Canada question

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:09:33 -0400, "Bob" wrote:




This guy had to do all this research to prove that Americans and Canadians
are different? He could have just asked me. I would have told him "Yes"
and that would have been an end of it. Saved him a lot of money, too.

Which reminds me of a funny recent incident. I was in Labrador waiting for a
ferry, when a fellow with a very heavy Southern drawl (Alabama...maybe
Mississippi...) said in all seriousness that he felt the only difference
between the US and Canada was that you can't get biscuits and gravy in the
McDonald's in Canada. "Apart from that", he said, "everything else is pretty
much the same". Oooookay.

Part of that probably comes from one's perception of what "pretty much
the same" means.

I lived in Texas from when I was a little kid, and hadn't been to the
U.S. East Coast until I was in my 20s. (This was before Dallas started
getting "Yankee-fied".) My first trip to New York City (on business)
was like a trip to another country, and I remember thinking that if I
were given the choice between living there and Calcutta I'd have to go
give Calcutta a good lookover before deciding.

In short, I find some places, and the people, in Canada not as much
of a culture shock as some places like NYC or Boston as compared to
cities in Texas or the Midwest, although I've gotten used to them over
the years.

Zane

I guess it depends on your perspective, as well as how much human contact
you have. I'm in the US more times in a year than I can count for hiking,
business, photography, etc., and even just crossing the border into
VT/NH/ME/NY, I am always so acutely aware of the difference.

Bob

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"Zane" wrote in message
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:09:33 -0400, "Bob" wrote:




This guy had to do all this research to prove that Americans and
Canadians
are different? He could have just asked me. I would have told him "Yes"
and that would have been an end of it. Saved him a lot of money, too.

Which reminds me of a funny recent incident. I was in Labrador waiting
for a
ferry, when a fellow with a very heavy Southern drawl (Alabama...maybe
Mississippi...) said in all seriousness that he felt the only difference
between the US and Canada was that you can't get biscuits and gravy in
the
McDonald's in Canada. "Apart from that", he said, "everything else is
pretty
much the same". Oooookay.

Part of that probably comes from one's perception of what "pretty much
the same" means.

I lived in Texas from when I was a little kid, and hadn't been to the
U.S. East Coast until I was in my 20s. (This was before Dallas started
getting "Yankee-fied".) My first trip to New York City (on business)
was like a trip to another country, and I remember thinking that if I
were given the choice between living there and Calcutta I'd have to go
give Calcutta a good lookover before deciding.

In short, I find some places, and the people, in Canada not as much
of a culture shock as some places like NYC or Boston as compared to
cities in Texas or the Midwest, although I've gotten used to them over
the years.

Zane

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:43:32 -0400, etent
(Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:

Of course, I wouldn't have included the stuff about how all Canadian
values are by definition better than all American values, but hey.

Gee, I don't think the value of the Canadian dollar is by definition
better than the value of the US dollar, but hey....

-- Larry (sitting here with a Canadian in the living room, and she
agrees)

Larry wrote:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:43:32 -0400, etent
(Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:

Of course, I wouldn't have included the stuff about how all Canadian
values are by definition better than all American values, but hey.

Gee, I don't think the value of the Canadian dollar is by definition
better than the value of the US dollar, but hey....

-- Larry (sitting here with a Canadian in the living room, and she
agrees)

Of course that can be taken more than one way. Nex

In article ,
Zane wrote:

In short, I find some places, and the people, in Canada not as much
of a culture shock as some places like NYC or Boston as compared to
cities in Texas or the Midwest, although I've gotten used to them over
the years.

Yup. I don't know why there's all this BS about differences/similarities
between Canadians and US citizens. The same can be said for any two
people and/or groups of people. Why draw such profound distinctions
because of a fortuitous international boundary?

--
Bill Pittman; change for e-mail as indicated

....snip...

I read both these articles this morning - just an example of the slant
WE see in US news reporting.
========================================
========================================

Globe and Mail article..
=======================
Canadian rescue plane lands in South Pole
Associated Press and Canadian Press
Denver

"...After days of delays, Canadian rescuers landed at a South Pole
research station Saturday to pick up an ailing American contractor.

Snow and wind had delayed the attempt for five days while the
rescuers, of Calgary-based Kenn Borek Air, waited at British Rothera
Air Station on Antarctica, 2,165 kilometres from the pole, before
taking off Saturday morning. ..."

CNN article...
===============
Rescue plane lands at South Pole base
Ailing worker set to take off for home Sunday morning
Sunday, September 21, 2003 Posted: 12:23 AM EDT (0423 GMT)
DENVER, Colorado (AP)

"...After days of delays, a rescue flight reached the South Pole on
Saturday to pick up an ailing worker at a research station there.

Snow and wind delayed the rescue attempt for five days while the plane
waited at Britain's Rothera Air Station on Antarctica, 1,346 miles
(2,166 kilometers) from the pole. ..."

================================================== ==
================================================== ==


This is just one (of many) examples of why Canadians get frustrated
with our friends to the south. When there is news about "SARS" or
"Mad Cow", the word "Canadian" is promenant but to hide the fact that
this daring rescue is being orchestrated by brave Canadians, in a
Canadian aircraft, is subtly hidden from the American public.

GEEZ!
================================================== =
================================================== =
More...
read about this Calgary company...
http://www.borekair.com/

Read about the DeHavilland Twin Otter ...
http://www.rcaf.com/aircraft/database/twinotter.htm
================================================== ==
================================================== ==

A TV movie of the week starring David James Elliott as JAG pilot
Harman Rabb, Jr. would be appropriate. LOL!








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Congratulations, NewsGuy. Well done.

Nice to have "undisputable concrete arguments" like this one.

Maybe with more of these, with time, our southern friends could wake up to
the fact that BIG BEST AND BETTER is not restricted to USA, a country that
is slowly but surely slipping down.

Unfortunatly, the average everybody american is kept in his bubble by his
leaders and his UNBIASED news networks be it written, audio or video.

Sad.

"TheNewsGuy(Mike)" wrote in message
...
...snip...

I read both these articles this morning - just an example of the slant
WE see in US news reporting.
========================================
========================================

Globe and Mail article..
=======================
Canadian rescue plane lands in South Pole
Associated Press and Canadian Press
Denver

"...After days of delays, Canadian rescuers landed at a South Pole
research station Saturday to pick up an ailing American contractor.

Snow and wind had delayed the attempt for five days while the
rescuers, of Calgary-based Kenn Borek Air, waited at British Rothera
Air Station on Antarctica, 2,165 kilometres from the pole, before
taking off Saturday morning. ..."

CNN article...
===============
Rescue plane lands at South Pole base
Ailing worker set to take off for home Sunday morning
Sunday, September 21, 2003 Posted: 12:23 AM EDT (0423 GMT)
DENVER, Colorado (AP)

"...After days of delays, a rescue flight reached the South Pole on
Saturday to pick up an ailing worker at a research station there.

Snow and wind delayed the rescue attempt for five days while the plane
waited at Britain's Rothera Air Station on Antarctica, 1,346 miles
(2,166 kilometers) from the pole. ..."

================================================== ==
================================================== ==


This is just one (of many) examples of why Canadians get frustrated
with our friends to the south. When there is news about "SARS" or
"Mad Cow", the word "Canadian" is promenant but to hide the fact that
this daring rescue is being orchestrated by brave Canadians, in a
Canadian aircraft, is subtly hidden from the American public.

GEEZ!
================================================== =
================================================== =
More...
read about this Calgary company...
http://www.borekair.com/

Read about the DeHavilland Twin Otter ...
http://www.rcaf.com/aircraft/database/twinotter.htm
================================================== ==
================================================== ==

A TV movie of the week starring David James Elliott as JAG pilot
Harman Rabb, Jr. would be appropriate. LOL!








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In article , Larry
wrote:

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:43:32 -0400, etent
(Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:

Of course, I wouldn't have included the stuff about how all Canadian
values are by definition better than all American values, but hey.

Gee, I don't think the value of the Canadian dollar is by definition
better than the value of the US dollar, but hey....

-- Larry (sitting here with a Canadian in the living room, and she
agrees)

And what's that supposed to prove?
--
Trudi

In article ,
"TheNewsGuy(Mike)" wrote:

...snip...

This is just one (of many) examples of why Canadians get frustrated
with our friends to the south. When there is news about "SARS" or
"Mad Cow", the word "Canadian" is promenant but to hide the fact that
this daring rescue is being orchestrated by brave Canadians, in a
Canadian aircraft, is subtly hidden from the American public.

GEEZ!

You might try not taking the work of *one* American media outlet and using
it as an excuse for Canadians to get frustrated with *all* Americans...
--
Trudi

"TheNewsGuy(Mike)" wrote:

...snip...

I read both these articles this morning - just an example of the slant
WE see in US news reporting.
========================================
========================================

Globe and Mail article..
=======================
Canadian rescue plane lands in South Pole
Associated Press and Canadian Press
Denver

"...After days of delays, Canadian rescuers landed at a South Pole
research station Saturday to pick up an ailing American contractor.

Snow and wind had delayed the attempt for five days while the
rescuers, of Calgary-based Kenn Borek Air, waited at British Rothera
Air Station on Antarctica, 2,165 kilometres from the pole, before
taking off Saturday morning. ..."

CNN article...
===============
Rescue plane lands at South Pole base
Ailing worker set to take off for home Sunday morning
Sunday, September 21, 2003 Posted: 12:23 AM EDT (0423 GMT)
DENVER, Colorado (AP)

"...After days of delays, a rescue flight reached the South Pole on
Saturday to pick up an ailing worker at a research station there.

Snow and wind delayed the rescue attempt for five days while the plane
waited at Britain's Rothera Air Station on Antarctica, 1,346 miles
(2,166 kilometers) from the pole. ..."

================================================== ==
================================================== ==

This is just one (of many) examples of why Canadians get frustrated
with our friends to the south. When there is news about "SARS" or
"Mad Cow", the word "Canadian" is promenant but to hide the fact that
this daring rescue is being orchestrated by brave Canadians, in a
Canadian aircraft, is subtly hidden from the American public.

GEEZ!
================================================== =
================================================== =
More...
read about this Calgary company...
http://www.borekair.com/

Read about the DeHavilland Twin Otter ...
http://www.rcaf.com/aircraft/database/twinotter.htm
================================================== ==
================================================== ==

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Harman Rabb, Jr. would be appropriate. LOL!

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Sounds like deja vu all over again. I remember being in the U.S. for an
extended stay in, I believe, the spring of 2001, when there was a similar
emergency evacuation. We didn't take have our satellite dish with us and
didn't have Cdn newspapers, so I didn't find out until we returned home
that the rescue had been effected by a Canadian aircraft (Otter) and crew.

Well, we can't accuse them of manufacturing news, like Fox was doing, and
having the right to do so confirmed in court, but it sure points to one of
the many reasons why so many Americans are so ignorant about what's going
on in the rest of the world.

Paul