Egli’s Sheep Farm in Minnitaki, Ontario (near Dryden) makes this wonderful sheepskin steering wheel cover. It helps to keep my hands warm in the winter, and cool in the summer, and it doesn’t smell or off gas like synthetic materials do.
My first cover lasted for many, many years before it needed replacing; upon [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘canada’
January 10, 2008
Egli’s Sheepskin
November 28, 2007
The Greatest Canadian Inventions
CBC created a two hour celebration of Canadian inventions. The “top one hundred” are listed here, and include: the light bulb, insulin, the telephone, the Wonderbra, the zipper, the snowmobile, basketball, Pablum, the Walkie-Talkie, and my food favourite Poutine!
November 10, 2007
Vision TV: Promoting Diversity and Understanding
Vision TV is an award winning Canadian non-profit television station that promotes diversity through its programming.
It offers drama, comedy, phenomenal documentaries, current affairs programming, music, lifestyle programming, special events programmes, and independent faith and cultural programming (the variety is astonishing and pleasing to our family, and we have learned a great deal about world faiths [...]
June 11, 2007
“Continuous Journey”
While driving, I was listening to a CBC radio interview with the wife of film maker Ali Kazimi and heard the most soul stirring music being sung by Shahid Ali Khan. When I got home, I searched the internet until I learned how I could purchase this music from Kazimi’s film “Continuous [...]
May 18, 2007
“Arab Cooking on a Saskatchewan Homestead” by Habeeb Salloum
“Arab Cooking on a Saskatchewan Homestead: Recipes and Recollections”, by Habeeb Salloum
is one of the best books I’ve bought in ages. I have been reading this cookbook in my spare time, and as my bedtime reading! I am learning about a part of Canadian history that I knew sadly little about from my [...]
January 30, 2007
The Best Tofu!
Unisoya, a French Canadian company makes the best tofu I have ever eaten! The flavour (yes, I said flavour) of their plain tofu is actually good! I buy their “Regular” style, and the texture is very firm and pleasing — even my tofu hater likes it. If [...]
