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I have been craving a good trip for the better part of two years now, and am leaning towards visiting our neighbors to the north, Canada.

I've met a few Canadians in my life, and they seem to be great people.

Just curious if anyone here has any advice on places to visit, places to stay, etc.

Thanks for any help y'all can provide.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwDvF0NtgdU[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Sw6ScUmnk[/video]

Whilst on a trip for a week in Belfast I heard an elderly couple chatting next to me and asked whereabouts in America they came from. The woman didn't say anything at that point but her husband frowned slightly and adamantly said he wasn't from there but was Canada. I quickly changed the subject and he relaxed. Don't suppose he was typical but didn't expect that!

if anyone here has any advice on places to visit

Place to go:

                    [glow=black,2,300]Banff NightLife[/glow] (http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Travel-g154911-s402/Banff:Alberta:Nightlife.html) ............................ [glow=black,2,300]Banff Sunshine Village[/glow] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu7e-bJRbz4) ...........................[glow=black,2,300]Banff, Alberta[/glow] (http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g154911-d184485-Reviews-Hidden_Ridge_Resort-Banff_Banff_National_Park_Alberta.html)

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Just curious if anyone here has any advice on places to visit, places to stay, etc.

Anywhere but French speaking areas. Toronto, of course. Montreal, NO! But if you choose to ignore and can't speak French, pretend you're a deaf mute.

One of my French speaking cousins, now deceased, who spoke perfect English and French, took a severe dislike of all things English (American) and refused to speak English any more. He refused to honor my requests for a discussion.

This is from a present day French Canadian about Americans. "Everyone hates them. The americans are IDIOTS! I am quite glad that many don’t own a passport so they can stay way from england and the rest of us. They think they own the world but have no knowledge of it; they are ignorant and have no concept of other cultures!"

Sounds like Rjhowie, eh.

Obviously, though, he doesn't represent the feelings of all French Canadians.

Quote from: Colonel Rebel on 2014-02-18, 21:57:38

Just curious if anyone here has any advice on places to visit, places to stay, etc.

Anywhere but French speaking areas. Toronto, of course. Montreal, NO! But if you choose to ignore and can't speak French, pretend you're a deaf mute.

One of my French speaking cousins, now deceased, who spoke perfect English and French, took a severe dislike of all things English (American) and refused to speak English any more. He refused to honor my requests for a discussion.

This is from a present day French Canadian about Americans. "Everyone hates them. The americans are IDIOTS! I am quite glad that many don’t own a passport so they can stay way from england and the rest of us. They think they own the world but have no knowledge of it; they are ignorant and have no concept of other cultures!"

Sounds like Rjhowie, eh.

Obviously, though, he doesn't represent the feelings of all French Canadians.

I never met a French Canadian who wasn't a prick

I never met a French Canadian who wasn't a prick

Have you ever met a French Canadian?

I only ask because I've never met an Aussie who wasn't a prick, but I've never met an Aussie. But check out this vicious 'roo with a machine gun.
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Do we have any Canadian?
If not, Canada is so important as Somalia.

Thank you to SF and Jim.

Thanks for nothing to Belfrager.  :P

I should have mentioned that Canada is the only nation that I know of that has a national anthem in two languages.

Here's the French version. When I used to watch hockey broadcasts from Montreal, this is the version played before the game.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Sw6ScUmnk[/video]

I should have mentioned that Canada is the only nation that I know of that has a national anthem in two languages.

You mean two specifically? Because Belgium has three (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_national_anthem).

Two specifically, and both in current use!

both in current use

So are Belgium's three?

So are Belgium's three?

Don't ask me...I live in Grand Rapids.

Don't you have something better to do?
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Well sure, I'm trying to figure out why a bunch of seemingly unrelated Middle Dutch texts from wildly different geographic origins are clustering, but I've hit a bit of a dead end for the moment.

I thought all of you should hear about this tragedy in the Olympics. Where to post it? Well, there's a lot of skating in Canada.

Emergency Crews Attempt To Rescue Olympic Figure Skater Who Fell Through Ice
SPORTS NEWS IN BRIEF • Sports • Olympics • ISSUE 50•07 • Feb 19, 2014
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Details here...
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It is an utter nonsense to have the Canadian National Anthem in 2 languages. The French lost the battle for Canada a long time ago and should never have pandered to the Frenchies.

It is an utter nonsense to have the Canadian National Anthem in 2 languages. The French lost the battle for Canada a long time ago and should never have pandered to the Frenchies.

/Colonel Rebel diagnoses post

/Diagnosis is rustled jimmies to the point of maximum over-rustle

Solution? Click this link: http://rustledjimmies.com/ (http://rustledjimmies.com/)

The simple answer is to have it in the main laguage and that is that. Maybe in your country considering that you along with the general indigenous will be a minority soon you sho.ld get ready for your anthem to be in some Me-hican or Latin American lingo. Won't be long southern laddie so get ready.

The French lost Canada so tough pandering to them gets you nothing just look at Quebec.

The simple answer is to have it in the main laguage ...

So they do!
In both of them, obviously.

It is an utter nonsense to have the Canadian National Anthem in 2 languages. The French lost the battle for Canada a long time ago and should never have pandered to the Frenchies.

We'll leave that to the Canooks to settle. They have an anthem in two languages, Scotland has Alex Salmond and rjhowie. Deal with that.(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/friendsdrunk.gif)

Quote from: rjhowie on 2014-02-21, 04:23:04

It is an utter nonsense to have the Canadian National Anthem in 2 languages. The French lost the battle for Canada a long time ago and should never have pandered to the Frenchies.

We'll leave that to the Canooks to settle. They have an anthem in two languages, Scotland has Alex Salmond and rjhowie. Deal with that.(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/friendsdrunk.gif)

lol, Well played, well played indeed.

Desperation there jimbro from you as not able to give a definitive answer. And as for trying to distract nb saying that Salmond is in the same leagues as me is  pure piffle.  ::)

And as for trying to distract nb saying that Salmond is in the same leagues as me is  pure piffle.

I would never dishonor Salmond to that degree.
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Well played after I reminded that there was no comparison? And how dare you entwine out flag jimbro with the flag of that mucked up place across the pond that cannot even run itself or a democracy.

...cannot even run itself or a democracy

Once again, I must respectfully correct the Scotsman for his repeated visitation into ignorance.

The United States of America is not a Democracy.

The United States of America is a  [glow=black,2,300]Constitutional Republic.[/glow]

A constitutional republic is a state where the head of state and other officials are elected as representatives of the people and must govern according to existing constitutional law that limits the government's power over citizens. In a constitutional republic, executive, legislative, and judicial powers are separated into distinct branches and the will of the majority of the population is checked by protections for individual rights so that no individual or group has absolute power. The fact that a constitution exists that limits the government's power, makes the state constitutional. That the head(s) of state and other officials are chosen by election, rather than inheriting their positions, and that their decisions are subject to judicial review makes a state republican.

Unlike a pure democracy, in a constitutional republic, citizens are not governed by the majority of the people but by the rule of law. Constitutional Republics are a deliberate attempt to hold in check the threat of mobocracy thereby protecting dissenting individuals from the tyranny of the majority by placing checks on the power of the majority of the population. The power of the majority of the people is checked by limiting that power to electing representatives who govern within limits of overarching constitutional law rather than the popular vote having legislative power itself. John Adams defined a constitutional republic as "a government of laws, and not of men."  Also, the power of government officials is checked by allowing no single individual to hold executive, legislative and judicial powers. Instead these powers are separated into distinct branches that serve as a check and balance on each other. A constitutional republic is designed so that "no person or group [can] rise to absolute power."

The original framers of the United States Constitution were notably cognizant of what they perceived as a danger of majority rule in oppressing freedom and liberty of the individual. For example, James Madison, in Federalist Paper No. 10, advocates a constitutional republic over a democracy to protect the individual from the majority. The framers carefully created the institutions within the Constitution and the United States Bill of Rights. They kept what they believed were the best elements of majority rule. But they were mitigated by a constitution with protections for individual liberty, a separation of powers.

Quote from: rjhowie on 2014-02-28, 14:50:14

...cannot even run itself or a democracy

Once again, I must respectfully correct the Scotsman for his repeated visitation into ignorance.

The United States of America is not a Democracy.

The United States of America is a  [glow=black,2,300]Constitutional Republic.[/glow]

You're wasting your time, Mr. Smiley.

Quote from: rjhowie on 2014-02-28, 14:50:14

...cannot even run itself or a democracy

Once again, I must respectfully correct the Scotsman for his repeated visitation into ignorance.

He is not a visitor, he is a permanent resident.

The United States of America is not a Democracy.

The United States of America is a  Constitutional Republic

I wonder about the quality poor Americans have about political science. Of course it explains a lot about what their Country does...
A constitutional republic can only be opposed to a constitutional monarchy. If it is democratic or not is an entire different story.

Opposing republic with democracy is the same thing as comparing Smileyfaze with an orchid...
There's no patience for such ignorance from the Anglo Saxon country.

I will show respect for this thread by taking my next, & subsequent comments regarding the American Government --- DEMOCRACY vs. CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC ---- to a thread (https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?topic=25.msg10793#msg10793)where this discussion would be ON TOPIC,   The Worldwide Politics Thread (https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?topic=25.msg10793#msg10793)

I hope others will do the same.(https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/cheerskj4.gif)

Why are you being overly daft there Smileyfaze terrorist?? I have ALWAYS said America is NOT a democracy. It infringes it's own people and that Constitution thing which is as much use as me in the Vatican.

These days, I have doubts that the US is a "Constitutional" anything. Our government has run rough-shod over that document in so many ways that right now, all the document really is is a historical artifact.

Smiley is dancing in the street because concealed carry has been passed, in one form or another, in all fifty states now. However, so many other articles have been or are being buried that being able to carry a gun will be about all you have left. Remember the 4th Amendment? How about the 5th? The 1st Amendment has been chewed to doll-rags. Right now as I write this, our beloved president is busy trying to figure out how to make "executive orders" that will bypass Congress, thereby taking out one of the legs of our "checks and balances" system-- speeding us to the day when we will have a dictator in the White House. Frankly, I don't care if the dictator has a (D) or an (R) after his name, a dictator is still a dictator-- and those have proven to be bad business.

I wonder if Canada has room for refugees? There may be more than a handful if things keep going the way it's shaping up that they may go.

You are not getting much progress I am afraid mjsmsprt40 with the incumbent in the White House. What is the most recent poll - around 40%?  And just look ahead with the Democrats looking at Hillary Clinton ( for goodness sake she is a waste of time) and the Republicans in a state of mix. Pity there is no third way. If it gets worse you aren't that far from the border.

I wonder if Canada has room for refugees? There may be more than a handful if things keep going the way it's shaping up that they may go.

More than enough

Canada: 9,984,670 km2 (3,854,082 mi2)
United States: 9,631,418 km2 (3,717,727 mi2)

It can get cold up there, however. Nice for Josh, perhaps, but for our friend from north of Chicago, perhaps not.

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You might share with us a couple of the problems you've encountered recently as a result of the Obamanations we're all subject to.

You are not getting much progress I am afraid mjsmsprt40 with the incumbent in the White House. What is the most recent poll - around 40%?  And just look ahead with the Democrats looking at Hillary Clinton ( for goodness sake she is a waste of time) and the Republicans in a state of mix. Pity there is no third way. If it gets worse you aren't that far from the border.

We all have our problems.

First Minister Alex Salmond has unveiled the Scottish Government’s programme for the new Parliamentary year with a pledge to create 'a better Scotland' for future generations.

Mr Salmond revealed the package of 15 bills – led by the flagship Referendum Bill, which will legislate for a vote on independence in the autumn of 2014 – during the first day of the new Parliamentary session.

We both know how that's going to turn out. Still, you might work on that problem before solving ours.

I wonder if Canada has room for refugees? There may be more than a handful if things keep going the way it's shaping up that they may go.

They're even pro-immigration. Imagine that. xD

I've heard the contrary. Why would they now?

Maybe it's just Russians. :P

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effb2JYiKXM[/video]

But more seriously, just because the populace is pro-immigration needn't mean the rules are. Although the rules aren't quite hostile to immigration either.

I've heard that it's tough to immigrate to Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia. All other places in Canada are free game.

[off topic]
Jimbro, I have a question-- well, really a couple of them.

1. When did I move North of Chicago?
2. How come I'm always the last to find out about these things?

For point of reference: Villa Park, IL is West of Chicago, so is Carol Stream. I've never lived North of Illinois rte 64 in my life.

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Hmm-- On second thought-- as a small boy (under 5 years old) I lived a few blocks North of Rte 64. It was on Drummond Place, about a block West of US45, in what is now part of the Western suburb of Northlake. Still Western Suburbs, never North 'Burbs. The house still stands, but most of the ground in back was gobbled up by the school-- which is why my parents decided to move. Too much land was lost to "eminent domain".

Jimbro, I have a question-- well, really a couple of them.

1. When did I move North of Chicago?
2. How come I'm always the last to find out about these things?

Perhaps you're not the person I was thinking about! It's not all about you, sir.

1. I was talking about another person.
2. Maybe you don't pay attention!

Although the rules aren't quite hostile to immigration either.

Racists, sexists and fascists. Besides, they live under the floor.
Australians are even worst but at least they live above ground.

You are incapable of solving yours jimbro so you have to grump on with a desperate sideline - as usal. No matter who is in the White House the trillions of debt go up the homeless the corporate control (now includes ambassadors). Neither do you have much of a practical voting choice. Plus the fact that we have a wider democratic process than you have over there. Maybe if your country stopped beating it's damn chest and stomping the world it could be treated more reasonably nut considering the history damage patience is needed!

Meantime back in Canada the separatists in Frenchie Quebec are at it yet again trying to split. In hindsight General Wolfe should have dispatched them out the country. Seeing they were so pally with your corner in the late 18th century they would have been at home there.  :P

Besides, they live under the floor.

:lol: What?

Quote from: Belfrager on 2014-03-03, 22:25:58

Besides, they live under the floor.

:lol: What?

Yes, because of the cold they have commercial subterraneans where they spent their time.

Quote from: Frenzie on 2014-03-04, 08:52:45

Quote from: Belfrager on 2014-03-03, 22:25:58

Besides, they live under the floor.

:lol: What?

Yes, because of the cold they have commercial subterraneans where they spent their time.

A bit like this, but deeper.
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