Happy Canada Day!

[DayvanCowboy]

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!

From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.​

 

[Van Hooligan X]

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!

From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.​

What he said.

 

[Zak]

What they said

 

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[Van Hooligan X]

never eat red snow? :S lol

 

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Facts about Canada

* Canada is the second largest country in the world, with 9,971,000 square kilometres of land.

* The baseball glove was invented in Canada in 1883.

* With only three people per square kilometer, Canada has the fourth lowest population density in the world.

* Vancouver Canada is tied with Zurich Switzerland for the highest quality of life of any city in the world.

* The world's smallest jail is believed to be in Rodney, Ontario, Canada. It is only 24.3 square meters (about 270 square feet).

* Canada has the ninth biggest economy of the world

* According to the United Nations Human Development Index, Canada has the highest quality of life in the world.

* Canada is the world's eighth biggest trader.

* Of all of the world's producers of natural gas, copper, zinc, nickel, aluminum, and gold, Canada is in the top five.

* Canada is the fifth largest energy producer.

 

[Brian]

 

[Punisher]

Facts about Canada

* Canada is the second largest country in the world, with 9,971,000 square kilometres of land.

* The baseball glove was invented in Canada in 1883.

* With only three people per square kilometer, Canada has the fourth lowest population density in the world.

* Vancouver Canada is tied with Zurich Switzerland for the highest quality of life of any city in the world.

* The world's smallest jail is believed to be in Rodney, Ontario, Canada. It is only 24.3 square meters (about 270 square feet).

* Canada has the ninth biggest economy of the world

* According to the United Nations Human Development Index, Canada has the highest quality of life in the world.

* Canada is the world's eighth biggest trader.

* Of all of the world's producers of natural gas, copper, zinc, nickel, aluminum, and gold, Canada is in the top five.

* Canada is the fifth largest energy producer.

And

* The awesome Dan Aykroyd is Canadian

 

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History Trivia

Canadian Kids Candy Bar Revolt

In April of 1947 there was a Canadian children’s consumer uprising against a post-war, 3¢ hike in candy bar prices. (From 5¢ to 8¢) The kids' national boycott of more expensive candy led to store owners seeing their candy bar sales fall eighty percent overnight. Child pickets besieged storeowners with whistles, armbands and placards bearing slogans like "Don't be a Sucker! Don't Buy 8 Cent Bars!" In Victoria, the legislature was shut down when hundreds of children swarmed its halls demanding the return of nickel bars.

Manufacturers argued that the end of lucrative wartime contracts and the elimination of labor and price controls meant they had no choice but to raise the price of candy bars.

Organizing chocolate boycotts in every major city across Canada, kids hoped their coordinated demonstrations would deliver a knockout punch to the eight-cent bar. But at the zenith of its popularity, the movement fell victim to the times. In a widely circulated attack, the sour-grapes Toronto Telegram blasted the youthful dissidents as stooges of Moscow. The paper labeled candy strikers "another instrument in the Communist grand strategy of the creation of chaos," and charged that "Communist youth organizers have been instructed to use every possible means of developing and encouraging the chocolate bar agitation." Cheaper candy, some thought, was just the first step on the path to communist tyranny.

Such cold war paranoia defused public support for the children. Cowed by allegations of communist involvement, grown-ups worked to short-circuit the drive for the nickel bar. The revolt fell apart.

From

 

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* The awesome Dan Aykroyd is Canadian

Just a few

Avril Lavigne
Pamela Anderson
Shania Twain
Shannon Tweed
Keanu Reeves
Celine Dion
Alanis Morissette
Bryan Adams
Neil Young
Jim Carrey
Natasha Henstridge
Sarah McLachlan
Leonard Cohen
Frank Marino
Jeff Healey
Greg Moore
Howie Mandel
Joni Mitchell
Tommy Chong

 

[Van Hooligan X]

* The awesome Dan Aykroyd is Canadian

Just a few

Avril Lavigne
Pamela Anderson
Shania Twain
Shannon Tweed
Keanu Reeves
Celine Dion
Alanis Morissette
Bryan Adams
Neil Young
Jim Carrey
Natasha Henstridge
Sarah McLachlan
Leonard Cohen
Frank Marino
Jeff Healey
Greg Moore
Howie Mandel
Joni Mitchell
Tommy Chong

Edge and Christian are too

and Trish Stratus!

 

[Punisher]

* The awesome Dan Aykroyd is Canadian

Just a few

Avril Lavigne
Pamela Anderson
Shania Twain
Shannon Tweed
Keanu Reeves
Celine Dion
Alanis Morissette
Bryan Adams
Neil Young
Jim Carrey
Natasha Henstridge
Sarah McLachlan
Leonard Cohen
Frank Marino
Jeff Healey
Greg Moore
Howie Mandel
Joni Mitchell
Tommy Chong

Edge and Christian are too

and Trish Stratus!

Avril Lavigne, Keanu Reeves, and Jim Carrey FTMFW!

Edge, Christian and Trish Stratus. Who the hell are they?...

Just kidding

 

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Just the list of music from Canada would go on forever.

 

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Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, musician, and artist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963.

Avalanche

Well I stepped into an avalanche,
it covered up my soul;
when I am not this hunchback that you see,
I sleep beneath the golden hill.
You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn, learn to serve me well.

You strike my side by accident
as you go down for your gold.
The cripple here that you clothe and feed
is neither starved nor cold;
he does not ask for your company,
not at the centre, the centre of the world.

When I am on a pedestal,
you did not raise me there.
Your laws do not compel me
to kneel grotesque and bare.
I myself am the pedestal
for this ugly hump at which you stare.

You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn what makes me kind;
the crumbs of love that you offer me,
they're the crumbs I've left behind.
Your pain is no credential here,
it's just the shadow, shadow of my wound.

I have begun to long for you,
I who have no greed;
I have begun to ask for you,
I who have no need.
You say you've gone away from me,
but I can feel you when you breathe.

Do not dress in those rags for me,
I know you are not poor;
you don't love me quite so fiercely now
when you know that you are not sure,
it is your turn, beloved,
it is your flesh that I wear.