did they accept your Candian Tire money as part of the down-payment? every little bit helps…
Here’s an interesting column on that topic - five years old, and some things have changed since then, but still a good read: It’s not just the weather that’s cooler in Canada.
My favourite line from it:
Kitchen utensils, cheap electronics, an umbrella, bicycle parts, magazines, caulking…
Also, Canada leads the US in the Global Economic Freedom index.
There was a McLean’s magazine article in July listing all the ways that Canada is superior to the US; there were a surprising number of ways.
I just saw that article and came into this thread to mention it - July 7, 2008. I can’t seem to find a way to link to an on-line version, but I’m also not a subscriber. Anyway, yes, we’re sexier, healthier and our crime statistics are totally different - you’re more likely to have your property nicked in Canada, but more likely to be murdered, particularly with guns, in the US. It was fascinating reading, and worth looking up in your local library.
…fishing gear, a bicycle, bungee cords, a head cover gasket for a 2.5L Chrysler four-banger, a set of jeweller’s screwdrivers, tomato plants, a softball glove, hundreds of feet of rope…
Over to you, Sunspace… 
So after posting here about some of the stuff available at Canadian Tire, I surfed over to the Pit, where I opened the thread on hating leaf blowers. What’s on the Google ad at the bottom of the screen? “Need a leaf blower?” And a link to Canadian Tire.
Seven, note that even though Canadian Tire sells leaf blowers, you probably don’t need one. 
…Christmas lights, a copper elbow-joint for a water-supply pipe, a lawn-badminton set, car wax, ski wax, floor wax, beeswax, AA batteries, that gasket that goes under the toilet, a GFCL electrical socket, incandescent lightbulbs, CF lightbulbs, a full-spectrum gro-lite for when I lived in that little room in Oakville, a trilite CF bulb, a hamburger…
Hammers, paint, toasters, tents, TV tables, foot baths…
…jumper cables for my mom’s car, an electric fan, candy, an air mattress…
…a thermostat for that same 2.5L Chrysler four-banger, a golf bag, a vacuum cleaner, a trucker’s road atlas of the US and Canada, a coffee mug, a thyme plant, a replacement spool of weed-whacker thread, oil filters (for various engines), ice skates, inline skates, chewing gum, rad sealant, a few pairs of pliers…
…nails, screws, an office chair, videotape, duotangs, paper, a map of Whitby…
Christmas tree, TV converter, gasoline, motor oil, archery equipment, 12’ ladder, basketball and hoop, corningware, hunting shirts, duck shoes…
Hawkin’s whats?
…cutlery, bicycles, fuses, de-icing salt, a vacuum cleaner, one giant flathead screwdriver, and a waffle iron…
hard cheesies made by Hawkins
Don’t tell me there’s a place in Canada where you can’t get Hawkins Cheezies! I thought those things were ubiquitous.
…seeds, a trowel, cement, twist ties on a spool, that claw thing you dig in the garden with, a metre stick, patio tiles, driveway sealant, pool chemicals, a scientific calculator…
I’ll ask my banker if I can use my Tire Money for closing costs…
Fans, AC, bug spray, lightbulbs, potting soil, BBQ grill scraper, car wash soap…
A copy of that ended up on my desk at work.
Good article.
If there is a Mex restauraunt in Bradford I have not seen it, the Mexicans yes , they are commonly seen right up until the harvest comes in. Jamacian soul food is the only odd ball eatery visible.
Declan