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Given that its Canada Day and all, I thought I'd be a proud Canadian and list some of the best thing about the country I call Home...

  • Poutine - INVENTED IN MONTREAL. The must have food.
  • Hockey
  • Free Health Care (Yeah, it's kinda great. Thanks Tommy Douglas)
  • McGill
  • Coloured Money (its not confusing)
  • The Loonie
  • MOOSE (and LOONS!)
  • Meat Pie
  • Beavers. They're just cool.
  • Two official languages
  • Celine Dion. (Guys she can sing. Like actually).
  • Blackberry and RIM
  • The telephone was invented here...
  • Drinking Age of 19 (or 18)
  • EH?
  • Sam Roberts
  • Newfies
  • Tim Hortons
  • Montreal Bagels!
  • Maple Syrup
  • Winter Carnival
  • Montreal, Toronto and the GTA
  • Red-sand Beaches in PEI
  • Winter
  • Nanaimo Bars
  • Skittles and Smarties
  • We invented Basketball and Superman. Hell yeah.
  • the War of 1812
  • Hudson's Bay Company
  • Arcade Fire (won a Grammy)
  • Call Me Maybe - is by Canadian Carly Rae Jepsen, and written by one too
  • We've won the most gold medals at any olympics by any country EVER
  • Deadmau5
  • Metric
  • Osheaga Music Festival
  • Shania Twain
  • Some of the best comedians come from Canada: Jim Carrey, John Candy, Mike Myers
  • Tokyo Police Club are from my home town
  • Lumberjacks
  • Milk in Bags
  • Wayne Gretzky
  • Canadian Tire Money
  • The phrase "I AM... CANADIAN" (thanks Molson!)
  • Mounties
  • Frederick Banting and Insulin
  • Terry Fox
  • LIGHTS, Drake and Other Toronto artists...
  • We gave you JBiebs, you are WELCOME.
  • Still have a Queen (technically)
  • Anne of Green Gables
  • Everyone knows at least one NHL Player
  • Mr. Dressup - a childhood classic
  • Teletoon and Much Music - my adolescence
  • Everything is filmed here...
  • The Commonwealth
  • Robertson Davies (love his books)
  • Joni Mitchell
  • The Guess Who
  • CANADA DAY!
  • Our flag is awesome
  • Roots
  • Smoked Meat Sandwiches
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