Happy Canada Day! A Google alphabet in English and French (2012)

These are the words that appear instantly when one types the first letter in a Google search:

In English:

·       Air Canada

·       Best Buy

·       Canadian Tire

·       Dictionary

·       eBay

·       Facebook

·       Google

 

 

·       Hotmail

 

 

·       Ikea

·       Job Bank

·       Kijiji

·       LCBO

·       Mapquest

·       NHL

·       OLG

·       Project Free TV

·       Quotes

·       Rogers

·       Scotiabank

·       TD

·       Urban Dictionary

·       Via Rail

·       Weather Network

·       xBox

·       YouTube

·       Zellers

En français:

·       AccèsD

·       Best Buy

·       Canada 411

·       Dictionnaire

·       eBay

·       Facebook

·       Google

·       Hotmail

·       Ikea

·       Jeux

·       Kijiji

·       Lespac

·       Météomédia

·       NHL

·       OC Transpo

·       Poste Canada

·       Québec

·       Radio Canada

·       SAAQ

·       Traduction

·       UOttawa

·       Vidéotron

·       Wikipedia

·       Xplornet

·       YouTube

·       Zellers

Last year's list: 2011

On the lighter side: Won't somebody please think of the children (World Naked Bike Ride)

From Auntie Antonia of the Toronto Star:

Nobody should have been taken aback on Saturday to see some 150 stripped loins wheeling past Exhibition Place.

It was at Coronation Park, just outside the Princes’ Gates, where Toronto participants in the eighth annual World Naked Bike Ride bared down and headed downtown to protest automobile pollution and the dangers cars pose to cyclists everyday.

Toronto Star: Cohn: Pride has become a victim of its own success

Martin Regg Cohn usually write some good columns.  This time I respectfully disagree with his comments about the Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA).  He seems to imply that QuAIA is an outside group that has infiltrated the Pride Week festivities.  QuAIA ranks low on his "gay-o-meter".  One could state the same about Kulanu--the gay Jewish student group.  While the core group of Kulanu may be gay, its general supporters in the parade diminish the "gayness" of Kulanu by focussing on Israel rather than LGBT pride.  Kulanu's participation in Toronto's Pride parade ranks low on my "gay-o-meter."

Toronto Star: Cohn: Pride has become a victim of its own success

YouTube: Pride Toronto - QuAIA

YouTube: Pride Toronto - Kulanu 2010