Tag Archives: Canada

Maple Leaf It Out

Admin at 11:30 am May 14, 2014

~~Dublin~~ Cork this morning.

Thanks Tadhg D

Where The Streets Have Names

Admin at 8:53 am April 7, 2014

Vancouver, Canada on Saturday.

Check the tax!

Thanks Padraic Ryan

Déjà Moose

Admin at 7:00 pm January 16, 2014

Sound familiar? #vancouver pic.twitter.com/ch902EMkD9

— Julian Fleming (@julianfleming) January 16, 2014

Tara Perkins (above) of Canada’s Globe and Mail has packed a parachute.

More Power to her.

Housing market edges toward soft landing (Tara Perkins, The Globe and Mail)

Phone Home

Admin at 7:15 pm July 15, 2013

Yikes.

Sinéad, from the Irish Brekkie Club Sydney (on tour) and in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, writes:

” Thought readers might like to feast their eyes upon this thing of kitsch beauty. Spotted the other day on Niagara on the Lake, Ontario. Anyone happen to know who made them originally or where they can be bought!?”

Make-Up Protectors Of 1939

Admin at 8:00 am January 29, 2013

As featured in Nationaal Archief’s photostream, these plastic face-cones debuted in Montreal Canada were apparently designed to keep one’s maquillage intact during snowstorms.

They never took off.

God knows why. They’re utterly fabulous.

woti/nagonthelake

Meanwhile, Near The CN Tower

Admin at 5:34 pm June 14, 2012

Niamh O’Doherty writes:

Thumbs up for the Boys in Green. From a very sunny Toronto.

If You Have A Problem, If No One Else Can Help…

Admin at 9:06 am May 9, 2012

…and if you can find them (they’re just north of America), maybe you can buy the T-shirt, eh?

bookofjoe

Meanwhile, In Canada’s Northwest Territories

Admin at 10:51 am April 13, 2012

Now, that‘s an aurora.

“I should have been sleeping, but I was like a kid in a candy store with excitement,” says photographer Dave Brosha. “Bloody hell, the north is a beautiful place.”