(Instructions: Start a note, cut-and-paste this, replace my answers with your own.)
Three names I go by:
Howdy Canada!
1. Canuck
2. The Great White North
3. North of 49
Three places I have worked:
1. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
2. Royal Canadian Mounted Police
3. Calgary Stampede
Three places I have lived:
1. 24 Sussex Drive
2. Military compound in Afghanistan
3. The North Pole
Three TV shows I watch:
1. Slings and Arrows
2. The Mercer Report
3. Corner Gas
Three places I have been:
Three people who e-mail me:
1. Michaëlle
2. Barack
3. Sasquatch
Three of my favorite foods:
1. poutine
2. maple syrup
3. Nanaimo Bars
Three things I would like to do:
1. Stop apologizing
2. Learn the Chicken Dance
3. Win the gold medal in hockey at the 2010 Winter Games
Three things I am looking forward to:
1. The first aboriginal Prime Minster
2. The Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games
3. The day that a Royal Winnipeg Ballet dancer make the same salary as a Vancouver Canucks goalie
March 8, 2009 at 4:36 am
Since you asked Julie, I will start you off in the East: Newfoundland and Labrador
Three names I go by:
1. The Rock (Newfoundland)
2. The Big Land (Labrador)
3. NL
Three places I have worked:
1. The Haunted Hike
2. Royal St. John’s Regatta
3. Woody Point Literary Festival
Three places I have lived:
1. Devon House Craft Centre
2. Anna Templeton Centre
3. Cabot Tower
Three TV shows I watch:
1. Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
2. This Hour has 22 Minutes
3. Land and Sea
Three places I have been:
1. Gros Morne
2. Happy Valley Goose Bay
3. Eastport
Three people who e-mail me:
1. Danny (Williams)
2. Damnhait (Doyle)
3. Michael (Crummey)
Three of my favorite foods:
1. fish and chips
2. tea buns
3. bread pudding
Three things I would like to do:
1. Stop begging
2. Teach people how to dance a jig
3. Repeat the gold medal win in curling at the 2010 Winter Games
Three things I am looking forward to:
1. People stop using the term Newf or Newfie to describe the people of the province
2. The 2010 JUNO Awards
3. Maintaining status as a have province!
March 8, 2009 at 8:30 am
Three things about my hometown (Caledon, nr Toronto, Ontario):
The forests where you still see deer.
The Caledon Hills.
The wealth of hiking trails.
March 9, 2009 at 9:48 am
Hi Julie,
Here’s my take on Ottawa…
Three names I go by:
1. Bytown
2. Ottawa-Hull (or Ottawa-Gatineau)
3. National Capital Region
Three places I have worked:
1. Parliament Hill
2. National Research Council
3. Canada Revenue Agency
Three places I have lived:
1. Rideau Hall
2. Earnscliffe (former home of John A.)
3. Laurier House
Three TV shows I watch:
1. Question Period on CTV
2. This Hour Has 22 Minutes
3. CPAC
Three places I have been:
1. Bar-hopping in the Byward Market
2. Cycling along 160K+ of paved trails
3. Snowshoeing in the Gatineau Hills
Three people who e-mail me:
1. Dan Aykroyd
2. Rich Little
3. Danny Williams (a lot)
Three of my favorite foods:
1. Kettleman’s bagels
2. BeaverTails
3. Steak-frites at Metropolitan Brasserie
Three things I would like to do:
1. Let my hair down
2. Stop taking abuse for everything the federal government does
3. Win the Stanley Cup
Three things I am looking forward to:
1. Getting light rail
2. Barack coming back
3. Spring
March 10, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Three things few outsiders realize about Vancouver’s West End:
1. It’s home to one of the world’s largest concentrations of gay men.
2. Denman Street has a crazy number of excellent, cheap, ethnic restaurants. My favourite? Banana Leaf Malaysian. 2nd place goes to Ma Dang Col Korean.
3. There are few through-streets. Streets were blocked off in the 70s, supposedly to stop prostitution. It seems to have worked!
March 19, 2009 at 5:00 am
Hey Julie, here are three things about Newfoundland and Labrador that are outstanding….not quite the whole “3″ list however
1) Whales and Bergs – this is where their paths cross
2)Cape Spear – the mostly easterly point in North America
3) Home to 2 UNESCO World Heritage sites – L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site – the only authenticated Viking site in North America and Gros Morne National Park – A journey to the center of the earth.