Ridiculously Canadian Headlines

It's hard work, but I wouldn't do anything else. That's why you'll rarely see me complain about my job.

 

Piglets overrun Trans-Canada Highway after truck rolls


BY EMMA GRANEY, LEADER-POST OCTOBER 6, 2015 7:28 PM

http://www.leaderpost.com/news/pigl...highway+after+truck+rolls/11418166/story.html

 

A Canadian Lake Has Fallen Off a Cliff

http://www.newser.com/story/217555/a-canadian-lake-has-fallen-off-a-cliff.html

 

B.C. man accused of ramming police cruiser, trying to escape by kayak

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The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, December 29, 2015 11:09PM EST
SICAMOUS, B.C. - The RCMP have recommended more than two dozen charges against a man who tried to run from police using a kayak following a routine traffic stop near Sicamous, B.C.

Mounties say 35-year-old Justin Daniels put a pick-up truck he was driving in reverse and rammed a police cruiser that had pulled him over before driving away early Monday morning.

Officers from Salmon Arm located the vehicle abandoned along nearby Mara Lake and followed footprints in the snow to the water's edge, where the driver launched a kayak using his hands instead of a paddle.

Police then found tracks in the snow on the far side of the lake and followed them to a nearby garage, where they found and arrested Daniels.

They say he was suffering from hypothermia but was otherwise uninjured.

Daniels faces multiple charges, including theft for stealing a kayak, assault, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, break and enter and 19 counts of mail theft.

 

Two Teens Die After Sneaking Onto Olympic Bobsled Track And Trying To Sled On It

http://deadspin.com/two-teens-die-a...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Last night, eight teens snuck into Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park (where the 1988 Winter Olympics were held) with a sled, and crashed while trying to take it down the bobsled track. According to emergency services personnel, they crashed into a wall separating the luge and bobsled tracks, and two twins died at the park, while the remaining six were taken to hospitals. They were 17 years old. Ontario’s London Free Press has some details:

Police and paramedics were called around 1:30 a.m. to the WinSport facility to respond to several people injured on the closed track.

“It’s believed at least eight teenagers, all males, entered the property after hours and used a personal sled or toboggan in an attempt to go down the bobsled track,” said Staff Sgt. Paul Wyatt.

The track, as the Free Press notes, is almost 1500 meters long, and its curves exert a maximum force of 4.5 g’s on bobsledders. That’s a lot for anyone to handle, let alone some kids in the dark on a sled they brought from home.

 

Saw that. What a terrible way to go.

 

Baby concussed after being accidentally hit by puck tossed by P.K. Subban
by Mark Millard Feb 22, 3:52 PM


Eric Bolte-USA TODAY Sports
What was an exciting day for many Montreal Canadiens' fans turned into a scary ordeal for one particular family.

On Sunday, 17,000 fans packed the Bell Centre in Montreal to watch the team's open practice. Canadiens' players circled the ice and threw pucks into the stands for children. However, a puck tossed by star defenseman P.K. Subbanaccidentally struck a 1-month-old baby in the head.

The baby girl, Beatrice, suffered a concussion, and was released from hospital on Monday, according to Sportsnet's Eric Engels. She's expected to fully recover, according to hermother, Valerie Meloche.


(Courtesy: Facebook)

Meloche thanked fans via Facebook who came to the aid of her daughter immediately following the incident.

Canadiens vice president of communications, Donald Beauchamp, indicated that members of the organization visited the family in hospital. He also said Subban is planning to apologize to the family, even though he isn't directly to blame for the incident.

"I can tell you, P.K. is really excited to meet the family and hold the little one in his arms," Beachamp told TVA.

The family was invited to a game later this season, Engels added, and accepted the invitation.

 

Dildo Bus May Not Be Best Idea for Students with Mobility Issues, says MHA
Monday , March 7 2016 | 9:06:13 AM





The MHA for Placentia-St. Mary's isn't so sure that the school board is going about things the right way in closing Whitbourne Elementary and busing children to Dildo.

Sherry Gambin Walsh, who used to be the executive director of the Association for Community Living before the election, wants the school board to look at the situation through the lens of a person in a wheelchair.


She doesn't like the idea of children with mobility issues having to use a different entrance than other students at Woodman Elementary in Dildo.

http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?mn=2&id=60971&latest=1

 

Man hijacked bus, forced it to stop at Tim Hortons, police say

http://m.thestar.com/#/article/news/gta/2016/03/18/man-arrested-after-forcing-bus-to-skip-stops.html

 

Their coffee is meh.

 

Tim Horton is pretty mediocre, all around. That guy needs to be deported to north Ontario with the natives

 

Here we have two junior hockey teams—the Flin Flon Bombers in white, and the Weyburn Red Wings in red—getting into a postgame brawl because one of the Red Wings players tried to make off with a severed moose leg that was tossed onto the ice by Bombers fans. A moose leg!

Hucking a moose leg onto the ice is, for some reason, a tradition of sorts for Bombers fans. Get it together, Canada.

 

Shit a moose leg can be like 100-200 lbs

 

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/philpott-un-marijuana-legislation-legalize-1.3544554

 

Moose caught on video 'watching' news in Alberta


Extended: Curious moose peeks into Alberta home

Josh Elliott, CTVNews.ca

@joshelliott14


Published Tuesday, April 26, 2016 12:11PM EDT
A man in rural Alberta says he spent the first few months of the year watching the news in the company of a herd of moose, and capturing it all on video.

Pierre Bolduc says he has several hours of footage of moose standing outside the window of his living room, recorded between January and March of this year. Bolduc says the moose have grown comfortable approaching his home, and he frequently records them while the evening newscast is running on TV.

An online video of one of these encounters shows a moose calmly munching at a pile of hay by the window, while a news anchor can be heard speaking about the Edmonton Oilers.


A moose looks through the window of a Bragg Creek, Alta. home in this image from video.

"It was completely set up that way," Bolduc told CTVNews.ca on Tuesday. He explained that he leaves hay by the window to draw the moose to his property. Bolduc says he's had up to seven moose present at one time at his home near Bragg Creek, Alta.

On one occasion, Bolduc says a moose acted like a "guard dog," blocking a visitor from approaching the home. Bolduc had to shoo the animal away before the visitor could approach the house, he said.

And if watching the news with a moose doesn't sound Canadian enough, Bolduc says he also hauls old logs down to a creek nearby, so the beavers living on his property can use the wood to build dams.

Bolduc says the moose haven't been around as often, now that spring has arrived.

 

How about ridiculously Canadian pictures?

 

Also: http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE7573RN20110608

Flying bear kills two Canadians in freak accident
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Two Canadians died instantly in a freak accident when a car hit a 440-pound (200-kg) black bear and sent the animal flying straight through the windshield of an oncoming vehicle, local media said Wednesday.

The bear's body hit the 25-year-old driver and a 40-year-old man sitting behind her and then shot out of the back window. The bear also died.

The accident happened Monday night in a rural area about 25 miles north of the federal capital Ottawa.

"We don't see (this) often, even if we live in the country. Lots of deer, but collisions with a bear and two people died? That's really rare," local police spokesman Martin Fournel told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Collisions between vehicles and animals are common in Canada, which has a healthy population of large wild animals such as moose and deer.

 

As is tradition (it's more of a French Canadian thing but everywhere you do see this)

 

probably deserves its own thread

but this fire in Alberta is awful

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/eagles-of-death-metal-concert-man-ear-1.3574009

This band is really bad news

Part of man's ear bitten off at Eagles of Death Metal concert

 

Crow swoops into crime scene and tries to steal knife identified as evidence

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/26/crow-steals-knife-canada-crime-scene-car-explosion

 

https://www.buzzfeed.com/paulmcleod...ality-is-legal?utm_term=.fud30gJq2#.bdgRP7gQn


Bestiality is legal in Canada as long as no penetration is involved, according to a shocking Supreme Court of Canada ruling Thursday.

 

Holy fuck at what those sick fucks held to be legal......

The case before the Supreme Court involved a man who sexually abused his teenaged stepdaughters. On multiple occasions he forced them to put peanut butter over their genitals so the family dog would lick it off.

This is now quasi legal in Canada.

 

Creepy semi-abusive version of this:

 

Also, is this for real what judges wear in Canadia?

 

Montreal dad, David Freiheit, used some floss, granola, and a wild squirrel to extract his daughter's tooth in a park. By wrapping some floss around a piece of granola and tightly securing the loose tooth on the other end, the two patiently waited it out until a hungry squirrel sprang the trap.

"For the first time, in the history of human kind, we pulled a tooth using a live squirrel!" -- David

 

Happy Canada Day! enjj

 

http://montrealgazette.com/news/loc...ng-fish-to-customer-who-was-severely-allergic

Police arrested a young restaurant employee in Sherbrooke Wednesday after he served salmon tartare to a customer who was severely allergic.

The 22-year-old was released on a promise to appear in court at a later date.

Sherbrooke police say a man ordered beef tartare at a local restaurant and specified numerous times to a waiter that he was allergic to both seafood and salmon.

A short time later, police say a plate of salmon tartare was brought to the table and the patron took a bite, unaware of what he’d been served because the lighting had been dimmed.

The client fell ill and was hospitalized for several weeks, even falling into a coma for two days and suffering cardiac arrest.

Martin Carrier of the Sherbrooke Police says he realizes the case is an unusual one, but notes the definition of criminal negligence in the Criminal Code allows for an arrest if there was carelessness or lack of action to ensure the health and safety of others.

Carrier says the waiter allegedly didn’t take any notes and the victim repeatedly warned the staffer about the allergy to ensure there wasn’t any cross-contamination in the kitchen.

They also searched his home on Wednesday in Sherbrooke, about 150 kilometres east of Montreal.

Police are recommending a criminal negligence charge, but Carrier says it will be up to Quebec’s director of criminal and penal prosecutions to determine whether charges will be laid.

Sherbrooke police opened an investigation on July 28 after receiving a formal complaint.

 

I wish he'd died.

 

Is there something we should know here?

 

You're deadly allergic, you don't bring your epipen (such a pain to carry it from the car), and don't check out the food you receive. And now you're suing the server? The server is facing time in jail for a mistake he made while your self-centered POS ass is what got you in that situation in he first place.

Can't believe there might be a trial for this. I've never made that mistake so far in my career, but hundreds of orders are punched every night, with just as many tables having allergies as not, and you could ruin someone's life for a mistake he made while you took absolutely no precaution to prevent such a mistake? Those guys represent everything that is wrong with our society.

 

Btw, this is maling the rounds around Quebec, but the customer is suing the waiter. Big debate on the Facebooks.

 

i have a shellfish allergy. i have never brought an epipen to a restaurant before. always let the waiter know and have never had a problem. but i wouldn't sue unless i thought there was intent. also sounds like his allergy is waaaaaay worse than my though

 

The article stated the guy repeatedly warned/questioned the waiter about the allergy? Obviously in hindsight he probably should have investigated what's on his plate but if he indeed warned the waiter multiple times he probably thought he was in the clear.

 

If I'm as worried about it as this guy apparently was, I have an epipen and I check what I eat. I don't just order and then 15 minutes later stop worrying and pop shit in my mouth

 

I agree with that. I just don't agree that he did absolutely nothing and that the blame solely falls on his shoulders.

 

The other side of the story has started to come out in the news here.

 

It might've been his third time, it's floating around that he might've tried to get money from two other restaurants. One in France. He denies it..

 

Yeah, he's a piece of shit.