In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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And also - Pierre Trudeau served as the 15th prime minister of Canada (1968–1979 and 1980–1984).
Metrification ... Charter of Rights, making healthcare universal, "bringing the Constitution home" ... Trudeau was a busy guy.
Didn't realize he was the 15th.
He did a lot of good things. You forgot to mention making French the 2nd official language of Canada.
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Oh 
I forgot about that.
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Rue, don't worry about it. I just threw it into your list because I feel it is important.
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In our never-ending quest to clean up and organize our house after working like dogs for 35 years, I finally found a nice nearby metal recycler who speaks English and whose parking lot isn't so littered with metal scraps that I'm worried about puncturing a tire when I go there. So hubby, daughter and I loaded up the van with old metal window blinds, an old solid-iron axle from a 1920's(?) cart, a 6' decorative lamppost, and a lot of scrap that our former employee left with us when he left the state. All together, it was about 215 pounds of metal, and our backyard, breezeway and garage no longer look like a hillbilly's house.
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Been keeping an eye on puppy-wuppy; giving her the Denamarin med that the vet prescribed and feeding her simple food (boiled chicken scraps, broth*, with a little sweet potato mixed in ...* not that her kidneys are compromised but IMHO it's prolly a good idea to flush the system after a toxic(?) insult) ... she's still less likely to pop out of bed and spontaneously run around and play, more likely to crawl under the covers and be someone's "couch buddy"... but when she's doing something that she likes ... going for a walk, playing with her toys... she has all of her usual energy. Her appetite is back to normal, she's peeing normally for all the broth that she's getting, and her poop isn't gray so I think she's recovering. Will continue to give her meds and broth until followup blood tests show that she's back to normal.
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Yay! for the clean up Sig. I got a bunch of dead electronics around here that I would love to get rid of.
Also so happy that puppy is on the mend. That is good news. 
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Rain this evening here but predictions of 19C for next Monday and that is 68F to you all.
Celsius sounds so cold.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I know. Metric started coming when I was in elementary school. That's middle school to Americans. I have never gotten used to it. I had a hard enough time learning Imperial.
But the warm weather will be nice. Got my laundry done today went out with a winter coat on and when I got back, had to go out again but I was able to put on a sort of Spring jacket. Yay!
I wasn't aware of the history of metric in Canada.
I've said for decades now that the American school system has not only done its people a huge injustice by not teaching metric measurements to them when their kids, but I believe it was intentionally done to keep us from being competitive in the global market. There's really no other explanation for it. We're like the big retard of the world right now.
You get to be our ages and trying to learn metric units of measurement is almost as bad as trying to learn a foreign language. I've learned some minor things here and there when I've needed to, such as millimeter measurements for tools and such, but it's just about damn near impossible to visualize things like kilometers vs miles, and Celsius vs Fahrenheit when you've only known one for your whole life.
There's absolutely no denying that metric is the superior unit of measurement by leaps and bounds. But that didn't stop our teachers from only giving us about a week per year learning metric while focusing the rest of our learning on imperial, while at the same time beating it into our heads that we're superior to everybody else in the world in our social studies classes. It kind of subconsciously gave us the mentality that "so what that the rest of the world uses metric? We're better than everyone else and always will be."
At least, that's my take on it...
Cold again here for about 5 or six days. No spring coat for me. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It was brought in by the Federal Government under Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 1970. Then it was all across the country by 1971. So, I had just started elementary school learning Imperial then flipped to metric. My poor little brain had a hard time.
I could see that being very confusing for a kid. Depending on how old you were though, you probably had a much easier time than you would have doing it now. If science could ever figure out a way to safely allow adults to have the ability to learn like a child can, I suspect we'd all be living in a world that would make rapid advancements in IQ.
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I don't remember my social studies classes from elementary school. History classes were about Canada's place in the world and of course Canadian history. Explorers, meetings between First Nations people and explorers. Louis Riel and our first Prime Minister Sir John A. MacDonald.
"Social Studies", at least where I went to elementary school (1st through 6th grade) were basically just another name for History class. We'd talk about current events once a week with our Weekly Reader, but for the most part it was all about how great we were. It wasn't just that class either. Our "Music" class was mostly singing songs from a book, half of which were odes to America.
Somehow, in all that time, we couldn't find more than 1 week per year to learn Metric units of measurement though.
I've said many times that the only thing I ever learned in 12 years of public school that helped me at all in the real world was a one semester Keyboarding class I took. By the time I was looking for a job, I took a test at a temp agency and co
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So, I'm back in now. Stupid thread.
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Hi Jack,
I was around six or seven. School metric then at home and around my parents friends all Imperial.
I know we had social study classes, I just don't remember anymore what they were specifically about.
Assemblies we had to sing "God Save the Queen" and of course the national anthem. After that songs were a mix of things. Don't remember when I first learned pieces of "America the Beautiful". Hope that is the right title. Learned pieces of "God Bless America" from hearing Kate Smith sing it at the start of Philadelphia Flyers hockey games. *L*
Bummer for you. Rain is normal for BC, which is pretty much a whole temperate zone rainforest. So, I enjoyed the sun today(Monday) and will Tuesday and Wednesday. The weather site is now calling for rain only on Saturday which won't be so bad.
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Enjoy the dry!
Do you have a link for your area forecast? It would help me track your weather better and get a 'feel' for what it's like.
As for me, I'm enjoying retirement rain or shine. What I'm most enjoying is the time to FINISH what I start!
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