Posts By: Jim Squires

SmartCanucks Caption Challenge: Week 39

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We’ve talked about the inevitabil­ity of snow before in our Cap­tion Chal­lenge, but with how many cold days we’ve had this month it’s some­thing that’s on my mind even more. But these kids here?  They look like they’re more than pre­pared for the com­ing storm. …at least two of them do. Get on your parkas, break out your… Read more »

Municipal elections are popping up around the country — are you ready to vote?

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When most peo­ple think munic­i­pal elec­tions, their feel­ings are often best summed up by a big yawn fol­lowed by a quick nap.  Many Cana­di­ans are so dis­in­ter­ested in local pol­i­tics that they can’t even name their mayor, let alone their city or regional coun­cilors.  But you know what?  You should care about local pol­i­tics, because it’s… Read more »

SmartCanucks Caption Challenge: Week 40

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I’m all for the idea of cash’n’carry, but seri­ously dude — take a cou­ple of trips if you need to.  Some­thing tells me this car may have required a trip to the mechanic after this.  Some­thing else tells me that you can come up with an out­stand­ing cap­tion to post in the com­ments. I’m hop­ing… Read more »

SmartCanucks Caption Challenge: Week 38

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I don’t know about you, but now that the leaves are falling from the trees and the nuts are tum­bling down along­side them, my neigh­bour­hood has been com­pletely over­run by squir­rels.  No word of a lie, when I opened my front door this morn­ing I was able to count 8 of them as I looked… Read more »

Threadless t-shirts $10 this week

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The end­less parade of Thread­less sales marches on this week, as they’re offer­ing (almost) all of their t-shirts for $10!  Hood­ies are get­ting their own sale price too, hav­ing dropped to $30.  Sale ends on the morn­ing of 10/14.  Click here to check out what’s still available.

SmartCanucks Caption Challenge: Week 37

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With Thanks­giv­ing right around the cor­ner, I couldn’t help but post up this pic­ture of a Dis­ney fan devour­ing a Fron­tier­land turkey leg — and between the look on his face and the pres­ence of Chef Goofy, this one seems rife for the cap­tion­ing! As pop­u­lar as they are amongst park afi­ciona­dos, I just can’t imag­ine… Read more »

Neat Christmas Gift Ideas: Kodak “Share”

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Thanks to my involve­ment in the world of tech jour­nal­ism, I recently had the chance to spend some time with two new Kodak prod­ucts — both of which embrace the company’s new phi­los­o­phy of shar­ing. “Share” is a great buzz word for the photo indus­try, because it’s what most of us are look­ing to do… Read more »

Neat Christmas Gift Ideas: Franken Toys

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I was at a baby shower for some friends this past week­end, and while the end­less parade of cute clothes and reciev­ing blan­kets will no doubt see their use, there’s one present that truly stuck out.  It was a baby doll — but not just any baby doll.  This one was wear­ing a hat made… Read more »

The Wealthy Barber Returns!

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If you’ve never had a chance to read The Wealthy Bar­ber, you should prob­a­bly drop every­thing you’re doing right now and go hunt down a copy.  David Chilton’s 1989 book about per­sonal finance is the defin­i­tive guide to com­mon sense sav­ings, pay­ing down debt, and every­thing else the a money-conscious Smart­Canucker should know.  What’s more,… Read more »

Great Canadian Foods: Poutine

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Most of our dietary intake is made up of com­mon North Amer­i­can cui­sine — veg­eta­bles, pasta, Hot Pock­ets — the list goes on and on. But some of the things on our menu are dis­tinctly Cana­dian. Great Cana­dian Foods is a new weekly fea­ture on Smart­Canucks explor­ing the tastier side of Cana­dian liv­ing. The other… Read more »

Neat Christmas Gift Ideas: LEGO Board Games

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83 days until Christ­mas.  It may sound like a lot, but if you like get­ting a deal (and if you’re read­ing this, we know you do) then you’ll want to get your lists together early to keep an eye out for sales/clearances/other awe­some deals.  While “Neat Christ­mas Gift Ideas” may not save you any cash… Read more »

What are you giving out this Halloween?

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I know, I know..  The obvi­ous answer to this is “candy,” but don’t you want to be the one house on the block that does some­thing dif­fer­ent this year?  Some­thing hip and cool? There’s always the one house that gives out cans of pop and full size choco­late bars — and it’s pretty easy to become… Read more »

SmartCanucks Caption Challenge: Week 36

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This week’s cap­tion chal­lenge comes to us cour­tesy of the wild world of mut­ton bust­ing.  What’s mut­ton bust­ing, you might ask?  It’s kind of like bull-riding, but for kids …and on a sheep. Don’t be baa-shful.  Give us your best caption!

What are your kids dressing as this Halloween?

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With back to school barely behind us, Hal­loween cos­tumes and dec­o­ra­tions are already out in full force in every store imag­in­able.  Heck — some already have their Hal­loween cos­tumes on sale! Do your kids already have their trick-or-treat plans all set?  What are they plan­ning to go out as this Hal­loween?  How about you?

Great Canadian Foods: Ketchup Chips

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Most of our dietary intake is made up of com­mon North Amer­i­can cui­sine — veg­eta­bles, pasta, Hot Pock­ets — the list goes on and on. But some of the things on our menu are dis­tinctly Cana­dian. Great Cana­dian Foods is a new weekly fea­ture on Smart­Canucks explor­ing the tastier side of Cana­dian liv­ing. While it’s… Read more »

Free shipping on all hoodies at Threadless

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We all love the hip and occa­sion­ally silly cloth­ing designs at Threadless.com, but don’t you just hate to pay for ship­ping?  All this month any order with a hoodie in it will recieve free ship­ping.  One hoodie and ten t-shirts?  Free ship­ping.  2 hood­ies and an infant one­sie?  Free ship­ping.  Any­thing + hoodie?  Free ship­ping. The hood­ies… Read more »

Would you want the NFL in Canada?

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Week 2 of the NFL is well under­way, and as I set­tle in for a long after­noon of foot­ball and writ­ing, I can’t help but pon­der the future of foot­ball in Canada. The CFL has seen a big resur­gence in recent years.  In fact, not a sea­son has gone by in the last decade where… Read more »

Fun things to do with your free 3D glasses

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Tomor­row night, CBC will be host­ing a very spe­cial pre­sen­ta­tion of Queen Eliz­a­beth II’s 1953 coro­na­tion… in 3D! As a result, Canada Post’s across the coun­try are offer­ing free pairs of 3D glasses so you can enjoy the expe­ri­ence from the com­fort of your own home… but you knew that already, didn’t you? While check­ing… Read more »