Canadian Shield

that got me thinking about using canoeing as a modality to travel into the wilderness.

And really, if you go on a trip through the Canadian Shield and you consider how long it would take to walk through that terrain, there's a reason that canoeing was the dominant mode of transportation in an era before roads and before railways.

So it's not so much that I love canoeing, but I love where canoeing takes you.

Mm.

And getting out of Toronto on a bad day can take you a couple of hours.

So I grant you that most people's experience of the outdoors is limited, maybe to, I don't know, center island or some of the larger parks.

But so much of Ontario is dominated by the Canadian Shield.

And that is a profoundly beautiful landscape.

So I'd say, you know, people think about driving across the country and they think about mountains.

They think about the Canadian Shield.

But there's a lot of beauty hiding out there in the prairies and in the places that you least expect.

There's a lot of love for music, a lot of great music communities as well.

It's more rolling, really rocky outcrops.

They call it the Canadian Shield, where all the lakes and that are.

So is

that because it's so far north? Is that why it gets so cold, or is it because it's so high as well?

As defensible as it gets, easy to move around within, hard to get to from outside, and then the mountain ranges are all right up on the coastlines.

And then there's the Canadian Shield up north, and if you go farther than the north, it's the fucking Arctic.

North America as a unified entity is the most externally defensible thing ever.

You'd have to look at places like Afghanistan or Mexico for something that's harder to invade, or like Iran or some shit, to find a place that's harder to invade from an external force, or perhaps even Ethiopia.

It was an intimate, cozy gathering with a fantastic turnout, proof that even small-town Canada is wide awake and ready to protect their natural health freedoms.

In an update from the road, before we get to today's events, I want to share an update from Sean and Teresa, who've been living life on the road in what Teresa describes as a rolling condo, the health truck towing the world's greatest health van across the Canadian Shield.

Their first day out from Dryden was a 13 and a half hour drive, the longest yet.

It began beautifully with open skies, sunlight and laughter, and ended as a test of sheer endurance and faith.

from dave's place he was like yeah okay we're just gonna go to this farm which you would have never found yeah it was an hour away and then it's like okay i thought we were going like out the back of his property or something like that and then it's like oh no we're gonna go to our trail that leads to our hunting cabin and Which is another hour away.

And it's literally on like the Canadian Shield where all the farms end.

And then it's just nothingness.

Yeah.

well that's it because we were talking to the sketch montonians

saskatchewanians sketch yeah i don't know

something like that yeah But I guess that's that whole Canadian Shield thing is that it's like permafrost.

It's often like really, really frozen.

And so the trees are big and big enough.

And It's the kind of terrain that would be called the Canadian Shield.

It's a very, very old rock and the soil is pretty thin and it was heavily glaciated.

So it's scoured, there's thousands of lakes and the rocks have been scoured over and then this thin kind of almost a veneer of forest growing up on top of that.