Tag: canada
member name: Rory M.
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September 23, 2007 09:12 PM EDT --
Following is a short photo-essay on my little part of God's green acre, especially the Eagle's Nest Park near my home in Bancroft. My family who all still live in major urban centres have . . .
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July 09, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
The trend in politics today is to reduce, in many cases eliminate, government services. This trend reflects the consensus amongst the population that government is inefficient, too costly, burdensome, . . .
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June 19, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
The little fixer-upper we bought when we moved to our quaint rural retreat sixteen years ago came with one distinct concern of which we were well aware: water.
Our house gets its water from a 400 foot . . .
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August 01, 2009 01:27 AM EDT --
As the United States once again suffers through the throws of a new round of debate over health care reform, the opponents of reform are resorting to their time honoured tactic of scaring the public . . .
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August 06, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Everyone knows, from the endless movies and televisions shows and novels, of the American pioneering archetype: the cowboy. He was the white knight of the wild West and the wide open plains, . . .
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July 11, 2007 12:14 AM EDT --
The good old hockey game, as Stompin' Tom Connors observed, is the best game you can name. Canadians always have difficulty defining their national identity and finding commonalities that unite them. . . .
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April 10, 2009 08:25 PM EDT --
Canadian political scandals rarely receive much ink or airtime from the American media. I'm sure the reaction of most Americans to any inquiry as to the "Mulroney-Schreiber Affair" . . .
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July 17, 2007 09:33 AM EDT --
"The Good old hockey game is the best game you can name
and the best game you can name is the good old hockey game."
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . .
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April 20, 2009 07:26 PM EDT --
As a Canadian member of the Gather community I have always been free with my comments and the expression of my opinions on matters pertaining to American politics. I do this for several reasons, . . .
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July 08, 2007 12:13 PM EDT --
The mid-life crisis has long been widely recognized as a common stage of maturity and growth in the lives of humans.
There comes a time when a person recognizes that the time remaining to them is likely . . .
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September 14, 2006 10:40 AM EDT --
As a Canadian, whose current government seems committed to bringing Canada closer and closer to George Bush's destructive American administration, I am always amazed by all the "wars" our . . .
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November 07, 2006 02:35 PM EST --
I have been in love with the theatre for the past fourteen years.
My earliest acting experiences date back to my early teen years when I had the great good fortune to be cast into a role on a Canadian . . .
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June 18, 2007 01:09 AM EDT --
Back on July 18th, 2006 I was invited by a friend now living abroad to join Gather, where we could keep in touch and also enjoy the broader community that was gathering on this website.
Those were heady . . .
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October 08, 2006 10:30 PM EDT --
On Friday, October 6th the Toronto Star, the largest circulation daily newspaper in Canada, carried a front page story about a Canadian soldier who was wounded while fighting in Afghanistan. To his great . . .
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November 26, 2006 09:49 AM EST --
This is a follow up anecdote to my "Pie Tales, vol. 1" in which I related a recent humorous incident involving a slice of lemon meringue pie and two of my in-laws. My in-laws, as I alluded in . . .
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October 02, 2006 01:22 PM EDT --
Canada and the United States have histories that intertwine almost completely and, famously, have shared what for many decades has been known as the longest undefended border in the world (though modern . . .
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October 08, 2006 11:22 AM EDT --
Tomorrow, October 9th, is Canadian Thanksgiving. So, I thought I'd take a moment to give thanks for things great and small.
I'm thankful for my life. It has been a pretty good ride so far. I've . . .
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November 24, 2006 12:59 PM EST --
I am from the Shamrock and the Tudor Rose
Cross-polinated by the Fleur-de-Lys and the Maple Leaf
I am from the frozen north, the land of funny money
Of the beaver and the lumberjack
I am from Harry . . .
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November 26, 2006 09:44 AM EST --
I married my wife for herself, but her extended family were a pretty good throw in to the deal. (I am the only man I know who laments how short a time he got to enjoy his mother-in-law.)
Recently a bunch . . .
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