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On this day in 1885, the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia, and Canada was connected coast to coast by rail. One spike, one country, give or take a few time zones. 🚂🇨🇦

It's Saturday in Canada. The national agenda: one hardware store run, and saying "we should really get going" a full 45 minutes before anyone actually leaves. 🇨🇦

Did you know? 🇨🇦 The average Canadian household is never more than a short drive from a lake, a rink, or an argument about the Leafs. Only two of those are official statistics. (The lake one is real. Probably the rink one too.)

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Settle a Saturday question, Canada 🫎
A Timbits run counts as:
🟢 A legitimate outing
🔴 Groceries, technically
There are no wrong answers. There is one correct one.

Tell us you're Canadian without telling us you're Canadian. 🫎
We'll go first: "Sorry, let me just squeeze past ya there, bud."
Your turn. 👇

Canadian inventions, part 1: The snow blower. Invented in Montreal in 1925 by Arthur Sicard, who watched a threshing machine and thought "that, but for my driveway." You're welcome, every Canadian back ever. ❄️

It's November in Canada. Somewhere right now, a man is wearing shorts, a parka, and an expression that says "it's not that cold." He is lying. It is that cold. 🥶🇨🇦

Did you know? 🇨🇦 Canada has more lakes than every other country on Earth, COMBINED. Over 800,000 of them. We don't have a housing market, we have a dock market.

Spotted in the wild 🫎 Dempster's has released a limited edition Hot Chocolate & Marshmallow bagel. A real bagel. That tastes like hot chocolate.

So, Canada: are you buying these?
🟢 Obviously. Toasting one immediately
🔴 Hard pass. Bagels have gone too far

Defend your answer 👇

Settle this once and for all 🫎
Ketchup chips are:
🔴 An elite snack
🔴 The elite-est snack
(There is no third option. This is not a democracy, it's a fact-finding mission.)

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