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I say Greenland, Wooden says Celine Dion.
What say you, fussybritches?

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

who cares?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a feeling that all the real, REAL hipsters have all moved to Canada, and they've been hip enough not to let their secret slip, leaving all the poseur hipsters in Brooklyn or wherever. So obviously the hipsters own Canada.

― na (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.legion.ca/asp/gfx/pix/reinethumb.jpg

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

bviously the hipsters own Canada

But if they live in Toronto, they only own about 300 square feet of Canada. And that's $1200 a month. How hip do you have to be to sign up for that?

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Kraft?

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the real question is, who PWNZ Canada?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The correct answer to this question is of course:
http://www.rocksource.de/bildarchiv/rush/rush.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Controlling Interest
Who Owns Canada
by Diane Francis
ISBN - 2761906675
(note: French cover shown here)
Controlling interest reveals the alarming concentration of ownership in Canada - where 32 families and five conglomerates own one-third of the country's corporate assets.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I swear to God Alex Lifeson is really Jeff Daniels from Dumb and Dumber.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You know the drummer from Red Hot Chili Peppers is really Will Ferrell, right?

― na (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Rush really should have stayed with this look:

http://www.cathedralstone.net/Pics/Rush2a.jpg

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"A Canadian politician once remarked that Canada was supposed to have British statesmanship, French culture and American know-how, but instead ended up with French statesmanship, American culture and British know-how..."

This has always stuck in my head, for some reason.

― andy, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

haha Nemo i was going to post that pic but thought it was too big! you can never have enough RUSH

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Bryan Admams was the king?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Canada is the most insecure country of all time. Ever watch Canadian TV? Read Canadian newspapers? It's all about "how we're not like the US," what the US is doing, perserving Canadian identity...seems like all they talk about is the US. They even have to have a certain amount of Canadian content on TV. By law. Insecure Canadians.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

like 75% of their population lives within 50 miles of the US

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/AskAGuru/Images/Canadian50.jpg

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we should officially change the name of ILX to "fussybritches"!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

if you do an img srch for it you get a snoozing kitty. so, yeah, that works.

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone ever seen the Queen, the hipsters, Greenland, Rush and Celine Dion in the same room? I smell conspricy, people.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ecma.ca/english/2004nominees/artistpics/Buck65.jpg

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure what this diagram explains, but I found it searching for Queen and Canada.

http://qsilver.queensu.ca/jewishstudies/kaballah.jpg

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

OH MY GOD! You mean Madonna is actually CANADIAN?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave Queen!

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

After this, he definitely deserves to.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

our national sport is navel-gazing. %35 of every radio station has to be CanCon.

heh, Huck, it's actually an old Red Ensign.. there's one on the old $5 too. Anyone seen the new $100's?

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

holy shit the new 100s have a lot of holgrams. i like the new money but i miss 2 dollar bills.

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe all these holograms will do the same for money what they did for comic books in the 90s.

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the Metallica article was the deciding factor.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

and upper deck hockey cards. hockey cards owned canada in the 90s, now it's prime minister buck.

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It's true that you can't have too much Rush, unless you're talking about side 2 of "2112".

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20030813/a122_1768.jpg
One day, Kamchakta might again be mighty.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

New hundred is shiney happy money and therefor sucks. Bring back the newfie firing squad.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.superseventies.com/2_70.gif

Shouldn't this thread have been titled "Guess Who Owns Canada"?

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i pwn canada

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

or...
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hard-rockcity/images/dico/dicom/mitch.JPG

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://pl.wikipedia.org/upload/1/15/Brian_mulroney.jpg
"I pawned Canada."

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I pawned it in the nude!
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/h4/f1/255-v3.jpg

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

SEE THE PHEAR!
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/h4/f1/17-v3.jpg

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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yes Madonna is in fact 50% canadian...her mama was Quebecois...

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Acadian, actually.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/CalgarySun/News/2004/07/25/556170.html

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

She better not show up at the family reunion.
Jack Kerouac is from French Canadian stock.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

So is Jacques Villeneuve.

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.reinvented.net/images/bobdoug.jpg

"Take off! It's a beauty way to go!"

― andy, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Jack Kerouac is from French Canadian stock.
-- Mr Noodles (infinitecow...), August 11th, 2004.

I am too, partailly.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

10 bucks is bucks.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"10 bucks is 10 bucks." I mean

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

New new money? Like, new since when I was there?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

new $100 bills, so really, it's theoretic new money, since I'll never see one. And haven't seen an old one since I was doing things I don't want to admit I was doing.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.base58.com/ilx/chickenreason.jpg

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 12 August 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Canada is the most insecure country of all time. Ever watch Canadian TV? Read Canadian newspapers? It's all about "how we're not like the US," what the US is doing, perserving Canadian identity...seems like all they talk about is the US. They even have to have a certain amount of Canadian content on TV. By law. Insecure Canadians."

Considering that Canada, a sparsely populated middle power, shares a border with the world's lone superpower, some small measure of insecurity is to be expected. We know that the US could invade us at will and there would be nothing we could do to stop them. There's also the fear of being completely overwhelmed by American popular culture via the media. However, I don't think that anyone really worries that much anymore about having to emphasize the fact that we're not American. Since the US morphed into a creepy police state where any form of dissent is either stifled or deemed "unpatriotic", the differences between the two nations have become quite clear.

Furthermore, American newpapers and television have spent a great deal of time recently focusing on what Canada is doing. ie. legalized gay marriage and our refusal to participate in illegal foreign wars. What was it they were calling us a while back, "Soviet Canuckstan"?

I'll take a small dose of insecurity over insanity any day.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

the US could invade us at will and there would be nothing we could do to stop them
i would fucking fuck them up.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 August 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't wait to move to Nunavut now.
And, y'know, maybe we're not insecure, maybe we're just playing the insecurity card. It makes sense. And: "I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers." "...and feeling insecure about it?" "yeah!" We're well aware of our issues at least.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is not complying with the 35% Doug Henning content law:
http://www.geocities.com/johncmeyers1/henning.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 12 August 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

We own Canada. Now get orf one's land.

― The Queen (robster), Thursday, 12 August 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

About the "50% of canadians near the border" thing...

a) That has a lot to do with how the country was initially settled.
b) It's FUCKING COLD everywhere else. What, did you think we ENJOYED it or something?

― Simon H., Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

And
C) We did at one time own or claim ownership over Maine, Washington/Oregon State, Ohio river valley and upstate New York. But the British tossed it all away. So we can't help it if the Manifest dynasty made us close neighbors.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/magicians/doug-henning/10044040.jpg

Another picture of Canada's--and possibly the world's--greatest hippy magician ever, to get us closer to 35%.

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

And the Natural Law Party's former deputy leader.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

He was a Renaissance (Faire) man.

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Americans accusing Canadians of insecurity has made my day lots. That's comedy.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

As a nation we're very secure in the fact we aren't Americans.
In fact I hear its printed on the new 100 dollar bill.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Our national motto is "The old grey mare she ain't what she used to be" in latin.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://gimptard.com/gt/canadians.jpg

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Canadian Cheech and Chong, them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Chong is already a Canadian. Used to be in the Armed Forces even.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, you're right!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

And Cheech used to be a liftie in Banff. Can't remember which mountain anymore.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

another famous canadian: that talk show woman who's guest killed another guest over a secret gay crush... can't remember her name. but she IS canadian, that much i remember

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Jenny Jones? But does she own Canada?

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://willferguson.ca/images/hate_zoom.jpg

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I read that book b/c he talks about his Canada World Youth experience - and I needed to laugh about my own.
omg, government-funded inter/national programs about "community-building" own Canada.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you read Katima-Victim?

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Based on the pictures posted so far, our Doug Henning content quota is sadly only at 11.1%.

http://www.globalseek.net/CoNTiNeNTs/NAMeRiCa/CaNaDa/ADDiTiONaL/ARTiCLeS/IMaGeS/HeNNiNG/henning.jpg

Now at 15.8%...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.compumagic.com/magic/dh/images/WalkThruWall.jpg

― huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ibmring49.homestead.com/publishImages/congratulatorypage_13130.gif

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.globalseek.net/CoNTiNeNTs/NAMeRiCa/CaNaDa/ADDiTiONaL/ARTiCLeS/IMaGeS/HeNNiNG/tiger.jpg

Take that, Siegfried and Roy!

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, and I'm glad CWY got me before Katimavik, eek. That said, I encourage all people under the age of 25 to do programs like this. But I'm of the what-doesn't-kill-you-makes-you-stronger school. Oh, and an idealist.
(i'm not saying x-post just b/c of Doug Henning.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dougthegreat.com/images/new%20flattened%20logo.gif

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I did Katimavik.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/images/vtnls.gif

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Make way for the new generation of Canadian magicians:
http://www.ryanjoyce.com/WebBanner.jpg

Bewildered and astonished...

Are you a more informed and involved Canadian for it, Huck? (But seriously, I actually am. Still fun to make fun of though.)
xpost

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. I also got in the habit of moving every 3 months, which is why I'm so fucked up now.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

But I wouldn't trade it for...well, maybe for a career.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

How about teaching EFL in the Orient? Thats the new alternative to becoming eurotrash backpacker.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ESL?

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

foreign or second.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never seen it as F, but I guess, yeah, in the Far East, it is.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

From Hansard, the Parliamentary Record:
Chuck Strahl:

If full disclosure is necessary to the financial manager, it begs an important question. Just who is the boss of Canada? Is it the government or the people who elect
the government? I would say that the people of Canada are the boss and they have hired this government for a short period of time to manage the public affairs for
them.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't they just use the parliament killfile on Chucky and Debbie?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

From one of those misheard lyrics sites:

Beck's, "Loser"
Misheard Lyrics:
So I own Canada.
Correct Lyrics:
Soy un perdidor

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://stavecards.moostores.com/catalog/images/lwalker-90leaf-rc.jpg

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

http://arcadefire.net/images/news/arcadetimecover640.jpg

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Dirt-worshipping heathens

― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

why doesn't the queen do something about her boobs?

― Grahame "Beaky" Beecroft, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Ryan Pitchfork chief-edit the Canadian edition of Time now?

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

even Hot Hot Heat was better~!

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Time to throw up

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

guys you have no idea.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Canadians are not that unattractive!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

holy fucking shit

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

'canada's most intriguing'

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I kinda feel a little sorry for the band. I hope they outlive the "we're the band that Pitchfork broke" tag. That would be sad if they didn't.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

TIME in misspelling "irritating" shocka.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the Canadian spelling, throws our yankee overlords for a loop.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

broken social scene must be le pissed about this.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

haha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

but but but ALEXISONFIRE!

AND NO ANNE MURRAY!

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

my running theory is that we felt so bad about the gay marriage and pot decriminalization legislation that we wanted to do something to prove our own fallibility as a nation.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought that's what Dan Akroyd was for.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

fun canfact: dan aykroyd predates gay people and drugs

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I really wished that was Masia One on the cover in an elegant hammock being held up by all the T Dot ILXORs.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"rappers who can't rap - a rich canadian history"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Who cares if Masia One isn't THEE most skilled Singaporean female MC? she's MASIA ONE! (Being the one of only two Masia One fans on ILX, if not the world, I must defend and show the rez)

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there really a Y before the K?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

masia one posts to ilx?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I will vouch for Masia One's HOTTTTNESS, but I haven't heard her music.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

this is the thread where the gomery commission is mentioned on ile

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Gomery commission sounds like business as usual in Quebec.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you think like trudeau that Québec has a price? Or what?

btw I have to say, I think in the future people in my province will be much more critical when they see canadian flags everywhere, hear "canadian" this "canadian" that on the tv, ads to promote canada etc I don't think they'll ever come-up with some clever new marketting gimmick to compensate... the end is night for canada, noodles :-)

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway, we are a "have not" province, isn't it?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The exact nail in the coffin for the I Am Canadian campaign was when they switched ad companies to the same folks who Blue use.

But that's besides the point, Molson never did well in Quebec. When you got Unibrew and Slemans firmly entrenched one shouldn't complain either. I would since I heart Moosehead but thats a different story all together.
As long as the "ethnic and money vote" still live in the province, or more importantly the PQ successfully continue to alienate them we are pretty safe until conservatives sneak into power. After that all bets are off.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The End is Night, a novel by Carol Shields.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"ethnic and money vote" ... harp on this all you want, who knows maybe it will make sense eventually

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I doubt the rantings of Jacques Parizeau will ever make sense.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

woah-bec, he was an eminent economist and served his country well. But as Landry said when the guy duff up, he duff up big time, but you know this and anyway, if you know you were not making sense, you should not imply québécois are generally racist eh?

About "PQ successfully continue to alienate them", what is this? Do you think the rise of popularity of sovereignism is alienation, because over time it grew from like 10% to 40,4 % to 49,4 % to...

alienation is exactly what Charest is doing to us right now, he is the economic equivalent of Mike Harris.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

hey canadians

do you guys have like a special attitude to the 60 degree parallel

http://www.ezilon.com/maps/images/northamerica/political-map-of-Canada.gif

cuz it kind of seems like most of your country is in that band right under it

or most of the people anyway

when you drive north is that like your existential out-there point, like 'o boy up north'

― j., Thursday, 27 February 2014 22:24 (twelve years ago)

an estimated 75 percent of Canadians live within 161 kilometers (100 miles) of the U.S. border

― have a nice blood (mh), Thursday, 27 February 2014 22:27 (twelve years ago)

I've never been anywhere near that far north, but yeah, it's definitely a symbolic border: The North.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NODozHreRaA

― jmm, Friday, 28 February 2014 00:47 (twelve years ago)

when you drive north is that like your existential out-there point, like 'o boy up north'

There are only a couple of provincial highways that go that far north, all in BC and AB. To get that far north in SK and MB, plus in northern QC and Labrador, you have to fly in.

Hardly anyone in Canada has ever been that far north. The only major city that's more than a couple hours drive from the US is Edmonton, and even that's closer to the 49th parallel than the 60th.

― Plasmon, Friday, 28 February 2014 01:06 (twelve years ago)

that's weird

what if there's something up there!!

you should go look!

― j., Friday, 28 February 2014 01:21 (twelve years ago)

OK, brb

― Plasmon, Friday, 28 February 2014 01:26 (twelve years ago)

I've been north of 60. Drove up from Edmonton, camped out in the NWT for a week. It's amazing. We saw buffalos in Wood Buffalo Park, and I dipped my toes in Great Slave Lake. Crossing 60 degrees _did_ feel like a really big deal to me. More ravens, less Canada geese. More scrawny black pines, less majestic fir trees. Less paved roads, too. Gigantic monster "dog flies". Like horse flies, but much meaner.

― pauls00, Friday, 28 February 2014 02:37 (twelve years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_road

― j., Friday, 28 February 2014 02:44 (twelve years ago)

66° 33′ 44″ AND BEYOND

― Lamp, Friday, 28 February 2014 03:20 (twelve years ago)

The northernmost I've been is the James Bay and it was both terrifying and beautiful.

― Van Horn Street, Friday, 28 February 2014 03:28 (twelve years ago)

So I can't imagine the territories...

― Van Horn Street, Friday, 28 February 2014 03:29 (twelve years ago)

why terrifying

― Joyeux animaux de la misère (nakhchivan), Friday, 28 February 2014 03:30 (twelve years ago)

Summertime in the Territories is great. I can understand the terrifying. There's almost a sense of vertigo. Top of the world! Etc.

― pauls00, Friday, 28 February 2014 03:44 (twelve years ago)

http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/k9mod/srchsask/skmap.html

i think for most people, at least on the prairie provinces that connect with the territories, the north begins much sooner and the 60th parallel is too far away and inaccessible to consider. this map doesn't show it well. http://listingsca.com/saskatchewan/map-saskatchewan1.asp <--- that one does, but it's too big. the province looks as if it's only been half settled. no one travels north of 60 and barely anyone travels north of prince albert (53°12′N 105°45′W). prince albert is the southern grasslands dweller's NORTH, "the last major centre along the route to the resources of northern Saskatchewan," right around the line where parkland and grassy spaces disappear and the boreal forest begins, where the population of the province becomes majority aboriginal. there are those three highways struggling up through the province, 955 which mostly serves uranium mines and ends at cluff lake mine, 914 which ends at key lake mine, 905, and all three, i think, are unpaved, and to travel further north or to travel most places out of reach of those roads, it's on temporary ice roads or seasonal roads or you fly.

― dylannn, Friday, 28 February 2014 04:14 (twelve years ago)

I met quite a few people at university (in BC) that would go tree-planting in the Yukon in the summer.

In fact, two of my good friends did it. It's intense.

The furthest north I've ever been to was an hour south of Jasper. But I do plan on seeing the northern lights in BC, so I'll make my way up there sometime.

― ∞, Friday, 28 February 2014 04:28 (twelve years ago)

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