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.

Amusez-vous bien!

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 IMG”, reply to this thread and paste the code you copied in your reply message.

You also need to provide the following information:

• Baby name or nickname or initials (full name is not required for privacy reasons)
• Gender
• Month and year of birth (day not necessary)
• Your relationship to the baby

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:

Chit Chat section

Canadian parental and family discussion

Canadian Freebies section

Coupons section

Contests section

Deals section

Submit a photo of the weirdest thing you have at home!

Click here to view the submitted photos so far

The top 5 contestants will win the following 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

Submissions are open till the end of February. Please email me your photo to

To have some fun at SmartCanucks.ca I thought of starting a new contest. Here it is 🙂

Submit a photo of the weirdest thing you have at home!

Be creative! the more interesting, weird or funny that “thing” is, the larger your chances of winning. Any photo quality is fine: this is not a photography contest, it’s simply about the weirdest thing you have in your home!

Submissions are open till the end of February. Please email me your photo to:

I will then post your photo here

During the first week of March all SmartCanucks’ forum members will vote for their favourite photos. The voting results will be live and visible to everyone. The top 5 contestants will win the following 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

Note:
– Shoppers Drug Mart is PharmaPrix in Quebec so Quebecers can join the contest too.
– Cara gift cards could be used at Swiss Chalet, Second Cup, Kelsey’s, Harvey’s and Montana’s

Looking forward to some weird hilarious photos 🙂

You can discuss anything related to this contest here

Last month Boo let you all in on a little secret. I was working on relaunching my old wordpress.com driven blog as a brand-spankin’ new, independently-hosted, multi-user driven, cinammon scented, trans-fat free dynamo! Well the time to unveil it is finally here. So if you’ll all join me in making that drumroll noise in your head…

(insert drumroll noise here)

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, I present to you FJETSAM, the eighth wonder of the world!

When not defending our borders from virus-carrying monkeys and David Hasselhoff, FJETSAM likes long walks on the beach, sunsets, and reading/writing Ann Landers. FJETSAM is not a food stuff. Swallowing FJETSAM will harm you. FJETSAM is not recommended for pregnant women, individuals suffering from a heart condition, or the elderly. Take FJETSAM twice daily or as recommended by your doctor.

Now that that’s out of the way, let me tell you what FJETSAM is: FJETSAM is a blog presenting and confronting the best of pop and internet culture, from the most popular movies to the most obscure TV shows, from the best of the web to the worst of YouTube, FJETSAM’s got you covered.

In addition to my plug, I’d just like to take this time to give a special thanks to Boo. Boo was a big believer in my old site and offered to help with the relaunch the minute I mentioned it was on the table. He’s been absolutely indispensible, and I can’t thank him enough. And just a reminder kiddies, Boo not only helped launch the site, he’ll be contributing there too! So don’t be afraid to come on by and see some of your old SC friends — and you might even find some new bloggers you like there to!

Visit FJETSAM here.

The forum is almost complete and there’s a lot going on in there.

You’ll find much more deals, freebies and coupons at the forum. You can also chit chat with other members of our little community 🙂

Click here to visit the forum

*I will repost this message every now and then for our new visitors*