Cheers or jeers?? Wills and Kate arrive in Canada

Cheers or jeers for William and Kate's Canadian visit?

  • Cheers!

    Votes: 17 60.7%
  • Jeers!

    Votes: 2 7.1%
  • Don't care either way

    Votes: 9 32.1%

  • Total voters
    28
  • Poll closed .

spaminator

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:lol:

 

Ocean Breeze

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coldstream

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I think Will and Kate, will love spending some time in a remote cabin North of 60. I don't think anyone can spend time in Canada's great northern wilderness and not fall in love with it.

As to all the 'campaigning' for political advantage that has happened on the visit.. separatism, native right.. and on.. and on.., i've come to expect it. We are a nation of complainers, looking for a stage, and especially an international stage, since the audience has become so deaf to the din at home.

Everyone cloaks themselves in the sacred robes of 'victim' and looks for a soapbox. It's the least appealing thing to me about my country. In fairness, it's probably only the loudest and professionally indignant that get heard.. everyone else wants to get along and make the best of things, in a country that provides a lot of great things.. but that is not the appearance.
 
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Ocean Breeze

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I think Will and Kate, will love spending some time in a remote cabin North of 60. I don't think anyone can spend time in Canada's great northern wilderness and not fall in love with it.

As to all the 'campaigning' for political advantage that has happened on the visit.. separatism, native right.. and on.. and on.., i've come to expect it. We are a nation of complainers, looking for a stage, and especially an international stage, since the audience has become so deaf to the din at home.

Everyone cloaks themselves in the sacred robes of 'victim' and looks for a soapbox. It's the least appealing thing to me about my country. In fairness, it's probably only the loudest and professionally indignant that get heard.. everyone else wants to get along and make the best of things, in a country that provides a lot of great things.. but that is not the appearance.


Can't agree about Canada being a nation of complainers, victim wannbe , and other qualities you mention. There might be a few like that......but every region has these sorry glass is half empty blokes.

OTOH....... one has to take the "bad" with the good when it comes to free speech... , rights and other platforms that folks have feelings about. That is part of living in a democratic nation.
 

JLM

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I think just the joy and feeling of optimism they brought to the struggling people of Slave Lake, by itself, justifies their entire visit to Canada. God bless them and the people of Slave Lake.
 

MHz

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I think Will and Kate, will love spending some time in a remote cabin North of 60. I don't think anyone can spend time in Canada's great northern wilderness and not fall in love with it.

As to all the 'campaigning' for political advantage that has happened on the visit.. separatism, native right.. and on.. and on.., i've come to expect it. We are a nation of complainers, looking for a stage, and especially an international stage, since the audience has become so deaf to the din at home.

Everyone cloaks themselves in the sacred robes of 'victim' and looks for a soapbox. It's the least appealing thing to me about my country. In fairness, it's probably only the loudest and professionally indignant that get heard.. everyone else wants to get along and make the best of things, in a country that provides a lot of great things.. but that is not the appearance.

Didn't Slave Lake get it name because it became a Rez?
 

petros

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Didn't Slave Lake get it name because it became a Rez?
The Slavey (also Slave) are a First Nations aboriginal people of the Dene group, indigenous to the Great Slave Lake region, in Canada's Northwest Territories, and extending into northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta.