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A couple of times every year, without fail, these events WILL get mentioned by the Canadian newsmedia. It's like nothing else has ever happened up here...  Expo '67  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_67 The 1967 World's Fair was staged during Canada's centennial year on a series of purpose-built islands outside of Montreal, Quebec. 1972 Summit Series  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Series During the Cold War, the national hockey teams of Canada and the Soviet Union faced off in an eight-game competition, with four games held in each country. Canada won. Polytechnique  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89...hnique_massacre In 1989, 14 women were killed by 25-year-old Marc Lépine in an anti-feminist rampage at the École Polytechnique engineering school. The Moratorium  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collap...est_cod_fishery In 1992, the cod fishery off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland was shut down after 500 years due to overfishing that resulted in massive declines of the fish stocks. The local economy collapsed along with it. The Referendum  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum,_1995 In 1995, the province of Quebec (the francophone majority of which has deep nationalistic feelings) voted on whether to separate from Canada or not. They voted to stay, by a very close margin.
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Yeah so we've got these things called 9/11, Waco, and Richard Gere's rear end gerbil down here so can't really care too much about your francophonic snowman stuff.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 05:54 |
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Umm ok? Can I add hockey(in general) and burning down the White House?
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 05:54 |
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Dirty Karma posted:Umm ok? 24/7 commercials on CBC about The War of 1812 is a recent thing, just started happening last year. For some reason *Stephen Harper thinks it is very important that we all know about that time a bunch of farmers fought eachother 200 years ago.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 05:58 |
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Also, you're responsible for this rear end in a top hat. e: gently caress my tables
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What is the point of this exactly? Just keeping everyone up to date?Starsfan posted:24/7 commercials on CBC about The War of 1812 is a recent thing, just started happening last year. For some reason *Stephen Harper thinks it is very important that we all know about that time a bunch of farmers fought eachother 200 years ago. Alternative pants posted:Also, you're responsible for this rear end in a top hat. If you'd just stop encouraging him 
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 06:04 |
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Rolling Stone is getting more obscure with their countdown lists.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 06:07 |
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Bret screwed Bret.
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Cool bro have you heard about this website called Cracked.com? They love lists!
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TemporalParadox posted:What is the point of this exactly? Just keeping everyone up to date? Showing Americans a bit of the northern culture, as well as complaining about how said culture is heavily condensed by the press.
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TemporalParadox posted:If you'd just stop encouraging him Yeah it's not like someone gave the kid a medal for being an obnoxious little poo poo. 
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All this ever accomplishes is big lists of artists and famous people from Canada and a bunch of boring bitching about who is a good export and who should never have existed. Nickelback sucks, Rush rules, etc
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 06:16 |
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Canada needs to go out and meet some new important poo poo or something. That World's Fair is pretty loving cool though.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 06:17 |
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Canada gave Rush a metal. You guys are okay by me. Your cartoons are loving weird, though. What the gently caress is Kevin Spencer?
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thehumandignity posted:Yeah it's not like someone gave the kid a medal for being an obnoxious little poo poo. Obnoxious or not, his littlest gangster/steam train engineer hybrid fashion was clearly the right choice of attire for meeting Harper.
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Obligitory response: 
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thehumandignity posted:Yeah it's not like someone gave the kid a medal for being an obnoxious little poo poo. To be fair, given the fact that Harper probably has no clue about popular culture whatsoever, and judging by that picture, he probably thought he was giving an award to some unfortunate mentally handicapped person who'd finally manage to triumph over adversity and learn to wipe themselves after taking a poo poo.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 06:21 |
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Harper's really not the one I'm trying to criticise here.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 06:22 |
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Expo '67 is cool and all but peep game on this Expo '86 official theme song - http://youtu.be/GLx8ke04drQ
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PT6A posted:To be fair, given the fact that Harper probably has no clue about popular culture whatsoever, and judging by that picture, he probably thought he was giving an award to some unfortunate mentally handicapped person who'd finally manage to triumph over adversity and learn to wipe themselves after taking a poo poo. It all makes sense now
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Rhyno posted:Canada needs to go out and meet some new important poo poo or something. We really do. If Canadian Marc Ouellet becomes Pope, the media frenzy will rival 9/11. And I doubt that Harper gives a crap about Bieber. His favorite song is Thunderstruck.
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PT6A posted:To be fair, given the fact that Harper probably has no clue about popular culture whatsoever, and judging by that picture, he probably thought he was giving an award to some unfortunate mentally handicapped person who'd finally manage to triumph over adversity and learn to wipe themselves after taking a poo poo. Naw, Harper looks like that even when he shakes his own son's hand to say goodbye. 
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Chamale posted:Naw, Harper looks like that even when he shakes his own son's hand to say goodbye. I wasn't going so much by the look on Harper's face, as by the fact that Bieber looked like he was receiving a medal at the Special Olympics.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 06:30 |
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I think the thread could just as easily be renamed "4 events the Quebec media will NEVER stop talking about" and you'd be right. If there's a 5th one, it'll probably be either student strikes, or the Dawson college massacre.
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To be fair, Canada also gave us Colin Mochrie which makes up for both the Canadians torching Washington and their infliction of the Log Driver's Waltz on us Americans. edit: also Kate Beaton
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 06:40 |
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I'm shocked that Terry Fox isn't on this list.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 06:41 |
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Vanderdeath posted:edit: also Kate Beaton yissssss
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 06:43 |
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Because everything everyone in Canada talks about happens in Quebec.
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Migishu posted:If there's a 5th one, it'll probably be either student strikes, or the Dawson college massacre. The student strikes are just a recent phenomenon, and Polytechnique is talked about WAY more than Dawson. EugeneJ posted:I'm shocked that Terry Fox isn't on this list. That would be #6. Mention of it has lessened the past few years (I think the TV bio-pic finally got it out of our systems), and the annual Terry Fox Run is a GOOD excuse to keep talking about it all these years later. SteveVizsla posted:Because everything everyone in Canada talks about happens in Quebec. Or Vancouver's downtown east side. Synthetic Hermit fucked around with this message at Mar 10, 2013 around 06:52 |
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Those are actually pretty interesting events, especially the feminist killer (I just read his suicide note. Pure insanity it made no sense at all), and owning the soviets in hockey during the cold war. But other than that...not much else to say I guess. Oh, and Quebec should have seceded. Quebec and Texas can be buddies and we can pretend they dont exist.
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thehumandignity posted:Yeah it's not like someone gave the kid a medal for being an obnoxious little poo poo. The first time I saw this photo was the exact moment I realized that one day I would be the old man complaining about his grandkids choice in music. Goddamn kids.
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Vanderdeath posted:To be fair, Canada also gave us Colin Mochrie which makes up for both the Canadians torching Washington and their infliction of the Log Driver's Waltz on us Americans. Infliction?
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Quebec should have succeeded only so we could roll in and conquer their rear end again, then stamp out all this dual language poo poo. It's not really Canada as a whole but Ottawa never shuts up about stupid loving Bluesfest ever. Year round coverage.
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:The first time I saw this photo was the exact moment I realized that one day I would be the old man complaining about his grandkids choice in music. To be fair I think most people his age think he looks like a tool as well.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 07:59 |
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How far will I go in not caring about Stephen Harper? Just watch me.
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| # ? Mar 10, 2013 08:00 |
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Those 5 things are non-events west of Thunder Bay. We're reminded about them on CBC I guess.
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I haven't heard poo poo about any of those events in the media for years, aside from maybe the summit series. So thanks for starting a thread misrepresenting our country or whatever. Also, this is the only thing you need to know about Expo '67: 
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Handen posted:I haven't heard poo poo about any of those events in the media for years, aside from maybe the summit series. So thanks for starting a thread misrepresenting our country or whatever. Every time Newfoundland's economy is talked about, moratorium. Every time women's rights is a big topic, Polytechnique. Summit Series, constantly. Expo '67, probably the least mentioned of the five, but when it is, it's made to sound as big as the building of the railroad. Referendum, almost as much as the Series. In Canada, these events are as instantly identifiable as 9/11, Gettysburg Address, MLK's speech, etc.
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Synthetic Hermit posted:In Canada, these events are as instantly identifiable as 9/11, Gettysburg Address, MLK's speech, etc. As a Canadian, I disagree. I'd never even heard of the moratorium or the summit series until this thread.
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We won the Canadian-Mexican War of 2013 yesterday. That was pretty decent, eh?
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