Originally Posted by OakvilleSarah

I love how people feel it's OK to slag off Birmingham but the OP asks a question about Canada and thats not OK, ****ing ex pats.

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Originally Posted by edmontonian

Im Canadian, but eh, Im not insulted, Im to polite (apparently) to smack someone up the side of the head for insulting me. having lived in England for 10 years, I can say with hand on heart, that there is no comparison, The Uk wins on the history side beautiful houses and lots of things to see and do, but Canada has its on unique and wonderful countryside, rocky mountians jasper park, I love going up whyte ave when they have the music festivals on.
Below is taken from the City of Edmonton website, just a few of the things you can do around here, the rest of Canada has its own culture, but I for one am proud to be Canadian, just like my beautiful wife is proud to be British.

Edmonton is a vibrant, creative and culturally stimulating city with a wealth of cultural events and resources.

Sir Winston Churchill Square, in the heart of Edmonton's urban core, is where many of the city's 40 festivals take place. The Downtown Arts District surrounds the Square and includes the Winspear Centre, home of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Citadel Theatre, the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Stanley Milner Public Library, and beautiful City Hall with its millions of dollars of art on display.

However, arts and culture is not limited to downtown. Our city is well known for a myriad of festivals, including the world-renowned Fringe Theatre Festival, one of the largest theatre events in North America, and the very-popular Edmonton Folk Music Festival. For this reason, Edmonton is called Festival City!

Ed

Originally Posted by Oink

I've always found Birmingham to be charming city. If memory serves me correctly there was an exquisite KFC on Bull Street.

Originally Posted by Auld Yin

For some reason I've always figured you were a KFC type.

Originally Posted by Oink

And you'd be right. Although I've always been a bit worried about their potion sizes. While it may be quite hard to persuade people to go from a plate to a bucket, I fear it is not such a big step to go from a bucket to a trough.

Originally Posted by Oink

Although I've always been a bit worried about their potion sizes.

Originally Posted by cheeky_monkey

its not a patch on Birmimgham though!

Originally Posted by Tangram

You are Harry Potter, I claim my $5.

Originally Posted by el_richo

Barry Trotter more like

Originally Posted by Oink

Mock you may, but the magic blend of 11 herbs and spices the Colonel uses is worthy of the HSWW itself.

Originally Posted by el_richo

I must admit, driving home from the Rockies last week i nearly bought a KFC. It was advertised on a billboard showing 2 chunks of chicken used as bread with bacon and cheese as the filler.

After thinking of Steve_P on here, I refrained.

Originally Posted by Oink

And you'd be right. Although I've always been a bit worried about their potion sizes. While it may be quite hard to persuade people to go from a plate to a bucket, I fear it is not such a big step to go from a bucket to a trough.

Originally Posted by Steve_

You must be smoking crack. There's a lovely place in Lozells that sells it.

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian

Please explain this.

There is just as much complaining about "foreigners taking our jobs" here as there is in the UK and don't get me started about how Canadians are given first priority over jobs. Politicians here accept that it is fair to say "Jobs for Canadians first", I can't imagine a politician in the UK getting away with saying such things.
Canada's ease with immigrants stems from the fact that there is so much space. I am confident that things will change once that space starts to run out.

I accept that I have limited experience but, from what I have seen, most keep doing here what they did in their country of origin. There is little of "Doing as the locals do" as there is no such thing. I live in Alberta, as does Mandymoochops. I bet we live completely different lives. As will Elricho and BristolU

I would love for someone to be able to define "Canadian Culture" Have a go

Originally Posted by Boy d

Well is culture not the sum of history, location and politics. Canada: bilingualism, native peoples, the charter, British, French, and us influences, muliculturilism, hockey, basketball, winter sports, the great outdoors, kayaks, lakes, mountains and the snow and the hardiness it ensures, the paraires and it's never ending wheat fields, the innuit, anti Americanism..I could go on