Re weather: What’s even weirder is sometimes there are American weather maps with the US temperatures in Fahrenheit and the Canadian ones in Celsius, with no symbols or explanations.
I picture a pair of Americans looking at the map and muttering, “Detroit, 42; Windsor, 6. Guess that’s how they knew where to put the border!”
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New Zealand. “Hey, you guys are like the Canada of Australia!”
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A buddy of mine used to say of New Zealand:
“Hey, New Zealand: Australia’s own private Canada”
It’s too bad Canada can’t have a canada, you know some bordering country of 1/10th the population which drinks better beer, has less crime, but still which Canada gets to pick on like a kid brother.
I’ve seen a few episodes of The Real Adventures of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police(The Canadian version of COPS), and the biggest crime I’ve ever seen commited on that show was a cop having to break up a teenage field party. Ah, what a marveleous place it must be to live.
Happy Canada day everyone! I’ll drink a Molson tomorrow for ya!
I work for a Canadian company, and I sometimes make a point when talking to the folks in the Toronto office to ask what the weather is like, since that will be my weather in a day or so. It’s a pretty good predictor. The nasty stuff usually gets moderated a bit as it crosses New York State but Boston gets it not too long after that (in the winter, that is - it’s less reliable in the summer).
It is pretty surreal, though, to watch the clouds on the satellite image get sucked into some kind of void at the Canadian border. You’d think it would take less effort to just show the entire satellite image instead of blanking out Canada. Grrr…
I agree that Canadians should be proud of their
heritage, but try not to get sucked into mindless
rabid nationalism like some of your southern
neighbor’s citizens…
Be proud of the silly as well as the serious,
as most of you here seem to be doing. 
Canadians are proud of their nation, I believe.
As a Canadian, I think we are just more aware that, like Bob Dylan said, “Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings”.
There is a very good book you might enjoy, by Will Ferguson (Ithink), called “Why I Hate Canadians”, it is full of amusing Canadian ethnicentricities.
My favorite story is about a woman who was visiting LA and was involved in a car crash, suffering from amnesia, she was discovered by the highway patrol, wandering the roadway with no identification. The officers were at a loss to identify her, but struck by her politeness. On a hunch they called in to see if any Canadian women were missing and bingo, you guessed it - they were right on the money.
Now, exactly how deeply ingrained is that politeness, that even when you don’t know your name you still say please and thank you?
MotorGirl said:
Your school taught you the Canada existed in history class? Man, I got ripped off!
Happy Canada Day to the lot of you!
Not proud to be Canadian? Every Canadian I know IRL (and I know quite a few) has been FIERCELY proud. Back in high school I had a Canadian born friend who was never shy about his love of his native country, and never hesitated to tell me I was making a stupid assumption about Canada.
That’s right, your very own ChiefWahoo was born in Sudbury,Ontario . I never lived there, but I still consider myself part-Canuck.
Sorry, I don’t get it. Translation?
Likewise, Belgium is the Canada of Holland. Smaller population, far superior beer, and we make fun of them all the time. We call the stupid, and they call us cheapskates. We’re both right. Then we all laugh, and drink Belgian beer. Then, we beat them at football. We laugh, and drink some more Belgian beer.
Happy Canada Day! But I already said that.
ChiefWahoo: good to see another Coldfire sig. But why did I tell you you rock again?? 
LouisB: suffice it to say that Matt was not pleased by the derogatory remark towards Francophones. I know of at least one more poster that would be more than happy to agree with him, besides myself that it.
The offishul slogan, as I heard it, was “As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.”
I like this one better: “Canadia: the other North American country.”
Here we are --the U.S., bastion of capitalism-- and you’ve got the world’s biggest shopping mall.
Nice coup.
:::tip o’ the hat to the Canadians:::
Happy Canada Day.
God Bless America, but God help Canada to put up with them!
That said… we invented the telephone! I’ve been to the museum in NS that was fun…
jayron 32 There’s a show called The Real Adventures of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police? I knew about To Serve and Protect but not that one… unless you just couldn’t remember what it was called and made that up off the top of your head cuz it does describe it…
Happy Canada Day!
Actually, Tim Hortons was bought by the Wendy’s people (based in Columbus, OH) a few years ago, and when I used to visit my gf oot there*, I would drag her to her neighbourhood Tim’s at every chance I could get.
From what I understood, Wendy’s was planning on introducing Tim’s around the country. None around DC yet, although ten years ago or so there was one in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, probably because of the high hoser snowbird population, eh.*
And that’s what it’s all aboot*.
Molson’s I AM CANADIAN site.
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Fellow Yanks, do we have to put up with this all weekend? Can’t we just nuke them or something? If anybody notices we’ll just tell them it’s the northern lights (Canadian).
Where’s the Chief? I gotta talk to him.
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Someone mentioned, in passing, that Canadians played some part in getting the Iranian hostages (1980-81) released, but they didn’t say how. Anyone know?
Breaking my vow of lurking silently for a while once again to say Happy Canada Day to all my fellow whale blubber eaters.
And what the hell… To all the Yanks out there, happy (almost) 4th of July!
additions to reasons to be proud Canadians…
5% alcohol content beer
hockey
largest supply of fresh water of any nation in the world, with which to make 5% beer and ice for hockey rinks
Rilchiam: if memory serves me right, around the time of the takeover some Americans were smuggled out of Iran, “disguised as Candadians”.
The political cartoonists and satirists had a field day. Iranian guards, bristling with automatic weapons and swords, facing an amiable crowd of folks in plaid flannel coats, showshoes, caps w/ earflaps and a sled dog or two.
It’s always been a source of bemusement to me that Canadians aren’t more, I dunno, vocally proud of their country. There’s a distinct–and wonderful–Canadian approach to civil life. And I mean that in terms of courtesy as well as living peacefully and fairly with one another.
Here’s a glass raised high, and a rousing cheer for Canada!
Veb