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Dia de la Candelaria leads today's complete edition for Canada.
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The Virgin of Candelaria is venerated across northern Chile, especially in the mining towns where faith is the only thing stronger than the desert. Processions carry her through streets lined with copihues and copper dust. The miners pray to her before every shift and she has never let them down.
Groundhog Day, Canadian style. Wiarton Willie in Ontario and Shubenacadie Sam in Nova Scotia emerge from their holes and predict the weather with stunning inaccuracy. The whole town of Wiarton throws a festival for a rodent and every Canadian pretends to believe the prediction because winter needs something to hope for.
Shubenacadie Sam in Nova Scotia. Wiarton Willie in Ontario. Balzac Billy in Alberta. Each province has its own groundhog and each groundhog has its own prediction and none of them agree. The groundhogs of Canada are united only in their inaccuracy.
