Who owns Canada?

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Make way for the new generation of Canadian magicians:
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Bewildered and astonished...

Are you a more informed and involved Canadian for it, Huck? (But seriously, I actually am. Still fun to make fun of though.)
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― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah. I also got in the habit of moving every 3 months, which is why I'm so fucked up now.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

But I wouldn't trade it for...well, maybe for a career.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

How about teaching EFL in the Orient? Thats the new alternative to becoming eurotrash backpacker.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

ESL?

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

foreign or second.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never seen it as F, but I guess, yeah, in the Far East, it is.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

From Hansard, the Parliamentary Record:
Chuck Strahl:

If full disclosure is necessary to the financial manager, it begs an important question. Just who is the boss of Canada? Is it the government or the people who elect
the government? I would say that the people of Canada are the boss and they have hired this government for a short period of time to manage the public affairs for
them.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Can't they just use the parliament killfile on Chucky and Debbie?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 August 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

From one of those misheard lyrics sites:

Beck's, "Loser"
Misheard Lyrics:
So I own Canada.
Correct Lyrics:
Soy un perdidor

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 12 August 2004 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

http://stavecards.moostores.com/catalog/images/lwalker-90leaf-rc.jpg

― Mr. Tony Plow (Leee), Thursday, 12 August 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

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― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Dirt-worshipping heathens

― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

why doesn't the queen do something about her boobs?

― Grahame "Beaky" Beecroft, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Does Ryan Pitchfork chief-edit the Canadian edition of Time now?

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

even Hot Hot Heat was better~!

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Time to throw up

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

guys you have no idea.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Canadians are not that unattractive!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

holy fucking shit

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link

'canada's most intriguing'

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I kinda feel a little sorry for the band. I hope they outlive the "we're the band that Pitchfork broke" tag. That would be sad if they didn't.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

TIME in misspelling "irritating" shocka.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

It's the Canadian spelling, throws our yankee overlords for a loop.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

broken social scene must be le pissed about this.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

haha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

but but but ALEXISONFIRE!

AND NO ANNE MURRAY!

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link

my running theory is that we felt so bad about the gay marriage and pot decriminalization legislation that we wanted to do something to prove our own fallibility as a nation.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought that's what Dan Akroyd was for.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

fun canfact: dan aykroyd predates gay people and drugs

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I really wished that was Masia One on the cover in an elegant hammock being held up by all the T Dot ILXORs.

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

"rappers who can't rap - a rich canadian history"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Who cares if Masia One isn't THEE most skilled Singaporean female MC? she's MASIA ONE! (Being the one of only two Masia One fans on ILX, if not the world, I must defend and show the rez)

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there really a Y before the K?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

masia one posts to ilx?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I will vouch for Masia One's HOTTTTNESS, but I haven't heard her music.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

this is the thread where the gomery commission is mentioned on ile

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Gomery commission sounds like business as usual in Quebec.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you think like trudeau that Québec has a price? Or what?

btw I have to say, I think in the future people in my province will be much more critical when they see canadian flags everywhere, hear "canadian" this "canadian" that on the tv, ads to promote canada etc I don't think they'll ever come-up with some clever new marketting gimmick to compensate... the end is night for canada, noodles :-)

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

anyway, we are a "have not" province, isn't it?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

The exact nail in the coffin for the I Am Canadian campaign was when they switched ad companies to the same folks who Blue use.

But that's besides the point, Molson never did well in Quebec. When you got Unibrew and Slemans firmly entrenched one shouldn't complain either. I would since I heart Moosehead but thats a different story all together.
As long as the "ethnic and money vote" still live in the province, or more importantly the PQ successfully continue to alienate them we are pretty safe until conservatives sneak into power. After that all bets are off.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 April 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

The End is Night, a novel by Carol Shields.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

"ethnic and money vote" ... harp on this all you want, who knows maybe it will make sense eventually

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I doubt the rantings of Jacques Parizeau will ever make sense.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

woah-bec, he was an eminent economist and served his country well. But as Landry said when the guy duff up, he duff up big time, but you know this and anyway, if you know you were not making sense, you should not imply québécois are generally racist eh?

About "PQ successfully continue to alienate them", what is this? Do you think the rise of popularity of sovereignism is alienation, because over time it grew from like 10% to 40,4 % to 49,4 % to...

alienation is exactly what Charest is doing to us right now, he is the economic equivalent of Mike Harris.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

hey canadians

do you guys have like a special attitude to the 60 degree parallel

http://www.ezilon.com/maps/images/northamerica/political-map-of-Canada.gif

cuz it kind of seems like most of your country is in that band right under it

or most of the people anyway

when you drive north is that like your existential out-there point, like 'o boy up north'

― j., Thursday, 27 February 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link

an estimated 75 percent of Canadians live within 161 kilometers (100 miles) of the U.S. border

― have a nice blood (mh), Thursday, 27 February 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link

I've never been anywhere near that far north, but yeah, it's definitely a symbolic border: The North.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NODozHreRaA

― jmm, Friday, 28 February 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link

when you drive north is that like your existential out-there point, like 'o boy up north'

There are only a couple of provincial highways that go that far north, all in BC and AB. To get that far north in SK and MB, plus in northern QC and Labrador, you have to fly in.

Hardly anyone in Canada has ever been that far north. The only major city that's more than a couple hours drive from the US is Edmonton, and even that's closer to the 49th parallel than the 60th.

― Plasmon, Friday, 28 February 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link

that's weird

what if there's something up there!!

you should go look!

― j., Friday, 28 February 2014 01:21 (ten years ago) link

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