If You Like Fox News, You'll Hate Canada (And Canada will hate you in return)

The American Enterprise ^ | September 2, 2003 | Marni Soupcoff

[an amused spectator]

Yoopers tell the downstaters that their nickname is "troll", so that the Yoopers can tell when a "foreigner" is trying to pass himself off as a Yooper. Amongst themselves, the downstaters are referred to as "flatlanders", "downstaters", or "appleknockers" (in some parts of the UP).

[ronthecivil]

It only does the google.ca thing if you don't go to google.com. I still can't rid of SBC on my yahoo account, despite how hard I try, and despite I don't even live in a country where they have their service!

Incidentily, know ANY countries out there not run by rich guys with strong corporate ties, ethical and otherwise?

P.S. Paul Martin could not be P.M. if not elected to his ridership, or have the endorsment of the elected members of Parliment. Given the fun that both countries have in the potical realm, I doubt that either one is in any position to be riding a high horse neither....

P.P.S. Plenty of cell phone options where I live. What percentage of the US suscribes to AT&T, or buys it's software from microsoft! (Which unlike AT&T, did not end up having a dint in it's monopoly yet...)

[kajingawd]

well, i'm originally from Canada. as i read this, i see that not many of you know what you're talking about. Thing is, its not the fact that we arent allowed to see Fox news or anything else from the states for that matter, we can watch whatever we want when we want. The problem is that most americans think the world revolves around them. Most of you are right thinking that we've become too passive, uninterested, bored..the reason for that is you , the United States of America, you act like you own us, and expect Canadians to want to be like you, while over the past half century we have become lulled by American TV and Canadian *whateverness*...we are just to the point of not caring anymore, only because we see that we have no voice either way , might as well be swallowed up...why do you think kids dont join the armed forces like we should be doing? its because we know we are protected by the Americans, because the Americans made it so...
as for Canadian content on our radio waves, and the quotas implimented, its necessary for those quotas, because , honestly, you can only listen to so much of Rush, gordon lightfoot, Neil young and the 2 other bands we have. If that is one way for us to keep pretending we have our own identity in the eyes of the world other than hockey.
we do have good Canadian content though, are any of you familiar with the tv show * This hour has 22 minutes *? That program is funded totally by our Government, but they have all the rights to say and do as they please, and are quite conservative in action and thought. Most Canadians are free thinkers, you guys might call us Libertarians . The reason that we dont sound like it is because of numbers...too many hippy spenders still alive...the 20-40 somethings of today see it different though, and its slowly changing. Now, if can only wake the whole country up and start selling our oil and water and wood to the States, and the Americans start fabricating, building and open up their mills and mines , we could have one kickass , self-sufficient continent, ...no need for the gawdforsaken UN

[lawgirl]

South Park said it best - "blame canada!! Blame canada!!"

[rpage3]

This is interesting. I met a couple of Canadians recently and asked them about FNC and they both said they get it on their cable system (whatever it is)...were they lying?