Top 5 Reasons Portsou is not for Me

5 – You love the sound coins make as they drop on the ground from the holes in pants pocket

4 – You’re favourite pastime is shaking candy bars loose from a vending machine

3 – You prefer taking a chance with the parking meters

2 – Breaking a brand new $50 bill for a pack of gum is cool with you

1 – You prefer paying your morning paper with a credit card

Each coin has a $200 face value and costs $1,199.95. A silver coin with a sapphire-coloured crystal featuring the same design was released in April to commemorate William and Kate’s wedding. The mint’s entire run of those coins — all 25,000 — has already sold out.
Source: The Canadian Press

Top 5 Reasons Portsou is for Me!

5: You keep dropping your transit tokens while rushing to get into the subway

4: Got a $55 ticket because you ran of change to feed the parking meter

3: You were forced to break a fifty to get change for a vending machine

2: You always hold up the cashier’s line while digging in your pockets

1: Because it just makes cents!

I don’t too many people would be salivating at the idea of two slices of bread surrounding a filling of another slice of breadsprinkled with salt and pepper and a dash of butter but this is what it is; A Toast Sandwich.

Also known as the ‘austerity sandwich’ – contains 330 calories which British scientists claimed as the cheapest lunch in Britain and a genuine hitthe population.
The recipe, was the brainchild of renowned Victorian food writer Mrs Beeton in 1861 who devised it for when time’s were though.

Mrs Beeton Victorian Entrepreneur Inventor of the Toast Sandwich

It cost only seven and a half cents to make each one and the the Royal Society of Chemistry’s claims it at the most economical lunch in the world. They are offering a £200 to the first person who can come up with a  cheaper, but still edible  option.

OTTAWA – It took Canadians a while to get used to having loonies and toonies weighing down pockets and purses, but now they might have to get used to a $5 coin.
In documents obtained by CanWest News Service, the federal government has studied the introduction of a new $5 coin to replace the bill. The Bank of Canada prepared an “optimal denomination structure” report in 2005 and as part of it, used two different theoretical financial models to analyze our coin and bank note system.
One model, called the D-metric, concluded that by 2005 the elimination of the penny was warranted and recommended the introduction of a $5 coin and a $200 bill sometime between 2005 and 2021. Another model, called Boeschoten, concluded that a $5 coin would be needed between 2009 and 2020 “given the price level and other factors would be consistent with the historical shift from notes to coins at other denominations.”

“We aren’t far off [a $5 coin],” Francois Dupuis, vice-president and chief economist for economic studies with the Desjardins banking group, said in a recent interview. “Maybe in three to eight years. We will be talking a lot about this in the coming years, but I don’t think we are there just yet.” But Mr. Dupuis said the federal government needs a coinage strategy because the country can’t have too many coins.
“In Canada we have really reached a point where we have to think about what kind of coin system we want to have,” he added. “The debate has been started with the [elimination of the] penny. Maybe it will all happen at the same time.”

Source: National Post

Montreal's iconic steamy hot-dog, simple, elegant and French!

Amazing Vancouver take on the good old hot dogs

As you can see, the sky is the limit. We did not even into what are friends south of the border love to put on their dogs.

But for Canadians we think that there is no clear winner, because it’s all in your taste buds. That’s how we can tell if our dog is Great, Good or not so good! Enjoy

Great bowl of cherries to be enjoyed under five 5 dollars. Try to eat as much as possible and enjoy the health benefits!

A growing body of science reveals tart cherries, enjoyed as either dried, frozen cherries or cherry juice, have among the highest levels of disease-fighting antioxidants, when compared to other fruits. They also contain other important nutrients such as beta carotene (19 times more than blueberries or strawberries) vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, iron, fiber and folate.

Event nature’s most curious animals can’t get enough of them, so enjoy them whenever they are in season…your body will thank you!

Old penny press machine provides a great fun alternative for your kids

We even have a small holder in which we place all the coins we have accumulated along the years, from all over Canada and the US. By the way, it is perfectly legal to press pennies in North America, but you just can’t use them as legal tender afterwards. So here you go, next time you are out on the town look out for one those press…it’s an activity you and your kids will enjoy greatly.