Someone studying images from Google Earth found an unusual island in Canada. It sits in a lake, on a bigger island, in a bigger lake, on an even bigger island.

For the 1988 Olympics in Canada, the Torch was carried 11,222 miles from St. John's to Calgary: 5,088 by foot, 4,419 by aircraft or ferry, 1,712 by snowmobile, and three by dogsled.

Cartoonist Jeff Lemire's most Canadian memory? "Watching the Canadian men's hockey team win the gold medal at the 2014 Olympics in [Tragically Hip frontman] Gord Downie's hotel room in Timmins while drinking Tim Hortons coffee. I'm not making that up!"

In 2016, the town of Tisdale, in Saskachewan, Canada, changed the embarrassing slogan on the town's billboards to "Opportunity Grows Here." The old slogan? "Land of Rape and Honey." (Rape is short for rapeseed)

Quebec firemen racing to fight a hotel blaze in upstate New York in 2007 were detained so long at the Canada-US border that by the time they reached the hotel it had burned to the ground.

At a gala in 1972, Richard Nixon made a toast "to the future Prime Minister of Canada"—4-month-old Justin Trudeau.

During an interview in L.A., Alan Thicke recalled his youth in Ontario, "where your nose hairs freeze together 11 months of the year." The town "is proudest of having the deepest shaft in North America," he said, adding: "Whoever believes that has never done business in Hollywood."

When Mötley Crüe toured Canada in 1982, Vince Neil's spiked and studded onstage outfits were classified as "deadly weaponry" and confiscated at the border.

During the Halifax riots, a mob converged on Alexander Keith's brewery. He opened the doors—and the taps - and his brewery was the only local business that wasn't destroyed.