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One week from today — tens of thousands of Canadian men will be jockeying for position, at the local flower shop.

And almost all of them, will be asking for one particular kind of flower — a red rose… or perhaps, a bunch of them. The demand is huge — but have you ever wondered where those roses come from in the middle of a Canadian winter? Scot Urquhart did: