This week in Canada.

[reckless toboggan]

This Week in Canada...

Giant mushroom find makes Thanksgiving tastier for Vancouver couple

https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/ne...couple-248207/

A Vancouver couple has a little something — actually something quite large — to be thankful for this year.
On a recent mushroom-picking trip, Olya Kutsiuruba and David Swab found a giant king bolete mushroom.
The fungus weighed 2.92 kilograms, and measured about 36 centimetres wide across the cap.

Kutsiuruba says it's the first time she and Swab found such a huge mushroom, but this year has been a particularly good one.
She says she loves going mushroom picking, and it is part of her Ukrainian heritage.
Kutsiuruba says she looks forward to making old favourite dishes as well as trying new ones with the mushrooms she's picked this year.

[riser4]

I am truly curious about the taste and texture of that giant shroom. Tough and fibrous?

[XXX-er]

i've eaten giant puff ball that big

[grinch]

*next

[riser4]

Is Poste Canada gonna be able to handle all that in a timely fashion?

[Gcooker]

Is Poste Canada gonna be able to handle all that in a timely fashion?

They've been doing it for years already, shouldn't be much of a stretch.
The interesting thing right now is that Canada Post is in the midst of contract negotiations, it would be hilarious if they went on strike Oct. 17.

[riser4]

They've been doing it for years already, shouldn't be much of a stretch.
The interesting thing right now is that Canada Post is in the midst of contract negotiations, it would be hilarious if they went on strike Oct. 17.

I guess it depends on your definition of 'timely'.

[Kenny Satch]

Is Poste Canada gonna be able to handle all that in a timely fashion?

That's why they bought Purolator

[riser4]

That's why they bought Purolator

What does a counter top coffee machine have to do with this?

[Kenny Satch]

What does a counter top coffee machine have to do with this?

Espresso delivery ?

[reckless toboggan]

Espresso delivery ?

Espresso delivery is more expensive than the normal delivery time.

[Kenny Satch]

Espresso delivery is more expensive than the normal delivery time.

Because it's double-double?

[riser4]

It still takes over two weeks to mail a letter from VT to NB.

[Kenny Satch]

It still takes over two weeks to mail a letter from VT to NB.

So what do you wait 2 weeks before mailing it ?

[riser4]

So what do you wait 2 weeks before mailing it ?

Heh. No. Two weeks for it to be delivered once I hand it to USPS. It wasn't much faster the time we mailed from Pike River, not too far over the border.

[Kenny Satch]

It wasn't much faster the time we mailed from Pike River, not too far over the border.

Weird. My wife sends birthday cards to Montreal and they get there in about 2 days maybe 3

[reckless toboggan]

Weird. My wife sends birthday cards to Montreal and they get there in about 2 days maybe 3

Yah. It's about the same when your wife gives me my birthday present every year.

[yeahman]

This Week in Canada...

Montrealer finds forgotten lottery ticket worth $1.75M in an old jacket

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/montrealer...124400117.html

Damn that guy got lucky twice. Hope he gave his sister half!

[reckless toboggan]

This Week in Canada...

Canadians Smoke a Lot of Pot Now. When It’s Legal, How Will the Culture Change?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/w...ana-legal.html

Up on the third floor of a commercial building near the city’s edge is a vision of Canada’s future.
To the sound of throbbing music, hundreds of people jockey around the marijuana-infused products laid out for sale in a pop-up cannabis market. Marijuana cinnamon buns. Marijuana cereal bars and gluten-free cookies. Marijuana foot scrub, bath bombs, lip chap. Marijuana mixed nuts, marijuana sour keys and marijuana cherry tarts.
Amid a haze of smoke, from people taking hits of cannabis distillate from “rigs,” or high-tech bongs, sits a portable Tim Hortons coffee urn, offering shoppers a cannabis version of the classic Canadian beverage — a double double, or double cream and double sugar — infused with tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical that causes a high.

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But the pop-up cannabis market — where everything will remain illegal until next year, when the sale of cannabis-infused edibles and other products becomes legal — beckons larger questions about how cannabis will change the culture of Canada, a country known for multiculturalism, maple syrup, hockey, saying sorry and perhaps soon, its high-grade bud. Will it turn polite and slightly reserved Canadians into laid-back, summery people?

Already, Canadians smoke a lot of pot.
Statistics collected by the national census bureau reveal that 42.5 percent of Canadians have tried marijuana and around 16 percent have used it over the past three months. A 2013 Unicef reportfound that among people ages 15 to 24, one-third had consumed cannabis in the previous three months — making Canadian youth the biggest partakers in the world.

[iscariot]

Heh.

They have socialized healthcare up in Canada. The whole country is 100% full of pot smoking pro-athlete alcoholics.

[Kenny Satch]

Heh.

They have socialized healthcare up in Canada. The whole country is 100% full of pot smoking pro-athlete alcoholics.

Where you getting your information from. Fox news ?
Scott doesn't smoke pot.
If he did he won't be such an asshole. F'n Scott

[grinch]

Who’s Scott? That Dave’s brother?

[iscariot]

Fuckin Scott, man.

[Meanfruit]

Chic Scott? I could see him blazing a trail.

[reckless toboggan]

Fuckin Jerry, man.