It is always good to see progress. A few weeks ago I saw a commercial
for the Canadian Tire Company on one of the Canadian TV stations we
get on cable here in Seattle. The ad stated that their snow tires
give an extra few feet of stopping distance when traveling at 60 km/
h. I forgot the exact distance they claimed, but found the mix of
units odd.
On 2007-11 -25, at 17:08 , Ezra Steinberg wrote:
I was shopping at a hardware store a little northeast of Seattle
when I saw tubes of clean, washed sand marked "30 kg / 66 lb".
I started to congratulate our continued shift to (rational) metric
as evidenced by this weight labeling when I noticed that the
manufacturer was located in Vancouver, BC!
At least there are times when the Canadians can push back and
influence us in the right direction as opposed to all the ways we
create a drag on Canada's evolution toward metric because of our
overwhelming presence in the land of USC (US Customary) units.
It also shows that at least some Canadian manufacturers have
shifted into "metric mode" in their thinking by adopting a rational
metric size for their packaging.
Ezra
