CONTENTS
Because the BRI understands your reading needs, we’ve divided the contents by subject.
LIFE IS STRANGE
Close Encounters Make Bad Therapy
Car Trouble
Raise Your Trays, and No Shape-Shifting!
Art Brutes
Trade Ya?
You Call That Art?
Saucers in the Sky
SONG & DANCE
Bieber Fever!
The “Naked” Truth
Rush! Rush!
The Mitchell Report
A Hit Out of Nowhere
Bryan’s Songs
Meet the Viletones
“Wildflower”
Canuck Punk
“Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft”
23(ish) Short Stories About Glenn Gould
Rockin’ in the Free World
Northern Novelties
EAT UP!
Clam Eyes All Around!
Let Them Eat Lobster
(This Is No) Crappy Cereal
Hail Caesar
Toe-Tally Gruesome
These Boots Were Made For Eating
The Newfie Palate
Odd Eateries
Space Food
Poutine Supreme
Life, Death, and Pemmican
BUSINE$$
Fart Dog Makes Good
Shovel Off
Name That Ad!
The Popemobile
Buckley’s Mixture
Motherland of Invention
Harvesting the Frozen Goliaths
The Wonderbra
Defying Gravity
MOUTHING OFF
Weird Canadians
Cronenbergian
The Kids in the Hall
Humour Us
Celine’s Selectives
Generation Doug
Poli-Talks
West Jest
Stephen Leacock
Will Power
Fearless Leaders
Canadians on Canada
SHOOTS AND SCORES
Let’s Go Curling!
Athletic Imperative
Hockey Fight in Canada
The Beer Mile
Don’t Fence Me In
Off the Ice
Go Fog Devils!
The Great One’s Great Tips
The Richard Riot
It’s a Tradition!
Odd-Lympics
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Life of the Stanley Cup
Skirting Around the Corner
ACT NATURALLY
Ice Worms
The Wild, Wild Wind
Beaver Fever!
Whale Tales
A Tundra of Fun
Great Lakes
The Tide is High
Uncanny Canadian Creatures
Moose! Moose! What Moose?!
The Oldest Water on Earth
Snakes on a Plain
Grolar Bears
Uncanny Canadian Creatures
Chased By a Wolf
Naturally Weird
Bird is the Word
IN THE NEWS
Weed Canada
Weird Canada
Weird Canada
Weird Canada
Weird Canada
Weird Canada
The Great White Weird
Weird Canada
Weird Canada
Weird Canada
STAGE & SCREEN
Black Comedy
Red Hartt’s Movies
Incubus
“The Great White North”
Cirque Du Soleil
The Trouble With Tracy
Canadian Superheroes
Quirky Canadian TV
Every City in the World
They Did That on Television
Pierre Berton vs. the Cuisinart
April Fool’s!
Early Canadian Film
Everything’s Gone “Green”
Wayne & Shuster
SPOOKY STUFF
The Sound of the Northern Lights
Who You Gonna Call?
A Mystery Is A-Foot
The Flaming Ship
Haunted Haunts
The Mysterious Fate of Henry Hudson
Super Nova
Weird History
LAW & ORDER
Loony Laws
Beatle Infestation at the Fairmont
Hair-Dressing Down
Legal in Canada
Illegal in Canada
Street Legal
The Great Maple Syrup Heist
The Stopwatch Gang
The Black Donnellys of Biddulph
The Mad Trapper of Rat River
Loony Laws
IT’S JUST POLITICS
Join the Party
War Pigs
Oops, Minister!
Occupy Iceland
Pothead Premier?
The Filibuster
Sensational Premier Stirs Up a Ruckus
Hans Island
CREATURE FEATURES
Eerie Earfuls
City Animals
Ogopogo Monster
Windigo-A-Go-Go
Hairy Terror
Cow Craziness
PEOPLE ARE STRANGE
Powerlifting for God
It’s a Conspiracy!
The Man With a Window in His Stomach
Canadian Cyborg
Hail the New King of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Going With the Flow
The Tagish Elvis
HISTORICALLY ODD
The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson
The Great Farini
Shades of Grey Owl
The Gentle Giant of Willow Bunch
The Great Pretender
The Great Stork Derby
The Crusades of Louis Riel
GE-ODD-GRAPHY
Literal French Canada
Am I In Canada? Are You Sure?
Even Hosers Have Hometowns
The Money Pit
Alert!
COME TO CANADA
The Coolest Hotel
Uncommon Fixtures Won’t Hold Fast
Kissing a Cod in Newfoundland
Honest Ed’s
Let’s Go to the Mall!
World’s Smallest Library
Canada the Big
Edifices Extraordinaire
Oddball Festivals
More Canada the Big
Mad Museums
CANADIANA
Loudly Noted
Superstitions
Happy Centennial!
Only Canadian To...
We’re #1!
We’re #1!
Urban Legends
Urban Legends
Only in Canada
Not Provincial
It’s a Record!
Uncle John’s Page of Lists
Is This Person Canadian?
WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE
You Say Tomahto, I Say Eh?
The Language Police
Prosebusters!
Punkydoodles
Canadian Jokes
IT’S A BLUNDERFUL LIFE
Mabel the Wonder Monkey
Bathroom News
Campy Councillors
“Creative” Canadian Teachers
Oops!
THAT’S DEATH!
Heads Off!
Writing a Will From Scratch
Killing Houdini
Toronto’s First (Botched) Hanging
The Milkshake Murder
The Kinky Killer Colonel
Odd Deaths
The Murder of Julien Latouche
Trunk Food
The Last Laugh
FORGOTTEN HISTORY
A Man Named Bladder
Vikings in Canada
Faulkner’s Fly-By
Bed Pushing
Mance’s Town
Filles Du Roi
Send in the Clowns
The Southern Menace
It’s a Girl, Girl, Girl, Girl, Girl!
Ice Wonders
Swastika, Ontario
The “Mad,” Brave Piper of Normandy Beach
Like a Verigin
POT-POURRI
Club Canada
Knights of the North
Bordering on the Strange
Coins of the Realm
Pole Dancing For All!
Skirting the Issue