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Day: August 15, 2016

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Top 10 Pizzas in Canada – happiness is a slice of pizza

Eric Sigurdson/August 15, 2016November 25, 2016

Our family loves pizza.  Not Neapolitan pizza, or hipster pizza, or the latest pizza of the month.  Real pizza, or what is often affectionately referred to as old school pizza.  Fully loaded pepperoni and cheese (although we traditionalists won’t say no to adding mushroom and bacon). The secret to a good pizza is in the…

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