Here in Tallahassee, our traffic court building is sandwiched between a liquor store and cannabis dispensary. 
Thanks! I just remember it because when I was growing up in Toronto, you couldn’t get away from it. It was sung on radio ads on my parents’ favourite radio station (CFRB 1010 AM, as you might have guessed), and appeared as musical notes in newspaper ads. No other supermarket chain had as catchy a jingle as Dominion, as I recall. William Shatner may have shilled for Loblaw’s, where “More than the price is right,” but it wasn’t nearly as memorable or as long-lived as Dominion’s slogan and jingle that lasted for years.
This is FQ, so maybe we should end this hijack about a supermarket.
It is probably not a good idea to change Canada’s motto to the Latin translation of “it’s mainly because of the meat”. But maybe it explains the fur trade. I had forgotten that slogan completely.
I think that would be praesertim carnis causa, which isn’t quite as catchy as a mari usque ad mare. You could go with carnis castorumque causa, “because of the meat and the beavers,” though: it alliterates nicely with Canada.
Thank you. This is what we said in 1989 when I was in 5th grade.
Canada’s motto (unofficial): Non sumus Americani.
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(translation: We are NOT Americans)
Hey! Some of us are! And have decades of both CRA & IRS tax returns to prove it…
I don’t speak Latin but “carnis” is suggestive of “carnal”, so it might lead to the impression of the national motto being “because of carnality and the beavers”, which is probably not ideal.
Resisting two invasions by Americans, and having two provinces founded by political refugees from the U.S., will tend to do that.
For a long time, the Hudson’s Bay Company had an in-house magazine, focussing on the history of the HBC and its role in the Canadian North-West. Because of their historical origins, they called it The Beaver.
Eventually it was taken over by Canada’s History Society and upgraded to a good quality magazine. They kept the name.
Until the internet, when they started getting complaints from schools that little Johnny and Jennie were getting some … unusual … results when they were doing on-line research for their history projects.
Now it’s just Canada’s History. Dull and respectable title.
Still good quality, comes out six times a year. Highly recommended for anyone interested in Canadian history.
Same thing happened to Beaver College, which was originally a women’s college to boot. Now it’s Arcadia University.
Be thankful he forgot to mention the sheep.
Yeah, but I think that the rest of the world has trouble telling the difference is probably the biggest factor. And the worse the US’s reputation gets, the more that Canadians ascribe to the motto.
Thankfully, The Beaverton lives on.
I note doing a Google for “beaver” that at least the first page of results seem highly appropriate. Perhaps that magazine should take the protective covers of their furniture legs and give less credence and attention to anguished cries and apocryphal concerns.
Either that or the schools should configure Google for “safe search” mode.
Canada: A luxury apartment over a meth lab.
Who knows? If Giuliani and Powell had focused on this instead of dead Hugo Chávez, maybe they would have got some traction!
Now that would sound snazzy in Latin! Or not.
Well, Google Translate gives me this:
“Canada: Luxuria diaetam super meth lab.”
Guess they didn’t have meth labs in ancient Rome.
Well, not ordinary ones.
Historian: Let’s just blame lead poisoning. No need to further corrupt the masses…