Things that would make Canada better for you ...
 

I have blatently copied this thread idea from the Spanish forum, and some of their responses made me giggle, especially this one

"Throw out all the Expats who moan about the expats moaning about the expats who moan about the expats moaning".



I'm not sure that is so relevant here (but maybe) but even so, here are my top three:

a) Spring in March, not one week at the end of May

b) A job that I actually want and like

c) Easy availability of chocolate croissants :lol:



Over to you ...

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Three more weeks vacation and the money to spare to go spend it with family and friends in the UK.














er..thats all.:unsure:

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Universal availability of cask conditioned real ale.

Lower internal flight costs.



Sadly, neither of those things is likely to happen.....:(

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Sounds good to me Iain :)

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Actually I thought perhaps. :p

1)"Throw out all the Expats who moan about the Canadians driving habits.

as well as

2) Those Expats who feel the need to knock provinces or locations other than the ones they live in when they know sod all about them".:sneaky:

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We were in the Feathers last night so that doesn't seem a priority.

Less winter.

More vacation.

Shrink the country, make things nearer to each other.

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Bloody typical Albertan...:rolleyes:

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Screw you too. :p

Can we also dispense with the sweeping generalisations based on local experience.;)

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Allow Quebec to separate

Allow Alberta to separate

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More readily available marmite.
London Pride (or Harveys).
Harper being mauled by a bear.
A scheduled service between Ottawa and Gatwick.

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What if Quebec doesn't want to?

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I don't think the majority of Albertans want to either.

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Replace CBC with BBC, or at least sort out something like "Freeview".

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Allow supermarkets to sell booze at competitive prices.

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Ah....sadly unlikely to happen....the bear would get bored to death before any fatal bites occurred.....

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Make all prices inclusive of taxes, and then round them to the nearest 5c.

And introduce a 50c coin.

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cheaper internal flights, supermarkets to sell booze, more holidays.;)

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Why is supermarkets selling booze a good thing? It just makes it easier for kids to get alcohol, and at least with the monopoly you know no store is going to risk its franchise to supply underage buyers, its not worth it to them.

I used to hate the tax free pricing...now its just normal.

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A small thermo-nuclear device at the bottom of Lonsdale wouldn't be the end of the world either.

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Because a bottle of wine that costs $14.99 in the BC Liquor store costs $5.99 in Fred Meyers in WA. They are just as strict in checking ID at the checkout.

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Cheaper booze
Buying booze in supermarkets. :thumbup:
Better Cars available
Proper pubs
Less rain
Pork pies
Monster Munch
Kebab shops
Transport cafes with proper breakfasts
Roadside café vans
Better radio stations
Christmas eve in the pub
News/newspapers I give a crap about
No ice hockey

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There's lots of over the air HD channels you can get from the US with a suitable aerial. Was that your point - non cable/satellite free channels?

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Just needs "Jerusalem" to be playing in the background. And you only missed out these:

"Long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, 'Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist' and, if we get our way, Shakespeare will still be read even in school."
-John Major, 1993

(I think somebody needs a trip home :D)

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Yet teenage alcohol use is (statistically) higher in the states...
Please point me towards a "how too" link if you have one. Im so sick of paying $55 a month for the crap supplied. I looked at "Digital over air" a while ago, but I got the idea I was in a bad area for it...

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That's hardly universal availability. In fact screw universal, availability of real ale in St John's, Newfoundland would be enough.;)

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I see cheap booze has been mentioned several times. I'm going with that.

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It sounds good to be sure, however... free health care (as far as it goes) in Canada costs...and high rates of duty on such as gas, booze & tobacco I would think is one way of contributing towards that cost. Just a thought....
As to whether it is being spent properly is another topic all together..

The main opponents of health care reform in the US see such high taxation/s, (as in Canada) directly or indirectly as the likely result to any such reform.....and they want to have there cake AND eat it....

Sorry....someone get back on topic....:)....how about politicians that do what's best for the country rather than themselves/party?

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:thumbsup:

:thumbsup:

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

fork'em

forkthemtoo

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

:thumbup:

Steak Puddings, Decent Chippys, Decent MIXED Genre Radio, with a playlist of more than 25 songs

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England's countryside, with its soft gentle rolling beauty in contrast to the North American dramatic, stark and a somewhat brittle landscape. 



Children going to school, not loaded down with giant competitive sized backpacks but with warm and intelligent smiles.

Intelligent, civilized and modest behaviour rather than the shrill vulgarity of parochial eagerness.

I could go on but I think I'd drown in my own vomit.

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:lol:

:rofl:


Time changes some things (for some people Oink). I can look back and recall little things that bugged me when I first arrived, but now I couldn't care less - and then other things that I barely noticed two years ago loom into my vision and bug me now, where I never saw them before.

Tis the expat way. Assimilation or repatriation - or perhaps a sort of settling here and then moaning lots :lol:

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Quite honestly only one thing really bugs me (in Calgary) and that is people crossing the street without looking. I have tried to get used to it but after four years it's not going to happen - it irritates the heck out me that pedestrians just assume that cars will stop for them and don't even bother to check to see whether they have been seen :frown:

J :)

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- The whole country being smaller and further south
- Cheaper booze (in fact more US style pricing for most things)
- Stop relying on US things being adequate for Canada. i.e. you need your own 'soccer' league don't just rely on the USL/MLS. The NHL is basically American anyway.
- Get rid of the mind-numbing bureaucracy and try to actually get something done in under 10 years. Try to make official correspondence actually make some sense.
- Have media/tv/papers that are actually interesting and not just a cure for insomniacs.
- Canada needs more personality. Watching and yelling at Hockey games/UFC fights does not constitute culture.
- Stop making your schoolkids flog stuff to 'fundraise'. For something special fair enough, but not umpteen times a year for no specific reason.

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I once did an academic presentation about this very subject. That in fact we are turning our children into de facto tax collectors and compulsory schooling shouldn't be subsidized by children. The amount of instructional time taken up by collecting and tabulating the enterprise is considerable. The whole coercion aspect of it etc etc. It didn't go down well. School fund raising is sacrosanct in N. America. You'd be better off attacking God.

Back to the thread. . .

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How the hell do you manage to get your head above the covers each morning?

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The reason, I put this one in, is my kid's pre-school has just lumbered us with some stuff to flog for 'fundraising'. The fact that we actually pay monthly fees to pay for his schooling seems to have escaped them?

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Expensive booze. ;)

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I agree with you on the fundraising part...if I wanted 'gen-u-ine' Belgian chocolate I'd buy it at a reasonable price. My daughters class had been told to accentuate the Belgian part as they were told people would be more likely to buy it. I questioned the school on it and they didn't really have an answer why Belgian chocolate was to be stressed.

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More sharks and venomous snakes...

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The amount of time the kids and teachers put into this stuff is awful. Just be lucky you don't live in the States. Its even worse down there.