![]() ![]() ![]() As best I could tell, the idea was to just stand there and let the dogs do all the work while occasionally hitting the brakes to keep things from getting too nuts out there on the trail, but it's hard to say. Once outside, Cathérine began showing us the dogsledding basics on a sled that had no dogs attached to it. 14 books for those that love to laugh on your holiday gift list.22 works of nonfiction from around the world to watch for this fall.American comedian Dave Hill has Canadian roots - so he toured the country to learn about them.Hill is a comedian based in New York City. The result, he promises, is "the greatest Canada-based literary thrill ride of your lifetime." ( From Doubleday Canada) But now, inspired by a publisher's payment of several hundred dollars (Canadian) in cash, he has travelled all over the country, reconnecting with his heritage in such places as Montreal, Moose Jaw, Regina, Winnipeg, Merrickville and of course Clinton, Ontario, meeting a range of Canadians, touching things he probably shouldn't and having adventures too numerous and rich in detail to be done justice in this blurb. In later years he even visited Canada a couple of times. (That last part is a lie, but hopefully it makes the point that he was so into Canada that it was actually kind of weird.) And he was more vocal about the vast merits of the Canadian healthcare system than any nine-year-old you'd ever want to meet. Likewise, if a song by Triumph came on the radio, he'd be the first to ask for it to be cranked up as loud as it would go. Whenever bacon was served at home, he'd be sure to mention his preference for the Canadian variety. While his peers kept busy with football, basketball and baseball, hockey became the only sport for Dave. And every Sunday at dinner he'd remind Dave and anyone else within earshot that it was in fact Canada, this magical and mysterious land just across the mighty Lake Erie, that was the "best." His grandfather, you see, was from Canada (Clinton, Ontario, to be exact). The idea that their country is the "best." But this never stuck with Dave Hill, even though he was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. There's an idea most Americans tend to learn as children. ![]()
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