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westslope

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Posted: Mar 26, 2016 - 8:52am

 Beaker wrote:

Never heard of it.  Sounds like another CBC 'direct to DVD' effort in wasting our tax dollars.

 

Worse yet.  It is available free of charge on youtube (at least to those with a Canadian IP).

But aside from news and public affair shows, I would agree that CBC should dump television.  That would save a lot of taxpayer dollars.


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Posted: Mar 26, 2016 - 8:22am

 westslope wrote:

Where is that VPN tunnel when you need it?

I missed this growing up.  My parents prevented us from watching television except certain shows on the weekends.

No you didn't, you naive sucker.  This was a mockumentary aired by CBC in 2005....   Silly ass....  

I love the skit about 'Provincial cigarettes'.  Which is an oblique way of saying that Canadians were provincial.  So true!   Still are in most of the country.

 
{#Cheesygrin} I have the DVD set. And even THEN i had to double check. {#Biggrin}
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Posted: Mar 26, 2016 - 8:16am

Jimmy MacDonald's Canada: The Lost Episodes is an eight-episode Canadian television series that aired on CBC Television in the summer of 2005

Pasted from wikipedia:

The show is a mockumentary, purporting to be a lost Canadian public affairs series of the mid-1960s, hosted by the fictional Jimmy MacDonald (Richard Waugh) with additional commentary (from a woman's point of view) by Marg Margison (Teresa Pavlinek). The premise of the show is that Jimmy MacDonald's Canada was a wildly popular TV show in the 1960s, but that MacDonald had a breakdown while on the air and fled to northern Canada, taking all of the filmed episodes with him. His plane crashed and he was presumed dead, and the premise is these films have recently been found. The humour of the show is derived from the differences in social values between the 1960s and today. This humour also extends to now-taboo, then-common cigarette advertisements being included in the show, and even the opening credits, which lampoon the similar style of manic, partially animated credits that were common in the era. 

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SeriousLee

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Posted: Mar 26, 2016 - 7:23am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Usually it's Canada that's screwed: "This video contains content from Canadian Broadcasting Corp., who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

 
Pity. {#Neutral}
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Posted: Mar 26, 2016 - 7:21am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Usually it's Canada that's screwed: "This video contains content from Canadian Broadcasting Corp., who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

 
Where is that VPN tunnel when you need it?

I missed this growing up.  My parents prevented us from watching television except certain shows on the weekends.

No you didn't, you naive sucker.  This was a mockumentary aired by CBC in 2005....   Silly ass....  

I love the skit about 'Provincial cigarettes'.  Which is an oblique way of saying that Canadians were provincial.  So true!   Still are in most of the country.


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Posted: Mar 26, 2016 - 6:57am

 SeriousLee wrote: 
Usually it's Canada that's screwed: "This video contains content from Canadian Broadcasting Corp., who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
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Posted: Mar 26, 2016 - 6:37am


Jimmy MacDonald's Canada
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Posted: Apr 15, 2015 - 12:12am

 andrewjohn1317 wrote:

I love Canada

 
I do too, but Harper's climate policy is horrible. But to be fair, so is our Prime Minister's.
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Posted: Apr 14, 2015 - 11:52pm

 HazzeSwede wrote:
Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling
Respect!!,,Welly,for posting this.{#Yes}

 
I love Canada
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Posted: Apr 10, 2015 - 8:14am

 Proclivities wrote: 
I'm sorry but naming your kid Dick Shatto is just wrong. That sounds like something that would require an ointment to clear up.{#Snooty}


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Posted: Apr 10, 2015 - 8:04am

sandwiches
Favorite Sandwiches of Canadian Celebrities
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Posted: Mar 22, 2015 - 3:10pm

We Aren't Kidding That This Is The Most Canadian Photo Ever



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Posted: Mar 14, 2015 - 6:18pm


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Posted: Jan 24, 2015 - 5:04am

16/20, We technically have 2 Canadians in the family, my older brothers, but I try not to hold that against them.
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Posted: Jan 23, 2015 - 7:48pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I got 13 out of 20 and lol'd at how poutine was a choice on about 5 of the questions but was never the answer.

 
i got 10/20. i always thought they spoke english up there.
 
i spent 1 night in canada when i was a kid. 
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Posted: Jan 23, 2015 - 7:21pm

 Beaker wrote:

Yep.  #5 makes no sense to me.  Doesn't fit my definitions.  Which is why I must be a fake Canuckian.  Or something.

 
I got 13 out of 20 and lol'd at how poutine was a choice on about 5 of the questions but was never the answer.
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Posted: Jan 23, 2015 - 4:22pm

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18/20... I'm sure they're already on the way to arrest me and revoke my citizenship.

http://www.playbuzz.com/debbiemorgan10/how-many-canadian-slang-words-do-you-know?

 
Me too. But I'd argue with #5.
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Posted: Jan 23, 2015 - 4:15pm

 Beaker wrote:
18/20... I'm sure they're already on the way to arrest me and revoke my citizenship.

http://www.playbuzz.com/debbiemorgan10/how-many-canadian-slang-words-do-you-know?

 

  Really knowing nothing of your country other than going there for Expo 67 (and that was really the reservation where you keep your Frenchmen) and this I really know nothing of your country and I was still able to get 14 just by making the obvious guesses.  I would be interested in the getting an explanation from a native on one I missed though, #5 "keener is a synonym for ..."   the choices were:
 
 Butt kisser
 All of the above
 Teacher's pet
 Brown noser
 
As a logician I felt the the first two were equivalent but they probably meant the second to include all the choices.  I guessed all but they said the answer was brown noser.  I don't think you can find many pairs of more synonymous words in English than the first and last choices.  How can it be one and not the other?
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Posted: Dec 3, 2009 - 3:04am

Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling
Respect!!,,Welly,for posting this.{#Yes}
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Posted: Dec 2, 2009 - 9:22pm

Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling

The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen


Blog Carbon emissions: Tar sands mining, Syncrude Oil Sands Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

Syncrude Oil Sands, Mine and Refinery, the world's largest oil sand operation producing crude oil at Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, October 20, 2001. Photograph: Greg Smith/Corbis

 

From The Guardian - UK - By George Monbiot

When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world's peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country's government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee's tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I've broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.

So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush.

Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.

In 2006 the new Canadian government announced it was abandoning its targets to cut greenhouse gases under the Kyoto protocol. No other country that had ratified the treaty has done this. Canada was meant to have cut emissions by 6% between 1990 and 2012. Instead they have already risen by 26%.

It is now clear that Canada will refuse to be sanctioned for abandoning its legal obligations. The Kyoto protocol can be enforced only through goodwill: countries must agree to accept punitive future obligations if they miss their current targets. But the future cut Canada has volunteered is smaller than that of any other rich nation. Never mind special measures; it won't accept even an equal share. The Canadian government is testing the international process to destruction and finding that it breaks all too easily. By demonstrating that climate sanctions aren't worth the paper they're written on, it threatens to render any treaty struck at Copenhagen void.

After giving the finger to Kyoto, Canada then set out to prevent the other nations striking a successor agreement. At the end of 2007, it singlehandedly blocked a Commonwealth resolution to support binding targets for industrialised nations. After the climate talks in Poland in December 2008, it won the Fossil of the Year award, presented by environmental groups to the country that had done most to disrupt the talks. The climate change performance index, which assesses the efforts of the world's 60 richest nations, was published in the same month. Saudi Arabia came 60th. Canada came 59th.

In June this year the media obtained Canadian briefing documents which showed the government was scheming to divide the Europeans. During the meeting in Bangkok in October, almost the entire developing world bloc walked out when the Canadian delegate was speaking, as they were so revolted by his bullying. Last week the Commonwealth heads of government battled for hours (and eventually won) against Canada's obstructions. A concerted campaign has now begun to expel Canada from the Commonwealth.

In Copenhagen next week, this country will do everything in its power to wreck the talks. The rest of the world must do everything in its power to stop it. But such is the fragile nature of climate agreements that one rich nation – especially a member of the G8, the Commonwealth and the Kyoto group of industrialised countries – could scupper the treaty. Canada now threatens the wellbeing of the world.

Why? There's a simple answer: Canada is developing the world's second largest reserve of oil. Did I say oil? It's actually a filthy mixture of bitumen, sand, heavy metals and toxic organic chemicals. The tar sands, most of which occur in Alberta, are being extracted by the biggest opencast mining operation on earth. An area the size of England, comprising pristine forests and marshes, will be be dug up – unless the Canadians can stop this madness. Already it looks like a scene from the end of the world: the strip-miners are creating a churned black hell on an unimaginable scale.

To extract oil from this mess, it needs to be heated and washed. Three barrels of water are used to process one barrel of oil. The contaminated water is held in vast tailings ponds, some so toxic that the tar companies employ people to scoop dead birds off the surface. Most are unlined. They leak organic poisons, arsenic and mercury into the rivers. The First Nations people living downstream have developed a range of exotic cancers and auto-immune diseases.

Refining tar sands requires two to three times as much energy as refining crude oil. The companies exploiting them burn enough natural gas to heat six million homes. Alberta's tar sands operation is the world's biggest single industrial source of carbon emissions. By 2020, if the current growth continues, it will produce more greenhouse gases than Ireland or Denmark. Already, thanks in part to the tar mining, Canadians have almost the highest per capita emissions on earth, and the stripping of Alberta has scarcely begun.

Canada hasn't acted alone. The biggest leaseholder in the tar sands is Shell, a company that has spent millions persuading the public that it respects the environment. The other great greenwasher, BP, initially decided to stay out of tar. Now it has invested in plants built to process it. The British bank RBS, 70% of which belongs to you and me (the government's share will soon rise to 84%), has lent or underwritten £8bn for mining the tar sands.

The purpose of Canada's assault on the international talks is to protect this industry. This is not a poor nation. It does not depend for its economic survival on exploiting this resource. But the tar barons of Alberta have been able to hold the whole country to ransom. They have captured Canada's politics and are turning this lovely country into a cruel and thuggish place.

Canada is a cultured, peaceful nation, which every so often allows a band of Neanderthals to trample over it. Timber firms were licensed to log the old-growth forest in Clayaquot Sound; fishing companies were permitted to destroy the Grand Banks: in both cases these get-rich-quick schemes impoverished Canada and its reputation. But this is much worse, as it affects the whole world. The government's scheming at the climate talks is doing for its national image what whaling has done for Japan.

I will not pretend that this country is the only obstacle to an agreement at Copenhagen. But it is the major one. It feels odd to be writing this. The immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world comes not from Saudi Arabia or Iran or China. It comes from Canada. How could that be true?




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