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  1. RanchHand

    American with billion dollar question

    I've read that Canada spent 1 billion dollars for security for the G20 meeting. Has this money been accounted for? In other words is the information available as to how the money was spent, who the contractors were, etc? I see a lot of complaints about the 1 billion being excessive but I...
  2. RanchHand

    Jamaica vs Canada

    On the same day that Jamaican troops stormed a Canadian airliner and captured a hijacker and hauled him away the Canadian navy stormed a pirate boat and hauled away their guns but sent the men on their merry way to rob again some other day. Surely most Canadians don't agree with this policy...
  3. RanchHand

    Russian Military in the Arctic

    I don't intend to make a habit of starting threads because as an American on a Canadian board I don't want to be a sciattone, but I'm torn between either a thread on "white men with blue eyes" started the financial mess or this: Obviously at some point in the next few years there are going to...
  4. RanchHand

    The Devil Made Me Do It

    Can someone confirm that there are Canadian citizens who cannot survive without the assistance of American bear hunters? I find this hard to believe and the poster making the claim won't respond. -------
  5. RanchHand

    Canadian Homes are on the Internet

    Evidently teams of Americans are in 11 major Canadian cities right now with specially outfitted vehicles capable of taking relatively high quality 360 degree photographs of your homes, men, women, children etc. These photos will then be uploaded to web servers where they will be made available...
  6. RanchHand

    Something Fishy in Canada. Very Fishy.

    Canada continues to receive near universal bad press for conducting their baby seal clubbing harvest. It's possible that it is among the top 5 most reported stories about Canada in the global media (my guess) during a typical year. The US banned the import of the harvest years ago. The EU will...
  7. RanchHand

    Arctic tensions heat up

    Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland are considering a recommendation to form a military pact is to be considered at a May summit of foreign ministers from the five nations. " It's yet another sign, said University of Calgary political scientist Rob Huebert, of the intensifying...