I was shopping at a hardware store a little northeast of Seattle when I saw tubes of clean, washed sand marked "30 kg / 66 lb".
I started to congratulate our continued shift to (rational) metric as evidenced by this weight labeling when I noticed that the manufacturer was located in Vancouver, BC! At least there are times when the Canadians can push back and influence us in the right direction as opposed to all the ways we create a drag on Canada's evolution toward metric because of our overwhelming presence in the land of USC (US Customary) units. It also shows that at least some Canadian manufacturers have shifted into "metric mode" in their thinking by adopting a rational metric size for their packaging. Ezra
