Sports
This sports team won back-to-back World Series in 1992 and 1993.
Who are the Blue Jays?
Insulin was discovered by at a University of Toronto laboratory by researchers Frederik Banting and Charles Best. The scientists famously sold the patent for this much money, a symbolic amount meant to ensure all who needed it could access it.
What is $1?
This word meaning "the people" is used to refer to the group of culturally similar indigenous communities who inhabit the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska.
What is "Inuit"?
Don't be surprised if your business clients take you out for karaoke in this country. BTS, anyone?
What is Korea?
This is the longest street in the world, running from Lake Ontario in the South to Lake Simcoe in the North.
What is Yonge Street?
This Toronto sports team has been to their league finals twice since 2017. The team's fans are especially committed, with dedicated fan sections, chants and rituals. Go Reds Go!
Who are TFC (Toronto Football Club)?
This medical device generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to cause the heart muscle chambers to contract and pump blood. In 1950 the first one was built for implant by Canadian engineer John Hopps.
What is a pacemaker?
This game was initially played in the St. Lawrence Valley area by the Algonquian tribes and gradually spread throughout the western Great Lakes area. French Jesuit missionaries first watched the game being played in the 1630s and gave it its french name.
What is lacrosse?
Avoid ordering a juicy burger or steak during a business dinner with clients from this country. Holy cow, that would be a big mistake!
What is India?
This major GTA thoroughfare actually stretches 828 km from Windsor to the Quebec border.
What is Highway 401?
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What is the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway?
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What is the 401?
This 21 year old swimmer is Canada's most decorated Olympian with 7 medals to her name. In 2017 she went head to head with Mayor Tory over plans to shutter her neighbourhood public pool in Leaside
Who is Penelope (Penny) Oleksiak?
This supplement has a dark history of development; originally tested on indigenous children in Canadian residential schools, it was further developed at The Hospital for Sick Children to combat infant malnutrition.
What is pablum?
The modern Odawa name for this landmark is Mnidoo Mnis, meaning "Spirit Island". This landmass situated in Lake Huron has the distinction of being the largest island within a freshwater lake in the world.
What is Manatoulin Island?
In this country the left hand is considered unclean and used strictly for bodily hygiene. It is crucial to eat, shake hands and pass documents with the right hand only. Using the left hand to do any of those activities is a serious insult.
What is the UAE?
This 25-station transit line will run from York to Scarborough and is slated to open this year.
What is the Eglinton LRT?
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What is the Eglinton line?
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What is the Eglinton Crosstown LRT?
This tennis player had a big year in 2019, winning both the US and Candian Opens, defeating Serena Williams to win both titles. Born in Romania she has a strong fan base in both Romania and Canada.
Who is Bianca Andreescu?
SNO lab, which was located in this northern Ontario city, was the home of groundbreaking research into neutrion oscillation. The director of the experiment, Art McDonald, was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015.
What is Sudbury?
This four-coloured, circular symbol represents the alignment and continuous interaction of the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual realities. You can see one in person by visiting Nathan Philips Square, which has displayed this symbol prominently since 2018.
What is a medicine wheel?
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What is an indigenous medicine wheel?
In this country enjoying a relaxing sauna is an honored tradition. To help build the relationship, foreign clients shouldn’t decline the invite, as such an invitation is considered a sign of hospitality, showing the meeting is headed in a positive direction. I wonder if their recent NATO bid was drafted in a sauna?
What is Finland?
This transcontinental highway system is recognizable by its distinctive white-on-green maple leaf route markers. You may have spotted them when driving on Highways 11, 17 and 417.
What is the Trans Canada Highway?
This Canadian athlete has won 10 consecutive Canadian Triathlon Championships titles and carried the Canadian national flag during the 2000 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in Sydney, where also won his gold medal.
Who is Simon Whitfield?
This controversial aircraft touted Mach 2 speeds at altitudes exceeding 50,000 feet; despite the fanfare around its development high expenses and conflicting defence priorities led Prime Minister Diefenbaker to scrap the program in early 1959
What is the Avro Arrow?
This historic purchase represents the contested sale of indigenous land in southern Ontario from the Mississaugas of New Credit to the British Crown in 1787.
What is the Toronto Purchase?
Make sure you bring a gift to your first meeting with a client in this country - but don't be surprised if your gift is refused. The customary tradition is that gifts are refused up to three times before being accepted. It is essential to continue offering your present until it is finally taken.
What is China?
Sheppard West! Sheppard West Station! This North York subway station was previously named this, after the neighbourhood. For Ontario aerospace experts it's also home to DAIR.
What is Downsview?
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What is Downsview Station?