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Coop in Winnipeg

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Did you see the news story last week about citrus growing on Vancouver Island? Supposedly it can be grown for pennies per fruit as long as the plants are covered and given a bit of warmth in cold weather (the guy in the story was using old-fashioned outdoor Xmas lights). Obviously it's not being grown at scale on the Island but the fact that it could be is interesting.

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What's your top 5 favorite horror films?

Return of the Living Dead is so re-watchable. You might want to throw me out of the group but I mainly like B-horror and the classics, so stuff like Bela in Dracula, Spookies, Uninvited, and There's Nothing Out There and straight-up weird foreign stuff like VIY. That last one I'd recommend to anyone who isn't scared off by subtitles because the ending really is a great payoff. Some recent stuff I've liked is Barbarian, Talk to Me, and The Substance. Also, a hard agree on It Follows. They did borrow the ending from CHUD II...

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US Development Program

Fewer Canadians are signing up for youth hockey: "Over 15 years, the number of kids under 18 playing hockey fell by 33%. This is from 523,785 in 2010 to 340,365 in 2022". Covid aside, I think a lot of this is because Canadian pro teams haven't won the cup since they were still putting out NHL games for Super Nintendo. It's been that long! How can Canada stay on top if no one wins and people stop caring?