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Why it's the best time ever to be a Canadian

We are Canada. At 144 years we are neither young nor old, as nations go. And nations do come and do go, it bears remembering. You don’t have to be very old to appreciate that the world map that occupied a corner of your childhood classroom is a relic of another age; that borders once drawn in blood aren’t indelible at all, they are just lines to be moved, or bent or erased by popular will. Yet, here we are, still in this together, and doing rather well.

Like any worthy anniversary, it is deserving of celebration but also of the appreciation that future years together aren’t guaranteed, they must be earned, and mutually agreed upon. Back when Canada was a mere pup of 115 years, Ralph Klein, then the brash young mayor of a brash young Calgary, called Canada, “perhaps the only country in the world held together by curiosity.” He asked if such a confederation of interests and regions can endure. “[N]o one is quite prepared to give up on her yet,” he said, “as if we all have some lingering desire to see how this ongoing exercise in nation-building ends.”

And why not? No. 143 was not the easiest of years, but it was largely free of any soul-sucking existential debate on Canada’s future. There was a federal election, and no one died in the process. Economic uncertainty lingers, but we emerged stronger than the year before, and healthier in most every sense than a long list of wealthy, developed nations. And, yes, let’s not lose sight of that inarguable fact: we are rich.

, a program where rapper 50 Cent once showed off his 50,000-sq.-foot Connecticut mansion (18 bedrooms, 25 bathrooms, an elevator, two billiard rooms), but the average Canadian family actually has their American counterparts beat when it comes to living large. A recent survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found the average Canadian home boasts 2.5 rooms per person, more than the 2.3 room average in the U.S., and the highest among the 34 OECD member countries, where the average was just 1.6 rooms.

Canada’s reigning status as a country of big, roomy houses is a direct result of our hot real estate market, which escaped the global economic downturn relatively unscathed. While the U.S. has yet to recover from the subprime mortgage crisis and the subsequent recession, Canadians have continued to take advantage of rock-bottom interest rates to buy bigger and better properties, forcing prices ever higher. That includes first-time homebuyers who abandoned cramped rental suites for more spacious condos, and existing homeowners who jumped at the opportunity to sell into a hot market and move into their dream homes. More impressive is that Canadians have managed all this while working an average of just 1,699 hours a year. That’s well below what the average American works (1,768 hours) and the OECD average (1,739 hours).

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Ever After Visuals is a mother-daughter wedding photography team, we love capturing emotion in the moment.  We are photojournalists by nature.  We love photographing Weddings, Portraits and Events.  If you know of someone getting married, please send them our way!

April showers bring May flowers.  We’ve heard this age old adage time and time again but on this day it proved false.  The sun shone brightly against beautiful blue skies.  The grass was lush and green at Newton White Mansion, with pretty purple and yellow flowers sprinkling the landscape.  It was a perfect day for a perfect couple.

Donald and Tarsha are truly a unique couple.  Donald and Tarsha unknowingly grew up around each other their entire lives.  As many of you know, these two met at Friday’s.  You can check out their engagement session we did for them throughout DC and finished at the exact booth at the Friday’s where they met.

What we love the most about Donald and Tarsha are how well-suited they are for each other.  Both are in a bike club, with amazing bikes that they were even able to incorporate into the wedding.  Both are incredibly kind, caring people.  Family is obviously important.  I daresay that if I were ever to get married (this is Joriana by the way lol) I would want to have the type of relationship that Donald and Tarsha have.

We weren’t just honored to be chosen to be a part of their wedding.  We felt like family.  The close-knit relationships we were happy to witness and document that day made our heart smile.  Donald and Tarsha would do anything for their friends and family and clearly, their friends and family would do anything for them.  There was so much history and emotion throughout the reception it was hard to not sit back and marvel.

We hope you all enjoy the slideshow we designed as well as all the images!

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