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#1 likerobots

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 01:11 AM

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Happy Canada Day!


Happy Canada day to all fellow Canadian Codexians,
who spell "colour" with a u,
who pay a few cents extra for gas, groceries, and phone bills,
who have a dollar coin,
who get snow,
who eat poutine and drink Molson,
who live in igloos and hunt deer,
who enjoy universal healthcare
and who celebrate rights for the LGBT community.

awright. I'm getting a little carried away, but happy 145th!

#2 Ladida

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 01:14 AM

Happy Canada Day!

#3 Elindoril

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 01:20 AM

Uh oh, gotta switch out my bus pass today.

#4 Pilot

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 02:06 AM

O Canada

our home and native land

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 03:53 AM

Happy Canada Day!

I am American but I have lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba (froze my arse off), Yukon Valley, Whitehorse, and Montreal, Quebec where I only last a few months because I cannot understand or speak French no matter how much I tried.


Canada is a beautiful Country.

#6 Ladida

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 10:14 AM

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I suck at French. And Spanish. And Hindi. Actually, I suck at any language that isn't English :( It's like that part of my brain is totally dead.

#7 ShadowLink64

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 11:37 AM

Happy Canada Day. :D

We had fireworks here last night and they were great.

#8 andreaxo

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 12:13 PM

Not only do we have a dollar coin, we have a two dollar coin. ;)

#9 Guest_coltom_*

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 12:40 PM

Loonies and Twoonies are fine, but you're also stuck with Quebec.

OKA FOREVER!

#10 Alodielle

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 12:41 PM

Happy Canada day, you all! I've only visited Victoria, but I loved it; I'm dying to see more of your country. Especially as America gets crazier by the second! :p

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 12:52 PM

Especially as America gets crazier by the second! :p


Oh god yes. I've thought about going to college in a foreign country because of all the craziness here. Happy Canada day to you Canadians! (Even though I have no idea what it is)

#12 Alodielle

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 12:56 PM

Reddit never fails to deliver -- this is the image they dug up for Canada Day:

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#13 andreaxo

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 01:39 PM

Reddit delivered this one too:
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Edited by andreaxo, 01 July 2012 - 01:40 PM.


#14 Bone

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 01:43 PM

I live in Michigan, so escaping to Canada has always been a viable weekend activity.

It's a nice country, enjoy your arbitrary(?) holiday! :D

#15 Guest_Kate_*

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 01:43 PM

Loonies and Twoonies are fine, but you're also stuck with Quebec.

OKA FOREVER!


You don't have to be rude.

#16 Alodielle

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 01:55 PM

Sorry -- I hafta share one more:

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#17 Bone

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 02:02 PM

Sorry -- I hafta share one more:

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They do have hockey in the States, you know. :p

#18 Alodielle

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 02:02 PM

They do have hockey in the States, you know. :p


The pic has very little to do with hockey and everything to do with free health care. :p

Edited by Alodielle, 01 July 2012 - 02:02 PM.


#19 Bone

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 02:16 PM

The pic has very little to do with hockey and everything to do with free health care. :p


I was going to make a joke about Canadian hockey teams, but the joke is Canadian hockey teams.

And yeah, health care, whatever.

#20 Alodielle

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 02:23 PM

And yeah, health care, whatever.


With that attitude, you're either a staunch Republican or not an American. ;)

#21 Drakonid

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 02:35 PM

With that attitude, you're either a staunch Republican or not an American. ;)

Or maybe he's just Bone Woody Bone...

Edited by Drakonid, 01 July 2012 - 02:36 PM.


#22 Guest_coltom_*

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 03:09 PM

You don't have to be rude.

I was there, outside the barriers. It was not a nice time.

For those of you that don't know the reference.
http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Oka_Crisis

Wiki gets the story wrong on several key detail.

BTW, the federal government had a difficult job, and all and all they did mostly right things. While I was a guest in one of their finest (and most secure) buildings, they treated me as well as they could have treated me. I bear no grudge to the federal government. No, more than that, there were many wise and clear Canadian officials that helped calm the situation.

#23 Guest_Kate_*

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 03:42 PM

Okay but clearly you haven't learned to let it go if you are still saying "OKA FOREVER"..
You say that as if there is some life long feud between you and Quebec.. but to be honest, if it was that big of a deal we would have learned about it in school. Not to mention for all the people I've asked from Quebec, no one remembers, or has heard of this. I am not saying it didn't happen, I am saying it's over with now..

#24 Ladida

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 04:09 PM

The golf course expansion which had originally triggered the crisis was cancelled by the mayor of Oka. The Oka Crisis galvanized, throughout Canada, a subsequent process of developing an First Nations Policing Policy to try to prevent future such events.


Wasn't this resolved then? It sounds like it was resolved. I can understand why it was a big deal, but it seems like the right thing was done, and steps were taken to prevent it from happening again.

#25 Guest_coltom_*

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Posted 01 July 2012 - 05:11 PM

Wasn't this resolved then? It sounds like it was resolved. I can understand why it was a big deal, but it seems like the right thing was done, and steps were taken to prevent it from happening again.

Ok, if they wanted to disturb the bones of your wife (or husband) as the case may be, because they wanted to built a member's only golf course. Sweetee, that is a hard thing to forget. There is so little you can give the dead, the only thing I can give is to allow her bones to go back to the earth in peace, and protect her children.

Ms. W., really, how many people get banned from Canada? My brother-in-laws wife is from Ontario, she thinks its a funny story. Most likely I tell the story better in person.

As far as it isn't taught in your history books, well it is certainly taught in ours. ;()

Edited by coltom, 01 July 2012 - 05:18 PM.



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