The lovely and talented Laurie White alerted me to a story last year from the CBC about Canada having more unmarried Canadians than married ones.

I am not an audiophile, so I am writing this post for both you and me. I have spent a great deal of time scouring the interwebs looking for some new Canadian music by the ladies. Since, at BlogHer we are all about the 80’s. I like lots of different types of music, from folksy to rock me like a hurricane. The first lady I came across was “Lenore” , just the one name. She is folksy, and I like it. There are several mp3 samples on her site, which is important to me when scanning for new music. This bit from her bio was funny:

This week Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. I was thrilled, as this throws even more attention to the climate change crisis. Along with Gore, the (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) was awarded this prestigious award. Canadian John Drexhage was one of the many scientists working with the IPCC, he said he was shocked and humbled to learn the organization had won the peace prize. I struggled for a while trying to make this into my entire post this week and failed. There are many people covering this good news and I felt like a kernel of corn on a huge cob.

On this past Friday, October 5, Toronto and the Royal Canadian Mint made news because the Canadian Mint claimed they owned the words “one cent” and you can’t use them. The city of Toronto has started a campaign to get the federal government to return one cent of the national Goods and Services Tax (GST) to Toronto, which is struggling from decades of federal cuts in their budget payments from the Federal government. Source: boingboing

The Canadian dollar has been riding on par or higher with the American buck for weeks. Canadians, it is time to shop online! I wrote last week of the some of the dire conditions of plus sized shopping in Canada. It really isn’t so dire and so lacking in real selection. You have to work all the angles to get the wardrobe you want. In case you missed it Susan Wagner wrote a post on WHAT to wear when you are in plus sized fashions. Go read her!!!