Canada Day

That's it. While American whiskey is distilled from a mashbill (for example, Jack Daniel's mostly follows 80% corn, 8% rye and 12% malted barley), Canadian ...

Drops of these bottlings are few and far between, but well worth the price of a plane ticket. It’s 100% single pot still rye with immediate notes of earth that leads into a subtle apple sweetness. There’s a bourbon-ish sweetness, with mellow notes of toasted pecan, vanilla, coconut and citrus. It’s got the signature rye spice of cardamom and coriander, plus a full body that makes it a stellar base for cocktails. These factors give the distillers and blenders a huge amount of autonomy — space to run wild with blends, ages, grains and barrels. This Calgary distillery has been making some of the world’s most category-defining rye for over 75 years. One example of Canadian whisky’s quirkiness is this high-corn whisky finished in rum barrels. To be declared a “craft” spirit, the distillery must ferment its own base alcohol and use only raw agricultural material grown in the province. While American whiskey is distilled from a mashbill (for example, Jack Daniel’s mostly follows 80% corn, 8% rye and 12% malted barley), Canadian whisky is fermented, distilled and matured separately…then blended to make the final product. It ensures that you’re picking the best quality spirit to make the finished product — you’re checking the barrels for quality and exploring what you can do at the blending stage. Keep an eye out for their aged expressions, including a 10-year-old single malt aged in barrels smoked with driftwood for a salty, iodine twang. Canadian whiskies don’t require mash bills or age statements on their labels — they are only required to have a minimum age of three years in barrel.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on Canadians to recommit to the country's values, including respect, hope and kindness, in his official Canada Day ...

"And today we celebrate the place we all call home." Governor General delivers first Canada Day message Today, we celebrate them – whether they’ve been here for weeks, months, years, or generations – and the country we love.

Canada Day yesterday (the 155th anniversary of the British North America Act giving birth to the Canadian confederation) was celebrated early here last ...

Canada Day yesterday (the 155th anniversary of the British North America Act giving birth to the Canadian confederation) was celebrated early here last Tuesday with a reception in Teatro San Martín – perhaps to split the difference between Canada Day and La Fete de Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Québec’s biggest festival, on June 24. President Alberto Fernández and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently renewed their acquaintance at the G7 summit in Bavaria. Sirrs highlighted the bilateral relations and common values between the two countries in keeping with the event’s title: “Over 80 years of friendship” (it should be borne in mind that Canada did not gain full control of its foreign affairs until the Statute of Westminster in 1931). The common ground ranged from defence of human rights and gender equality to both countries participating in the Qatar World Cup at the end of the year.

Justin Trudeau cheers unity and reminds Canadians 'our diversity is our strength' as Freedom Convoy truckers return to Ottawa.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. But people, when they come, they need to be lawful. One that reflects our values of hope, resilience, kindness, respect and generosity.” “Canada Day’s a very important day to Canadians. It’s a day where we celebrate our country and all the good things in it. “My friends, Canada is strong because of our diversity. “Canada is home to 38 million people.

on a poignant reminder. Jennifer Cole requires some “soul searching” to celebrate Canada Day. Writing in the Toronto Star, she explains that her maternal ...

“Without that, all ministers do is put in place increasingly complex and expensive palliatives until, in due course, they are overwhelmed by events.” Frost says that the government “must realise that it faces a crisis”. He thinks “we will muddle along, and then, one day soon, when we realise we don’t have the energy our economy needs, whoever is in power then will resort to rationing”. Frost says that “we need to change tack now”. Without affordable energy, an advanced economy “will not stay advanced for long”. “That will be an important decision,” writes David Frost, the former government Brexit negotiator, in The Telegraph, “but it is only part of the picture.” There is nothing “more vital” to our economy than “copious supplies of energy”, but “neither we nor the EU have an energy policy that can actually deliver it”. We need a “rethink”, he says. “We were two of likely more people trying to navigate an education system that was built by and for straight, white, cis people.” To them, The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks – which details a character on hormone replacement drugs killing animals and children – “was a fascinating intellectual conversation starter about masculinity. Activism is demanded.” This writer thinks “Yale and Harvard have come to resemble the mythical Ouroboros, eating their own tails to satisfy an insatiable appetite for conformity”. And while “it’s clear these institutions are still in high demand”, that “doesn’t mean they are fulfilling their function”. If universities in the past “made promises to teach their undergraduates how to think, they now aim to teach them what to think”. Hirsi Ali recently taught classes at the new University of Austin, and these students – “many… hailed from established institutions” – were “hungry for knowledge”. But it became apparent “that the elite educational institutions are doing the next generation a fundamental disservice”. We need to “found new universities”, she says. Jennifer Cole requires some “soul searching” to celebrate Canada Day. Writing in the Toronto Star, she explains that her maternal ancestors came from England and Ireland to start a life on First Nations territory in New Brunswick. The holiday is “a poignant reminder of our harmful colonial past, and crimes against humanity not so long ago”. That “cannot be denied” after the discovery of unmarked graves of multiple residential schools of First Nations children, she says. Shortly after the law was introduced, Vincent “got the distinct feeling” he was being followed.

People are silhouetted against a Maple Leaf flag as they walk through Harris Park during Canada Day celebrations in London on Sunday July 1, 2012.

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Today is Canada Day, and Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante has wished a Happy Canada Day “to all those celebrating.”

Northern Drift: Today is a national holiday in Canada. It is a day which marks the confederation which led to the creation of an independent country.

Canada is something of a newcomer in the world, but it has its own remarkable history. The diversity is breathtaking. A relative, brother, friend, daughter has emigrated or they have spent some time working or travelling in the new country themselves.

Public events marking the holiday were put on hold due to the pandemic, but eased health restrictions have once again made large gatherings and celebrations ...

Some of the organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” blockade and the following “Rolling Thunder” protests this spring have vowed to return to the capital on Friday, with police and the public bracing for the possibility of those protesters staying through the weekend. Not all cities will be returning to staging major events, however. Cities are also bracing for protests — particularly Ottawa, where residents continue to grapple with what police have acknowledged is “lingering trauma” from the convoy blockade earlier this year.