Canadope 2015: Battlestar Canadica

I actually am pretty sure this is false right off the top.

Canadians have their weird belief that Canada was some sort of peacekeeping juggernaut that made up much, if not most, of UN peacekeeping efforts, up until the current government. That is of course totally untrue. Certainly during the Chretien government, Canada was nowhere near the world’s top peacekeeping troop contributor, and I don’t believe it was under Mulroney, either. (Or Paul Martin for what that’s worth.)

For quite awhile now most peacekeeping troops have come from countries like India and Pakistan. African countries tend to make up most of the peacekeeping forces in African missions.

I’m fairly certain Canada dropped from 1st long before Harper. I don’t think it’s unfounded to state that Harper’s government has dramatically reduced Canadian participation in UN led, multi-national efforts. This government prefers to work within a U.S. or NATO led military framework.

I would so love to have a link that could argue this point.

OK. Here’s a link that lets you play with the numbers back to 2000, and Canada has never been close to number one.

ETA: Click on the Data Dashboard.

This is the same person who posted that under Harper Canada has had its lowest GDP growth under any Prime Minister since the 1930s. When I pointed out that the world just went through the worst global recession since the 1930s, her response was “The US was hit worse and is recovering more quickly.”

A total non-sequitur for me. :confused:

A major thaw followed by a freeze resulted in boiler-plate conditions on the ski hill. I drove home after work at 90 kph / 55 mph, slapped on a pair of telemark skis, and happily skied about at 105 kph / 65 mph. There’s something very satisfying about that.

Excellent! They’re saying that (downhill) skiing here will continue into April at this point. Great for the ski hills.

If she’s going to hold up the US as a benchmark for economics, then you can simply disregard her as a complete nutbag.

So I went to change my address for Revenue Canada online - to do that, they have to send an access code to the address they have on file for you. Sigh. Government, man. Has anyone ever explained to them that “Catch-22” was not supposed to be an instruction manual?

That’s not a bug, that’s a feature!

It’s an anti-identity theft measure, in case some Bad Guy™ is trying to change your address without you knowing it. CRA accepts the change of address, but sends a notification of the change to your old address. If it’s you that’s doing it, you’ll get the notification forwarded to you in due course. But if it isn’t you doing it, and you’re still at the old address, you’ll get the notification that someone has changed your address, you’ll realise that something hinky is going on and you will let CRA know.

Same as everytime I update or change a log-in password on my e-mail; I get an e-mail right away notifying me that someone has changed the password. If it’s me, I just delete; if it’s not me, I can let the e-mail service know right away.

I don’t recall that step being involved when I changed my address with CRA a year and a half ago. I have never gotten any mail forwarded from my old address, and CRA believes I live at the new one.

I don’t recall anything similar either (changed my address about 5 years ago), but like Northern Piper I would also consider that a feature.

I changed provinces a few months ago and never went through such a step; I simply changed my address on the CRA website. They asked for my new address, date of move, and later sent me a letter at my new place (with no need for a response). Easy-peasy

Of course many years ago when I first started doing my taxes online they required me to set up an account, a process that included them physically mailing me an access code (they mailed me an access code every tax season until a policy change stopped this requirement years ago)…

…they might now only require the mailing thing for first timers?

Glancing over the frustrated screams from my facebook friends makes me, briefly, stop questioning the wisdom of my move. :slight_smile: [

](Halifax storms dump more snow than White Juan in 2004 | CBC News)Heheh…Suckers.

Maybe - it may also be because Cat Whisperer did it manually last year, so that triggers a special security routine when she does it on-line from a new address this year.

I know Sask Land Titles has a similar routine for changes of address: when you file a change of mailing address for the owner of a piece of land, they send an acknowledgement of the change of address to both the old address and the new address, again to reduce the chance of identity theft.

You guys are harshing my rage buzz. :slight_smile: I guess it actually is a feature. It’s an inconvenient feature, but nevertheless.

Poor Maritimers. Here we are, all tulips and seedlings growing in the kitchen, and they’re still shovelling massive snow dumps. :frowning:

Here we are, [del]all tulips and seedlings growing in the kitchen[/del] pumping water from our yards, and they’re still shovelling massive snow dumps.

It was -20 here in Chalk River this morning. It’s all the way up to -4 now.
Needless to say there aren’t many flowers here at the moment. In fact, although I’ve heard birds, I have yet to see any, apart from the crows that stick around all winter.

ETA: Oh, I see Cat’s are in the kitchen still.

And here we are, still in the Canada Goose parkas, mittens and long johns. Frostbite warning last night :mad:.