So, What do we Canadians have to be Proud of?
1. Smarties (not sold in the USA )
2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp chocolate bars (not sold in the USA )
3. The size of our football fields, one less down, and bigger balls.
4. Baseball is Canadian - 1st game June 4, 1838 - Ingersoll, ON
5. Lacrosse is Canadian (Our National Game)
6. Hockey is Canadian
7. Basketball is Canadian
8. Apple pie is Canadian
9. Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers
10. Tim Horton’s beats Dunkin' Donuts
11. In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back past their White House. Then we burned it, and most of Washington ....
We got bored because they ran away.
Then, we came home and partied....
12. Canada has the largest French population that has never surrendered to Germany .
13. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere. EVER!
(We got clobbered in the odd battle but we prevailed in ALL our wars)
14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and lasted a little over an hour.
15. The only person who was arrested in our Civil war was an American mercenary who slept in and missed the whole thing. He showed up just in time to get caught.
16. A Canadian invented Standard Time.
17. The Hudson’s Bay Company (A Canadian Company) once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world's oldest company.
18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes. (That's more information than you need!)
19. We know what to do with the parts of a buffalo.
20. We don't marry our kin-folk...
21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, Zippers, insulin, penicillin and the telephone. Also short wave radios which save countless lives each year.
22. We have ALL frozen our tongues to something metal during winter and lived to tell about it.
23. A Canadian invented Superman.
24. We have coloured money.
25. Our beer advertisements kick ass. (Incidentally... So does our beer)
BUT MOST IMPORTANT !
The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands in with mitts on.
OOOoohhhhh..... Canada !!
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Nope. The old one was also called the White House.
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Sure - check yours!
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According to the Amerikan government, we'll let ANYONE in! That's why they lied like dogs and said the 9/11 guys got into the US through Canada. They, of course, never set foot in Canada.
You, however, would likely be welcome and more than welcome! Heck, I'll even come down to wherever your wee overcrowded refugee boat washes up and welcome you my own personal cat self!
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LOL... they both play for the same team.
What pissed me off is that Herseys USA has copied the Aero chocolate bar and has called it their own.
For shame..
HUGG
Bell was a Canadian. He had a lab here in which he did most of the work on the telephone. The part that was done in the US was the testing and refining work. His life story is fascinating!
He went back and forth across the border like he had dual citizenship but, in those days, you could only have one or 'tother.
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And from here in the beautiful Niagara Peninsula - where we fought the War of 1812, - I'll say tho' we didn't exactly invent Icewine, we did perfect it!
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It is not at all difficult to get citizenship but Americans, just like everybody else, have to wait the required time - sorry - we don't consider y'all to be "exceptional"; at least not in ways that would be of any help to you. (or that you would like)
Our education system is a tad ahead of the American one. Our Grade 10 students are doing the same work as your Grade 12 students. That puts American educated folks behind us in university too. Our Grade 12 grads have the same education as your 2nd year college students. This means that your BA is worthless here. An American with a BA would be considered to have completed 1 year of university up here.
If you want to work at a Canadian university you'd need to upgrade your qualifications seriously. America has done its students no favour by reducing the requirements for high school graduation and for university degrees.
Even though our Canadian education is 2 years ahead of yours at that level, people educated in England or the Caribbean are a year ahead of us. Students from Japan are 2 years ahead of us - 4 years ahead of the US. Yup Japanese students are doing, in their 8th year, the work that grade 12 students do in the US. Unlike both the US and Canada, a Japanese teacher has no requirement to "pass" a certain percentage of his students; if a student cannot do the work, he does NOT pass - they don't care if you are in grade 2 and starting to shave!
We, in North America can make all the excuses we want but the fact is our education system lags the major nations of the world seriously. Here on OS are some of the brightest people you'll find anywhere, yet the spelling and grammatical errors you'll see here indicate that they were poorly educated. Just as a gun is useless without ammo so too is a brain less effective without an education.
Oh, keep in mind also that we Canadians feel an obligation to hire Canadians in preference to foreigners UNLESS you apply for landed immigrant status or citizenship. If you just want to come here to work - hey, our unemployment problem is as big as yours! Why would you think we'd give an American precedence?
That's not "mean" it's sensible.
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The American education system has gotten less intelligent since day one. We used to have to pass a test to advance a grade. When I was in school you needed a cumulative passing grade to advance. I don't know the requirements now, but I'm not impressed with the writing skills of the college kids I meet. They speak well but can't seem to translate it onto paper.
Too true!!
But den people lubs us!!!
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There3 are no criteria now. We can't bruise our wee darlin's self esteem, now can we?!
Ist, they took from the teachers any means of maintaining class control.
2nd, they demanded that special needs kids attend regular classes instead of classes geared to their needs.
3rd, they increased class sizes instead of reducing them.
4th, they demanded that teachers be judged by how many kids didn't pass.
Then, to top it all off, they treat teachers as though they weren't professionals who STILL manage to do a great job for most of their kids under those conditions!
When will we realize that our primary job in raising our children is NOT to satisfy their every whim and want but to EDUCATE them so as to prepare them for coming adulthood. Teachers ought not to only be highly regarded as a profession but as THE profession. We've become accustomed to using them and treating them like 3rd class babysitters. To make it worse we're so busy chasing the almighty buck that we don't want to get involved in helping teach them morals and ethics and respect for others. We expect teachers to do that job too!
Is it any wonder that generation after generation of children of the rich are sent to private schools to get a good education and kept separate from the kids of the sheeple? If I were rich, I'd damn sure get my kids out of the public school system as fast as I could.
Does that leave those rich kids feeling "special" and "above" their poorer peers? Damn right it does. No wonder they, as adults, look down upon and have contempt for them.
Too many of us see the solution to that "problem" as dragging the rich down to our level so they can't feel "special" and don't forget that we're human too.
I see the solution as raising us ALL up to their level. That too wouldn't encourage anyone to look down on anyone else - and the kids would get a decent education at the same time.
I hate to say it but we really DO have the exact society we deserve.
We, of this generation, seem to be too stupid to realize that each generation is being less well educated than the previous one. Each generation of the last few has also treated its elderly citizens with less and less respect. Do you think that there's a correlation?
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I am ashamed to admit it but it was my generation that really screwed up big time. We raised the generation born in the 60's. We all fell for the Dr. Spock bullshit. Because of that he and his cohorts have now convinced everyone that our children are "people". They're NOT! Children have NEVER been people. They are born animals, with all the instincts of animals, and none of what makes people. It is the job of parents and society to convert that wee lovely darling little animal into human beings.
Love, although necessary, won't do it alone. So many parents these days think it will. So many also continue to read these idiot books that rule out any kind of discipline in favour of "talking to them" and "reasoning with them". They have, as yet, only a small ability to talk and almost no ability to reason. Until we have installed those two things we cannot teach self discipline. That means we've gotta give the discipline. Without it they grow but not grow up. The undergrads your friends have to deal with are overgrown babies who've been given everything they want. They think they can go through life "demanding" everything and having a tantrum when they don't get it. I know some who are 50 years old and still "demanding" everything from the world.
And it's all my fault. Me and my generation of Spockies. If I had a time machine I'd go back and put an end to him before he could write that awful book of his.
And maybe give myself a kick in the ass too!
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I think we're just screwed, period. There are so few well adjusted people, and the ones we believe to be so turn out to be sociopaths in some sense.
I don't think your generation can take all of the blame. Some part of human nature just wants life to be easy, for everyone to be given a "fair" chance, probably undeserved, and for us all to be a collective. We need to snap out of that.
I have no problem with fairness. Equal opportunity and a level playing field are necessary to any non-greed based capitalism.
One thing a whole lot of people need to learn though - especially some here on OS - is that there is a huge difference between co-operation and collectivism. Unfortunately some still insist that any form of co-operaion is necessarily "collectivist", i.e. "socialist" in nature.
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whose parents were damn immigrants to america.
my mother's father was born in 1869, for chrissakes!
happy damn 143rd b-day, gramps.
anyway.
last damn thing i wanna be is a collective. i already got
innumerable voices in my Head, i really don't need
the trouble of listening to other people.
unless they make sense.
unless they got some
of that , uh, universal
soul in them , that
emersonian oversoul
"soul of the whole;
the wise silence;
the universal beauty,
to which every part and particle
is equally related, the eternal ONE. " That is
all i really require in another person. I thought this
was about Canada, not Dr Spock. i have always found it odd
that there were 2 damn spocks on the cultural landscape in that
period of time, but i didnt mention it to anyone until just now.
cooperation. co + operation.
to operate is to act effectively; produce an effect...
the effect produced ought to be agreed upon in advance.
i say it should be truth , beauty & justice, dammit. one of em
at least.
what do u damn canadians say about that?
If we could ever agree what is meant by "Truth" or "Beauty" or "Justice", we'd probably be able to aim for any - or all - of them.
Conversations have a life of their own. It is interesting to see how one person's thoughts lead another to have certain ideas which leads another........etc.
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