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Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 6:29:41 AM   
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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 6:41:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's better than United States.

People smell better.

No stupid Southern accents.

Various cultures allowed.  No melting pot.

Normal people.

Brutal winters/summers.  This toughens you up.  In fact, I am much stronger than everybody in California, Arizona and Nevada combined.

We run faster. 

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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 6:54:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		While working at a general store in southern Arkansas, a couple of Canadians came in looking to find the town of Tokyo. Yes, there is a such a place in Arkansas, its close to Bin Lomin, but no one is gonna know where that is either.
Our store had got a shipment of long-johns in by mistake. We put them in the bargain bin to hopefully get them sold. The couple from Canananada were so very happy to see how 'cheap' we were selling the thermal-wear, and they grabbed the whole shipment out of the bin.

i liked them. They were very happy and polite, just seemed good natured. They had a bit of a hick feeling to them, and they said "Eh" a lot. Their accents were fun.

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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 7:03:18 AM   
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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 7:33:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		Plus, if anybody did mess with Canada the entire world would erase them from this planet.

So, in a way, Canada is like the Godfather of this Mafia syndicate.


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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 7:37:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		i like the image canada projects, but i've never been there. some relatives of mine went for their anniversary and said it was pretty nice. one of these days i'll go.
Shades of Araby is another reason to like Canada! hooray ATS!


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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 7:45:02 AM   
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But that is my issue... And not that I'm really satisfied with my own country, but we do have animalcops nowadays!


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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 7:48:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		AHHHH -- you're right there; i really am not a fan of the seal and whale hunts. when it's been shown that the seal population is not able to sustain the quotas they're allowing, and they RAISE them? that is bonkers. i DON'T like that.
most places on earth don't treat animals well, though, honestly. it's something i generally dislike about the human race.


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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 7:55:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		I loved the visits I had.  But the place is uninhabitable between Labor Day and Memorial Day.  Also, the COL is ridiculous.

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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 7:56:07 AM   
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Go Canucks!

Oh, and the "eh" thing is an eastern Canada thing. No one in western Canada says that!

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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 7:57:16 AM   
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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 7:58:16 AM   
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AHHHH -- you're right there; i really am not a fan of the seal and whale hunts. when it's been shown that the seal population is not able to sustain the quotas they're allowing, and they RAISE them? that is bonkers. i DON'T like that.
most places on earth don't treat animals well, though, honestly. it's something i generally dislike about the human race.



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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 7:59:09 AM   
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Also, the COL is ridiculous.


Well, oddly enough,.. the economy in Canada is one of the best in the world right now, it has not tanked like the US has.

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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 8:04:36 AM   
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Also, the COL is ridiculous.


Well, oddly enough,.. the economy in Canada is one of the best in the world right now, it has not tanked like the US has.


A high cost of living is frequently the result of a strong economy.

Canada has a bunch of natural resources, and relatively few inhabitants to share the royalties from them.  An enviable situation.


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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 8:16:22 AM   
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Well, oddly enough,.. the economy in Canada is one of the best in the world right now, it has not tanked like the US has.


A high cost of living is frequently the result of a strong economy.

Canada has a bunch of natural resources, and relatively few inhabitants to share the royalties from them.  An enviable situation.



Oh, its not like natural resources makes the country or province bulletproof. Alberta went thru a very long recession/depression after the National Energy Program was forced down its throat.

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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 8:19:26 AM   
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I think that's a cultural / indigenous thing.  I can respect it without loving it.


it's actually not primarily done by indigenous people; it's primarily done by out-of-work fishermen (who are mostly out of work because they've overfished the populations up there and a lot of important fisheries began to collapse). the demand for seal products is WAY down (especially with European markets saying "yeah, we don't want to be associated with that anymore") but they keep raising quotas despite evidence that eventually seal populations could collapse, too.
the seals are blamed for the loss of cod, but the seals actually eat a lot of the fish who prey on cod when they're immature.

and honestly, there are a lot of cultural practices that are just bad. female circumcision has a boatload of negative press; the people who do it believe they're doing it for good reasons, despite the fact that it is pretty awful. culture alone isn't a defense for something abhorrent.


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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 10:24:11 AM   
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A high cost of living is frequently the result of a strong economy.

Canada has a bunch of natural resources, and relatively few inhabitants to share the royalties from them. An enviable situation.
On the surface this appears to be so, but when you factor in health care costs it doesn't hold up so well. And the real reason why our economy is doing so well and didn't tank is because our financial sector is heavily regulated, they just simply cannot engage in the crazy practices that led to the melt down. I realize this is an unpopular idea south of the border, but it is so.



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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 10:30:35 AM   
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it's actually not primarily done by indigenous people; it's primarily done by out-of-work fishermen (who are mostly out of work because they've overfished the populations up there and a lot of important fisheries began to collapse).
Sorry Lilly, but your talking out of your ass here.The seal hunt has been the traditional way for fishermen to make money in the early spring, before fishing season begins. The fact that the people who do it now may be out-of-work fishermen is incidental, its been what fishermen (working or not) do in the spring for hundreds of years.

And as for the whale hunt, as far as I know that's pretty much the same as in the States, certain aboriginal groups who have a tradition of hunting whales are allowed to continue, but nobody else is. I haven't researched this, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it is.


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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 10:30:35 AM   
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RE: Lets Talk about Canada... - 6/12/2011 10:40:01 AM   
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Furthermore if I make my Local History NWP (16) and my Economics NWP (9), I can get a +1 for each. So my final modifier would be +5 to +7 (most likely a +6), depending on how I roll the NWPs.


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