Canada Day often seems a rather tepid, bureaucratic affair celebrating the day Great BritainöÏÓãÊÓƵapp Parliament managed to pass a law granting four small North American colonies the right to elect their own politicians to a single House of Commons — not a shot fired and no declaration of independence. But why limit ourselves to such a paltry notion of CanadaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp origins?