Global News published this video item, entitled “Groundhog Day 2023: Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow” – below is their description.
It’s Groundhog Day, and the famed and furry forecaster of spring Punxsutawney Phil has predicted six more weeks of winter for the U.S.! The famous rodent saw his shadow Thursday during the 137th Groundhog Day celebration in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile in Canada, Celebrity groundhog Shubenacadie Sam kicked off the country’s first prediction shortly after sunrise over Nova Scotia, followed later by Ontario’s Wiarton Willie.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, and Appalachian regions of the United States.