If you happen to spot a red Toyota Tacoma around town covered in dozens of figurines, decals, trophies and thrifted treasures — all with a Canadiana theme — you’re not hallucinating — that’s the Canada Truck.

Part sculpture, all spectacle, it belongs to a woman named Halle Halle.

Halle Halle has taken the Canada Truck to festivals all over the continent — from Seattle’s Fremont Fair to the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert and Houston’s famed Art Car Parade. Anne Bokma

Yes, you read that right — Halle Halle. It’s a name she gave herself after her divorce in her early 30s. She liked her first name so much, she doubled it — a playful declaration of independence.

“It was time to be myself, do art and just … be happy,” she says.

That spirit of reinvention infuses everything abo

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