🍫 Where to eat in Nanaimo: Hearthstone Artisan Bakery
Nanaimo gave Canada its famous three-layer bar — coconut-graham base, custard middle, chocolate top — and Hearthstone in Southgate is a standout on the city's Nanaimo Bar Trail. Their bars have been on Food Network and YTV, always in Classic, Peanut Butter Crunch, and a monthly flavour.
🔹 Try: Classic or Peanut Butter Crunch Nanaimo bar (about $6 each from recent receipts; tax may apply). Scratch baking with Island ingredients; take-away only.
🔹 Hours: Tue–Sat 8 a.m.–5 p.m.; closed Sun, Mon and holidays.
🔹 Address: 50 Tenth St #115a, Southgate Shopping Centre, Nanaimo (south end).
💡 Tip: Ask which monthly flavour is on — pumpkin spice, Irish cream and candy cane have all rotated. Grab a box if you're ferrying to the mainland.
📍 Google Maps: Hearthstone Artisan Bakery
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Nanaimo gave Canada its famous three-layer bar — coconut-graham base, custard middle, chocolate top — and Hearthstone in Southgate is a standout on the city's Nanaimo Bar Trail. Their bars have been on Food Network and YTV, always in Classic, Peanut Butter Crunch, and a monthly flavour.
🔹 Try: Classic or Peanut Butter Crunch Nanaimo bar (about $6 each from recent receipts; tax may apply). Scratch baking with Island ingredients; take-away only.
🔹 Hours: Tue–Sat 8 a.m.–5 p.m.; closed Sun, Mon and holidays.
🔹 Address: 50 Tenth St #115a, Southgate Shopping Centre, Nanaimo (south end).
💡 Tip: Ask which monthly flavour is on — pumpkin spice, Irish cream and candy cane have all rotated. Grab a box if you're ferrying to the mainland.
📍 Google Maps: Hearthstone Artisan Bakery
🇨🇦 @canada
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🏛 Where to go in Québec: Musée de la civilisation, Québec City
On the Old Port waterfront, Québec's Musée de la civilisation mixes First Nations and Québec stories with rotating shows. A bright indoor stop when the city turns cold — permanent halls include This Is Our Story and In Other Words, Québec.
🔹 Adults 35–64 $27, ages 18–34 $22, 65+ $26, 12–17 $10, 6–11 $6; 5 and under free (as listed on mcq.org)
🔹 Open Tue–Sun 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; closed Mondays in the fall/winter season
🔹 85 Rue Dalhousie, Old Port (Vieux-Port)
🔹 Boutique open 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; free lockers and Wi‑Fi
💡 Tip: Pair it with a stroll along the Old Port, then walk up into the walled Old City.
📍 Google Maps: Musée de la civilisation
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On the Old Port waterfront, Québec's Musée de la civilisation mixes First Nations and Québec stories with rotating shows. A bright indoor stop when the city turns cold — permanent halls include This Is Our Story and In Other Words, Québec.
🔹 Adults 35–64 $27, ages 18–34 $22, 65+ $26, 12–17 $10, 6–11 $6; 5 and under free (as listed on mcq.org)
🔹 Open Tue–Sun 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; closed Mondays in the fall/winter season
🔹 85 Rue Dalhousie, Old Port (Vieux-Port)
🔹 Boutique open 11 a.m.–5 p.m.; free lockers and Wi‑Fi
💡 Tip: Pair it with a stroll along the Old Port, then walk up into the walled Old City.
📍 Google Maps: Musée de la civilisation
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🚨 JUST IN: Ottawa tables Budget 2026
🔹 Deficit projected at $62.3 billion for 2026-27, with about $22 billion in new affordability measures
🔹 Includes a productivity mega-deduction for business investment and an enhanced groceries benefit
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🔹 Deficit projected at $62.3 billion for 2026-27, with about $22 billion in new affordability measures
🔹 Includes a productivity mega-deduction for business investment and an enhanced groceries benefit
🇨🇦 @canada
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🚨 JUST IN: The Weeknd wraps tour as highest-grossing solo male act ever
🔹 After Hours Til Dawn ends in Kuala Lumpur: 176 shows, over 9 million tickets, more than $1.3 billion (Live Nation)
🔹 The Toronto star also set a Rogers Centre venue record on the four-year stadium run
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🔹 After Hours Til Dawn ends in Kuala Lumpur: 176 shows, over 9 million tickets, more than $1.3 billion (Live Nation)
🔹 The Toronto star also set a Rogers Centre venue record on the four-year stadium run
🇨🇦 @canada
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🗣 Canadian English: pencil crayon
🧣 In Canada, a coloured pencil is usually called a pencil crayon — a school-supply word you hear from kindergarten through high school. It means a pencil with a coloured core, not a wax crayon.
🔊 Say it: PEN-sill CRAY-on (same as "pencil" + "crayon")
💬 "Can you pass me the red pencil crayon? I need to colour the maple leaf."
🌎 Same thing, different English:
🇨🇦 pencil crayon 🇺🇸 colored pencil 🇬🇧 colouring pencil / coloured pencil
✏️ Canadian spelling: colour, coloured (like British) — but the school word itself is pencil crayon
💡 Careful: A crayon on its own is usually the soft wax stick. A pencil crayon is the wooden pencil with colour inside. Some parts of the UK also say pencil crayon, but in North America it is strongly Canadian.
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🧣 In Canada, a coloured pencil is usually called a pencil crayon — a school-supply word you hear from kindergarten through high school. It means a pencil with a coloured core, not a wax crayon.
🔊 Say it: PEN-sill CRAY-on (same as "pencil" + "crayon")
💬 "Can you pass me the red pencil crayon? I need to colour the maple leaf."
🌎 Same thing, different English:
🇨🇦 pencil crayon 🇺🇸 colored pencil 🇬🇧 colouring pencil / coloured pencil
✏️ Canadian spelling: colour, coloured (like British) — but the school word itself is pencil crayon
💡 Careful: A crayon on its own is usually the soft wax stick. A pencil crayon is the wooden pencil with colour inside. Some parts of the UK also say pencil crayon, but in North America it is strongly Canadian.
🇨🇦 @canada
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In Canada, what is a "pencil crayon"?
Anonymous Quiz
9%
A one-dollar coin
82%
A coloured pencil
4%
A winter knit hat
5%
A public toilet room
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🐟 Where to eat in Yellowknife: Bullocks Bistro
For three decades this log cabin on Great Slave Lake has served wild-caught northern fish — Whitefish, Lake Trout, Inconnu and Arctic Char — cooked from scratch in front of you. It is Yellowknife's classic fish-and-chips stop.
🔹 Try: Arctic Char fish & chips about $49, or Whitefish from about $32 (with home-cut fries and house salad; tax may apply). Pan-fried, grilled or deep-fried.
🔹 Hours: Mon–Sat 11:30 a.m.–8 p.m.; closed Sunday.
🔹 Address: 3534 Weaver Dr, Yellowknife, NT (Old Town, on Great Slave Lake).
💡 Tip: Call ahead for a table — the room is small and fills fast. Ask which fish came in from the lake that day.
📍 Google Maps: Bullocks Bistro
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For three decades this log cabin on Great Slave Lake has served wild-caught northern fish — Whitefish, Lake Trout, Inconnu and Arctic Char — cooked from scratch in front of you. It is Yellowknife's classic fish-and-chips stop.
🔹 Try: Arctic Char fish & chips about $49, or Whitefish from about $32 (with home-cut fries and house salad; tax may apply). Pan-fried, grilled or deep-fried.
🔹 Hours: Mon–Sat 11:30 a.m.–8 p.m.; closed Sunday.
🔹 Address: 3534 Weaver Dr, Yellowknife, NT (Old Town, on Great Slave Lake).
💡 Tip: Call ahead for a table — the room is small and fills fast. Ask which fish came in from the lake that day.
📍 Google Maps: Bullocks Bistro
🇨🇦 @canada
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🗺 Where to go in Alberta: Banff Upper Hot Springs
Soak outdoors at Canada's highest mineral pool — a Banff tradition since 1886 — with views of Rundle and Cascade Mountains. The water is kept between 37 and 40 °C, and the springs reopened on Nov. 3 after fall maintenance.
🔹 Pool: adult $19.75, senior/youth (3–17) $17.25, under 3 free, family $64.25 (locker token included); Banff park pass also required (adult day $12.25)
🔹 Open daily 10 a.m.–10 p.m.; last entry 9:30 p.m.; first-come, first-served — buy tickets in person only
🔹 1 Mountain Ave, Banff; Roam Route 1 “Sulphur Mountain” from downtown every ~20 min
💡 Tip: Arrive earlier on weekends — wait times stretch, and you still need a park pass before you stop at the springs.
📍 Google Maps: Banff Upper Hot Springs
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Soak outdoors at Canada's highest mineral pool — a Banff tradition since 1886 — with views of Rundle and Cascade Mountains. The water is kept between 37 and 40 °C, and the springs reopened on Nov. 3 after fall maintenance.
🔹 Pool: adult $19.75, senior/youth (3–17) $17.25, under 3 free, family $64.25 (locker token included); Banff park pass also required (adult day $12.25)
🔹 Open daily 10 a.m.–10 p.m.; last entry 9:30 p.m.; first-come, first-served — buy tickets in person only
🔹 1 Mountain Ave, Banff; Roam Route 1 “Sulphur Mountain” from downtown every ~20 min
💡 Tip: Arrive earlier on weekends — wait times stretch, and you still need a park pass before you stop at the springs.
📍 Google Maps: Banff Upper Hot Springs
🇨🇦 @canada
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🚨 JUST IN: Ottawa sets 2027–29 immigration targets at 380,000 permanent residents a year
🔹 Temporary residents stay at 370,000 a year; a one-time measure aims to grant permanent residency to up to 200,000 people already in Canada
🔹 Carney calls it sustainable; Conservatives say Canada can't absorb the numbers
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🔹 Temporary residents stay at 370,000 a year; a one-time measure aims to grant permanent residency to up to 200,000 people already in Canada
🔹 Carney calls it sustainable; Conservatives say Canada can't absorb the numbers
🇨🇦 @canada
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🚨 JUST IN: McDavid hits 17-game point streak
🔹 The Oilers captain had a goal and 3 assists in a 5-4 loss to Anaheim, reaching 44 points (10 goals, 34 assists) to open the season
🔹 He briefly left after a hard hit into the post, then returned and scored short-handed
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🔹 The Oilers captain had a goal and 3 assists in a 5-4 loss to Anaheim, reaching 44 points (10 goals, 34 assists) to open the season
🔹 He briefly left after a hard hit into the post, then returned and scored short-handed
🇨🇦 @canada
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🗣 Canadian English: chesterfield
🧣 In Canadian English, a chesterfield is any sofa or couch — not just the fancy leather style. Dictionaries mark this broad meaning as Canadian.
🔊 Say it: CHESS-ter-field
💬 "Kick off your boots and put your feet up on the chesterfield."
🌎 Same thing, different English:
🇨🇦 chesterfield (any sofa) 🇺🇸 couch / sofa 🇬🇧 sofa / settee (chesterfield = a specific style)
💡 Careful: Outside Canada, "chesterfield" usually means one classic style: arms and back the same height, often tufted leather. Younger Canadians often say couch or sofa instead, but many households still use chesterfield.
🇨🇦 @canada
🧣 In Canadian English, a chesterfield is any sofa or couch — not just the fancy leather style. Dictionaries mark this broad meaning as Canadian.
🔊 Say it: CHESS-ter-field
💬 "Kick off your boots and put your feet up on the chesterfield."
🌎 Same thing, different English:
🇨🇦 chesterfield (any sofa) 🇺🇸 couch / sofa 🇬🇧 sofa / settee (chesterfield = a specific style)
💡 Careful: Outside Canada, "chesterfield" usually means one classic style: arms and back the same height, often tufted leather. Younger Canadians often say couch or sofa instead, but many households still use chesterfield.
🇨🇦 @canada
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🥧 Where to eat near Saskatoon: The Berry Barn
The city shares its name with the Saskatoon berry, and this family-run farm restaurant on the South Saskatchewan River has served it for over 25 years. Come for a warm slice of Saskatoon berry pie with ice cream or real whipped cream, plus prairie comfort food like perogies, cabbage rolls and farmer sausage.
🔹 Saskatoon berry pie $7.99; perogy meals from $17.99; Saskatoon berry milkshake $8.99 (menu prices)
🔹 Open daily 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
🔹 Saturdays in November: brunch buffet 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (adults $29.99), regular menu not served
🔹 696 Valley Rd, about 11 km south of the city; you'll need a car
💡 Tip: Try the cinnamon-dusted Saskatoon berry perogies, and grab a jar of house-made Saskatoon berry jam in the gift shop.
📍 Google Maps: The Berry Barn
🇨🇦 @canada
The city shares its name with the Saskatoon berry, and this family-run farm restaurant on the South Saskatchewan River has served it for over 25 years. Come for a warm slice of Saskatoon berry pie with ice cream or real whipped cream, plus prairie comfort food like perogies, cabbage rolls and farmer sausage.
🔹 Saskatoon berry pie $7.99; perogy meals from $17.99; Saskatoon berry milkshake $8.99 (menu prices)
🔹 Open daily 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
🔹 Saturdays in November: brunch buffet 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (adults $29.99), regular menu not served
🔹 696 Valley Rd, about 11 km south of the city; you'll need a car
💡 Tip: Try the cinnamon-dusted Saskatoon berry perogies, and grab a jar of house-made Saskatoon berry jam in the gift shop.
📍 Google Maps: The Berry Barn
🇨🇦 @canada
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🗺 Where to go in Nova Scotia: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Canada's oldest and largest maritime museum sits on Halifax's historic waterfront, with galleries on the Titanic recovery, the 1917 Halifax Explosion, and centuries of life at sea — a bright indoor pick when Atlantic weather turns cold.
🔹 Winter admission (Nov–Apr): adult $5.15, senior (65+) $4.35, youth (6–17) $3, 5 and under free, family $11.90 (as listed)
🔹 Open Tue–Sun 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (Tue until 8 p.m.); closed Mondays; free Tue 4–8 p.m.; closed Remembrance Day Nov. 11
🔹 1675 Lower Water St, Halifax harbourfront; CSS Acadia ship closed for the 2026 season
💡 Tip: Tuesday after 4 p.m. is free — or come earlier for quieter Titanic and Explosion galleries.
📍 Google Maps: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
🇨🇦 @canada
Canada's oldest and largest maritime museum sits on Halifax's historic waterfront, with galleries on the Titanic recovery, the 1917 Halifax Explosion, and centuries of life at sea — a bright indoor pick when Atlantic weather turns cold.
🔹 Winter admission (Nov–Apr): adult $5.15, senior (65+) $4.35, youth (6–17) $3, 5 and under free, family $11.90 (as listed)
🔹 Open Tue–Sun 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (Tue until 8 p.m.); closed Mondays; free Tue 4–8 p.m.; closed Remembrance Day Nov. 11
🔹 1675 Lower Water St, Halifax harbourfront; CSS Acadia ship closed for the 2026 season
💡 Tip: Tuesday after 4 p.m. is free — or come earlier for quieter Titanic and Explosion galleries.
📍 Google Maps: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
🇨🇦 @canada
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🌬 JUST IN: Second wind storm hits B.C.'s South Coast, cancelling evening ferries
🔹 BC Ferries cancelled the 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tsawwassen–Swartz Bay sailings; gusts up to 90 km/h are forecast
🔹 About 40,000 BC Hydro customers were still without power Saturday morning after Friday's storm
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🔹 BC Ferries cancelled the 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tsawwassen–Swartz Bay sailings; gusts up to 90 km/h are forecast
🔹 About 40,000 BC Hydro customers were still without power Saturday morning after Friday's storm
🇨🇦 @canada
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🎸 JUST IN: Céline Dion filmed playing air bass at Metallica's Las Vegas show
🔹 Fan video from Thursday's Sphere concert shows the Canadian singer rocking out from a suite during a bass-and-guitar jam
🔹 She has shared Metallica on her own playlist, including the 1996 song Until It Sleeps
🇨🇦 @canada
🔹 Fan video from Thursday's Sphere concert shows the Canadian singer rocking out from a suite during a bass-and-guitar jam
🔹 She has shared Metallica on her own playlist, including the 1996 song Until It Sleeps
🇨🇦 @canada
🗣 Canadian English: hydro
🧣 In Canada, hydro often means household electricity — the power that lights your home — not water. People say the hydro went out, or that the hydro bill is due.
🔊 Say it: HIGH-droh (rhymes with "high" + "dro")
💬 "The hydro went out last night, so we lit some candles."
🌎 Same thing, different English:
🇨🇦 hydro (electricity) 🇺🇸 electricity / power bill 🇬🇧 electricity / electricity bill
💡 Careful: A hydro bill is your electricity bill, not your water bill. The prefix hydro- means water, and hydro can also mean hydroelectric power — that double meaning trips up a lot of newcomers.
🇨🇦 @canada
🧣 In Canada, hydro often means household electricity — the power that lights your home — not water. People say the hydro went out, or that the hydro bill is due.
🔊 Say it: HIGH-droh (rhymes with "high" + "dro")
💬 "The hydro went out last night, so we lit some candles."
🌎 Same thing, different English:
🇨🇦 hydro (electricity) 🇺🇸 electricity / power bill 🇬🇧 electricity / electricity bill
💡 Careful: A hydro bill is your electricity bill, not your water bill. The prefix hydro- means water, and hydro can also mean hydroelectric power — that double meaning trips up a lot of newcomers.
🇨🇦 @canada
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🍽 Where to eat in Fredericton: The Palate
This downtown Queen Street restaurant serves a globally inspired menu with clear Maritime notes — creamy seafood chowder with scallops, clams and haddock, hot-smoked Atlantic salmon croquettes, and the house favourite that never leaves the menu: lemon meringue salmon, an oven-baked fillet with lemon parmesan chive aioli.
🔹 Lunch seafood chowder $12; smoked salmon croquettes $19; other lunch plates about $14 to $19. Dinner: lemon meringue salmon $30; mains $26 to $36 (menu prices, tax extra)
🔹 Tuesday to Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m.; Saturday dinner only, 5 to 9 p.m.; closed Sunday and Monday
🔹 462 Queen St, downtown Fredericton
💡 Tip: Call ahead to book a table. At lunch, ask about the daily Blue Plate sandwich special ($14).
📍 Google Maps: The Palate
🇨🇦 @canada
This downtown Queen Street restaurant serves a globally inspired menu with clear Maritime notes — creamy seafood chowder with scallops, clams and haddock, hot-smoked Atlantic salmon croquettes, and the house favourite that never leaves the menu: lemon meringue salmon, an oven-baked fillet with lemon parmesan chive aioli.
🔹 Lunch seafood chowder $12; smoked salmon croquettes $19; other lunch plates about $14 to $19. Dinner: lemon meringue salmon $30; mains $26 to $36 (menu prices, tax extra)
🔹 Tuesday to Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m.; Saturday dinner only, 5 to 9 p.m.; closed Sunday and Monday
🔹 462 Queen St, downtown Fredericton
💡 Tip: Call ahead to book a table. At lunch, ask about the daily Blue Plate sandwich special ($14).
📍 Google Maps: The Palate
🇨🇦 @canada
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🍁 Where to go in British Columbia: Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, North Vancouver
A 137-metre-long bridge hangs 70 metres above the Capilano River, with rainforest treetop walks and a cliffside path on the same ticket. It is a 15-minute drive from downtown, and a free shuttle runs from the city.
🔹 Adult $76.95 + 5% GST (about $80.80 with tax); children 5 and under free · Open daily 10am–5pm until Nov 19, then 11am–10pm from Nov 20 for Canyon Lights · Closed Dec 25 · 3735 Capilano Rd
💡 Tip: Tickets are sold by date and arrival time on the park's own site, so book ahead.
📍 Google Maps: Capilano Suspension Bridge Park
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A 137-metre-long bridge hangs 70 metres above the Capilano River, with rainforest treetop walks and a cliffside path on the same ticket. It is a 15-minute drive from downtown, and a free shuttle runs from the city.
🔹 Adult $76.95 + 5% GST (about $80.80 with tax); children 5 and under free · Open daily 10am–5pm until Nov 19, then 11am–10pm from Nov 20 for Canyon Lights · Closed Dec 25 · 3735 Capilano Rd
💡 Tip: Tickets are sold by date and arrival time on the park's own site, so book ahead.
📍 Google Maps: Capilano Suspension Bridge Park
🇨🇦 @canada
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🚨 JUST IN: Quebec's immigration minister says she is "very shocked" by about 100 alleged fake selection certificates
🔹 An ex-provincial immigration employee is charged with breach of trust and forgery; acts allegedly took place 2016–2019
🔹 Minister Catherine Gentilcore says she'll make sure it was an isolated case
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🔹 An ex-provincial immigration employee is charged with breach of trust and forgery; acts allegedly took place 2016–2019
🔹 Minister Catherine Gentilcore says she'll make sure it was an isolated case
🇨🇦 @canada
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🏒 JUST IN: Hellebuyck blanks the Leafs in his first game back in Canada
🔹 Traded from Winnipeg on Oct. 23, Connor Hellebuyck made 23 saves as the Devils beat Toronto 4-0 Sunday, the first Devils goalie to win his first 5 starts
🔹 Next up: his return to Winnipeg to face the Jets on Tuesday
🇨🇦 @canada
🔹 Traded from Winnipeg on Oct. 23, Connor Hellebuyck made 23 saves as the Devils beat Toronto 4-0 Sunday, the first Devils goalie to win his first 5 starts
🔹 Next up: his return to Winnipeg to face the Jets on Tuesday
🇨🇦 @canada
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