Life Style / Holiday / Canadian Thanksgiving: The second Monday in October Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving. The Sunday before Thanksgiving Monday is often marked at Christian churches by services thanking God not only for the harvest of food, but also for other blessings. Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated earlier then American Thanksgiving because of the times of the harvest in Canada.
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Business / Agriculture / Canadian Wheat Board (CWB): A quasi-governmental self-financed agency, established in 1935, that markets Canadian wheat, oats, and barley on behalf of producers. Commercial grain is put into annual marketing pools by grade, with MORE
Entertainment / Liquor / Canadian Whiskey: Like American whiskeys, Canadian whiskey is made primarily from corn, rye, and malted barley, and is distilled by a process similar to that used in making bourbon, except that a sweet mash is used. Li MORE
Lifestyle / Holiday / Thanksgiving: July 7th is called Tanabata in Japan. It's a Japanese tradition wherein people write their wishes on tanzaku paper (colorful, small strips of paper) and hang them on bamboo branches. People also hang MORE