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The army fires guns a lot. In fact, it’s fair to say that discharging firearms is one of their primary responsibilities. This item, which sold for scrap for $8,369.00, shows the sheer volume of bullets that are discharged by the Canadian Armed Forces on a regular basis. Although the size of the brass casings vary, the listing represents the remains of at least 30,000 individual bullets (the box above is only a portion of the total lot). For context, though, this is still only 10% of the estimated number of bullets fired by the U.S. Army for every insurgent killed in Afghanistan or Iraq.

Bass guitar from Canada’s oldest federal prison

There are more questions than answers about this bass guitar being sold off by Manitoba’s Stony Mountain Institution. Perhaps it was seized as contraband? Perhaps the prison band’s rhythm section obtained early parole? Or perhaps this is the bass guitar that played the theme song for Seinfeld, and it is only now being released for its crimes.

A $370,000 icebreaker (that just underwent $9 million in repairs)

In 2009, Conservative MP Steven Blaney proudly announced that the light icebreaker CCGS Tracy would be helping to “strengthen the local economy” with a $6.8 million refit in Quebec(the final price tag was something more like $9 million). So it’s a little scandalous that, only a few years after the refits were complete, the CCGS Tracy sold in March for only $370,000. It was a screaming deal for the buyer, to say the least. At a normal yacht sale, the best $370,000 is going to buy would be something around 18 meters long. This is a 55 meter behemoth packed with high-end navigation equipment that can go for pleasure cruises through frozen lakes.

Inspirational posters from the Parole Board of Canada

Amidst the often gruesome task of perusing psychiatric reports, court records and victim impact statements, in October the Parole Board of Canada decided that they no longer needed this set of campy 1990s-era motivational posters. They sold for the eerily specific price of $17.17.

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