Hello Canada! Happy Birthday! Yes, this weekend, on July 1, Canada will be 151 years old! This means that Monday will be a holiday across our great land (note to our US-based colleagues: we will be closed, please don’t phone). Barbecues and fireworks will abound! While last year I […]

During Prohibition, the US saw more than its fair share of speakeasies and alcohol for these joints was smuggled across the border courtesy of Canada (American friends, you are welcome!). Secret knocks, secret doors, secret handshakes and having to “know” someone was all part and […]