'SMART CART'. Coming to a Store Near You... (VIDEOS)

Isn't there an app for that? ;)

If you haven't heard by now, Canadian grocery chain, Sobeys, is creating something that is said to be the first of its kind in Canada. It's called the Smart Cart and no, it is not a substitution for workers of the human kind. At least, so it has been said. I'll believe it when I see it. I'm still trying to avoid self-check outs just for that sole purpose.

In the meantime, check out (get it?) more in the video below...

And if all that isn't good enough for your lazy ass for you, perhaps a Drive-thru supermarket is more up your 'aisle'. ...

Still ain't cuttin' it? Then this autonomous supermarket on wheels should do the trick...

VIDEO: Coronavirus outbreak: Canadian travellers scramble to get home; provinces announce school closures

Don't travel if you don't have to people! And for goodness sakes, wash your hands!...

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Abigail Bimman reports on the scramble of Canadian travellers to get back home as the federal government prepares to escalate its response against the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus, Heather Yourex-West looks at the tough measures provinces are taking to keep people safe.

Government of Canada: Avoid ALL TRAVEL on CRUISE SHIPS

We know you all have plans and looking forward to that cruise but is your health or your family's health worth it? ...

If an outbreak of COVID-19 occurs on your cruise ship:

• you could be subject to quarantine procedures, on-board ship or in a foreign country
• the range of consular services available to those on cruise ships, in particular in situations of quarantine, may be significantly restricted by local authorities

Read more: Canada

VIDEO: Tax scammers traced back to India (Marketplace)

I've gotten the phone call before. Have you?...

Scammers are stealing millions of dollars from Canada by claiming to be from the Canada Revenue Agency in telephone calls. We trace the calls back to illegal call-centres in India and meet a former employee and local police who say the RCMP isn’t doing enough to stop the perpetrators.

VIDEO: Here's what's in your bottled water (Marketplace)

We've been waiting for a video like this, ever since reading about microplastics in our bottled water.
Companies are making money off of us for something they're selling that's contaminated and like the rest of Canada, we're not happy about it. Perhaps it's time to ditch the bottled water in favour of something easily abundant around us - and free. Tap water anyone?...

Ever wonder what's lurking in your bottled water? Marketplace asked a lab to test five of the top-selling brands of bottled water in Canada, and microplastics were found in all of them.

VIDEO: Cold in Canada - parody (I Froze My Brain up in Canada)

Cold in Canada. A tribute to all the freezing cold Canadians.

... to the tune of Toto - Africa.

Read more: 'I froze my brain up in Canada': Manitoban's parody song about the cold sees thousands of views | CBC News

VIDEO: Blood Water. B.C.'s Dirty Salmon Farming Secret

Bloody waste was captured on film by a B.C. photographer who went underwater to document the shocking discovery being spewed out into the waters off Vancouver Island from a farm-salmon processing plant...

Investigative dives at two farmed salmon processing plants reveal a shocking and horrendous secret hidden below the surface.
Bloody effluent, untreated and infected with Piscine Reovirus, is being dumped into the pristine waters of Clayoquot Sound and Discovery Passage, B.C. Canada.
Footage gathered during April, June and October, 2017

This is an international embarrassment to Canada! 

Write to:

Premier John Horgan (premier@gov.bc.ca) 

Prime Minister Justine Trudeau (justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca) 

Tell them the B.C. salmon aquaculture industry MUST transition to land.

Inside Canada’s largest privately-owned nuclear fallout shelter (Facebook Video)

"... some things last and some things don't. ... we got these big jugs of V8 juice and after they got 10 years old they went completely black and so I drank a whole jug of V8 juice that was black and over 10 years old. You know, it didn't hurt me. It didn't taste good but I could drink it. And if you're starving that's the difference maybe between life and death."

Great featured article from the National Post, 

How a Canadian built a DIY nuclear bunker from 42 buried buses and plenty of concrete

Fires, floods, thieves, rodents: The elderly couple has survived all manner of calamity in recent weeks, except for the one disaster they have actually been preparing for over the past 50 years — a nuclear war. Beach is the founder of Ark Two, a privately owned, 10,000-square-foot nuclear fallout shelter, sunk beneath several metres of concrete and soil on a 12.5 acre parcel of land near his home. And, yes, the 83-year-old is accustomed to being dismissed as a “kook.”
But maybe he’s onto something. - National Post

Inside Canada’s largest privately-owned nuclear fallout shelter
Tour a DIY nuclear bunker made from 42 buried buses and plenty of concrete. http://bit.ly/2yrSdn9
Posted by St. Catharines Standard on Monday, October 16, 2017

H/T: stcatharinesstandard-facebook 

Read more: nationalpost

VIDEO: Racist Woman yelling and demanding to see a white doctor born in Canada.

This racist incident close to home is making its rounds on social media...

CBC News Toronto:

'This is bad, this is inappropriate and shouldn't go unnoticed,' says witness who shot video 

A Mississauga, Ont., man is stunned after witnessing and filming a woman make several demands for a "white doctor" who "doesn't have brown teeth" and "speaks English" at his local walk-in clinic on Sunday.
Hitesh Bhardwaj recorded the incident while waiting for his own appointment at Rapid Access to Medical Specialists in Mississauga, Ont. He shared his video with CBC News. 

Extremely rude and racist woman openly asking to see a white doctor who doesn't have brown teeth, who is born in Canada and who can speak English. Incident happened at around 12:30 PM on June 18, 2017 at Rapid Access to Medical Specialists (Clinic) in Mississauga, Canada

WATCH: Sea Lion Unexpectedly Drags Girl into Water at Vancouver-area Wharf

That's one huge sea lion - and it all happened so fast! The sea lion dragged a young girl into the waters at the Steveston Fisherman's Wharf in Richmond, B.C.
Thankfully, as you'll see, the little girl was rescued immediately.

Initially, after watching the video, we were curious as to why the sea lion showed an interest in the girl but discovered later (after reading the CBC news article), that it probably thought her dress was food!
According to SFU student Michael Fujiwara, the guy who captured it on video, the family began feeding it bread crumbs as the young girl got closer to the edge of the dock.

Andrew Trites, the director of UBC's Marine Mammal Research Unit, does not blame the animal for its behaviour in the video, according to another CBC news article:

"My first reaction to the video is just how stupid some people can be to not treat wildlife with proper respect," he said. "This was a male California sea lion. They are huge animals. They are not circus performers. They're not trained to be next to people." 

According to Canada's Marine Mammal Regulations, "no person shall disturb a marine mammal except when fishing." 

Trites says the sea lion in the video looks like it is used to having people feed it.

As a result of the incident...

New signs going up in #steveston #sealions #warning pic.twitter.com/J8c4V2djrm

— Meera Bains (@Meerakati) May 21, 2017

It's a good thing it didn't bite her when it dragged her in because their bites "can cause very serious infections that may lead to amputation of a limb or even death."

Source(s): cbc.ca

VIDEO | EMOTIONAL: Real estate agent visits her flooded (Ottawa) home for the first time

Not something you see every day. Very shocking and sad. Can you imagine walking into your home after a flood and seeing this?...

It's a raw reaction for homeowners as they walk through their flooded home in Ottawa suburb.

Vimy Ridge: 360 with Peter Mansbridge (+ Myths and CounterMyths)

Explore Vimy Ridge 100 years after the historic First World War battle that helped define Canada as a nation.

To watch 360° videos, you need the latest version of Chrome, Opera, Firefox, or Internet Explorer on your desktop or laptop computer. On mobile devices, use the latest version of the YouTube app.

The Battle of Vimy Ridge's myths and countermyths

The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a great triumph for a young Canada—and it didn't take long for myths to form after the fight.

The New $10 Banknote from Bank of Canada Marking the 150th Anniversary of Confederation (Video Playlist)

Update: When visiting the Bank of Canada's webpage, on the new Canadian commemorative bank note, enter the famous Konami Code (up, up, down, down, left-right, left-right, b-a start), combination using the arrows on your keyboard, to reveal an 8-bit rendition of "O Canada" accompanied by a downpour of the new $10 bills!

There will be 40 million of these commemorative bank notes issued, starting in June - a bit more than enough for all of us Canadians to have one...

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance Ginette Petitpas Taylor today unveiled a commemorative $10 bank note celebrating the 150th anniversary of Confederation. This special note—showcasing our history, land and culture—was revealed during a ceremony at the Bank’s head office in Ottawa. It will enter into circulation on 1 June.

“This bank note is intended to captivate our imagination and instill pride in what we, as a nation, have accomplished,” said Governor Poloz. “It celebrates the natural beauty and majesty of our land and some of the important parliamentarians who helped shape our great country.”

The intricately designed note is unique in many ways. For the first time, four individuals are portrayed on the front of a Canadian bank note: Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir George-Étienne Cartier, Agnes Macphail and James Gladstone or Akay-na-muka—his Blackfoot name.

Unveil of the Canada 150 commemorative bank note - Speech 

Governor Stephen S. Poloz and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance Ginette Petitpas Taylor reveal a commemorative bank note that pays tribute to Canada’s 150th anniversary of confederation.

Source(s): bankofcanada

CANADA RANKED 2ND BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IN 2017 | Daily Hive

What?? We beat out Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, Singapore...??!? Way to go C-A-N-A-D-A!!🍁❤️️

The study, conducted by U.S. News in partnership with Y&R’s BAV and Wharton, gives Canada the number two ranking on a list of 80 countries, only trailing this year’s #1 country, Switzerland.

VIDEO: You know you've got a lot of snow when a snowman's as big as your house

... and you still got lots to build another one!

"Giant snowman takes over family's yard in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Video captured by our own Nathan Coleman after nor'easters battered the east coast for a full week."

YAY! WE WON! WE CAN ALL GO BACK TO BED NOW - NOT! PLUS SOME OLYMPICS FACTS

Yay! We Won!

2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics CANADA
Photo: Michael Francis McCarthy

Yes, it’s finally over, and after getting up in the ungodly hours of 7am on a Sunday morning, (uhm, not me, just the rest of Canada), to watch the game, the partying has just begun and the memories… well, they’ll be going on forever. And from a non-hockey sports fan point of view, this was another great moment in time when waking up to hear “We won the game 3-0”, made me all giddy and wanting to rewind, relive and research the moment over and over again.

All teams gave it their best, I even thought the Americans played great, (from the bits I’ve managed to watch here and there), but who the hell am I and what the hell do I know about hockey? In the end, somebody had to win and that happened to be CANADA – YAY!! Now hockey will be even more embedded into Canada’s identity as a nation.

When it’s all said and done, Canada won not because of pure luck or good timing but because of an amazing show of solid team work with, (as one site puts it), a ferocious commitment to defense and discipline.

Here are some firsts for Canada, then and now: