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Trump said it as a joke. Canadians want to take him up on it! Transcript linked below video.

https://youtu.be/IJJUFH0ZyNY?t=29m59s Their dancing feet is a good principle to relate the music to the dance potential of the audience.

The Israeli ambassador is taking Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe to task for participating in a pro-Hezbollah rally. Alan Baker has written a sharply worded letter to Duceppe, saying the Aug. 6 march in Montreal was a glorification of Hezbollah, which Canada considers to be a terrorist group. Liberal MP Denis Coderre also marched, but Baker aimed his complaint at Duceppe, a party leader. The ambassador says he has no problem with demonstrations or with people expressing their opinions, but he says glorifying Hezbollah is wrong.

It's game over for the Buick LaCrosse in Canada. A General Motors executive yesterday admitted that the future Buick model -- which is set to debut late next year -- will be re-named in Canada after GM learned LaCrosse is a Quebec slang term for masturbation. The new mid-size sedan, which will replace the Buick Regal, will still go by the name LaCrosse in the U.S. GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz, who was in Toronto yesterday to address a gathering of GM dealers, said he wasn't aware of LaCrosse's racy roots although he speaks French and spent three years living in...

MONTREAL - Parisians who tut-tut at the quality of French spoken in Quebec may have to bite their tongues now that the Académie française has declared the Quebec term courriel to be the official French equivalent of e-mail. The rare acceptance by the Académie of a Canadian-grown word is seen as evidence Quebec has overtaken France in adapting the language to modern advances. "It could not have been easy for them to accept that word, because France is supposed to be the francophone leader," said Gérald Paquette, head of communications for the Office québécois de la langue française. "Quebec has...