Canada Quirks

Just returned from a short stay in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.  Only 5 hours door to door - lucky for us.  Here are the quirks in no particular order.

• No ice cubes.  We try to eat at Ma & Pa places and not at chains.  Ma & Pa places are usually European style - which is no ice cubes.  We frequented a Polish Bistro.  I ordered cold water with ice in Polish mind you.  Nie ice.  Oh.  At least the food was good.
• No cookies.  On a trip to walmart.ca (Walmart.Canada) to pick up supplies, we kept looking for the aisle labeled "Cookies".  No luck.  Snacks, Chips, Candy. But NO COOKIES.  In the snack aisle we found a 3 foot section of Canadian off brand cookies for 99 cents a box.  They were very hard - glad that we didn't break a tooth.  
• Better bags.  At this same Walmart the plastic bags used to carry the cookies out of the store were heavy mil.  Labeled walmart.ca (see above) these bags could haul rocks.  The plastic bags labeled Walmart (Hayward) are so flimsy that sometimes we don't make it out of the store before disaster strikes. If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we have heavy mil bags like Canada?