This week in Canada.

[Kenny Satch]

Larry Enticer comes up next when that viddy ends. Send it.

I'm seeing something else but here you go

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW4...b6RFVHLin7ALIQ

Larry Enticer's youtube page

[Diamond Joe]

I'll give it an "eh" for effort

haha I see what you did there

[riser4]

I'm seeing something else but here you go Larry Enticer's youtube page

Gonna be a good day.

[cmcrawfo]

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/m...otel-1.4479234

Ice hotel catches fire

[frorider]

https://jalopnik.com/nude-swimming-c...-hu-1822041267

Nude swimming club rents out water park, angry Canadians (?) make bomb threat etc

[liv2ski]

https://jalopnik.com/nude-swimming-c...-hu-1822041267

Nude swimming club rents out water park, angry Canadians (?) make bomb threat etc

Angry Canadians???? Well they are from Alberta, so that kinda makes sense. Good new is, by July they can all be happy.

[reckless toboggan]

[XXX-er]

Angry Canadians???? Well they are from Alberta, so that kinda makes sense. Good new is, by July they can all be happy.

they are angry at Rachel Notley cuz the oil industry went down the tubes when she got into office

If it was America these would be the same people who voted trump in

[reckless toboggan]

they are angry at Rachel Notley cuz the oil industry went down the tubes then she got into office

FIFY.

If it was America these would be the same people who voted trump in

Sad because it's true.

[iceman]

That was entertaining. You think the black guy a, wasn't that into it, b, isn't that talented or c, is doing better than I would since he's fucking freezing to death?

[reckless toboggan]

That was entertaining. You think the black guy a, wasn't that into it, b, isn't that talented or c, is doing better than I would since he's fucking freezing to death?

d) all of the above

[iceman]

That settles that. Thanks.

[BCMtnHound]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...tion-1.4495179

I can sympathize, I like DQ ice cream cakes for my b-day too.

[steff]

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/m...otel-1.4479234

Ice hotel catches fire

22 Minutes says they have a huge pool at the hotel now.

[riser4]

Sorry Canada, we can't seem to keep all the Nazi dickheads in DC or even down on our side of the border.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...ters-1.4489872

We will try to do better in the future.

[Kenny Satch]

Canada is having a good start
2-Gold 4-Silver 1-Bronze
7 in 5 days
Fruckin Eh Canada

Looking forward to all the Skatey-Punchy games

[XXX-er]

How cold is it in Canada? Too cold for penguins, Calgary Zoo decides

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...-penguins.html

Up here we measure it in Chelseas instead of Fahrenheit so its a different cold eh ?

[Kenny Satch]

. COCHRANE, Alta. - Wildlife officers in Alberta are investigating tips they've received after posting a photograph of a cougar carcass they say was illegally killed and abandoned in an area west of Calgary.

[liv2ski]

Well, being the tree hugger that I am, that makes me really sad. WTF would you shoot a young cat? Don't be where they could be if your going to be such a pussy killer.

[BCJC]

pussy killer.

Heh.

[BCMtnHound]

It's nigh on calving season, might have been predator control being a younger cat, but that is totally my speculation. When one does the 3 S's, don't skimp on the shovel part [emoji853]

[XXX-er]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkvP6LUxrWk

[swissiphic]

Update from drought and cold steeped Stewart B.C. Talkin' to Frank, the guy who's been here since the beginning of time; sez longest coldest winter in his living memory. Also, most sunshine hours during all the arctic blasts that he's ever seen.

[sb]

Vibes, we had a bout of it although not as long or severe.

We love Canuks.

[reckless toboggan]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43322232

Canada's homeless piano player dies at 46

The death of a homeless man who played piano on the street has struck a chord with many in the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta.

Ryan Arcand was used to the sounds of the city - cars honking, people shouting, the steady hum of traffic - while living on the street.

He died last week at the age of 46 after years of struggling with alcoholism, mental health and homelessness.

But the legacy of his music will live on.

A video of him playing a song he wrote on a piano in downtown Edmonton went viral on YouTube in 2014 with more than 11 million views.

Arcand was a member of the Alexander First Nation in Alberta and was placed in the foster-care system along with his brother at the age of three or four, family members told CBC. It was in foster care where the musician first found a piano in a basement.

"It was as though we were meant for each other," Arcand explained to the CBC shortly after the YouTube video went viral. "You're looking at the piano and you're falling in love with it."

He learned to play themes from television and movies by ear, and later began to write his own music.

At 13, he says he ran away to the city of Edmonton where he lived on the streets. Alcohol soon became the driving force in his life, but beneath the haze, his love of music persisted, he said.

He played on pianos in churches, hospitals and in Sir Winston Churchill square.

That was where Roslyn Polard discovered him one day, and took the video that would make him famous.

The song he played for her was appropriately called "The Beginning".

His newfound notoriety earned him the nickname "piano man" and helped get him into supportive housing. Polard used the money she made from the video to buy a piano for the housing complex's lobby so that he could play every day.

But he would soon begin shuffling between housing, the streets, jail and hospital for the next few years.

Soon he was barred from playing in Sir Winston Churchill square and many of his other regular spots after getting caught with open beer bottles.

"I've been drinking. It's terrible…I don't know what to do anymore," he told APTN television network in 2016 after a six-month stint in jail for petty crime.

"(My music) is a broken dream. A dream that could've been…There's no more hope out there for me, to be honest."

In mourning him, friends and family say they are remembering his character.

"In his best moments, he had a faith that really humbled me, as a priest," Rev Kris Schmidt, an associate priest at St Joseph's Basilica where Arcand sometimes attended church, told the CBC.

"When he wasn't drinking, he was a joy to have around."

His family will bury him on the Alexander First Nation this weekend.

"I find comfort in knowing his struggles that he went through, all that sadness ... is in the past," his cousin Chris Yellowbird told the CBC.