Tag: canadians
member name: Rory M.
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November 26, 2007 02:35 AM EST --
WARNING: This article contains detailed information about hockey, which Americans may not relate to very well. All will be explained, so no expertise in hockey is actually required to read . . . more
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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, . . . more
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May 05, 2008 12:54 PM EDT --
The Ed Sullivan Show was once the standard for variety entertainment on television. Running from 1948, when it debuted as Toast of the Town, until its sudden cancellation in 1971, the show was . . . more
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August 05, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Up here in "The Great White North" we have a national, publicly owned broadcaster called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC. This is a public broadcaster that does earn some of its . . . more
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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 . . . more
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December 31, 2007 06:45 PM EST --
The United States of America sits atop the world as the most powerful nation, a stunning feat by a country little over 200 years old. It is the pre-eminent military power, the strongest and wealthiest . . . more
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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. . . . more
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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, . . . more
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November 14, 2007 10:37 PM EST --
Here is the big debate that no one is really engaging the public in, and no politician will dare. While the religious right wing in America has forced the abortion debate onto the agenda, and the . . . more
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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."
. . . more
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November 12, 2007 10:56 AM EST --
Given the title of this piece, it could be a charming little story about forest creatures, about a gentle but eerie sounding Loon who lived on a quiet lake and magnificent Buck , or Stag, who came . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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October 07, 2006 01:03 AM EDT --
It was 1939 and the city of Montreal, Harry's adopted hometown and the only place in the world he'd ever known, was still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression.
Harry was luckier . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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