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If you are 18 or older and a Canadian citizen on election day, you have the RIGHT to vote.

Simply show up at your polling station (which you can find our by going to www.elections.ca, entering your postal code and clicking the link "where do I vote?") with a document that shows your name, address and signature, or a pair of documents, one showing your name and signature, and the other showing your name and address.

Things with your name and signature are pretty obvious: most kinds of ID, credit/debit cards, membership cards, etc. If they don't have your address, things like telephone bills, magazines from subscriptions, blank cheques and other financial documents suffice.

Alternately, go with someone who is registered and on the list and they can vouch for you even if you have no ID or documents.

You can do this all on election day at the polling station! Isn't our country great?!?

I'm such a dork, three of four of these Heritage Minutes make me cry.

(For the non-Canadians among you, these air on TV during the commercial breaks.)

Belinda Stronach crosses the floor... and is joining Martin's cabinet!?!

"Come for the fjords. Stay for the moral chaos."
(See "Highlights from our Latest Show" or later, under "Week of February 7, 2005.")

(While I'm at it, "Rick takes a trip to Science North" from the week of November 22, 2004 is also a favourite of mine.)

Members of the Canadian Parliament are going to vote in the next few months or so on marriage in our country. Last week at the cathedral, my family was steamed because the rector prayed in the congregational prayer for "Canada to continue to preserve the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman." This morning back at my home parish church, my pastor prayed that MPs would vote according to their consciences. That I can say "amen," to.

Because we Canadians love our pretty currency, we're rolling out the world's first coloured coins for circulation: a quarter with a red poppy in rememberance of those who died in service of our nation.

And because... because... uh, we really like our doughnuts, I guess, it will only be available at Tim Horton's for the next month, before being rolled out at our financial institutions.

Today we remember the 14 women murdered at École Polytechnique, murdered because they were women who dared enter a man's world.

If Canada were to outlaw e-mail spam, what penalty should violators receive?

I'm assuming the last option will still be leading when you take a look.

UPDATE: when I originally posted, "Death Penalty" was leading by a good margin, but now they've rephrased the question and replaced "Death Penalty" and "Life in Prison" with "Other, more severe penalties." And because it isn't as funny an exaggeration, it isn't leading anymore. The wankers. Probably some ninny with no sense of humour got offended.

Introducing... ROBOCOW!

Seriously though, it would be nice if it were that easy to detect and clean up surface and groundwater contamination. In actual fact, they only address fixing the problem, but not the cleanup in the animation; they equate remedying the cause with cleanup, which are two different things.

Encore, en Français... ROBOVACHE!

Supposedly, these questions about Canada were posted on an international tourism website.

1. Q: I have never seen it warm on Canadian TV, so how do the plants grow? (UK)

A: We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.

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