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BristolUK Oct 28th 2011 2:50 am

Canada's emblem
 
Nobody posting about Senator Nicole Eaton yet.

Is everyone trying to think of a suitably funny heading?


dbd33 Oct 28th 2011 3:01 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 9701241)
Nobody posting about Senator Nicole Eaton yet.

Never heard of her. Google doesn't show up anything remarkable. Who she?

iaink Oct 28th 2011 3:04 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 
Wouldnt replacing the beaver with the soon to be extinct polar bear just draw more international attention to Canada criminal environmental indifference?

dbd33 Oct 28th 2011 3:05 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 

Originally Posted by iaink (Post 9701270)
Wouldnt replacing the beaver with the soon to be extinct polar bear just draw more international attention to Canada criminal environmental indifference?

I see she has an interest in bears:

http://nicoleeaton.sencanada.ca/en/p101163

should we know of her because she posts as "ultrarunner"?

iaink Oct 28th 2011 3:07 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 9701266)
Never heard of her. Google doesn't show up anything remarkable. Who she?

Maybe your google, like so many others, is broken...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windso...ar-emblem.html

Almost Canadian Oct 28th 2011 3:08 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 

Originally Posted by iaink (Post 9701270)
Wouldnt replacing the beaver with the soon to be extinct polar bear just draw more international attention to Canada criminal environmental indifference?

I thought the numbers of polar bears was increasing. If so, does that suggest that Canada's criminal environmental indifference is benefitting them, or is there so other reason why their number is increasing?

Almost Canadian Oct 28th 2011 3:09 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 
Does Canada really want to become a global sponsor for Coke?

iaink Oct 28th 2011 3:11 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 9701282)
I thought the numbers of polar bears was increasing. If so, does that suggest that Canada's criminal environmental indifference is benefitting them, or is there so other reason why their number is increasing?

No, its just means there will be a few more starving bears when the ice is gone.

dbd33 Oct 28th 2011 3:12 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 

Originally Posted by iaink (Post 9701280)
Maybe your google, like so many others, is broken...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windso...ar-emblem.html


Maybe I didn't scroll far enough to get to the CBC.

Anyway, the clubbed seal is already internationally known and a powerful symbol of Canada and the lives of aboriginal peoples in the North. She'd do better to hide behind her beaver.

BristolUK Oct 28th 2011 3:15 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 9701282)
I thought the numbers of polar bears was increasing. If so, does that suggest that Canada's criminal environmental indifference is benefitting them, or is there so other reason why their number is increasing?

They no longer have to stand on top of mints.

dbd33 Oct 28th 2011 3:21 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 
I think she might be a spy. The symbolism here is dominance by the bear, national emblem of Russia. This is about softening the public to the idea of formally ceding control of the Artic.

Almost Canadian Oct 28th 2011 4:21 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 

Originally Posted by iaink (Post 9701287)
No, its just means there will be a few more starving bears when the ice is gone.

I thought there was debate about that too (the fact that the ice is retreating):p

iaink Oct 28th 2011 4:29 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 9701434)
I thought there was debate about that too (the fact that the ice is retreating):p

Not among intellegent people that dont have their head stuck...


... in the sand:p

Almost Canadian Oct 28th 2011 5:14 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 

Originally Posted by iaink (Post 9701452)
Not among intellegent people that dont have their head stuck...


... in the sand:p

I heard, but don't know, that, until very recently, the ice was not capable of being accurately measured so, in essence, no one really knows. I am sure that I am incorrect though, after all, the nice Mr. Gore has never been shown to get his facts wrong;)

I don't work in the oil fields, I do drive one gas guzzler, but I am never likely to see a polar bear in its natural habitat and I appreciate that species evolve and, sometimes, become extinct. Having said that, I do not believe that my life would have been better had I seen a living dodo.

Alan2005 Oct 28th 2011 5:50 am

Re: Canada's emblem
 

Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 9701525)
Having said that, I do not believe that my life would have been better had I seen a living dodo.

I agree. There's a load of animals we don't need - and my life would be better without them. We can start with wasps, they've just got to go. Oh, and whelks - we don't need those and they don't even taste nice.


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