More oddities spotted in the news

[Star Ranger4]

Canadian spending on Halloween is double Canadian spending on the space program.

So, if anybody ever tells you that money spent on space should be spent on solving problems on earth, tell them they'd get twice as much money to spend on solving problems on Earth if they cancelled Halloween.

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And here I thought that Canada, as a better member of the Free Trade Agrement than the US has been...  Didn't have to worry about their own space program, we'd let them use ours.

Of course, that was 4 years ago.  Let us hope that it will be true again come Jan 21st.