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I say Greenland, Wooden says Celine Dion.
What say you, fussybritches?

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

who cares?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a feeling that all the real, REAL hipsters have all moved to Canada, and they've been hip enough not to let their secret slip, leaving all the poseur hipsters in Brooklyn or wherever. So obviously the hipsters own Canada.

― na (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.legion.ca/asp/gfx/pix/reinethumb.jpg

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

bviously the hipsters own Canada

But if they live in Toronto, they only own about 300 square feet of Canada. And that's $1200 a month. How hip do you have to be to sign up for that?

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Kraft?

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the real question is, who PWNZ Canada?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

The correct answer to this question is of course:
http://www.rocksource.de/bildarchiv/rush/rush.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Controlling Interest
Who Owns Canada
by Diane Francis
ISBN - 2761906675
(note: French cover shown here)
Controlling interest reveals the alarming concentration of ownership in Canada - where 32 families and five conglomerates own one-third of the country's corporate assets.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I swear to God Alex Lifeson is really Jeff Daniels from Dumb and Dumber.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

You know the drummer from Red Hot Chili Peppers is really Will Ferrell, right?

― na (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Rush really should have stayed with this look:

http://www.cathedralstone.net/Pics/Rush2a.jpg

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link

"A Canadian politician once remarked that Canada was supposed to have British statesmanship, French culture and American know-how, but instead ended up with French statesmanship, American culture and British know-how..."

This has always stuck in my head, for some reason.

― andy, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link

haha Nemo i was going to post that pic but thought it was too big! you can never have enough RUSH

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought Bryan Admams was the king?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Canada is the most insecure country of all time. Ever watch Canadian TV? Read Canadian newspapers? It's all about "how we're not like the US," what the US is doing, perserving Canadian identity...seems like all they talk about is the US. They even have to have a certain amount of Canadian content on TV. By law. Insecure Canadians.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

like 75% of their population lives within 50 miles of the US

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/AskAGuru/Images/Canadian50.jpg

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I think we should officially change the name of ILX to "fussybritches"!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

if you do an img srch for it you get a snoozing kitty. so, yeah, that works.

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Has anyone ever seen the Queen, the hipsters, Greenland, Rush and Celine Dion in the same room? I smell conspricy, people.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.ecma.ca/english/2004nominees/artistpics/Buck65.jpg

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not sure what this diagram explains, but I found it searching for Queen and Canada.

http://qsilver.queensu.ca/jewishstudies/kaballah.jpg

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

OH MY GOD! You mean Madonna is actually CANADIAN?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Dave Queen!

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

After this, he definitely deserves to.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

our national sport is navel-gazing. %35 of every radio station has to be CanCon.

heh, Huck, it's actually an old Red Ensign.. there's one on the old $5 too. Anyone seen the new $100's?

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

holy shit the new 100s have a lot of holgrams. i like the new money but i miss 2 dollar bills.

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe all these holograms will do the same for money what they did for comic books in the 90s.

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, the Metallica article was the deciding factor.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

and upper deck hockey cards. hockey cards owned canada in the 90s, now it's prime minister buck.

― La Monte (La Monte), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

It's true that you can't have too much Rush, unless you're talking about side 2 of "2112".

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20030813/a122_1768.jpg
One day, Kamchakta might again be mighty.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

New hundred is shiney happy money and therefor sucks. Bring back the newfie firing squad.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.superseventies.com/2_70.gif

Shouldn't this thread have been titled "Guess Who Owns Canada"?

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

i pwn canada

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

or...
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hard-rockcity/images/dico/dicom/mitch.JPG

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

http://pl.wikipedia.org/upload/1/15/Brian_mulroney.jpg
"I pawned Canada."

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I pawned it in the nude!
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/h4/f1/255-v3.jpg

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

SEE THE PHEAR!
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/h4/f1/17-v3.jpg

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost

yes Madonna is in fact 50% canadian...her mama was Quebecois...

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Acadian, actually.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/CalgarySun/News/2004/07/25/556170.html

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

She better not show up at the family reunion.
Jack Kerouac is from French Canadian stock.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

So is Jacques Villeneuve.

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.reinvented.net/images/bobdoug.jpg

"Take off! It's a beauty way to go!"

― andy, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Jack Kerouac is from French Canadian stock.
-- Mr Noodles (infinitecow...), August 11th, 2004.

I am too, partailly.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

10 bucks is bucks.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

"10 bucks is 10 bucks." I mean

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:14 (nineteen years ago) link

New new money? Like, new since when I was there?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

new $100 bills, so really, it's theoretic new money, since I'll never see one. And haven't seen an old one since I was doing things I don't want to admit I was doing.

― Huck, Thursday, 12 August 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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

seven months pass...

http://arcadefire.net/images/news/arcadetimecover640.jpg

― 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

OK, brb

― Plasmon, Friday, 28 February 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link

I've been north of 60. Drove up from Edmonton, camped out in the NWT for a week. It's amazing. We saw buffalos in Wood Buffalo Park, and I dipped my toes in Great Slave Lake. Crossing 60 degrees _did_ feel like a really big deal to me. More ravens, less Canada geese. More scrawny black pines, less majestic fir trees. Less paved roads, too. Gigantic monster "dog flies". Like horse flies, but much meaner.

― pauls00, Friday, 28 February 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_road

― j., Friday, 28 February 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link

66° 33′ 44″ AND BEYOND

― Lamp, Friday, 28 February 2014 03:20 (ten years ago) link

The northernmost I've been is the James Bay and it was both terrifying and beautiful.

― Van Horn Street, Friday, 28 February 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link

So I can't imagine the territories...

― Van Horn Street, Friday, 28 February 2014 03:29 (ten years ago) link

why terrifying

― Joyeux animaux de la misère (nakhchivan), Friday, 28 February 2014 03:30 (ten years ago) link

Summertime in the Territories is great. I can understand the terrifying. There's almost a sense of vertigo. Top of the world! Etc.

― pauls00, Friday, 28 February 2014 03:44 (ten years ago) link

http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/k9mod/srchsask/skmap.html

i think for most people, at least on the prairie provinces that connect with the territories, the north begins much sooner and the 60th parallel is too far away and inaccessible to consider. this map doesn't show it well. http://listingsca.com/saskatchewan/map-saskatchewan1.asp <--- that one does, but it's too big. the province looks as if it's only been half settled. no one travels north of 60 and barely anyone travels north of prince albert (53°12′N 105°45′W). prince albert is the southern grasslands dweller's NORTH, "the last major centre along the route to the resources of northern Saskatchewan," right around the line where parkland and grassy spaces disappear and the boreal forest begins, where the population of the province becomes majority aboriginal. there are those three highways struggling up through the province, 955 which mostly serves uranium mines and ends at cluff lake mine, 914 which ends at key lake mine, 905, and all three, i think, are unpaved, and to travel further north or to travel most places out of reach of those roads, it's on temporary ice roads or seasonal roads or you fly.

― dylannn, Friday, 28 February 2014 04:14 (ten years ago) link

I met quite a few people at university (in BC) that would go tree-planting in the Yukon in the summer.

In fact, two of my good friends did it. It's intense.

The furthest north I've ever been to was an hour south of Jasper. But I do plan on seeing the northern lights in BC, so I'll make my way up there sometime.

― ∞, Friday, 28 February 2014 04:28 (ten years ago) link

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