Cold
In a blog about Canada, there has to be at least one post with this title. Cold is the dominant theme this winter. There was a day in December 2013 when it was colder in Winnipeg than on Mars. By Christmas 2013, we in Ottawa had already had a nasty cold snap, and the snowbanks were already up to our waists. My husband calls this an “old-fashioned winter.” It’s very telling that full-on winter by Christmas is considered a thing of the past. During the winters of 1975 and 1976, my two sisters and I were all in high school together. A mere three or four years previous to that, our teachers had pulled the rug out from under our elementary school education by eliminating everything we had been taught about pounds and ounces, feet and inches, and Fahrenheit. By 1976, metric was the officially-used measurement system in Canada . Those of us that had not been learning metric since Kindergarten were given lots of help. There were ads on TV , on the metro, and on buss