happy canada deh

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FAMOUS CANADIANS:

The "city boy, born and raised in South Detroit" in the Journey song "Don't Stop Believing."

Well, anybody who's ever been to Detroit, or looked at a map, knows there ain't no "South Detroit." You stand in the middle of Detroit and head south, you're in Windsor pretty damn quick.

So the "city boy" was actually Canadian.

Don't Stop Believing!
 
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Just in time for Canada Day: Tobacco company offers special 'ehdition' cigarettes
Sheryl Ubelacker, THE CANADIAN PRESS
First posted: Friday, July 01, 2016 10:23 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, July 01, 2016 12:19 PM EDT
TORONTO -- It wouldn't be Canada Day without legions of red-and-white Maple Leaf flags being waved with patriotic gusto, fireworks displays lighting up the sky and musical celebrations across the country. But specially branded cigarettes?
This week, Rothmans Benson & Hedges brought out a limited "ehdition" of its Canadian Classics brand in time for Canada Day, a move that has raised the ire of anti-smoking advocates, who argue that such promotion is another reason plain packaging for cigarettes needs to be implemented as soon as possible.
"Here we have a tobacco company using the theme of Canadian pride and Canada Day to sell cigarettes -- and that is wrong," said Rob Cunningham, senior policy analyst for the Canadian Cancer Society.
"We should not be using images associated with Canadian pride to market an addictive, lethal product."
The special-edition packaging of Canadian Classics also features a white maple leaf containing the names of the provinces and territories in blue or black, as well as the phrase "Undeniable Canadian Taste" on the obverse side. Even the bar code on the pack has been stylized with a partial maple leaf, continuing the Canadian theme.
Reached Thursday by The Canadian Press, a spokesperson for Rothmans Benson & Hedges said the Markham, Ont.-based company would not provide any comment about the product, how long it will be on the market or the criticism levelled over its packaging.
Cunningham contends the tobacco company is using the product's cardboard wrapper as an advertising vehicle before new regulations mandating plain packaging for cigarettes come into effect.
"What the tobacco companies are doing is they're trying to take advantage of the legislative opportunity while they can," asserted Cunningham.
"In fact, this type of package reinforces exactly why we need plain packaging, because the companies are using the package as advertising and we should not have advertising for this type of product," he said from Ottawa.
"If a smoker takes his or her pack out 20 times a day, every time it's an advertisement and it has the endorsement of the person that's holding the pack, (exposing them to) kids that may see their parents' packs or kids that may see their friends around the schoolyard or in their community."
Among the countries that have adopted plain packaging for tobacco products are Australia, the United Kingdom and France, and research has shown that removing logos, colours and brand images helps make them less appealing to consumers, including young people.
Canada is also moving toward a stripped-down appearance for cigarettes and other tobacco products: on May 31, federal Health Minister Jane Philpott launched public consultations on plain packaging requirements, which will end Aug. 31.
However, the government said it would take up to 24 months for changes to regulations under the Tobacco Act to come into effect.
Cynthia Callard, executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, called the apparent Canada Day marketing measure less than a month after Philpott's announcement "a very provocative action" she likened to trying "to poke a stick in the eye of the government."
She also condemned the use of patriotism as a mechanism for selling a tobacco product: overall, smoking is associated with the deaths of 37,000 Canadians each year from cancer, cardiovascular disease and lung disease.
More than five million Canadians still use tobacco, and Health Canada estimates its use costs the economy almost $4.4 billion in direct health-care costs each year.
"They're linking this brand with this day and a Canadian culture and a kind of attitude," Callard said. "It shows they can use packaging as a way of selling a brand image: you've got attitude if you smoke. You've got attitude if you call it 'ehdition,' eh?
"The McKenzie Brothers are alive and well on the cigarette package."
Canadian Classics limited edition cigarettes are shown in Toronto on Thursday, June 30, 2016. This week, Rothmans Benson & Hedges brought out a limited "edition" of its Canadian Classics brand in time for Canada Day, a move that has raised the ire of anti-smoking advocates. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Staff

Just in time for Canada Day: Tobacco company offers special 'ehdition' cigarette
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Happy Canada Day to all our northern friends (and in some cases, southern friends)!

All but you, Walter. You can sit in the corner and be miserable that it ain't Dominion Day anymore.
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Dominion Day has a nice ring to it though, always so close. Ohhhh the good old days.


Oh Oh Canada the true north strong and cold and wet and depreesing in all our sons and daughters and homos and lesbos, and androginaous whatdoyoucallthems command, a Parliament of clowns is to save us, have no fear lay down your arms, and your eyeballs,

Many liquer stores were closed on Canada Day this year, the people were not impressed, the next day off we get this problem will have been solved or thier will be consequences, of which you cannot imagine because you're an elected clown, and don't have one, get the fukkin store open for every holiday twenty-hours service or else. We elected you because you promised to obey us, you got one more chance, you do not have a mandate to dictate our drinking habits.
 
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if only there was a such a thing as a liquor bush...
then we could have medical dispenseries

and as such they would have to be open all the time
just in case

YA Dadanac!
 
darkbeaver

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I'm mainly into organic stimulents excepting LCD and few others infreguently, only keep abrest of developements, and it can't be done, these compounds are put here for our enjoyment.

In the meat realm.
 
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hey
the morning glory is pretty organic
and just dripping with LEDs

Mikro doses have been shown to be very theraputic
Macro doses have been shown to be extra very supertheraputalistcacidosis
 
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The death of 'Dominion Day'



A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombs of its illustrious dead, repairs great public structures, and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual reference to the sacrifices and glories of the past.





By The Ottawa Citizen September 1, 2006




A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombs of its illustrious dead, repairs great public structures, and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual reference to the sacrifices and glories of the past.


-- Joseph Howe, Father of Confederation.






In hindsight, it was a case of identity theft, an act of historical vandalism. A quarter-century ago, 13 members of Parliament hastily -- some say indecently -- renamed the country's national birthday in a swift bit of legislative sleight-of-hand.


At 4 o'clock on Friday, July 9, 1982, the House of Commons was almost empty. The 13 parliamentarians taking up space in the 282-seat chamber were, by most accounts, half asleep as they began Private Members' Hour. But then one of the more wakeful Liberals noticed the Tory MPs were slow to arrive in the chamber. Someone -- exactly who has never been firmly identified -- remembered Bill C-201, a private member's bill from Hal Herbert, the Liberal MP from Vaudreuil, that had been gathering dust ever since it had received first reading in May of 1980. "An Act to Amend the Holidays Act" proposed to change the name of the July 1 national holiday from "Dominion Day" to "Canada Day."


This wasn't the first time the change had been attempted. Between 1946 and 1982, there were some 30 attempts to push such revisionist legislation through the House of Commons. But there was always enough opposition to hold the postmodern crowd at bay. On this July afternoon, however, MPs seized the opportunity to rewrite history with all the haste of a shoplifter. Deputy Speaker Lloyd Francis called up the languishing legislation and, faster than you can say patronage appointment, sped it through to third reading without much more than a querulous murmur from the attendant parliamentarians. Tory Senator Walter Baker barely managed a befuddled query of "What is going on?" before Francis inquired whether the bill had unanimous consent. Somehow, according to Hansard, it did, despite Baker's apparent opposition. He later referred to Canada Day as "sterile, neutral, dull and somewhat plastic."


The whole process took five minutes. The MPs celebrated by declaring an early end to session at 4:05 p.m. "It is only appropriate that, in celebrating our new holiday called Canada Day, we should at least take a holiday of 55 minutes this afternoon," said New Democrat Mark Rose.


Such insouciance toward a long-held tradition was typical. The bill should never have been brought to a vote. At least 20 MPs were required to be in the House to conduct business. With only 13 members in the House that afternoon, there was no quorum to pass legislation.


- ot that Speaker Jeanne Sauve was troubled. When the procedural irregularity was brought to her attention, she said that since no one called a quorum count, a quorum was deemed to exist, and, ergo, no procedural rules were violated.


And so today, Canadians mark their nation's birthday with a banal contrivance. Of course, to say this is to be labelled as out-of-date or dismissed as a colonial romantic.


As one young colleague put it: "It's Canada Day now. Get used to it. It only means something to people your age."

The death of 'Dominion Day'
 
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