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22 Feb 2012, 11:11 pm

What about Australian politics? :cry:

Hey, wanna compare sex parties?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sex_Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Sex_Party

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22 Feb 2012, 11:14 pm

I was going to mention Australian politics, but then I forgot

:lol: just kidding. That's a topic that tends to get touched even less frequently. I'd welcome a change from discussing American politics though. What a clusterf*ck America is these days

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22 Feb 2012, 11:18 pm

Vigilans wrote:

I was going to mention Australian politics, but then I forgot

:lol:

just kidding. That's a topic that tends to get touched even less frequently. I'd welcome a change from discussing American politics though. What a clusterf*ck America is these days

agreed,

its almost impossible to actually discuss something where mainstream american elections are involved,

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22 Feb 2012, 11:46 pm

i find canada slightly embarrassing. i mean, we're sexy and outspoken, but we come across as northern hicks.

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23 Feb 2012, 12:10 am

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i find canada slightly embarrassing. i mean, we're sexy and outspoken, but we come across as northern hicks.

Maybe if one's accent comes from Alberta oil rigs or Newfoundland & Labrador

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23 Feb 2012, 12:17 am

Vigilans wrote:

hyperlexian wrote:

i find canada slightly embarrassing. i mean, we're sexy and outspoken, but we come across as northern hicks.

Maybe if one's accent comes from Alberta oil rigs or Newfoundland & Labrador

are you kidding me? they are one and the same. Fort McMurray, home of the oil rigs, is referred to as "Little Newfoundland"

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23 Feb 2012, 1:00 am

hyperlexian wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

hyperlexian wrote:

i find canada slightly embarrassing. i mean, we're sexy and outspoken, but we come across as northern hicks.

Maybe if one's accent comes from Alberta oil rigs or Newfoundland & Labrador

are you kidding me? they are one and the same. Fort McMurray, home of the oil rigs, is referred to as "Little Newfoundland"

that explains a lot

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23 Feb 2012, 1:02 am

Vigilans wrote:

hyperlexian wrote:

Vigilans wrote:

hyperlexian wrote:

i find canada slightly embarrassing. i mean, we're sexy and outspoken, but we come across as northern hicks.

Maybe if one's accent comes from Alberta oil rigs or Newfoundland & Labrador

are you kidding me? they are one and the same. Fort McMurray, home of the oil rigs, is referred to as "Little Newfoundland"

that explains a lot

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23 Feb 2012, 1:49 am

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are you kidding me? they are one and the same. Fort McMurray, home of the oil rigs, is referred to as "Little Newfoundland"

Thompson, Manitoba also has a huge number of people who emigrated from Newfoundland..

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23 Feb 2012, 1:51 am

Master_Pedant wrote:

hyperlexian wrote:

are you kidding me? they are one and the same. Fort McMurray, home of the oil rigs, is referred to as "Little Newfoundland"

Thompson, Manitoba also has a huge number of people who emigrated from Newfoundland..

We have to stop them before its too late!!

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23 Feb 2012, 2:19 am

Vigilans wrote:

Master_Pedant wrote:

hyperlexian wrote:

are you kidding me? they are one and the same. Fort McMurray, home of the oil rigs, is referred to as "Little Newfoundland"

Thompson, Manitoba also has a huge number of people who emigrated from Newfoundland..

We have to stop them before its too late!!

Yeah, if only we had several thousand metric tones of live cod.

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksYSCWpFKBo[/youtube]

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23 Feb 2012, 2:29 am

ok it's unrelated to the conversation at hand, but i just HAD to offer my fave canadian folk video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ekqsHP9Sck[/youtube]

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23 Feb 2012, 2:32 am

Monday was Louis Riel day in Manitoba.

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23 Feb 2012, 4:50 am

Master_Pedant wrote:

It seems that a lot of PPR's Canadian based issue threads fall, with few views, pretty quickly. It might have something to do with the low amount of Canadians on this sub-forum coupled by the fact that a lot of people seem to think it's morally wrong to have an opinion about public issues in other countries. What are other potential causes?

I think most European WP members are quite well informed about US politics. There isn't much global interest in Canadian politics though. They don't have the same entertainment factor

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23 Feb 2012, 4:53 am

CrazyCatLord wrote:

Master_Pedant wrote:

I think most European WP members are quite well informed about US politics. There isn't much global interest in Canadian politics though. They don't have the same entertainment factor

Partially because American "politics" are entertainment industry first and politics second

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23 Feb 2012, 2:56 pm

As an American who has frequently visited Canada, I can say that I wish American politics could be more like Canada's - a fluid, multiparty system rather than the sclerotic duopoly that we have. For my part, I would welcome the chance to vote for a truly relevant left-leaning party.

On the other hand, the Westminster parliamentary system has always seemed undemocratic in that the party in power can call an election whenever it chooses; also that, without the separation of powers in a presidential system, the majority party can pretty much do whatever it pleases, checked only by public opinion. (I know there has been talk about going to regularly scheduled elections. Did that ever happen?)

It has always seemed perplexing to me that Canada can be so progressive about matters like secularism, minority & indigenous rights, & universal health care, but be so defiantly retrograde on addressing climate change & environmental protection, though I think this might be a consequence of having an economy based largely on resource extraction.

The two major things I've noticed about politics in Canada, in comparison to the U.S.: 1) power is much more decentralized - provincial elections matter in a way that U.S. state elections usually don't; 2) politics is more parochial - not so much about left/right ideology as it is about delivering the goods.

Canadians, please feel free to correct me if you disagree with any of this. I don't know what it's like to live there, only that it's a wonderful place to visit.

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