I sometimes like to write about the strange things small municipalities spend their hard earned money on to try to draw tourists to their otherwise unremarkable towns. Last time I wrote about how Kuroishi spent nearly 2 million bucks on a pair of kokeshi dolls. Well, I feel like it's only fair for me to point out times when my own fellow Canadians conduct similar acts of mass public stupidity, such as when in 2001 the town of Timmons Ontario constructed the 5.5 million dollar Shania Twain Centre. Though it opened over 3 years ago, Shania herself only bothered to pay a visit to her own centre for the first time last month. I guess she has become so drunk on power that she won't leave her guilded cage in Geneva Switzerland, even if only to momentarily thank the peasants of Canada for the great monument they created in her honour. Even the emperor of Japan comes out of seclusion once a year and waves at the public for a few seconds.


Here is a partial list of the amazing things you can see at the Shania Twain Centre:

Interactive multimedia displays, Live concert simulations, Backstage concert experience, Interactive musical exhibits, Shania Twain memorabilia.
You can even see Shania's wedding dress and "several of her awards". I'm guessing they got the ones she doesn't care about enough to keep back home in her castle, like all her Junos. The place is basically a 5.5 million dollar public closet for Shania.


Damn it, why do I have to live 10,000 miles from the Shania Centre? Why God why?!?! I guess I'll just have to build my own monument to Shania in my apartment from ramen noodles and plastic utensils until I can finally come back home and make a proper pilgrimage to the shrine in Timmons that my tax dollars built. I wonder if they'll ship a Shania Twain Centre hockey jersey all the way to Noheji?