Canada, Who we are.

Sapper Steven Marshall age 24, 1st Combat Engineer Regiment. P.P.C.L.I., became the 133rd Canadian to die in Afghanistan yesterday while on foot patrol when an I.E.D. exploded.


ALL HONOUR TO THE FALLEN

LEST WE FORGET


Camac.

His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla Duchess of Cornwall landed in NFLD/LAB. last evening to start an 11 day tour of the country. I am a Monarchist so that states pretty well how I feel about this visit. For those out there who do not like the idea I would like to remind you that Canada is a Monarchy and has been one since it's founding. First with the French and then with the British. It is part of our History and our Heritage and what makes us unique on the North American Continent.



Camac

God Save the Queen!

MacDonnchaidh;


Thank You Sir, and May The Creator Smile on the United States.



Camac

May he indeed, however I'm a Canuck through and through.

I thought to share this here with all of you...enjoy!

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
1. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges. You do the math.
2. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from downtown.
3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.
4. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.
5. Weed.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA
1. Big rock between you and B.C.
2. Ottawa who?
3. Tax is 5% instead ofthe approximately 200% it is for the rest of the country.
4. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.
5. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be its own country.
6. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN
1. You never run out of wheat.
2. Your province is really easy to draw.
3. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.
4. People will assume you live on a farm.
5. Daylight savings time? Who the hell needs that!

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA
1. You wake up one morning to find that you suddenly have a beachfront property.
2. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.
3. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.
4. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.
5. You can pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO
1. You live in the centre of the universe.
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election.
4. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC
1. Racism is socially acceptable.
2. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbour will move out next.
3. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada .
4. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo A*#!%!"

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
1. One way or another, the government gets 98% of your income.
2. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.
3. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick .
4. Everybody has a grandfather who runs a lighthouse.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA
1. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can't, think they can.
2. You can pretend to have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get drunk and wear a kilt.
3. You are the only reason Anne Murray makes money.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island , you still got the big, new bridge.
2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.
3. You can drive across the province in two minutes.
4. Everyone has been an extra on "Road to Avonlea."
5. This is where all those tiny, red potatoes come from.
6. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
1. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea.
2. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.
3. The workday is about two hours long.
4. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders to your wedding.


Let's face it: Canadians are a rare breed.

The Official Canadian Temperature Conversion Chart

50° Fahrenheit (10° C)
· Californians shiver uncontrollably.
· Canadians plant gardens.

35° Fahrenheit (1.6° C)
· Italian Cars won't start
· Canadians drive with the windows down

32° Fahrenheit (0° C)
· American water freezes
· Canadian water gets thicker.

0° Fahrenheit (-17.9° C)
· New York City landlords finally turn on the heat.
· Canadians have the last cookout of the season.

-60° Fahrenheit (-51° C)
· Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
· Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door-to-door.

-109.9° Fahrenheit (-78.5° C)
· Carbon dioxide freezes makes dry ice.
· Canadians pull down their earflaps.

-173° Fahrenheit (-114° C)
· Ethyl alcohol freezes.
· Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg

-459.67° Fahrenheit (-273.15° C)
· Absolute zero; all atomic motion stops.
· Canadians start saying "cold, eh?"

-500° Fahrenheit (-295° C)
· Hell freezes over.
· The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup and someone wins the turd star

LOA;

Ain't it great to be Canadian EH!



Camac

PS. You forgot one. Bear can come visit.

Camac, you misused the 'eh'!

It's to follow a statement, requesting agreement.

"It's great to be Canadian, eh?"

oldraven;

Sorry. Figured our Yank cousins wouldn't know the difference.


Camac.

No harm, no foul. Though I may be letting some kind of National Secret out.

oldraven.

Whether it's a question or a statement "IT'S GREAT TO BE CANADIAN"


Camac

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, my friend!

oldraven;

I was reading an article in the Huffington Post about when we die we go to and alternate Universe. Something to do with being energy and that whole physics thing. If it is true there had better be a Canada there or I'm not going.


Camac.

Hahaha! I don't often really laugh when I type that, just like I never laugh reading the Saturday funnies, but that got me in the gut, man.

oldraven;

Just a wee dram o Christmas cheer my friend.