Category: Canada

What is Canada’s Favourite Sale?

Hudson’s Bay (“the Bay”) was a Canadian department store chain that was the flagship brand of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), which is the oldest company in North America, and currently undergoing dissolution.

George Alexander Trebek was a Canadian and American game show host and television personality. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he was best known for hosting the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from its revival in 1984 until his death in 2020. He has also appeared in multiple television commercials.

Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows.

Gordon Howe (March 31, 1928 – June 10, 2016) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. From 1946 to 1980, he played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and six seasons in the World Hockey Association (WHA); his first 25 seasons were spent with the Detroit Red Wings.

Say, Do You Like The McDLT?

The first sandwich in this line of products was the McDLT, launched in 1984. It was sold in a novel form of packaging where the meat and bottom bun was prepared separately from the lettuce, tomato, cheese, pickles, sauces, and top bun and both were then packaged into a specially designed two-sided container. The consumer was then expected to finalize preparation of it by combining the “hot” and “cool” sides just before eating. The company discontinued it by January 1991 to appear more environmentally friendly as it moved away from polystyrene packaging which was integral to the McDLT “experience”.

The McBarge, officially named the Seaborne II (formerly the Friendship 500), was a former McDonald’s restaurant, built on a 187-foot-long (57 m) barge for Expo ’86 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Apart from brief use by its original owner, McDonald’s, in 1986, the McBarge has never actively been used for anything and was drifting from owner to owner for thirty-four years. By the end of March 2025, the McBarge had partially sunk into the Fraser River.

The 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply Expo 86, was a world’s fair held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from May 2 until October 13, 1986.

Swiss Chalet has the Gall to Tell Everyone About it on Television

Swiss Chalet is a Canadian chain of casual dining restaurants founded in 1954 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Restaurant fare is based upon its signature item, rotisserie chicken. The Quarter Chicken Dinner, the restaurant’s signature dish, includes a roasted chicken leg or breast with “Chalet Sauce”, a bread roll and a side dish.

Daniel Patrick Macnee (6 February 1922 – 25 June 2015) was a British-American actor best known for his breakthrough role as secret agent John Steed in the television series The Avengers (1961–1969). Macnee made numerous TV commercials including one around 1990 for Swiss Chalet, the Canadian restaurant chain, and a year or so before, a commercial for the Sterling Motor Car Company.

Rotisserie chicken is a chicken dish that is cooked on a rotisserie by using direct heat in which the chicken is placed next to the heat source. [It] has been a popular food in Canada since the 1950s, and is a staple of Canadian pop culture. Two Canadian casual dining restaurant chains, Swiss Chalet and St-Hubert, dominate the market for chicken, though the dish is also the central item for other Canadian chains, popular international chains such as Nandos, or individual restaurants.

Canada Dry is always Young at Heart

Canada Dry (French: Canada Sec) is a Canadian-American brand of soft drinks founded in Toronto, Ontario, in 1904, and owned since 2008 by the American company Dr Pepper Snapple (now Keurig Dr Pepper).

Ginger ale is a carbonated soft drink (not an ale) flavoured with ginger. It is consumed on its own or used as a mixer, often with spirit-based drinks

John James McLaughlin (March 2, 1865 – January 28, 1914) was a Canadian pharmacist and manufacturer who was the founder of Canada Dry. In 1904, he launched Canada Dry “pale dry” Ginger Ale and in 1907, received a patent for “Canada Dry Ginger Ale.”

“Young at Heart” is a pop standard ballad with music by Johnny Richards and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.

Have you had your Hockey Hero Burger today?

A hamburger, or simply a burger, is a dish consisting of fillings—usually a patty of ground meat, typically beef—placed inside a sliced bun or bread roll. A hamburger patty topped with cheese is called a cheeseburger.

A submarine sandwich, commonly known as a sub, is a type of American cold or hot sandwich made from a submarine roll (an elongated bread roll) that is split lengthwise and filled with meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments. The New York term hero is first attested in 1937.

The logo of McDonald’s in Canada can be identified by the red maple leaf on the company’s golden arches.

After expanding within the United States, McDonald’s became an international corporation in 1967, when it opened a location in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. In order to cater to local tastes and culinary traditions, and often in respect of particular laws or religious beliefs, McDonald’s offers regionalized versions of its menu among and within different countries.

The modern sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, where the first indoor game was played on March 3, 1875. It draws influence from shinty which originated in Scotland, as well as field hockey which originated in England.

Little Caesars Crazy Puffs taste like Whoa

Eugene Levy CC (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor and comedian. Levy started his career writing and acting in the Canadian television sketch series SCTV (1976–1984), earning two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.

An eyebrow is an area of short hairs above each eye that follows the shape of the lower margin of the brow ridges of some mammals.

Super Bowl LIX was an American football championship game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2024 season. In August 2024, before the beginning of the 2024 NFL regular season, Fox announced that it had sold most of its advertising slots for Super Bowl LIX. The 30-second ad slots were priced at $7 million each.

Little Caesars Pizza was founded on May 8, 1959, by the married couple Mike Ilitch and Marian Ilitch. In September 2022, Little Caesars became the official pizza sponsor of the National Football League.

The first pizzeria in the U.S., Lombardi’s, opened in New York City’s Little Italy in 1905, producing a Neapolitan-style pizza. The word “pizza” was borrowed into English in the 1930s; before it became well known, pizza was generally called “tomato pie” by English speakers.

Some pizzas mass-produced by American pizza chains have been criticized as having an unhealthy balance of ingredients. Pizza can be high in salt and fat, and is high in calories.