User:Canuckle

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Canuckle Today is 12 June 2008. This user's time zone is UTC-8. This user enjoys reading the newspaper. en-ca-N This user is a native speaker of Canadian English. its & it’s This user understands the difference between its and it’s. So should you. This user is a Wikipedian in British Columbia. This user is Canadian, eh?. This user has visited 4 of the 13 provinces and territories. 4 This user has visited 6 of the 50 States. 6 This user owns a Wii. This user is a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. VAN This user is a Vancouver Canucks fan. This user is right-handed. <ref> This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please... This user reserves the right to completely screw up his or her edits. This user spends WAY too much time on Wikipedia and really needs to get off the computer... after one more edit.

Contents 1 What's a Canuckle? 2 About this user 3 Created or (hopefully!) improved 3.1 Articles 3.1.1 Bios 3.2 Categories 4 Tools

[edit] What's a Canuckle?

Canuck: a slang term for Canadians originating in the 19th century, and the name of an intrepid band of hockey players, the Vancouver Canucks

Knuckle: a joint of a finger, which is brought into prominence when the hand is shut.

Definitions of canuckle from urbandictionary.com:

• canuckle - Cool dude of Canadian origin. Loves donuts (especially Tim Horton's), women and ice hockey. Not necessarily all at the same time, but it wouldn't hurt.
  • Man, that dude's a canuckle!
• A witty wise-cracking on-line friend who supplies TH at all the right times.
  • When's that Canuckle gonna get here with my donuts?

[edit] About this user

This user is thin-skinned, frustrated by process, writes quickly then leaves and prefers the big picture over small details.

[edit] Created or (hopefully!) improved

[edit] Articles

• Providence Health Care - operators of 7 care facilities in Vancouver
• Ocean Park (Surrey) - a neighbourhood of Surrey, BC
• Ministry of Health (British Columbia)
• Vancouver Magazine
• History of flooding in Canada
• Semiahmoo First Nation
• International Association of Business Communicators

[edit] Bios

• Carl Leone - Ontario man convicted of criminal transmission of HIV
• Jean Guyon - a Quebec pioneer that I had to fight to save from deletion
• Robert Giffard de Moncel - Quebec pioneer and first doctor in first hospital in North America
• Zacharie Cloutier - Quebec pioneer
• Geoff Plant - former British Columbia Attorney-General
• Jeff Monaghan - whistleblower or victim of federal witch-hunt?
• Elizabeth Bennett (judge)
• Jack Webster - famed BC journalist
• Vincent Covello - risk communications theorist and specialist
• Libor Polášek - a first-round draft pick that broke Canuck fans heart
• David D. Schreck - one-time MLA
• Dorothy Kostrzewa
• Garth Butcher - Vancouver Canuck player

[edit] Categories

• People from Port Alberni, British Columbia
• Civil rights history of Canada

[edit] Tools

• Count Canuckle's edits: link
• Link to Canuckle's sandbox

Picture of the day

A collage of six mustard images: Seeds of the mustard plant (top left) may be ground (top right) to make different kinds of mustard. The four mustards pictured are a simple table mustard with turmeric coloring (center left), a Bavarian sweet mustard (center right), a Dijon mustard (lower left), and a rough French mustard made mainly from black mustard seeds (lower right). Image credit: Rainer Zenz Archive – More featured pictures...