Happy Canada Day.
I’m grateful that my parents chose to immigrate here, even though I make a joke out of how they decided to move to the coldest place on earth. However, at the time, Antarctica wasn’t accepting immigrants, so they chose Edmonton, Alberta.
Many things amaze me about my parents’ choice of Edmonton. They didn’t know anyone there. They came there with $200. They got there in the winter, and my dad found a job out of town. He...