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-- Posted by penumbra at 12:40 am on Dec. 17, 2008

For my exchange application i need to write about 3 unique elements of canadian culture.

All i can think of is our multiculturalism!?

Anyone got any other ideas?


-- Posted by Mikoto at 12:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008

milk comes in bags


-- Posted by MourningAir at 12:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008

cheap college.


-- Posted by h a t t at 12:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008

monopoly money


-- Posted by h a t t at 12:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008

Quote: from MourningAir at 3:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008


cheap college.

oO  where the hell did you hear that?


-- Posted by conoris16 at 12:44 am on Dec. 17, 2008

isnt canada just diet america


-- Posted by MourningAir at 12:44 am on Dec. 17, 2008

Quote: from h a t t at 3:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008


Quote: from MourningAir at 3:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008

cheap college.

oO where the hell did you hear that?


just looking at costs dude.


-- Posted by h a t t at 12:44 am on Dec. 17, 2008

Quote: from MourningAir at 3:44 am on Dec. 17, 2008


Quote: from h a t t at 3:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008

Quote: from MourningAir at 3:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008

cheap college.

oO where the hell did you hear that?


 

just looking at costs dude.


my brother's paying like 6,000 a year. how much is it in america?


-- Posted by MourningAir at 12:45 am on Dec. 17, 2008

I don't know but $6,000 a year is the cheapest shit I've heard of. I go to what's considered a cheap school and it's $20,000.


-- Posted by FurryPanther at 12:49 am on Dec. 17, 2008

Quote: from Mikoto at 1:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008


milk comes in bags

Not everywhere. Only in the East.

We have a huge social support network, including public education, health care, insurance, welfare, and pensions.

FP


-- Posted by gnr90 at 12:56 am on Dec. 17, 2008

FREE MEDS! CHEAP BEER! MOOSE!


-- Posted by Hoop Jargon at 1:54 am on Dec. 17, 2008

Canada is alot like Australia, but cold.


-- Posted by JeanClaude at 6:38 pm on Dec. 18, 2008

Quote: from FurryPanther at 3:49 am on Dec. 17, 2008


Quote: from Mikoto at 1:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008

milk comes in bags

Not everywhere. Only in the East.

We have a huge social support network, including public education, health care, insurance, welfare, and pensions.

FP


Sounds like socialism to me, buddy!


-- Posted by Mabzie at 6:40 pm on Dec. 18, 2008

222


-- Posted by GoloSLB at 11:30 pm on Dec. 18, 2008

Its where all the intelligent North Americans with enough money to survive live.  Think about it.  


-- Posted by Shaknbake at 3:35 pm on Dec. 19, 2008

Quote: from penumbra at 12:40 am on Dec. 17, 2008


Anyone got any other ideas?

I'd just expand 'multiculturalism' into three points.

1. Aboriginals
2. Quebecers
3. Something else


-- Posted by OodleNoodle at 5:14 pm on Dec. 19, 2008

Quote: from conoris16 at 12:44 am on Dec. 17, 2008


isnt canada just diet america

Ha, not even.


-- Posted by OodleNoodle at 5:15 pm on Dec. 19, 2008

Quote: from h a t t at 12:44 am on Dec. 17, 2008


Quote: from MourningAir at 3:44 am on Dec. 17, 2008

Quote: from h a t t at 3:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008

Quote: from MourningAir at 3:43 am on Dec. 17, 2008

cheap college.
 

 oO  where the hell did you hear that?


just looking at costs dude.


my brother's paying like 6,000 a year. how much is it in america?


Depends on the school.

The school that I'm currently at is about $10,000 a year and after I'm finished this degree, I'm going to another school that is $27,000 a year.


-- Posted by OodleNoodle at 5:29 pm on Dec. 19, 2008

Quote: from penumbra at 12:40 am on Dec. 17, 2008


For my exchange application i need to write about 3 unique elements of canadian culture.  

All i can think of is our multiculturalism!?  

Anyone got any other ideas?


Yes, the arts. The arts industry in Canada is an 84.6 BILLION dollar industry per year. There are many talented Canadian actors in both film (Jim Carrey, Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams) and theatre (Colm Feore, Cynthia Dale) as well as music (The Guess Who, Sarah McLachlan, Celine Dion, Nickelback, Sam Roberts, Sum 41 etc. etc. etc.).  

Plus the fact that the CBC pumps out so much Canadian content each year.  

And the fact that Fort Edmonton Park is the world's biggest interactive historical park.  

Secondly, the war.  

The taking of Vimy Ridge is arguably the most successful of all Allied offensives during the war. It was the Canadians that took Vimy Ridge.

Not the British. Not the French. Both tried and failed.  

Sir Arthur Currie invented "The Vimy Glide" which is how they took it.  

"It was the first time the Canadians attacked together, and they achieved a magnificent victory, sweeping the Germans off the ridge. By April 14 they had gained more ground, more guns, and more prisoners than any previous British offensive had done." - The Canadian Online Encyclopedia

It was a HUGE moment, not only because it was a victory over the Germans, but because it was something that the Canadians had achieved that was purely Canadian, not British.


-- Posted by smartlake at 1:18 am on Dec. 29, 2008

The bizarre political crisis I read about on MSN?


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