Life In Canada

Made in Canada, five million times over! 🚗🇨🇦

Honda of Canada Manufacturing has built the five millionth vehicle at its Plant 2 in Alliston, Ont., a small town north of Toronto. (Source: CTV News Barrie, Oct. 9.)

Five million vehicles, built by Canadian workers in small-town Ontario.

Do you drive a Canadian-built car? 👇

Another heartbreaking loss. 💔🐋

Caspian, a 27-year-old female beluga rescued from Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., has died at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium. She had been eating less for weeks, and when her condition collapsed on Wednesday, staff kept her on life support for nearly four hours, but she couldn’t be saved.

She is the fourth former Marineland beluga to die at Shedd since the whales arrived this summer. Peekachu (23), Osiris (26) and Rain (20) died in late August and September. Shedd also lost Beethoven, a 34-year-old beluga who had lived there for years. In Spain, another rescued Marineland beluga, Jelly Bean, died at Oceanogràfic Valencia. That means six belugas have died, five of them from Marineland.

Shedd says the rescued whales were “made vulnerable by chronic and severe illness.” Early necropsy findings showed long-term problems such as gut disease, liver damage and lung scarring. Six of the 10 belugas Shedd took in are still alive and are eating full diets while staff watch them closely. (Sources: WTTW News, Chicago Sun-Times, FOX 32 Chicago, Oct. 9.)

They finally left the tanks they grew up in, but for many, it came too late.

Could a kitchen staple help save Canadian farms? 🥔🌱

Scientists with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada spent four years testing products in Prince Edward Island to help potato farmers fight weeds that no longer respond to herbicides. Their surprising answer: baking soda. Blasted at weeds with a sandblaster, the common leavening agent could give farmers a new way to control stubborn weeds. (Source: CTV News, Oct. 9.)

From the kitchen cupboard to the potato field.

Would you try it in your own garden? 👇

162 years ago today, a group of politicians sat down in Quebec City and started sketching out a new country. 🇨🇦📜

On Oct. 10, 1864, the Quebec Conference opened. Delegates from the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland met to plan a union of British North America, just weeks after the Charlottetown Conference.

Over about two and a half weeks, they drafted the 72 Resolutions, the blueprint for Confederation. Those resolutions became the basis of the British North America Act, and on July 1, 1867, Canada was born.

Two and a half weeks of debate in Quebec City shaped the country we live in today.

Did you learn about the Fathers of Confederation in school? 👇

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear vests. 🐶❤️

Mulligan, a therapy dog with the St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Program, has just made his 1,000th visit, the first therapy dog in southwestern Ontario to reach that milestone. Mulligan brings comfort to families staying at Ronald McDonald House while their children are getting medical care. (Source: CTV News London, Oct. 8.)

A thousand visits, and a thousand moments of comfort for families going through the hardest days of their lives.

Drop a ❤️ for Mulligan!

Every Canadian has heard it on a rink, but do you know where it comes from? 🏒 Take your guess below!

A proud day for Canada! 🇨🇦📚🏅

Toronto-born poet, essayist, translator and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy honoured her for her "bold and inventive oeuvre," saying her work lives at "the intersection between the philologist's obsession with words and the poet's desire for new meaning." The prize is worth about $1.7 million.

Carson, born in 1950, taught classics at McGill University for many years and is a Member of the Order of Canada. She has won two Griffin Poetry Prizes and the T. S. Eliot Prize, among many other honours. Since the announcement, her book sales, library holds and streams have surged. (Sources: McGill Reporter, ABC News, CNN, CTV News, Oct. 8–9.)

From Toronto to Stockholm, a Canadian voice is now among the world's greatest writers.

Have you read any of her work? 👇

Turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey casserole… 😂🦃 What's your favourite way to use up the leftovers?

Have you heard of Mount Thor? 🏔️ Deep in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island, Nunavut, it has the greatest purely vertical drop on Earth: a sheer granite wall about 1,250 metres high. That's more than twice the height of the CN Tower! Would you dare look over the edge?

What a finish in Winnipeg! 🏒🔥

The Winnipeg Jets beat the previously unbeaten Colorado Avalanche 3-2 on Wednesday night. Kyle Connor scored twice, including the winner with about a minute left in regulation, his fifth goal of the season. Goaltender Stuart Skinner made some big saves along the way. (Sources: CTV News Winnipeg, WinnipegToday, Oct. 7.)

An unbeaten team walked in, and the Jets sent them home with their first loss.