This is a myth perpetrated by Microsoft.
Only the government writes the date backward, everyone else does it normal, like the USA. However, most people also tend to use 2015-02-12 which sorts better in Excel if it gets turned into text.
In my experience:
In English it’s 1,234.56
In French it’s 1 234,56
Canadian raising is a thing, but “aboot” is the the exactly wrong way of referencing it (cue “Americans are stupid” joke).
American pronunciation: Uh-bah-oot
Canadian pronunciation: Uh-buh-oot
Both have the “oo” sound as the latter half of the diphthong, so “aboot” misses the mark in distinguishing the pronunciations.
*In my experience, only a small fraction of Canadians actually speak this way.
In the USA, flip-flops. In Canada, snowshoes.
I used to work in the states with a guy from Ontario, and we became friends. We once went to Canada to see a concert and visit his parents, and before we left, he said we had to run to the grocery store to buy some Canadian bacon.
Turned out his parents liked the stuff he could get in the states better than the “back bacon” from up north, so much so that they made him bring some up whenever he visited…so maybe we have better Canadian bacon than Canada.
I always do day/month/year, but this probably has nothing to do with being Canadian. I simply don’t understand why anyone would EVER flip the numerical day/month. Desc/Ascending formats just seem normal.
It may seem quirky and old-fashioned, but there actually are a lot of Americans who think this sort of conclusion should derive from evidence rather than mere belief.
(Probably true of at least a few Canadians as well.)
I think the intended point was that the Canadians didn’t automatically decide that the sexual assaults didn’t happen and that the victims were lying whores.
Right - and my point would be that it’s highly dubious to assume that Americans are much different in this.
Today in Canada saw the demise of SunTV, a total far right FOX like station that was heralded to change the face of Canadian news coverage. It was like a clone with outraged anchors and blowhard wing nuts, etc, etc. When it started up most people looked at it a little stink eyed and wondered if this would fly in Canada, like Fox has in the US.
Seems they just couldn’t make a go of it here! 
I read today there max viewership was less than 10,000 people! 
IIRC Alberta is the only province where alcohol sales are fully privatized; in the rest of Canada there’s a provincial/territorial alcohol monopoly of varying strictness. Ontario has both a government monopoly of wine & spirits and a private monopoly on beer sales (The Beer Store, 98% foreign owned). Also the drinking age is either 18 or 19 depending on province verses a uniform 21 in the US.
All Canadian judges are appointed for lifetime terms (though there’s a mandatory retirement age). In the US that only applies for federal judges (minus mandatory retirement); state judges are usually elected in same way for fixed terms. Canada doesn’t have anything like US’s heavily partisan judicial confirmation process for federal judges. Some state judges are even elected in partisan elections just like any other office.
This may just be a linguistic difference, but we don’t say they’re appointed for lifetime terms. They are appointed for a set term, based on their age at appointment and the mandatory retirement age.
I have to disagree. I first saw the odd reversal of month and date when I was in the United States and I’ve never used it. The standard for me is dd/mm/yyyy.
Actually, most of the rest of the world does it the different way which you describe.
Well. It’s very easy to understand; ask a Canadian to SAY a date. If you ask me what day D-Day was, I will likely say “June 6, 1944.” M/D/Y is how dates are often stated.