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Contest: Win a basket of Canadian goodness

Darren — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:19:55 +0000

I think about food all the time, and I hate it. I’m only a few weeks into my all-Canadian diet, and the amount of time I need to spend shopping for and preparing food is a bit ridiculous. I also went cold turkey on Coke, a beverage I’ve drunk daily for the past, oh, 25 years. Don’t get me started on the headaches.

On a lighter note, it’s time for another contest. The good people at Saul Good Gift Company have donated a gourmet gift basket to the cause. It contains all sorts of tasty local stuff–pecan fruit crisps from Vancouver, chocolate bark from Ladysmith, season fruit preserves from Langley and so forth.

What do you have to do to enter this contest? Simply ‘like’ the 1Y1C Facebook page. Have you already liked it? No problem, you’re already entered in the contest.

Not on Facebook? Good for you. Just leave a comment below and we’ll add your name to the mix.

I’ll pick a winner in early October and Saul will send you the goodies.

Month #6 Contest – Win a Chillbed Laptop Stand

Darren — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:26:39 +0000

I know, I’m a bit behind. I failed to deploy a contest last month. What can I tell you? The categories are adding up, and I’m having a hard enough time just wrestling my busy life into too-small mukluks that is this project.

But, on the upside, you get two contests this month. The first one comes courtesy of the good folks at Chillbeds. They produce made-in-Canada laptop stands.

I didn’t realize how handy a laptop stand was until I received one–not a Chillbed, but something similar–as a gift a couple of years ago. My Macbook Air gets really hot, and after a half-hour or so it can be uncomfortable to have it in my lap. A laptop stand ameliorates this problem. Likewise, they’re super-handy if you want to watch something on your laptop in bed with a, uh, bed partner. You put the stand in-between you and nobody gets a stiff neck.

In keeping with last month’s home category, here’s the contest. Before July 31, leave a comment below naming one thing in your home that’s made in Canada. It can be a piece of clothing, an item of furniture, a beauty product–anything, really.

I’ll pick a winner in early August, and they’ll receive a Chillbed.

UPDATE: Congratulations to Nicole from Ontario–she’s the lucky commenter who we randomly selected to win the Chillbeds laptop stand.

Win a $50 MEC gift card for 18 seconds of effort

Darren — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:49:45 +0000

I think we’ll have contests every month here at One Year, One Canadian. That sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

For month #1, let’s keep things nice and simple. There’s a $50 Mountain Equipment Co-op gift certificate up for grabs. To win it, all you have to do is leave a comment on any blog post, follow One Year, One Canadian on Twitter or ‘like’ my brand-spanking-new (and, for the moment, deeply uninteresting) Facebook page.

If you do all three, you’ll treble your chances of winning. For non-British speakers, that’s double plus one. I figure one of those activities will take you, on average, 18 seconds.

Is the gift card itself manufactured in Canada? I’m doubtful, but I’ll look into it.