Happy Canada Day, eh!

G'day, eh! Hope you're having a good one. Thanks for stopping by on this auspicious day. Fill your mug and grab hold of a virtual treat while I bring you the latest. I thought I'd bring you some Canadian stories you may not have seen in the news (if you weren't watching closely). These are things Canadians talk about...

1. Quebec's language watchdog has set its sights on one of the trendiest restaurants in Montreal, over the inclusion of the word 'pasta' on its menus.

According to the owner of Buonanotte on St. Laurent Blvd., the Office Quebecois de la langue francaise takes issue with restaurant's not having a French-language translation for that and other Italian words on its menu.

Massimo Lecas told CTV News that the restaurant received a letter from OQLF on Tuesday, after the language watchdog dispatched an inspector last September in response to a public complaint.

Massimo Lecas took this photo of his letter from the Office quebecois de la langue francaise, which points out that 'pasta,' 'bottiglia' and other words are not in French and require a translation. (CTV Montreal / Massimo Lecas)

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Cattle that were on the lam in north Edmonton were back in captivity Wednesday evening after an effort that tied up police and wildlife officials for hours.

The first animal, believed to be a steer, was captured within a couple of hours but it took until nearly 6 p.m. until a bull that was released to lead the first animal back to captivity was finally tranquilized and loaded into a trailer.

The day-long saga began just after 7 a.m. when police were called an area near the Belvedere LRT station after reports that a cow escaped from Edmonton Custom Packers.

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Some students in the University of Windsor's human kinetics program are "tired of walking" 10 minutes to the closest Tim Hortons.

The closest kiosk is at the Odette School of Business. That's exactly one kilometre, or a 13-minute walk, away from the human kinetics building.

So, students have started an online Facebook campaign called "Lets Get a Timmies in HK" to have a Tim Hortons built in their building.

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CALGARY -- The city's top cop says its hard to judge if the two officers videotaped appearing to be racing to a doughnut shop did anything wrong but the matter is now under investigation.

Chief Rick Hanson said he had one look at the video that surfaced on YouTube, showing two marked city cop cars and an unmarked vehicle at a red light.

When the traffic light turned green, the driver of one of the police cars accelerated to pull into a Tim Hortons.

"I've noticed that the speeds for two of the police vehicles, I don't think made it to 50 km/h," said Hanson.

He said investigators are looking closely at one of the police cars and its driver.

"I know that we're looking at what he was doing and what his intentions were at that point in time," he said.
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A fictitious story about a controversial Montreal bylaw proposal requiring dogs to be comfortable in the country's two official languages has rippled through the realms of social media and fooled even some seasoned news sites.

The story, a deadpan parody crafted by CBC Radio's This is That, went viral this week after the show posted a segment on its website about the "untenable chaos" that was rife in Montreal dog parks because some animals were receiving commands in French and others in English.

An interview featured a man with a French accent posing as a Councillor and answering the host's questions

So enjoy the day, eh, whether you are Canadian or not! As you can see, we don't always talk politics and hockey!

See ya, eh!

Bob