A Fine Canadian Institution

I'm not a sociologist, but I believe Canada is one of those few societies that has two significant traditions occurring at once. Usually, a culture will space them out, somehow we neglected to do that.

Tuesday February 26 sees two events sweeping the country: The NHL Trade Deadline, and Roll Up The Rim time. The NHL Trade Deadline looks to be fairly vanilla this year, but I'm liking the look of Roll Up The Rim. Check out some of the prizes:

- 35 2009 Toyota Matrix's (or should that read Matrices?)
- 100 Boats by Bayliner
- 5000 Garmin GPS devices
- 20,000 $50 Tim Horton's gift cards
- 31 Million instant food prizes

I noticed that this year, there is no Plasma TV prize. The theme seems to be "transportation".

Also noteworthy is that Roll Up The Rim is going on in Kandahar, at the NATO military station. Participants can Roll Up The Rim with a specially designed camouflage cup. They don't get a shot at winning the Toyota Matrix or Bayliner Boat prizes, but they do get cash prizes, caps, GPS devices, and food prizes. So, its a nice gesture to the Canadian guys over there fighting for Canada.

And who am I to thumb my nose at this fine Canadian institution. So, with that said, I'm off to Tims for my Extra Large with one cream.