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Oh Canada..... thank you this day for your many gifts....RUSH (that's worth it just for that!) , BTO , April Wine , Max Webster, Ice Road Truckers(season 1) and Moosehead beer and least we forget , the robotic arm used on the space shuttle.   Happy Canada Day 
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I'll through in John Candy, Akroyd, and all our other great comedians  and thanks to Arthur Sicard the inventor of the snowblower for which many of us will be forever great full!  Cheers and Happy Canada Day to all.
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And Red Green, aye?
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............and Gordon Lightfoot, Ann Murray, Lorne (not Red) Greene, Kokanee and Nelson Pale Ale  Not to mention the odd superfluous U. Sorry Dwight  jh
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And William Shatner, Joni Mitchell, the McKenzie Brothers, The Band, Neil Young, the zipper, basketball, Jim Carrey and me. Happy Canada Day my fellow canucks!
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John, some things we are trying to put behind us. 
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Happy Canada Day!! Eh? Thank you for D.O.A., The Subhumans, and SNFU (Famous Canadian Punk Bands) and Pamela Anderson. Please take Justin Bieber back. 
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John, some things we are trying to put behind us.
OK Keith,
How about Leonard Cohen?
jh
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John, some things we are trying to put behind us.
OK Keith,
How about Leonard Cohen?
jh
Back on track!
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Who could forget Ian Tyson, or the original Cowboy Celtic  , somebody stop me  jh
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One of my favoUrite Actors,Donald Sutherland. He played my ALL TIME favoUrite character and hero Oddball! Woof Woof!
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Let us not forget, a great neighbor and ally to the North. We will build you that pipeline in 2017, if it's not too late.
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Cirque du Soleil and ... la poutine!
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And a little known aircraft... the Avro Arrow (CF-105), an advanced, supersonic, twin-engined, all-weather interceptor jet aircraft developed by A.V. Roe of Canada from 1949 until the government's controversial cancellation of the project in 1959. For aviation buffs, this is most interesting and was in fact a defining moment in Canadian history. A movie was made dramatizing the amazing story of the rise and fall of one of the world's most advanced aircraft ever. Watch it here.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PMnlnqRex4
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And here as the sun sets on another Canada Day, I CAN'T believe nobody ever posted THIS little gem in hono(u)r of the occasion!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E064kb3UnU
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Fireworks just going off out here in the PST of Western Canada. THAT should keep the bears at bay!
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Forgot Bob and Doug Mckenzie from the Great White North! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZvAVcBIrQ
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It was a good one, thanks for the references from all of us north of the 49th and that squiggly line that follows the great lakes/ st. Lawrence system all the way down east.
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a huge shout out to our friends an allies to the North! Happy Canada Day!
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What about Shania Twain???????? Not only is she from Canada, but from TIMMINS. Just got back from the Canada Day festivities in Ottawa. Several hundred thousand people downtown.....what a blast!  Now here comes July 4th. Congrats to our US cousins. All the best on your day!
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What about Shania Twain???????? Not only is she from Canada, but from TIMMINS.
Just got back from the Canada Day festivities in Ottawa. Several hundred thousand people downtown.....what a blast!
Now here comes July 4th. Congrats to our US cousins. All the best on your day!
I loved that party as a kid (from Orleans) then scoot across the canal to PQ and party with the boucoup nice french ladies 
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I liked this song about Canada... enjoy... In Canada and of course DOA... I'm Canadian The Hockey SongEnjoy 
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I liked this song about Canada... enjoy...
In Canada
and of course DOA...
I'm Canadian
The Hockey Song
Enjoy
Thanks for posting that I had not seen the Hadfield brother's song prior. Chris the former commander of the space station is a pretty mellow guy and I guess his brother is as well.
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For aviation buffs, this is most interesting and was in fact a defining moment in Canadian history. A movie was made dramatizing the amazing story of the rise and fall of one of the world's most advanced aircraft ever. Watch it here.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PMnlnqRex4
Sorry, Keith, but that video is almost complete liberal fiction. It fails to mention any of these important facts:
A.V. Roe (Canada) Ltd. was always wholly British-owned. Most of their top people came from the U.K. and the head guy was Sir Roy Dobson in London, England. More than half of their engineers came from the U.K. as well.
The Liberals were the first to decide to cancel the program in 1957 but were defeated before they could act on the decision.
In 1958, the Canadian Chiefs of Staff recommended cancelling the Arrow and buying a more "economical" interceptor from the U.S. Buying the Arrow would have cost at least an additional $8 million each compared to the $2 million each that were spent on the Voodoos.
Finally, there is no way for a Canadian Prime Minister to fire the employees of any private company. Diefenbaker could not have caused the "Black Friday" firings. The company chose to do that for no apparent reason but they had tens of millions of dollars on hand so it was because of a lack of money.
The facts change the story completely. Canada wasted $400 million by giving it to Hawker Siddeley to develop a mediocre aircraft. It was one of biggest boondoggles per taxpayer in history, even beating out the U.S. Valkyrie program. That is our real heritage.
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this is a very interesting page on the matter. What i like is the real footage of the first flight. Regardless of everything it was a very very cool plane. http://radiofreethinker.com/2012/07/04/who-killed-the-avro-arrow/
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