Housekeeping: Happy Indigenous People's Day/Canadian Thanksgiving!

by Tim Healey

Published: October 14th, 2024

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Today is Canadian Thanksgiving. As an American employee of a Canadian company, I knew that.

What I didn't realize is that here in the States, today is also Indigenous People's Day/Columbus Day, and it's also a company holiday.

So we're off today, more or less.

That's right, your humble managing editor got up for work like usual and logged on like usual only to find out it's an off day. That said, we may have some fresh content for you. I ran our weekly Junkyard Find so that we can stay on schedule, and if news breaks, we'll be on it, assuming we aren't all too deep into spiked apple cider. Or just taking an autumn nap.

I kid, of course. Today is one of those weird holidays where some people are off and some are not -- so to those of you who are in the office today while your kid isn't in school and your buddy who works at a bank is playing golf, you have my condolences.

Oh, and more note -- while we return tomorrow, at least two of us are also traveling on industry events, so the posting schedule may be weird. Perhaps a bit more West Coast-oriented in terms of timing.

Back at it with a vengeance on the 'morrow.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Teddyc73 12 hours ago
A little late to this insane back and forth but as an American born in this country I am indigenous. The people living here before the Europeans arrived were living 5000 years in the past, they did not sprout from this Earth, they fought and battled and stole land from each other for centuries. They were brutal and barbaric. I celebrate Columbus's arrival. The Europeans and Indians fought and battled for this land and the Europeans won. Because of that we have our advanced civilization. Thank You Columbus!

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- Bd2 8 hours ago
  Insane back and forth? Sir this is a Wendy's.
  
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Arthur Dailey 10 hours ago
Here in Canada we celebrated Thanksgiving. So no moral quandries associated with our day off yesterday.

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- Charles 10 hours ago
  None here either
  
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