears to be easier to reduce the distance by actually putting your head in the plate.

Joe_Sleepy

The first time I ever visited Canada (14 years ago) was to meet my now in-laws..

They invited the various members of the family (11 of us in all) & laid on a turkey dinner with all of the trimmings.
Being English I politely waited as the scrummage began & by the time the gravy had settled I realised that was absolutely no food left for me to eat.
This caused equal amounts of hilarity & scorn from my hosts & I ended up sharing the minuscule plate of food my wife had managed to throw together during the free for all..

I've always assumed it's the pioneer culture ensuring that only the strong survive, judging by the amount of emaciated children I see with morbidly obese parents...

Souvy

That sounds all too familiar. At our tribal gatherings, by the time the last person has been served, the first few will have finished and buggered off back to the TV.

peas

britishvixen21

Hmmm wow there are so many.......

People being insulted when you say "Excuse me".

Eating leftovers for lunch.

People saying that they they are "(insert nationality here) Canadian".

Seeing people skiing to the store during a snow storm.

Seeing kids wearing what look like PJ bottoms and slippers to school.

Thinking that -20 isnt that cold.

Only using a fork to eat your dinner with.

im sure il think of more, they just seem normal now.

Tangram

Sockets ( recepticals ) that spark when you plug anything in.

Oh, and people saying "It's all good" makes me want to projectile vomit.

Lemonfish

Going to the Mounties musical ride - and sitting to watch it on one of those folding lawn chairs with the cup holders that everyone has here
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/mr-ce/centre-eng.htm

Having the inside of my nose freeze for the first time in winter

Buying and planting plants in my garden during the May 2-4 holiday weekend along with everyone else in the city

ducktastic

God yes, what is it with that?? Used to drive me nuts!!!!

Joe_Sleepy

We ate in, what is possibly, Halifax's currently trendiest restaurant last week (Somebody else's treat).

The waiting staff & food were passable (Hardly a revelation) but the other diners were bizarre. We were surrounded by the great & the good of Halifax, wealthy & what passes for well dressed, & they behaved like spoiled, ill mannered kids..

It was a surreal experience akin to being surrounded by pigs dressed as people.

I kept expecting Terry Gilliam to jump out & yell cut...

JamesM

They had probably come from their Animal Farm.