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Aug 2001
time: 05:32
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Actualy, I rather be in Canada than anywhere else in the world (though I respect almost every country out there very much). Pollution is low. And we'd have much less if our neighbors from the south took care of their pollution emissions and didn't send us 14 tones of pollution by air. |
14 tons?That's pretty insigifigant. Why, I live right underneath a smoke stack that can pump out 5,000 tons of sulpher emissions in a day. Don't worry, though... after the smoke killed everything in the area with acid rain and poisoned all the lakes, they built it bigger so it'd drift around more - or, as I once heard someone joke, so that it'd all go down to Toronto. 
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We produce only 7 tones a year (All this in the province of Quebec). |
Yeah, right. 7 tons of what? Certainly a hell of alot more then that coming out of Quebec's smoke stacks
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We have no natural disasters |
 Yeah, only floods, ice storms, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes...
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4 seasons (-20 Celsius, yes Celsius  in winter and 35 Celsius in the summer). |
-20? Southerners. 
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With a Canadien passport you can get into any country. We have practicly no army (We have 4 boats and one of them leaks ) and no need for one (It's just for looks  ) because the US does the job for us.  Economicly, we are doing very well. Or growth is higher than the US's, in fact our dollar has gained a lot latetly.  Ummmm....what else..... oh yea, crime rate is low....gun control...bilingual (well, we try! )...cutest girls in the world  ...in french we have more than 30 curse words of different levels of anger that really helps you define our anger  ...and Im sure I am forgeting lots.
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Whoa, you didn't even mention beer. 
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Originally posted by Ted Striker
Curly Spartan
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Curly Athenian please.
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What is it in your avatar paiktis? A Greek partisan? |
Yes, here she is full size.
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Samara's best friend
Jan 2002
time: 05:32
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Originally posted by Osweld
Yeah, only floods, ice storms, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes...
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What?!?! Ice storm, I,ll give it to you....and it happened once in 99. But tornados, hurricanes and earthquaked!?!? Never seen that around here. The strongest winds we get is about 80kmh and that's once every ten years. Tornados, never. As for earthquakes, I dont count 1.2 on the rector scale an earthquake.
Oh yea! And the beer is great!!
Spec.
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General Ludd
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Minion of the Dominion
Aug 2001
time: 05:32
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Originally posted by Spec
What?!?! Ice storm, I,ll give it to you....and it happened once in 99. But tornados, hurricanes and earthquaked!?!? Never seen that around here. The strongest winds we get is about 80kmh and that's once every ten years. Tornados, never. As for earthquakes, I dont count 1.2 on the rector scale an earthquake.
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Hurricanes don't often make their way all the way up here with enough punch to do signifigant damage, but Hurricane Hazel, for instance, killed 80 some people in Toronto during the 50s. (with people drowning in the streets, apparently)
There's alot of tornados in southern ontario, I don't know how common they are in other regions.
As for earthquakes, there's alot of those, too - mostly on the west coast, i think, but apparently there was a 4.6 in quebec during october.
With a country as big as Canada you'll end up geting alot more 'disasters' than most countries, but the population is so sparse that they'll rarely have a direct impact on humans or cities.
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Prifysgol Caerdydd
Dec 1999
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Originally posted by Big Crunch The NHS is about to die due to lack of funding, we kill our train passenger through shoddy maintenance, we have a government with no opposition... *moan moan moan*.... |
Yeah, tell me about it...
Bleedin' Blair thinks he's god and wants to introduce top up fees, strikes on the Underground, postal strikes, f*cking poll tax (oh sorry, council tax) gone up by at least 10% maybe same again next year because of Labour scum stealth taxes by that f*ckwit two jabs Prescott... *gripe, whinge, moan*
Thanks for the thread Piak, I can never be bothered doing UK bashing threads cos everyone ends up agreeing and that's no fun when you're looking for a good argument!
But it is nice to get the moans of ones chest...
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notyoueither
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Aug 2001
time: 22:32
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Originally posted by Osweld
Hurricanes don't often make their way all the way up here with enough punch to do signifigant damage, but Hurricane Hazel, for instance, killed 80 some people in Toronto during the 50s. (with people drowning in the streets, apparently)
There's alot of tornados in southern ontario, I don't know how common they are in other regions.
As for earthquakes, there's alot of those, too - mostly on the west coast, i think, but apparently there was a 4.6 in quebec during october.
With a country as big as Canada you'll end up geting alot more 'disasters' than most countries, but the population is so sparse that they'll rarely have a direct impact on humans or cities. |
Tornados show up on the prairies.
But when you think about it, we get very few of mother natures calamities compared to other places.
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Aug 2001
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Originally posted by Osweld
No we don't, it's just that most of the 'calamities' happen out in the middle of nowhere with only a handful of people effected at most. We have alot of land with very few people. We've got our numbers spread thin, so the odds of anything doing serious damage are pretty low. |
Hmmm.
Frequency and severity of hurricanes, very seldom and usually just a brisk wind by the time they get to us.
Frequency and severity of tornadoes, more common on the Prairies than hurricanes in the East, but not the massive twisters of Kansas fame either.
Frequency and severity of earth quakes, here's one for you partially. We get them in some very unpopulated areas, like the northern Rockies. However, we never get as many as people living near more unstable areas. But again on your side, when the big one(s) come for California parts of BC are likely to be devestated too (specifically the densely populated parts around Vancouver and on the Island).
In several categories of weather related events, we don't get anything close to what some other places suffer. Of course, that has to be balanced by the yearly -20 or -40c so...
Geologically, Canada is also far more stable than many less fortunate areas. You are correct though that in some places where it is less stable we don't have any large populations. However, in the areas where we do have population centres and are not on the Shield, things have been much more stable than they have been for others.
All in all, I think we should count our catastrophe blessings. Geography has not been totally unkind to us.
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