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I always bring a flat of 2-4s whenever I am back in Canada. Still have a few left in my frig!
I always bring a flat of 2-4s whenever I am back in Canada. Still have a few left in my frig!
Myths about Canada
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We live in igloos. We live in houses, and they are very well built houses.
Some of us live in igloos
Canadians do not have the same technology as Americans. Canadians have access to the
same technology as Americans and the rest of the civilized world.
In a consumer sense this is true, military technology is not so readily shared
There is snow everywhere all year long. Anyone who has spent a summer in Vancouver,
Toronto, or Montreal will strongly disagree with this.
In some northern areas, there is snow all year round.
We don't get the same movies Americans do. We get the same movies, on the same day,
and our censorship is less severe. Furthermore, the Paramount theater in Montreal is
the most attended and most lucrative movie theater in North-America.
We don't always receive the same movies on the same day.
Canada does not have a film industry. We have a thriving film industry, and many of the
syndicated US TV shows, not to mention major studio motion pictures are filmed here. Canada is
renowned to have some of the best production crews in the world.
Canadian Production of films is becoming a major force every new year
Canadians all say "eh" and "aboot". Sure, some of us do, but Canada is a big country with
many different people who speak many different languages with different dialects.
Thats one of the things that make Canada Beautiful
Everyone in Quebec speaks French. Although a large percentage of the Province's
population is Francophone, there is also a large number of Anglophones and Allophones.
What is an Allophone?
Canadians have fewer guns than Americans. Canadians have just as many, if not more; we just
have fewer murders. If you want stats and figures, see Michael Moore's excellent documentary, Bowling for Columbine.
I highly doubt this "Fact", Micheal Moore is a sensationalist media personality with ultra-liberal views. I would like to see a comparative gun registry analysis between USA and Canada before I beleived this one.
Canada's national sport is Hockey. Not completely true. While Hockey is very popular, and considered
our national pastime, our national sport is Lacrosse. Oh, and we invented Baseball too.
Basketball YES, Baseball NO...
The first recorded rules of Baseball were written 1845 in Manhattan. A group of young men led by Alexander Cartwright, calling themselves the 'Knickerbockers' wrote down the rules of a game that they were playing. These rules were the basis of baseball and many of the rules are still used. Cartwright truly was the father of baseball.
In the mid-1800s, this game, called 'townball' 'base' or 'baseball' became more and more popular. In 1857, a group of 25 Northeastern clubs sent delegates and standardized the rules. In 1858, they formed the first baseball league, the 'National Association of Base Ball Players'. The league started giving games to the public and charged an admission.
During the American Civil War, soldiers from the Northeast, where baseball was flourishing, spread the game all over the country. After the war ended, baseball had more than 100 clubs.
In 1869, the world's first professional baseball team formed. All previous players were amatuer and unpaid. The Cincinnati Red Stockings recruited the best players and no one beat the Red Stockings that year.
In 1994, the Federal Government introduced Bill C-212 that officially made Hockey Canada’s National Winter Sport and Lacrosse Canada’s National Summer Sport. Thanks Rolly! So the answer is both!
That's cool... I still love football.
Canadians policemen are all Mounties dressed in red uniforms. Our cops are the same
as American cops. The Mounties usually only dress up in red for for special occasions.
Today they do, however years ago the red dress was standard issue.
Some of us live in igloos
Canadians do not have the same technology as Americans. Canadians have access to the
same technology as Americans and the rest of the civilized world.
In a consumer sense this is true, military technology is not so readily shared
There is snow everywhere all year long. Anyone who has spent a summer in Vancouver,
Toronto, or Montreal will strongly disagree with this.
In some northern areas, there is snow all year round.
We don't get the same movies Americans do. We get the same movies, on the same day,
and our censorship is less severe. Furthermore, the Paramount theater in Montreal is
the most attended and most lucrative movie theater in North-America.
We don't always receive the same movies on the same day.
Canada does not have a film industry. We have a thriving film industry, and many of the
syndicated US TV shows, not to mention major studio motion pictures are filmed here. Canada is
renowned to have some of the best production crews in the world.
Canadian Production of films is becoming a major force every new year
Canadians all say "eh" and "aboot". Sure, some of us do, but Canada is a big country with
many different people who speak many different languages with different dialects.
Thats one of the things that make Canada Beautiful
Everyone in Quebec speaks French. Although a large percentage of the Province's
population is Francophone, there is also a large number of Anglophones and Allophones.
What is an Allophone?
Canadians have fewer guns than Americans. Canadians have just as many, if not more; we just
have fewer murders. If you want stats and figures, see Michael Moore's excellent documentary, Bowling for Columbine.
I highly doubt this "Fact", Micheal Moore is a sensationalist media personality with ultra-liberal views. I would like to see a comparative gun registry analysis between USA and Canada before I beleived this one.
Canada's national sport is Hockey. Not completely true. While Hockey is very popular, and considered
our national pastime, our national sport is Lacrosse. Oh, and we invented Baseball too.
Basketball YES, Baseball NO...
The first recorded rules of Baseball were written 1845 in Manhattan. A group of young men led by Alexander Cartwright, calling themselves the 'Knickerbockers' wrote down the rules of a game that they were playing. These rules were the basis of baseball and many of the rules are still used. Cartwright truly was the father of baseball.
In the mid-1800s, this game, called 'townball' 'base' or 'baseball' became more and more popular. In 1857, a group of 25 Northeastern clubs sent delegates and standardized the rules. In 1858, they formed the first baseball league, the 'National Association of Base Ball Players'. The league started giving games to the public and charged an admission.
During the American Civil War, soldiers from the Northeast, where baseball was flourishing, spread the game all over the country. After the war ended, baseball had more than 100 clubs.
In 1869, the world's first professional baseball team formed. All previous players were amatuer and unpaid. The Cincinnati Red Stockings recruited the best players and no one beat the Red Stockings that year.
In 1994, the Federal Government introduced Bill C-212 that officially made Hockey Canada’s National Winter Sport and Lacrosse Canada’s National Summer Sport. Thanks Rolly! So the answer is both!
That's cool... I still love football.
Canadians policemen are all Mounties dressed in red uniforms. Our cops are the same
as American cops. The Mounties usually only dress up in red for for special occasions.
Today they do, however years ago the red dress was standard issue.
And there is no reason it couldn't be worn in place of the blue tunic officers wear, and perhaps modified for the standard constable.
That would be interesting; by issuing our law enforcement personnel in Canada some variation on the ceremonial red tunic, we could give our law enforcers a distinctly Canadian appearance.
I love the Mountie thing.
I once had to dress up as a Mountie, full regalia and all, for a promo my beer company was doing at the time. The dress shop was in Gastown where I put on my offical Mountie uniform. And as I walked from Gastown to the Parkade a few hundred yards away, I must have been stopped 3 times by Asian tourists wanting pictures.
I happily obliged.
I once had to dress up as a Mountie, full regalia and all, for a promo my beer company was doing at the time. The dress shop was in Gastown where I put on my offical Mountie uniform. And as I walked from Gastown to the Parkade a few hundred yards away, I must have been stopped 3 times by Asian tourists wanting pictures.
I happily obliged.
Toro
You are such a brat!!! Your brothers in crime have been carrying on without you for a bit....our very own Bobsled Team. Glad you are back to keep order - they were getting worse!
Did you wear spurs in your great masquerade too? I used to date an RCMP and once at Vancouver Airport in the coffee shop he had his feet around the pedestal seat at the counter - they locked up and when we stood up to leave, he did a header into the countertop...heehee. My hero!
You are such a brat!!! Your brothers in crime have been carrying on without you for a bit....our very own Bobsled Team. Glad you are back to keep order - they were getting worse!
Did you wear spurs in your great masquerade too? I used to date an RCMP and once at Vancouver Airport in the coffee shop he had his feet around the pedestal seat at the counter - they locked up and when we stood up to leave, he did a header into the countertop...heehee. My hero!
Toro
I'll bet you were lovely picture of a Canadian RCMP member - and no doubt the force wanted to recruit you for some PR shots. I hope they didn't make you surrender to a sidewall haircut ....
Spurs are dangerous = I am glad you weren' t subjected to that.
Long ago they had to do away with the traditional laniers or "whistle cords" around the necks. Too many of constables on duty were being choked with them....
I think that the RCMP rank as the Number One most observable declaration of Canada excluding the flag of course......
I'll bet you were lovely picture of a Canadian RCMP member - and no doubt the force wanted to recruit you for some PR shots. I hope they didn't make you surrender to a sidewall haircut ....
Spurs are dangerous = I am glad you weren' t subjected to that.
Long ago they had to do away with the traditional laniers or "whistle cords" around the necks. Too many of constables on duty were being choked with them....
I think that the RCMP rank as the Number One most observable declaration of Canada excluding the flag of course......
:idea: that one I like jay but what about he male officers
Here are the color I think would be safe for an RCMP working uniform, a rather oarnge red, and a rather green yellow for badges pants stripe and the shoulder strap wich would be widened and tthe same yellow for high visability especially at night.
Here are the color I think would be safe for an RCMP working uniform, a rather oarnge red, and a rather green yellow for badges pants stripe and the shoulder strap wich would be widened and tthe same yellow for high visability especially at night.
Jay said:Yes ITN can be a bit of a jerk sometimes......
Jay said:
Well I was using you as a frame of reference, so you can understand where I am coming from.