Only in Canada could there be a civic holiday unimaginatively named “Civic Holiday”. Oh, sure, in Saskatchewan this day is called Saskatchewan Day, in New Brunswick it’s called New Brunswick Day and in British Columbia it’s… well, you get the idea.
Alberta — always the shit-disturber of the country — calls this first Monday in August “Heritage Day” which is ironic since there’s no discernible heritage at all in Alberta. In Ontario it gets totally fucked up, with municipalities going batshit crazy with their own, made-up holidays named after serial killers and psychic healers from the province’s spotty past: Simcoe Day in Toronto, Colonel By Day in Ottawa, Joseph Brant Day in Burlington, Founders’ Day in Brantford, McLaughlin Day in Oshawa, Alexander Mackenzie Day in Sarnia, James Cockburn Day in Cobourg and John Galt Day in Guelph.
I’ll admit, it is pretty cool for Coburg to name its holiday after the star of the Flint movies.
Not everyone gets the day off (Champ, for example; sorry, pal!) but in Toronto, many who do high-tail it to Montreal for the gay pride party there. The rest of us? We hit the ferry to the island…
Passengers Not Allowed (Ongiara Ferry to Hanlan’s Point, 4 August 2008)
…ride the bike trails…
Hanlan’s Point, 4 August 2008
…and drool over the hot, sculpted-from-awesome, superfriendly, Afghan, beach-furniture vendor. Team Z!
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Oh my. Could you be any hotter? My temperature just went up.
Team Tres Chaud!
So, how long were the two of you allowed to “cohabit” on this beach before they called in The Mounties? Lord…a surfeit of Hair&Hotness Overload (can you have overload?), a true Titan Men/York Div. moment…
Oh…in my reverie… forgot to say “Thanks”!
I think some of us would be drooling over you…
agreed!
your civic holidays look infinitely more, um, interesting.
You’d think that Team Z would learn from your baskety example and realize that that thing around his waist called a ‘fanny pack’ for a reason.
Regardless, both of you looking hot, and both of you treated to beautiful summer weather. In the spirit of the aforementioned serial killers and psychic healers, Happy Etta Wriedt Day!
Wow! Thank you, thank you thank you! Team B’n'Z is definite hotness!
Ya’ know. All the drool, dribbling into my laptop cannot be good for it! However, the view is worth it.
Wow! You are HOT! More skin pics!
I want a Civic Holiday here in LA! Especially if it means pictures like these.