1. Our president is called a Prime Minister.
2. Baltimore, Maryland has more murders in a week than the entire nation of Canada does all year.
3. You don't have to be born in Canada to be Prime Minister.
4. Canadians do not find, "Say 'eh' for me," to be particularly funny.
5. Canada has rednecks, too.
6. We're a lot bigger than you, in land mass, but our population is considerably less. The populations of Los Angeles and New York City would be around 30 million people. The entire nation of Canada has around 32 million people. Due to the fact that most of our country is in the northern latitudes, we huddle close to the border, for warmth.
7. In the War of 1812, we kicked your butts. The reason why your Whitehouse is white is because we set fire to it and it was whitewashed to hide the damage (for propaganda purposes). Some Americans will say that THEY won the war. However, to win, a party must reach their objective. Your objective was to take over British North America (what Canada was called then), our goal was to stop you. You don't have any more northern territory along the Canada/US border than you did before 1812. So who won? (Alaska doesn't count, you BOUGHT that state from Russia.)
8. A form of baseball was played just outside of Toronto, Ontario three weeks before Alexander Doubleday played the 'first' game of baseball in your country.
9. We do not find the term "Canuck" derogatory, like Americans find "Yank" derogatory. It apparently originated during World War One. Your soldiers were call "doughboys" ours were called "Johnny Canucks". I think the British coined the term, but I'm not sure.
10. We are not "just like Americans", we have our own national identity, we just haven't figured out what it is, yet. Someone once said that, "Canadians are unarmed Americans with health care." That pretty much sums it up, I guess. We are internationally (but unofficially) known as the "World's Most Polite Nation."
11. Our national animal is the beaver. Sure it's just a rodent, but they're not even CLOSE to being extinct. You can still get money for beaver pelts. It is NOT our main unit of exchange, we have money, just like you.
12. We do not find the fact that American wear Canadian flag pins (so they can get better treatment in Europe) very amusing. So stop it.
13. We have Thanksgiving in October, so we don't look like copycats (it IS an American originated holiday, after all). However, we celebrate Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Passover and other holidays at the same time you do.
14. We were formed, as a nation, in 1867.
15. November the 11th is called Remembrance Day, up here. It is a day when all Canadians honour our war dead and the veterans who are still amongst us. Its significance is that on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the Armistice was signed, ending World War One.
16. Not every Canadian speaks French. In fact, Canada is the only country where speaking French is not cool.
17. We spell words differently. Honour, valour, defence, neighbour, colour, centre and other words are from the British way of spelling. We also pronounce the last letter of the alphabet "zed", not "zee".
18. The Queen of England is not our national leader. She's' just a figure head and somebody to put on our money with the birds. (Some Royalists in Canada will have something different to say about his, but they're a minority.)
19. Our states are called Provinces. We even have three Territories.
20. We DO NOT have snow all year round. We DO NOT live in igloos. We DO NOT ride around on dog sleds.
We DO NOT have to check the back yard for polar bears, before we let our kids go out to play.
21. Many Canadians have never played hockey in their lives. There are many who do not like hockey.
22. Besides, our national sport is not hockey, its lacrosse. It's one of the few sports that originated on the North American continent, it was played by the Aboriginals.
23. We didn't invent hockey, we just made it better.
24. Even if an "American" team wins the Stanley Cup (the "World Series" of hockey) it doesn't matter to us, because all your best players are Canadian.
25. On the other hand, if a "Canadian" team wins the World Series we ignore the fact that all our baseball players are American.
26. Stop asking if we know somebody in Canada when you find out we're Canadian. We DON'T know everybody in Canada.
27. We have no right to keep and bear arms. So leave your guns home if you're visiting, otherwise they'll be confiscated at the border. We have very strict gun laws, and fully automatic weapons are pretty much illegal. It almost takes an Act of God to get a licence to own a pistol. (This may be a contributing factor as to why we only have about 600 homicides a year, nation-wide.)
28. The border between Canada and the US holds the title of the "World's Longest Undefended Border".
29. Our side of Niagara Falls is nicer looking than your side. In fact, even when Americans use images of the Falls in advertising and movies, they film the Canadian side. It's called Horse Shoe Falls, by the way.
30. We own the North Pole, and therefore Santa Claus is Canadian. The internationally recognized mailing address for jolly old St. Nick is:
Santa Claus
North Pole
Canada
H0H 0H0
31. We call eskimos "Inuit", because that's what they call themselves.
32. That movie you thought was filmed in New York, or Seattle, or Chicago, or Los Angeles -- may have just been filmed in Vancouver, Montreal or Toronto.
So there you have it. Now you just might know more about Canada than most Canadians do!
**Copyright, August 15th, 2014. Major thanks to http://www.tickld.com/ All rights reserved. **
Saturday, 16 August 2014
Saturday, 21 June 2014
Fredericton Transit Changes to be Presented at Open Houses
Fredericton, NB (June 17, 2014) – Staff at the City of Fredericton are considering recommending transit changes to City Council and are looking to obtain public input into those changes. Two open house sessions will be held:
In addition, a special web page will go live on the evening of June 24, where anyone who can’t make the open house sessions can go to review the changes and comment online. Visit: www.fredericton.ca/TransitChanges.
The changes are meant to address common transit complaints expressed over the years, including:
“How can we make our transit system more viable for current and potential users while using the same resources? I encourage people to attend the open houses or check out the web page and provide their feedback.”
** Copyright City of Fredericton. 2014**
- June 24, 2014, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, Willie O’Ree Place.
- June 26, 2014, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, Grant-Harvey Centre.
In addition, a special web page will go live on the evening of June 24, where anyone who can’t make the open house sessions can go to review the changes and comment online. Visit: www.fredericton.ca/TransitChanges.
The changes are meant to address common transit complaints expressed over the years, including:
- A need for improve frequency
- Need for transit service in growing areas of the city
- Lots of empty buses traveling around certain routes and times of the day
- Length of time it can take to get to some locations using transit
- Fredericton’s transit system has not changed significantly for the past two decades
- he city’s urban core, on both the south and north sides of the St. John River, is much denser than it was 20 years ago
- Slight adjustments to the system and the City’s transit philosophy will not address the common complaints
- Municipal resources continue to be limited
“How can we make our transit system more viable for current and potential users while using the same resources? I encourage people to attend the open houses or check out the web page and provide their feedback.”
** Copyright City of Fredericton. 2014**
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Abducted baby now with family after Facebook spurs teens' search.
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By CBC News of cbc.ca Day-old Victoria is back with her family this morning, thanks to four teens who went hunting for the baby after they saw a Facebook alert about her abduction last night from a hospital in Trois-Rivières, Que.
In a Facebook post also thanking the teens for their help, Victoria's mother, Mélissa McMahon, on Tuesday expressed the family's horror of having the newborn taken from the maternity ward at the Sainte-Marie pavillion of the Centre hospitalier régional de Trois-Rivières (CHRTR) the night before.
"Yesterday we experienced the worst time of our lives. It was a feeling that nobody should have to live through. The helplessness in this situation was difficult to accept," wrote McMahon.
Quebec provincial police said that just before 7 p.m. ET Monday, a woman dressed as a nurse showed up at the hospital and entered the maternity ward.
“She walked calmly down the hall, wearing a nurse's uniform. No one asked any questions about who she was,” a hospital employee told Radio-Canada.
Police issued an Amber Alert around 7 p.m., looking for a red Toyota Yaris hatchback with a "Bébé à bord" ("Baby on Board") sticker.
Sgt. Martine Asselin with provincial police says many people were contacting police with tips after the Amber Alert went out.
"The media really helped us put out the picture and the description fast. We could see on the TV, on the media, on Facebook, everything we needed and very fast... the public was able to call us and give us information," said Asselin.
The baby was found three hours later after the four teenagers learned of the abduction through Facebook. Police had shared a photo on social networks of the woman police were seeking.
The teenagers say they went looking for the vehicle of the woman at the centre of the hunt, and found one that fit the description — then called police.
“We saw [the alert] on Facebook, and decided to go looking for red cars, and we saw the woman. We recognized her,” said Mélisane Bergeron.
Police say they arrested a 21-year-old woman at her home.
They found baby Victoria, and returned her to hospital.
On Tuesday, Victoria is home with her family.
McMahon said in her Facebook post that it was social media that helped save the baby:
"Thousands of people shared the photo of the woman on social networks," McMahon wrote. "Know that this is what has saved our little Victoria. Each click, each share made the difference. Four wonderful people, who we had the chance to meet, identified the woman through Facebook."
The 21-year-old woman picked up by police is in hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, they say. She may appear in court later Tuesday.
Asselin said it is not yet known if there was any previous connection between the baby's mother and the suspect.
The head of health services in the region says the hospital is co-operating with the police investigation and will also conduct its own internal review.
** Copyright 2014. CBC Canada & MSN Canada.**
http://t.news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/abducted-baby-now-with-family-after-facebook-spurs-teens-search
Sunday, 30 March 2014
CARLYS UNITED ON GH!
http://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/carlys-united-gh
Here's yet another reason to tune into GH on April 1 as is marks its 51st anniversary: two of the actresses who formerly played Carly -Sarah Brown and Tamara Braun - will be making cameo appearances alongside the show's current Carly, Laura Wright.Digest was on set the day they filmed this historic episode - and we can tell you what they'll be doing, but we can promise that you won't want to miss it! Daytime Confidential broke the news earlier today.
By SOD • Posted: Mar 30, 2014.
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Here's yet another reason to tune into GH on April 1 as is marks its 51st anniversary: two of the actresses who formerly played Carly -Sarah Brown and Tamara Braun - will be making cameo appearances alongside the show's current Carly, Laura Wright.Digest was on set the day they filmed this historic episode - and we can tell you what they'll be doing, but we can promise that you won't want to miss it! Daytime Confidential broke the news earlier today.
By SOD • Posted: Mar 30, 2014.
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Sunday, 10 November 2013
New trial urged for U.S. boy, 14, executed in 1944.
MSN News Reporting.
George Stinney has been dead since 1944, when as a 14-year-old black boy he became the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century, for killing two white girls. Now his supporters are taking the unheard-of step of asking for a new trial.
Stinney's case brings together two of the longest-running disputes in the American legal system — the death penalty and race.
Stinney was convicted on a shaky confession in a segregated society that wanted revenge for the beating deaths of two girls, ages 11 and 7, according to a lawsuit filed last month on Stinney's behalf in South Carolina.
He was electrocuted just 84 days after the girls were killed. Newspaper stories reported that witnesses said the straps to keep him in the electric chair didn't fit around his small frame.
The request for a new trial is largely symbolic, but Stinney's supporters say they would prefer exoneration to a pardon — which they've asked for as well.
The judge may refuse to hear the request for a new trial, since the punishment was already carried out.
"I think it's a long shot, but I admire the lawyer for trying it," said Kenneth Gaines, a professor at the University of South Carolina's law school. He said he's not aware of any other executed inmates in the state being granted a new trial posthumously.
Girls looking for wildflowers
The two girls were last seen looking for wildflowers in the racially divided mill town of Alcolu. Stinney's sister, who was 7 at the time, says in her new affidavit for the lawsuit that she and her brother were letting their cow graze when the girls asked them where they could find flowers called maypops. The sister, Amie Ruffner, said her brother told them he didn't know, and the girls left.
"It was strange to see them in our area, because white people stayed on their side of Alcolu and we knew our place," Ruffner wrote.
The girls never came home. They were found the next morning in a water-filled ditch, their heads beaten with a hard object, likely a railroad spike.
The request for a new trial includes sworn statements from two of Stinney's siblings who say he was with them the entire day the girls were killed.
Notes from Stinney's confession and most other information used to convict him in a one-day trial have disappeared, along with any transcript of the proceedings. Only a few pages of cryptic, hand-written notes remain, according to the motion.
"Why was George Stinney electrocuted? The state can't produce any paperwork to justify why he was," said George Frierson, a local school board member who grew up in Stinney's hometown hearing stories about the case and decided six years ago to start studying it and pushing for exoneration.
The request for a new trial points out that at 43 kilograms, Stinney likely couldn't have killed the girls and dragged them to the ditch.
The motion also hints at community rumours of a deathbed confession from a white man several years ago and the possibility Stinney confessed because his family was threatened. But the court papers provide little information, and the lawyers wouldn't elaborate.
The South Carolina Attorney General's Office will likely argue the other side of the case. A spokesman said their lawyers had not seen the motion and do not comment on pending cases. A date for a hearing on the matter has not been set.
At 14, Stinney was the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the past 100 years, according to statistics gathered by the Death Penalty Information Center.
Executing teens wasn't uncommon at that time. Florida put a 16-year-old boy to death for rape in 1944, and Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio and Texas executed 17-year-olds that year.
http://t.news.ca.msn.com/world/new-trial-urged-for-us-boy-14-executed-in-1944-2
George Stinney has been dead since 1944, when as a 14-year-old black boy he became the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century, for killing two white girls. Now his supporters are taking the unheard-of step of asking for a new trial.
Stinney's case brings together two of the longest-running disputes in the American legal system — the death penalty and race.
Stinney was convicted on a shaky confession in a segregated society that wanted revenge for the beating deaths of two girls, ages 11 and 7, according to a lawsuit filed last month on Stinney's behalf in South Carolina.
He was electrocuted just 84 days after the girls were killed. Newspaper stories reported that witnesses said the straps to keep him in the electric chair didn't fit around his small frame.
The request for a new trial is largely symbolic, but Stinney's supporters say they would prefer exoneration to a pardon — which they've asked for as well.
The judge may refuse to hear the request for a new trial, since the punishment was already carried out.
"I think it's a long shot, but I admire the lawyer for trying it," said Kenneth Gaines, a professor at the University of South Carolina's law school. He said he's not aware of any other executed inmates in the state being granted a new trial posthumously.
Girls looking for wildflowers
The two girls were last seen looking for wildflowers in the racially divided mill town of Alcolu. Stinney's sister, who was 7 at the time, says in her new affidavit for the lawsuit that she and her brother were letting their cow graze when the girls asked them where they could find flowers called maypops. The sister, Amie Ruffner, said her brother told them he didn't know, and the girls left.
"It was strange to see them in our area, because white people stayed on their side of Alcolu and we knew our place," Ruffner wrote.
The girls never came home. They were found the next morning in a water-filled ditch, their heads beaten with a hard object, likely a railroad spike.
The request for a new trial includes sworn statements from two of Stinney's siblings who say he was with them the entire day the girls were killed.
Notes from Stinney's confession and most other information used to convict him in a one-day trial have disappeared, along with any transcript of the proceedings. Only a few pages of cryptic, hand-written notes remain, according to the motion.
"Why was George Stinney electrocuted? The state can't produce any paperwork to justify why he was," said George Frierson, a local school board member who grew up in Stinney's hometown hearing stories about the case and decided six years ago to start studying it and pushing for exoneration.
The request for a new trial points out that at 43 kilograms, Stinney likely couldn't have killed the girls and dragged them to the ditch.
The motion also hints at community rumours of a deathbed confession from a white man several years ago and the possibility Stinney confessed because his family was threatened. But the court papers provide little information, and the lawyers wouldn't elaborate.
The South Carolina Attorney General's Office will likely argue the other side of the case. A spokesman said their lawyers had not seen the motion and do not comment on pending cases. A date for a hearing on the matter has not been set.
At 14, Stinney was the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the past 100 years, according to statistics gathered by the Death Penalty Information Center.
Executing teens wasn't uncommon at that time. Florida put a 16-year-old boy to death for rape in 1944, and Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio and Texas executed 17-year-olds that year.
http://t.news.ca.msn.com/world/new-trial-urged-for-us-boy-14-executed-in-1944-2
Sunday, 3 November 2013
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