As per usual I spent too long pecking on the keyboard.  I'll just leave this part:

After a lot of effort by the DTX widget community there have been several new weather widgets created which work, about the 1st page of the DTX Widget gallery at this point.

a lot of the newly updated ones - like from Redneckdude and Richard Mohler are tied thru NOAA and WeatherUnderground

just type in "canada"  - no quotes and wait, you'll get a drop down with the available cities

I've had this problem before.  The answer is to input the data correctly.  Like "City, Canada, Province".

although the  widget that comes with My Colors Green Mint, occosionally displays the dates and days incorrect.y.  Like presently, on Sunday October 4 2009, it shows the following forecasts:  today as Friday October 4th, Saturday and Sunday.  And when I look at the clock in the system tray, it says Sunday, October 4th.

If he's trying to use a widget that tries to access the old Weather.com feed - virtually all of the old non-MyColors widgets - it doesn't matter how he enters the location, the data feed simply isn't there any more and he'll get stuck in the loop he's describing.  The MyColors gadgets use the AccuWeather feed and aren't affected.

I've seen the date issue you're describing with the AccuWeather gadgets mentioned before, but I don't think I've seen a solution for it.  You could try clearing the DTX cache but I'm thinking that doesn't fix it.

Thank you all very much for you help.  I understand very well now.  I found Steampunk and it works very well.  Thank you again and take care.

Guess I'm late...lol!! I have several weather widgets in the gallery that work. All my old ones that don't work have been removed. Just go here. http://redneckdude.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?libid=34