>>> Dennis Menard on Quebec 
 DM> We can grow big cabbages ... and other vegetables ... but not in
 DM> winter and the average home may have a garden, but isn't a farm.  :) 
 DM> Caribou?  Sure, i one's a hunter.  Fresh fruit ain't cheap.  We have
 DM> some of the highest food prices in the whole country.
Yes, and cabbage keeps well.  How about root vegetables?  Is it possible to 
grow lots of sunflower seeds or other nuts?  Otherwise caribou with 
intestinal contents for greens.  Whoops, I suppose that's just a native 
survival technique disdained by modern folks.  BTW, what have the natives 
call Canadians?  We've been call fork tongue palefaces.
 
 DM> morning, New Year's Day, it's -34 C, and dropping, although we're told
 DM> to expect it to warm up by the weekend ... and that's tomorrow!  :)
 DM> It's exhilarating weather for cross-country skiing and ski-dooing and
 DM> winter camping
Today is our first snow, a wet sloppy snow less than an inch so far early 
this evening.
 DM> knew it was cold then because, your lashes would freeze together when
 DM> you blinked, the hairs in your nose would accumu- late ice until you
 DM> were forced to breathe via your mouth, you could not bend your fingers
 DM> because your gloves were as flexible as iron, brushing against spruce
 DM> branches would cause them to break off with a report like a rifle ...
 DM> and so on.  After a "very brief" respite, the temp has dipped down to
 DM> -41 C. Brr ...
Err, no thanks, the most I ever seen is 8 F.
www.amnesty.org has lots to say about USA and even some about Canada.
... The double standard:  are not two better than one?
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