Have you heard about Canadas 150th Birthday Party?

Murphy

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Make sure to tell everybody you know out there who all of a sudden realized that they love camping now because Trudeau made it free for a year.

Pick up your Garbage.
Don't go smashing your quads off trail ripping shit up
Don't release live bait into the lake
Respect peoples property
Don't take more than you need from the forest
Especially take out any plastic you bring in or see, It helps!!!

Don't need any people coming up in the forest polluting everything

-rant over

I'd like to add to that.

If you are from a place with more than 100 people, stay home.
If you're from the city, don't come bothering us with your meterosexual, faux 4x4s, loud music, Rayban sunglasses and LL Bean sleeping bags. Stay home.
If you have a lantern that requires liquid fuel, stay home.
Leave any bug spray at home. It's bad for the environment.
If you own a fishing rod, fish in the local sewer or your driveway. It's cheaper and you still won't catch anything anyway.
If you own a trailer that must be towed, for GOD'S SAKE, stay home!
If you have children, take them for a drive into a big city. Zoos are nice.

Thank you for your kind attention.
 

coldstream

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I was around for Canada's 100th Birthday and it was a big deal. Almost every community had some kind of project or event to celebrate it. The Country as a whole held a splendid World's Fair in Montreal. Chances are, if you were around, you went to it with your family or school.

Frankly the Sesquicentennial has barely intruded into the national consciousness. As i see it there was a much stronger definition and confidence to our identity as a country than what we have after the 50 years of Free Trade, globalism, multiculturalism, the Culture of Death (abortion, homosexuality, euthenasia), radical individualism, moral relativism. We've been steeped in pessimism, obfuscation, irresponsibility and decline.

Most people you'd ask these days would say.. who cares.
 

Curious Cdn

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I was around for Canada's 100th Birthday and it was a big deal. Almost every community had some kind of project or event to celebrate it. The Country as a whole held a splendid World's Fair in Montreal. Chances are, if you were around, you went to it with your family or school.

Frankly the Sesquicentennial has barely intruded into the national consciousness. As i see it there was a much stronger definition and confidence to our identity as a country than what we have after the 50 years of Free Trade, globalism, multiculturalism, the Culture of Death (abortion, homosexuality, euthenasia), radical individualism, moral relativism. We've been steeped in pessimism, obfuscation, irresponsibility and decline.

Most people you'd ask these days would say.. who cares.

It was a big, big deal. There is hardly a town in Canada without a Centennial Arena, Library, Park, Theatre, beach ...whatever. It was a great party and a magic time in our history. It was the wartime generation finally growing themselves a big party after 10 years of depression, six years of war and twenty years of building a life and family.
 

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Yep, and the path to inner peace begins with four simple words; "Not my f*cking problem." Sorry Cliffy, I refuse to feel guilty about anything anyone other than I may have done.

Oh and for those who may be interested in a cost update, the current govt plans on dropping a cool $500 million on Canada 150. Hardly makes that $12 million seem like anything to whine about now.
 

Johnnny

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I'd like to add to that.

If you are from a place with more than 100 people, stay home.
If you're from the city, don't come bothering us with your meterosexual, faux 4x4s, loud music, Rayban sunglasses and LL Bean sleeping bags. Stay home.
If you have a lantern that requires liquid fuel, stay home.
Leave any bug spray at home. It's bad for the environment.
If you own a fishing rod, fish in the local sewer or your driveway. It's cheaper and you still won't catch anything anyway.
If you own a trailer that must be towed, for GOD'S SAKE, stay home!
If you have children, take them for a drive into a big city. Zoos are nice.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Aren't you from Barrie anyways? That city has always struck me as a "weekend warrior' kind of city. :p
 

White_Unifier

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Canada is not 150 years old, it is 15000 years old.

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Wrong. Turtle Island is that old, it it didn't have artificial barriers between the modern colonies of the US and Canada.

The colonial state of Canada is 150.

I was around for Canada's 100th Birthday and it was a big deal. Almost every community had some kind of project or event to celebrate it. The Country as a whole held a splendid World's Fair in Montreal. Chances are, if you were around, you went to it with your family or school.

Frankly the Sesquicentennial has barely intruded into the national consciousness. As i see it there was a much stronger definition and confidence to our identity as a country than what we have after the 50 years of Free Trade, globalism, multiculturalism, the Culture of Death (abortion, homosexuality, euthenasia), radical individualism, moral relativism. We've been steeped in pessimism, obfuscation, irresponsibility and decline.

Most people you'd ask these days would say.. who cares.

I wonder how they celebrated it at the residential schools?

The real question is why can't we celebrate without the government spending ridiculous amounts of money at it...and running a deficit to boot. Do you like to see the government borrow money to throw parties?

It's not like we have debts to pay, homeless people, underfunding Deaf, dyslexic, indigenous, and other education, etc....


Er... Oh wait....
 

coldstream

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I wonder how they celebrated it at the residential schools?


It was before the Culture of Victimhood overtook our society, which is one of the facets Canada's decline.

I seem to remember many indigenous festivals being held with pride, celebrating the event. And most students in Residential Schools were in fact respectfully and well treated by honest teachers and caregivers. That is for the 6 months a year they spent in them. Most were grateful for the literacy and opportunity they provided, compared to the poverty, alcoholism, hopelessness and itinerant hunter gatherer lives they lived in the wilderness.

A few of the horror stories might have been credible, but once it became associated with money, lawsuits, land claims, and, the pathos saturated icon of the 'noble savage'.. all 'truth' left the issue.
 

Murphy

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Aren't you from Barrie anyways? That city has always struck me as a "weekend warrior' kind of city. :p

No, I'm not from Barrie, live in or near it. I spent time there when I was in the military.

Wouldn't want to live there.

I do have lots of friends that live between there and Sudbury.

Couldn't live down south.
 

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Ontario to kick off 150th birthday celebration with giant inflatable duck costing $200Gs
Postmedia Network, with files from The Canadian Press
First posted: Monday, May 29, 2017 01:31 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, May 29, 2017 06:33 PM EDT
TORONTO - What the duck?
The Ontario government will celebrate the country’s 150th birthday with a giant rubber duck — and taxpayers are taking a bath.
Ontario PC MPP Vic Fedeli said the $200,000 birthday duck tour — more than half of it covered by Ontario — is a sure sign of a government with “messed up” priorities.
“I cannot imagine what the rubber duck’s connection is to the 150th,” Fedeli said. “They’re laying off frontline health-care workers right across Ontario ... They can’t find money for alternative level of care beds, but they can find $200,000 for some kind of a duck promo?”
The six-storey-tall, 13,600-kilogram yellow duck is being brought to Toronto by the Redpath Waterfront Festival, at a total cost of $200,000, combining a provincial contribution and other funding such as corporate sponsorship.
The total grant for the Toronto portion of the tour was closer to $121,325, according to tourism ministry spokesman Jeff Costen.
Costen denied any funding was specifically for the inflatable duck, arguing the funding is more of an investment, with every dollar estimated to trigger about $20 in visitor spending.
Stops are planned in Toronto, Midland, Brockville, Amherstburg and Sault Ste. Marie to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday on July 1, according to Ontario 150 co-producer Lea Parrell.
He said the price tag includes renting the duck from a man in the United States who owns it, transporting it, inflating it, using a crane to lift it onto a barge, towing the barge, bringing it to Ontario communities, marketing, and on-site support such as portable toilets and extra fencing so people don’t fall in the water.
Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister Eleanor McMahon cautioned against focusing too much on the duck, because she thinks it is much ado about nothing.
To Florentijn Hofman, the Dutch artist who inspired the creation of a world-famous — some might say pointless — giant rubber ducky, the giant toy highlights earth’s “global bathtubs.”
In describing his work, Hofman once told reporters: “It means we’re living on one planet.”
To others, though, it represents government waste — and further confirmation that Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals are living in an alternate universe.
“We’ve been aware of this duck for a few years,” Parrell told Postmedia, “Tourists and children love it and it’s been all over but it has never been to Canada before.”
He added: “People can’t wait for this duck to come.”
The early returns suggest otherwise.
“Ontarians are paying $1 billion a month in debt interest payments alone, but the Wynne govt has $200k for a giant floating duck,” tweeted Aaron Wudrick, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Another Twitter user, @Victoria59L, tweeted: “What on earth does a giant floating duck have to do with Canada’s 150th.”
Ryan Fraser (@fraserrc) added sarcastically, “When I think of Ontario’s 150th birthday, a big rubber duck definitely comes to my mind.”
This isn’t the first time funding for this year’s celebration has been scrutinized.
Queen’s Park also came under fire earlier this year after it was revealed the Ontario government spent $30,000 on a logo some deemed boring and basic.
The world's largest rubber duck is on a six-city tour to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, ending in Brockville Aug. 10-13.

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Ontario 150 giant rubber duck comes with copyright dispute
By Antonella Artuso, Toronto Sun
First posted: Thursday, June 01, 2017 02:18 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, June 01, 2017 02:25 PM EDT
TORONTO - A large rubber duck that’s supposed to spread joy in the Canada 150 celebrations is leaving a messy controversy in its wake.
An ugly war of words has raged for three years between Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman and events producer Craig Samborski, self-billed as the “World’s Largest Rubber Duck Owner,” over who owns the copyright for the duck.
An Ontario 150 event is using a $120,000 grant from provincial taxpayers to help cover the cost of bringing Samborski’s inflatable six-storey version for a tour as part of the Canada 150 birthday celebrations.
In a statement, Hofman claims the original image belongs to him and suggests Canadian taxpayers got plucked.
“We think it is most important that if you celebrate such a big event, you always should go for the original,” Kim Engbers, a spokesman for Hofman, said in an email to the Toronto Sun on Thursday. “Show as a nation and as festivals you respect artistic (copyright) and be true to your audience.”
Hofman’s statement said his original duck would have been available to Canada 150 instead of the “counterfeit,” which is being rented out at “exorbitant rates against the wishes of its creator.”
“Had a Canadian government official tried to contact us, we would have provided the real duck,” the statement says. “It is unfortunate this due diligence wasn’t completed.”
Ryan Whaley, who co-owns “Mama Duck” with Samborski, told the Sun that they contracted with Hofman in 2014 to create a large giant duck for an art installation in Los Angeles harbour, but the artist failed to deliver technical drawings as specified.
Whaley described Hofman’s work as “napkin drawings,” and so they employed two other companies to build it.
“It’s very much not a counterfeit duck,” Whaley said. “As a matter of fact, our duck is registered with the U.S. Patent and Copyright Office.”
Their trademark lawyer has advised them that the image of the rubber duck has long been in the public domain, he said.
There are other giant ducks out there, but Waley said their version is the world’s largest and it brings joy and smiles wherever it goes.
He and Samborski are being paid $71,000 for the Ontario tour rental — which includes six stops — not the $200,000 mentioned to Postmedia by the festival organizers, he said.
A spokesman for the Redpath Waterfront Festival redirected Toronto Sun questions to Samborski.
“The duck was contracted from a company named Draw Events. Craig Samborski, the owner, has been working extensively with the duck for several years and can most accurately answer any questions you may have regarding the duck,” the spokesman said.
This is not the first time that the duck’s ownership has been called into question, as feathers have flown wherever the duck has landed in recent years.
Jeff Costen, a spokesman for Ontario Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister Eleanor McMahon, said they had nothing to do with the decision to rent the giant duck.
“It’s a dispute between two independent parties,” Costen said. “We didn’t contract the duck at all. This third party festival, so they’re delivering ... programming including the duck. We gave a grant to that festival but that’s the only relationship.”
PC MPP Vic Fedeli has questioned why Ontario taxpayers would be flowing money to a floating duck that has no real link to Canada or its birthday.
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Giant rubber duck on six-city tour to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, ending in Brockville Aug. 10-13.

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Canada 150 a sweet celebration | Shop Till You Drop | Cool Stuff | Life | Toront

Commemorative watches will support wounded soldiers
By Jenny Yuen, Toronto Sun
First posted: Sunday, May 14, 2017 08:03 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, June 08, 2017 04:14 PM EDT
The 150th anniversary of Canada this year not only celebrates the nation’s birth, but also supports the wounded soldiers that served in its name.
Time is Ticking, a Toronto-based company, has created a signature watch with a maple leaf in its face where $10 of proceeds from the sale of each $85 timepiece will go to Wounded Warriors Canada, which provides post-traumatic stress disorder care for ill and injured Canadian soldiers, first responders and their families.
“It’s not just about buying a watch, it’s why people are buying a watch,” said Robin Devine, the owner of the watch company. “The history of our regiments is so profound. This watch will mean so much to so many people because it represents Canada.”
Devine said she expects the first batch of 300 watches to arrive on June 15 and wants to keep making the 150th anniversary commemorative watches until December. The watch sales have raised roughly $400,000 over the past 20 years to various charities.
She’s also hoping a sponsor will buy some in bulk and donate them to veterans, which has happened in the past.
“I have a customer right now that makes automobile parts and he has big plants and every year, he would always buy the military police watches or different watches as Christmas presents to give to his clients,” explained Devine. “ It was his anniversary of his company this year and he knew what I was doing to help Wounded Warriors, so he told me he wanted me to charge the same retail price (of $220) and he’s potentially ordering up to 300 watches, so that’s $3,000 right there.”
In the past, Time is Ticking created commemorative timepieces for Canadian military and police, including the Afghan Mission watch, 100th anniversary watches for the Royal Canadian Navy, and the Ontario Provincial Police.
The money is used in Wounded Warriors Canada programs, which Dave MacDonald – the charity’s partnerships director who served a tour in Afghanistan before he was injured in 2009 from a vehicle rollover – can benefit from, first-hand.
“My wife didn’t serve overseas and wasn’t there when my injury happened, but I brought that home,” said MacDonald, 32. “She’s injured in her own way through my own injury and I react to certain things. Our programs use equine therapy with horses, service dog program for vets and spouses, and our COPE program – couples overcoming PTSD everyday. It’s just learning how to re-communicate with each other.”
Wounded Warriors helps 1,200 people every year – double that if you include spouses, he saids.
“We can only help those who come forward with their injury and we know that studies that Canadian society that 20% that suffer from mental health illness, half of them will never come forward,” MacDonald said. “Part of this is having the programs there, but also raising awareness...so we can start fighting the stigma of mental health illness.”
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David Macdonald, of Wounded Warriors Canada, shows off a watch that has been created to celebrate Canada and to provide a means to donate to Wounded Warriors Canada. (MICHAEL PEAKE/TORONTO SUN)

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