Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been having some major technical problems on Smart Canucks. After spending loads of hours fixing and patching things with the help of my friend David, we were able to bring things back to normal!
I’m back to blogging about hot deals and freebies daily 😀
The “Submit a Deal or Freebie” form is also working now so if you come across good deals, coupons or freebies please don’t hesitate to let me know 😉
I’m very excited to launch a special contests blog after months of design, implementation and preparation 😀
Click here to visit the new contests blog
A very special thank you to MissScrooge who spent hours designing this blog and coming up with creative ideas. I’m also very excited to have the expert contester RoseofBlack. She will be sharing contests and her knowledge and experience with you. A couple of contest gurus will also be joining our editorial team soon.
I hope you find the Canadian Contests Blog useful and may the luck of the Irish be there with you 😀
Click here to visit the new contests blog
I’m delighted to announce that Smart Canucks now has a new blog that will be dedicated to technology and electronics deals.
The new blog will be run by my friend David and me. Deals in the electronics and tech world change pretty fast and you’ll notice that good deals will expire in a day or two if not hours. So make sure you visit more frequently and if you come across a good deal please do let us know!
We’d also love to get your feedback and comments. What would you like to see in the new tech deals blog? How can we make it better?
Click here to visit the new Tech Deals Blog
Here’s the RSS FEED for the new Tech Deals Blog
Do you have a son, daughter, grandchild, sibling, nephew, niece or cousin that was born June 2006 or after?
If you do, they could win the Smart Canucks Cute Baby Contest and receive a prize.
Click here for instructions on entering the contest
LAST DAY TO SUBMIT A PIC: MARCH 15, 2008
Prizes
1st
Lancome Bonus Kit (worth ~$104)
Kit contains:
2nd
A pendant (Sapphire & diamond accent)-gold plated sterling
(worth ~$45)
3rd
2 hand knitted Baby blankets courtesy of Julie (worth more than $40)
Dedicated to Autism Awareness.
4th
Alfred Sung Silver Bracelet (worth $20).
5th
Jeweled mini photo frame from Carlton Cards (worth $16).
6th
Jeweled mini photo frame from Carlton Cards (worth $16).
8th
$10 Shoppers Drug Mart Gift Catd
9th
$10 Shoppers Drug Mart Gift Card
11th – 15th
SmartCanucks.ca Fridge Magnet
Click here for instructions on entering the contest
The blog’s commenting system is now up and running again 🙂
We tried to recover as many lost comments as possible. If your comment still doesn’t show I’m sorry you’ll have to post it again. Things are working perfectly fine now.
If you’ve left a comment on one of the posts here on SmartCanucks.ca and it hasn’t shown I’m very sorry about that. For some reason, most comments are getting marked as spam even if they’re not. I’m working on fixing this right now.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Update: Problem still not fixed. Sorry guys
Update2: Commenting system fixed 🙂
J’aimerais vous inviter à visiter le nouveau blog français de SmartCanucks.
Je m’appelle alajen et je vais essayer de remplir cette nouvelle section de belles offres, coupons et échantillons gratuits (freebies) pour partager avec nos amis francophones. Je suis un nouveau parent et j’adore mon bébé (comme tous les parents). Mes passe-temps préférés sont: 1) sauver de l’argent, et 2) aider d’autres gens à sauver de l’argent. Je recherchais des bons-rabais quand j’ai découvert le site Smart Canucks et maintenant je suis contente de contribuer sur le blog français.
Pour commencer, je vais afficher au moins une nouvelle offre par jour.
N’hésitez pas de me contacter avec toute commentaire ou suggestion pour améliorer cette section.
Our host has been having some technical problems. We apologize for the downtime.
Things will hopefully be back to normal very soon on Smart Canucks.
When it’s 50 days to Christmas (November 5th I believe), I’ll post an interesting video, picture or commentary each day for all of us to enjoy 🙂 It may funny, nostalgic, weird, dramatic or whatever!
The ideas will be contributed by members of the forum, blog readers or other bloggers. If you have an interesting submission or would like to contribute please email me your idea to [email protected]. If you’re a blogger I’ll add a link back to your blog when I publish your Christmas post.
As for the SmartCanucks.ca blog in general, I’d love to get suggestions on what you’d like to see on the blog. What do you like? what do you hate about the blog? Suggestions are more than welcome 🙂
Do you own a own a cute pet or does a family member or close friend own one? If you do, you could win the Smart Canucks Cutest Pet Contest and receive a FREE gift 
Submissions open from now till October 24, 2007.
From October 25 – 31, 2007 all Smart Canucks get to vote for the cute pets. The top 15 winners receive a prize each.
Prizes:
1st – $20 Shoppers Drug Mart gift card
2nd – $15 Shoppers Drug Mart gift card
3rd – $10 Shoppers Drug Mart gift card
4th – $5 CARA gift card
5th – $5 CARA gift card
6th – 1 Engalnd magnet (you get to choose the magnet first)
7th – 1 Engalnd magnet (choose next and so on)
8th – 1 Engalnd magnet
9th – 1 Engalnd magnet
10th – 2 SmartCanucks magnets
11th – 2 SmartCanucks magnets
12th – 1 SmartCanucks magnet
13th – 1 SmartCanucks magnet
14th – 1 SmartCanucks magnet
15th – 1 SmartCanucks magnet
Click here for instructions on submitting a picture of your pet to the contest
Congratulations on the birth of your baby girl!
This new little Baby Girl so tiny small and neat
And especially magic makes your family complete
No words could ever relay or truly express
The wishes sent for you at this time of happiness
She′s shining an Angel with a tiny sweet nose
So completely made up ten fingers, ten toes
She′s laughter and teardrops so small and brand new
And amazingly angelic and she′s sent to bless you
She′s one special Baby the best of life′s treasure
And she′ll surely bless you loving family pleasure.
Here’s what Jim had to say on his blog:
Lot’s of new baby photos on my wife’s flickr if you’re into that sort of thing.
EDIT: We’ve actually decided against Virginia. She’s had the name for two days and it just didn’t seem to fit. Plus, people are already giving her annoying nicknames that we don’t approve of like “Ginny.†The official name (we’ve already written it on the Health Card app, so there’s no going back now) is Emily Jennifer Jane.
Just a heads up for the next time you forget your cell phone at home. As of last week, the cost of a local call on a Bell Canada payphone is 50 cents. I think it’s safe to assume that other payphone companies will follow.
It’s a been a long time coming — not only has there not been an increase in payphone costs since 1981 (back then they were a dime) but competition from mobile phones has pretty much rendered the standard payphone obsolete. They’re really only there for the small percentage of the population that hasn’t gone cellular yet and for when the rest of us forget our mobile devices on the charger at home.
In a different age I could see a lot of people getting bent out of shape about this, but really – does anyone care that the cost of a phone call has doubled?
Do you have a son, daughter, grandchild, sibling, nephew, niece or cousin that was born in 2007 or 2006? If you do, they could win the Smart Canucks Cute Baby Contest and receive a FREE gift
Submissions open from now till May 31st, 2007
First week of June all Smart Canucks members will vote for the cute babies.
Prizes:
1st place: $25 Shoppers Drug Mart or Indigo/Chapters or Cara gift card
2nd place: $20 Shoppers Drug Mart or Cara gift card
3rd place: $15 Cara gift card
4th place: $10 Shoppers Drug Mart or Cara gift card
5th place: $10 Shoppers Drug Mart or Cara gift card
I chose these gift cards because they’re all Canadian companies. I like Cara because you can use their gift cards at several restaurants including Swiss Chalet, Montana’s, Kelesy’s, Second Cup and Harvey’s.
How to join the contest
1. You need to sign into the forum. If you’re not a member you can register here.
2. Go to Upload an Image. A new form will show up. Use that form to upload your images.
3. Now that you’ve uploaded the image go to Your Images. Copy the code next to “BB Code IMGâ€, reply to this thread and paste the code you copied in your reply message.
You also need to provide the following information:
4. You can upload several photos of your baby but you can only officially use one for the contest. However you can refer members to the other photos if that will help you get more votes 
.
Please feel free to ask any questions here or discuss the cute pictures
You can view the submissions here
I just finished upgrading the blog and I also changed the template. The new template has two sidebars instead of one so there’s more space for for adding other useful stuff in the sidebars 🙂
During the upgrade I lost about 10 comments from the last two days. I’m terribly sorry about that. It was purely unintentional.
Please let me know what you think of the new design and what you’d like to see in the sidebars 🙂
Sorry I haven’t been posting a lot this week. I’m very busy writing reports, posters, exams and what not. Once this week is over I’ll have plenty of time 🙂
In the meantime. the forum has a wonderful group of friendly folks, fun activities and thousands of freebies and deals. Please feel free to pop in and say hi and if you’ve been a regular “lurker” we’d love to get to know you 🙂
Here are some of the forum’s sections:
Canadian parental and family discussion
Hot Canada Deals
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