Tragically Chip

This empty bowl and crispy cone once filled with a blend of maple whisky ice cream, dotted with chunks of sweet dark chocolate, and rippled with streams of black cherry, is the end result of a yummy summer treat to celebrate Canada Day.

The carton is now a little less than full.

Invented in the small town of Bobcaygen, this delightful treat evolved from a unique collaboration between The Tragically Hip, one of Canada’s greatest bands, and one of Canada’s favourite ice cream producers, Kawartha Dairy.

“It was in Bobcaygen

I saw the constellations

Revealed themselves one star at a time.”

The Tragically Hip

Swirls of black cherry, chunks of dark chocolate, all tucked into a creamy blend of maple cherry whisky ice cream.

And the greatest thing about this all Canadian treat is that a portion of the sales are being donated to the Breakfast Club of Canada.

Proud to be Canadian!

O Canada 🇨🇦

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Feeling patriotic this Canada Day long weekend?

Needing a boost, or wanting to extend that feeling?

Then travel to King’s Wharf Theatre in the pretty little town of Penetanguishene, located on the southeasterly tip of Geogian Bay in the traditional and Treaty territory of the Anishinabek, the Huron-Wendat and the Haudenosaullce.

Enjoy the show, Sorry, I’m Canadian!

You will laugh until you cry. Your heart will burst, and grow with pride!

Enjoy the show with good friends and the experience will be even better!

Proud to be Canadian!

Canada Day 2021

Every Child Matters. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Today, reflecting on the meaning of Canada Day, I am thinking about my parent’s decision to emigrate to this wonderful country almost 70 years ago.

I remember, as a small child, my aunt saying to me ‘Speak English, we came to Canada to be Canadians.’

I have always been very proud to call myself a Canadian. First as a Dutch Canadian, then somewhere along the line the word Dutch was dropped and I simply became a proud Canadian.

I saddens me deeply, as I become more educated about the true losses suffered by our Indigenous peoples. The loss of their homes, their economies, and most of all, the loss of their children. Through the hands of our churches, and, of our governments.

I am hoping that this Canada Day will be marked as the beginning of truly righting the wrongs that were committed. Righted, so the true healing may begin, and that we, and the world, can learn from the wrongs commited in our past.