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I’ve never watched so much sports.  I’m loving the Olympics right now.  So intense!  Hopefully the men’s hockey team will make it to the Gold medal game to win it all!  The women’s team is playing for Gold tomorrow!  Another good game to watch!

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It started off yesterday for the USA with a gold medal for the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Timmins, Ontario.  USA beat out Ontario 2-1 in a game that left Ontario scoreless 1.18 seconds left in the third period.  Team Ontario didn’t play a physical game and couldn’t get very many shots on net.

Tonight USA has captured another gold medal in the World Juniors in Saskatoon Saskatchewan.  I must admit that tonights game was much better to watch then the U17 game.  After the second period the score was tied at 3.  Team USA came out strong in the 3rd and lead Team Canada 5-3 but with less than 3 minutes left in the game Team Canada tied the game at 5.  Unfortunately for us we lost when Derek Stepan scored the winning goal for Team USA 4 minutes and 31 seconds into overtime.

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In Canada we have less than 35 million people.  Our government ordered 50.4 million doses for the H1N1 flue vaccine.  What are the extra 15 million flu shots for?

While we would aim to vaccinate 100 per cent of the population, from observing seasonal flu shot campaigns, we know that even in provinces with free universal access vaccination programs, usually less than 50 per cent of the population will choose to be immunized.
Ordering 50.4 million doses of pandemic vaccine amounts to ordering 50 per cent more than we would expect to use for a normal seasonal vaccination campaign.

The Government of Canada is confident that 50.4 million vaccine doses will be sufficient to meet the needs of every Canadian likely to need and want protection.

The only thing that I can come up with is that one person might need two shots in order to be vaccinated.  I haven’t been able to confirm that anywhere as of yet.  Perhaps someone out there knows the answer to this question.  Even if you needed two shots that would still mean that the government estimated that 25 million Canadians would line up for the H1N1 flu shot.  That would mean that almost 75% of all Canadians would get vaccinated.

Either someone is really bad in math or they have stocks in GlaxoSmithKline and is making lots of money.

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It seems like the US have taken one step forward by electing the first black President ever.  It only took 232 years for that to happen.  Where they took two steps back is with Proposition 8.  Three states, California, Florida and Arizona, voted yes for Proposition 8 which bans gay marriages.  What I really don’t understand is the fact that voters in California elected Barack Obama which supports gay marriages.  I wonder how long it will take for them to realize that two people of the same sex should be able to get married?  Until then, it just means that Canada will have more American tourists…..especially now that the Canadian dollar is low.

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If were wondering if I was gone well the answer is yes.  That would also explain why I haven’t updated anything in a little while.  I went on a road trip with my Dad.  That’s right, just the two of us.  My dad has been wanting to do this ever since he got back from a trip out West with my brothers in 2003.  This time we went out East.

Some of the places we saw during our trip were Monteith, North Bay, Ottawa, Montreal, Valcourt, Quebec, Rivière-du-Loup, Matane, Rimouski, Gaspé, Percé, Moncton, Prince Edwards Island, Grand Falls, Edmundston, Mont Laurier, Val-d’Or & Rouyn Noranda.

I took lots of pictures but haven’t sorted through them or uploaded them yet.  I will do that in the following days and post some on here.

Some of the highlights of my trip were (not in any order):

• Visiting the Bombardier Museum and factory in Valcourt Quebec
• Visiting the Biodome in Montreal
• Visiting the Olympic Tower in Montreal
• Camping with my dad all over the East coast
• Seeing the Fleuve Saint-Laurent as we drove around Gaspesie
• Going on a boat tour with my dad in Vieux Quebec
• Visiting my cousin and her family in Moncton
• Getting a replacement wide angle lens at Future Shop after I broke mine in Mont Saint-Pierre
• Seeing real live penguins at the Biodome
• Taking pictures by a lighthouse
• Eating the best cod I’ve ever had
• Seeing Nova Scotia even though we were on the way to PEI
• Seeing the new Dodge Challenger 500
• Crossing the Confederation Bridge to PEI
• Seeing the longest covered bridge in the world located in Hartland, NB
• Checking out the falls in Grand Falls
• Visiting the Saint-Joseph’s Oratory with my dad
• Going to see Mont-Laurier with my dad
• Being on holidays for 2 weeks, only being disturbed a few times by work

Now it’s back to the madness we call work.  Summer hours are almost over.  This Friday is my last one off.  Next week is going to be long.

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The website to enter the code is www.freepasstofun.ca and the contest is only open to Canada.

The coupon code is ONPOT-1N5N1-0517.  The bar code on the coupon is PADXX-MILLS PKGX but I am not sure that you will need that.

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