Tag: canada
group name: parlezvous
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July 01, 2008 04:55 PM EDT --
I forgot all about the parade this year... I missed it! My bad... but I did have the pictures from last year's parade...and hadn't learned how to enlarge pictures back then and hardly anyone . . .
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September 09, 2008 07:53 PM EDT --
Personality is important in politics; indeed, it seems to be what I keep hearing about. I can see this a bit in the States, where the people vote for a president to be their leader for the next four years. . . .
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July 01, 2008 01:46 PM EDT --
Happy Canada Day!
I just finished watching the CBC Canada Day Special, and it wasn't bad.
The traditional arrival and walkabout of the Governor General was nice, and of course the Snowbird . . .
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November 07, 2008 05:46 PM EST --
When I was in grade eight (that's eighth grade to my American cousins) I had one bear of a teacher for English. He was known across the school as the hardest teacher for the subject. I guess I would . . .
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September 07, 2008 09:41 AM EDT --
This is my first Canadian national election. I watched as our current prime minister, Mr. Harper, "asked" the Governor General (our representative for the Queen) to dissolve parliament, thus . . .
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July 01, 2008 08:56 PM EDT --
CANADA DAY QUIZ
So you think you know Canada? Take this little QUIZ to find out how much you REALLY know ;-)
Then come back and share your score with us! . . .
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October 26, 2008 03:04 PM EDT --
Last week the CBC did a piece on Flora MacDonald , a woman who (in the 1980s) was the first Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Canada, and one of the first female foreign ministers in the world. . . .
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July 20, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
This is the first in (I hope) a three part article detailing a brief glimse at Nova Scotia. I was originally going to start with an overview of Nova Scotia's cultural history, but writing about . . .
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July 01, 2008 01:04 AM EDT --
Remembering Trudeau...
" Our hopes are high, our faith in the people is great, our courage is strong, and our dreams for this beautiful country will never die ."
- Pierre Elliott . . .
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July 02, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
He's 85 years old and is Canada's most visible pro-choice activist. And despite his age and the decades behind his struggle, he remains as passionately committed to his controversial cause - ensuring . . .
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November 19, 2008 11:13 AM EST --
I just discovered this is a remarkable tribute, written by Irish journalist and writer Kevin Myers about CANADA's involvment, bravery and valour during conflict and peacekeeping. This article . . .
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September 15, 2008 04:52 PM EDT --
It's been a busy week and I've not been on top of the election like I had intended. But there was something that happened in Toronto that struck my interest. It's been in all the news; a child . . .
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November 11, 2008 02:47 PM EST --
I'm expanding my variations of submissions, trying different kinds of writing, different subjects. I've seen all the different kinds of recipes appear on gather, and wondered what I could contribute. . . .
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November 01, 2008 09:43 PM EDT --
One of the things I like about Canada is that we have seasons: full seasons. Winter is just a little too cold, summer is just a little too hot (unlike the South, where the winter was not cold enough and . . .
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September 02, 2008 07:37 PM EDT --
Wow. I have to admit I was worried about posting my first article because so many of my discussions in the States that touched on Health Care always slammed the Canadian System. I remember when I first . . .
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July 01, 2008 01:32 PM EDT --
July 1 2008
Recently, Peter Mansbridge who is Chief Correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was visiting Washington DC and he was fortunate enough to obtain a joint interview with . . .
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June 28, 2008 10:05 PM EDT --
♥ HAPPY CANADA DAY ♥ BONNE FETE CANADA ♥
...to all Canadians, Canadian ex-pats, Canadian wannabes, lovers of Canada, married-to-a-Canadian, recently-moved-to-Canada, Canadians . . .
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August 10, 2008 02:22 PM EDT --
Here is the third part of my Nova Scotia series, although this part deals with some of the rest of Atlantic Canada as well. I have detailed in this article just a few of the places where you will . . .
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July 29, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
This is the second part of my three part series on Nova Scotia:
Nova Scotia Culture
With the recent 250 th anniversary of the second battle for Louisburg and the 225 th anniversary of . . .
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