Who owns Canada?

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am too, partailly.

"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."

Considering that Canada, a sparsely populated middle power, shares a border with the world's lone superpower, some small measure of insecurity is to be expected. We know that the US could invade us at will and there would be nothing we could do to stop them. There's also the fear of being completely overwhelmed by American popular culture via the media. However, I don't think that anyone really worries that much anymore about having to emphasize the fact that we're not American. Since the US morphed into a creepy police state where any form of dissent is either stifled or deemed "unpatriotic", the differences between the two nations have become quite clear.

Furthermore, American newpapers and television have spent a great deal of time recently focusing on what Canada is doing. ie. legalized gay marriage and our refusal to participate in illegal foreign wars. What was it they were calling us a while back, "Soviet Canuckstan"?

I'll take a small dose of insecurity over insanity any day.

a) That has a lot to do with how the country was initially settled.
b) It's FUCKING COLD everywhere else. What, did you think we ENJOYED it or something?

Another picture of Canada's--and possibly the world's--greatest hippy magician ever, to get us closer to 35%.

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 :-)

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.

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.

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'

??

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

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

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.

that's weird

what if there's something up there!!

you should go look!

OK, brb

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.

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

!!

66° 33′ 44″ AND BEYOND

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

So I can't imagine the territories...

why terrifying

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

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.

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.