Official Canada Thread with Current News

[cachsux]

The beer truck is parked on the wrong side of the road.

Parked? The guy was having a beer on his lunch hour. That's a roll away.

[klein]

DS, you live in Ontario - this may effect you :

Ontario is cancelling old red-and-white health cards; promises 3 warnings


TORONTO - Millions of Ontarians could find themselves without health insurance coverage if they ignore government notices to get a new health card.
There are still more than 3.5 million Ontario residents with the old red-and-white health cards that have no expiry date.

One of them was CTV health reporter Avis Favaro, who discovered her OHIP card had been cancelled when she went to a Hunstville walk-in clinic after suffering a bad reaction to an insect bite.
Favaro was told she would have to pay $60 cash to see a doctor.

[klein]

Complaints bring penny back — for a little longer

Canada chooses to keep the copper coin around for a little longer after retailers raise a notable argument. New end date

[moreluck]

Complaints bring penny back — for a little longer

Canada chooses to keep the copper coin around for a little longer after retailers raise a notable argument. New end date

A short time ago , I remember you boasting about how progressive Canada was for dumping the penny and how backward America was for not getting rid of it. Oh well, schitt happens.

[pickup]

Complaints bring penny back — for a little longer

Canada chooses to keep the copper coin around for a little longer after retailers raise a notable argument. New end date

Whose image is on that coin?? (oh , I know the answer).

[DS]

Whose image is on that coin?? (oh , I know the answer).

I am getting a little upset with your childish digs at the Queen.
She represents our heritage.If not for Britain,we may well be Americans.
We don't bow to her,kiss her ring or anything.Your pennies have Abe,ours have the Queen.
We have our own little country and we do things our way.
Just because you don't like Klein don't roll all 35 million of us into the same taco.

[klein]

The Commonwealth
June Chua, CBC News Online | December 3, 2003

The Commonwealth is a collection of 54 countries drawn largely from the former British Empire. The one exception is Mozambique, which was a Portuguese colony. While he was president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela made a formal plea to members to include Mozambique because it played a major role in freeing South Africa from apartheid.

The Commonwealth's 1.7 billion people make up 30 per cent of the world's population.
The members have a combined population of 2.1 billion people, almost a third of the world population.
The land area of the Commonwealth nations is about 31,500,000 km² (12,200,000 sq mi), or about 21% of the total world land area.
The three largest Commonwealth nations by area are Canada at 10,000,000 km² (3,900,000 sq mi), Australia at 7,700,000 km² (3,000,000 sq mi), and India at 3,300,000 km² (1,300,000 sq mi). The Commonwealth members have a combined gross domestic product of over $10 trillion, 50% of which is accounted for by the three largest economies: the United Kingdom ($2.2 trillion), India ($1.7 trillion), and Canada ($1.5 trillion).

COMMONWEALTH MEMBERS:

Africa: Botswana Cameroon Gambia Ghana Kenya Lesotho Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Nigeria Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Americas & Caribbean Antigua & Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Dominican Republic Grenada Guyana Jamaica St. Christopher & Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent & the Grenadas Trinidad & Tobago Asia Bangladesh Brunei Darussalam India Malaysia Maldives Pakistan Singapore Sri Lanka Europe Britain Cyprus Malta South Pacific Australia Fiji Kiribati Nauru New Zealand Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

[UpstateNYUPSer]

The reprieve for the penny will be shortlived.

Pennies don't make sense, especially when it costs more to make them than they are worth.

[cachsux]

I am getting a little upset with your childish digs at the Queen.
She represents our heritage.If not for Britain,we may well be Americans.
We don't bow to her,kiss her ring or anything.Your pennies have Abe,ours have the Queen.
We have our own little country and we do things our way.
Just because you don't like Klein don't roll all 35 million of us into the same taco.

Some countries don't let the village idiots have free reign.

[cachsux]

Whose image is on that coin?? (oh , I know the answer).

Looks like George Bush in drag. Conspiracy?