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99 reasons why it’s better to be Canadian
Maclean's ^ | JUNE 28, 2013

Posted on 06/28/2013 5:25:58 PM PDT by rickmichaels

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To: rickmichaels

Pros: Molson, Schooner, and Moosehead

Cons: Quebec (Snottier than Paris), Newfoundland (West Virginia with frost heaves)

All in all, you’ve been a remarkable patient neighbor.


41 posted on 06/28/2013 6:11:56 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Americans are waking up...however Canadians have a 10 year running head start down here...they were the frontier men and ladies...much has to do with Canadian miners worked here in the fields extracting gold and silver and fell in love with the country just as I have...


42 posted on 06/28/2013 6:13:03 PM PDT by Caliban (Politics is war conducted by other means...)
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To: rickmichaels

Your list is incomplete without a mention of Bob and Doug McKenzie eh, and not to mention Tim Hortons and the Possum Lodge.

But don’t sweat it - have a great Canada Day. After all, “if the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.”


43 posted on 06/28/2013 6:13:51 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: rickmichaels

The reason there are only 99 reasons is gun freedom. To be able to walk into any WalMart and buy a gun of your choice plus ammo and go home with it. The American way.


44 posted on 06/28/2013 6:14:16 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: rickmichaels

Most of the crime and lifespan stuff is explained by the fact that you have relative small number of dysfunctional minority culture members.

If you are a member of a functional culture in the US that looks just like most Canadians, you do just fine in those areas.

The gun grabbers try to use you against us.


45 posted on 06/28/2013 6:14:25 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Universal Background Check -> Registration -> Confiscation -> Oppression -> Extermination)
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To: rickmichaels
its good to be Canadian....all these decades having the USA protect the free world while you guys sat on your asses....

your food stinks...you haven't got any beer close to some of our private labels....you're always running HERE to get better discounts on FOOD..CLOTHES...ALCOHOL...and wait for it....HEALTH CARE....

you let the murdering/torturing older sister who along with her psycho boyfriend practically go FREE despite video proof that she was an active participant in the torture and murder of her little sister...(Homolka!).

when we wanted to get Charlie Li back after torturing and killing many, many people, you delayed justice because the DP SCARES you....

if your singers and actors have any success in the world, its because of the USA, period....you're country couldn't support anything on your very own..

Celine Dion isn't playing in Vegas because of the weather.....

you guys BOO young children who come to your country to play hockey...YOU BOO KIDS.....

yes..its easy being a Canadian....as long as you got us...

all in good fun of course...just kidding....NOT!

46 posted on 06/28/2013 6:15:24 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Gay State Conservative

No. I definitely mean THEY. (as in Demoncrats/GOP-e)


47 posted on 06/28/2013 6:19:57 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1)
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To: rickmichaels

The Canadians have some interesting sports. They have a guy stand on each side of a street. They run a length of toilet paper between them. The two guys drop their pants and tuck the end of the toilet paper between their butt cheeks. The toilet paper is set on fire in the middle. Each guy has to drink a pitcher of beer and then run to the middle of the road and scoot across the road on his hind end to put out the burning toilet paper. They call it “THE DANCE OF THE FLAMING ASSHOLES”. Alberta bound! Alberta bound! I wish I was Alberta bound!


48 posted on 06/28/2013 6:26:55 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Yes the cold does have its advantages, including fewer infections. But high heating costs. Min-65, max-82 temperature is the ideal range for me though.


49 posted on 06/28/2013 6:28:21 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: rickmichaels

bfl


50 posted on 06/28/2013 6:32:37 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: cherry

Perhaps before you go pointing fingers, you should learn some grammar.

Other than that, we’ve done anything but sit around. I defend my southern neighbors against those that like to bash them, and have given up a lot to serve my country and put my time in like a lot of yours have.

There are a lot of conservatives up here, especially out west in Alberta, I’d be taking the plank out of your own eye, before you worry about the sliver in mine.


51 posted on 06/28/2013 6:39:45 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: rickmichaels

Would be 100 except the Mounties are seizing weapons from homes evacuated in flood areas without warrants.


52 posted on 06/28/2013 6:45:02 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Drug abuse is not a victimless crime ... look at what Obama is doing to the country!)
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To: Jyotishi

High heating costs are offset by less need for air conditioning. Besides, Canada has more energy reserves than any other country on earth, except one. We’ve got it to burn.


53 posted on 06/28/2013 6:52:11 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (The IRS--a softer Gestapo)
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To: rickmichaels

Canada is our worst enemy. We’ve fought six wars with Canada—more than we have with any other country. However, in four of those wars, we were English and Canada was French.


54 posted on 06/28/2013 6:54:56 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: rickmichaels

Wow, are dollar must be really losing value. There used to be only 50 reasons.


55 posted on 06/28/2013 7:19:01 PM PDT by kempster
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To: rickmichaels
They have the 2nd largest country in the world, and yet 75% of Canadians pack themselves in a band 100 miles wide along the border. It's kind of creepy. Like a neighbor who spends all day standing in the window, staring, watching everything you do. Jeez, get a life.

Oh, and Happy Canada Day!

56 posted on 06/28/2013 7:20:45 PM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: rickmichaels

Poutine.

Nothing like French fries smothered in gravy and cheese.

Fortunately.


57 posted on 06/28/2013 7:35:49 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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To: rickmichaels

You from Cann-a-Duhh?


58 posted on 06/28/2013 7:42:18 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: rickmichaels

Canada has some of the best TV shows. Many of them I catch are credited to Canada.


59 posted on 06/28/2013 7:46:37 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Bulwyf

I’m in New England. Lot’s & lot’s of Canadians live here. The older folks love the States....the younger crowd (under 40) are a whole different breed. Many nasty, know-it-all haters in this group. And the arrogent sense that they are so much better than us idiots here in the States is depressing. That sense of modesty & reserve that Canadians had I knew growing up is lacking in this group I’ll tell you that.


60 posted on 06/28/2013 7:50:16 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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