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So what's great about Canada?
OOOOPS I THOUGHT I WAS POSTING THIS IN "LET'S GET IT ON". ANY CHANCE OF A MOVE?
I'm just wondering as i'm really thinking I would like to move there.. My brother moved to California many years ago and has settled in and loves it...
I think in another thread I said I would like to live there.... I think because I really like America.. I like the diversity of it, all the different states and ways of life, and there is just so much to see there.. You can drive from one side to the other and see so much different landscape and different people..
But i've always thought Canada would be a little more my speed.. I don't know if this sounds right, but just the impression I get, it's a turned down version of America.. No pretention, and just good people... Everyone on here and anyone i've talked to or met from Canada in the past has just been a genuinally good person... And it's close enough to America to visit my brother and visit all the other interesting places I have wanted to go to since I was young...
Aside from England or any place in the UK, I feel like I would feel most at home in a place like Canada as it seems from my impressions that it's a lot like Australia in regards to a low key, care free type people...
Not to say America or other places don't have many area's like that.... But you know when you just feel like something is for you...
And I would love to just make a big change to shake up my life and get a new start....
I was wondering what it was like to get work there? I assume it's relatively the same as other countries in regards to - You need a working visa which involves a letter from a potential employer etc... But is it terribly difficult to get work at the moment?
And what are some of the good cities or larger towns as I would like to look them up just for something to do also..
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I'd say you are wrong about pretention. Canadians can be just as pretentious as Americans, though maybe in different ways. Canada is generally more "politically correct" than the US, imo.
Canada is often thought of as a cultural mosaic, whereas the US is a melting pot. In Canada the government tends to bend over backwards to help minorities preserve their identity, whereas in the States the government says, you are on your own in that regard.
The Canadian economy is more dependant on natural resources than the US. More dependant on things like Fishing, Forestry, mining etc, whereas the US has more manufacturing.
In Canada the wide open spaces are bigger, the population is no where near as spread out as it is in the states. Canada has far fewer people than the US, but more square miles to put them in.
Canada has a socialized medical system, the US does not. I think that's a good thing, but Lyle will tell you something different.
That's a start anyways. I'm sure others will have their own take on this stuff.
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Canada is similar to the States, but it has it differences.
As CGM touched on, assimilation is not encouraged in Canada to the degree it is in the States (I think this is a great thing, but it definitely undermines the formation of the type of patriotic national identity that you see in America. For instance, I feel I have much more in common with people in Seattle and Oregon than I do with those in the vast majority of my country, I doubt you'd see many Americans saying something similar). Canada is very culturally diverse place.
In terms of social policy (ie. welfare etc.) Canada is somewhere between the U.S. and Europe. We don't have a full-on welfare state like you would see in Scandanavia, but the government is still very active socially (IMO another good thing, though it has been greatly reduced under the Conservatives [who I, unsurprisingly, loathe]).
I suggest you take up an interest in hockey. Just do not become a Maple Leafs fan whatever you do. It's a fate worse than death.
The West Coast, where I live, is probably (almost certainly) the most liberal, laid back part of the country. For example, where I live the marijuana industry is the 2nd or 3rd largest employer in the Province. It's still illegal, but the cops are only after big grow ops etc. because they're most often run by organized crime. Vancouver is a world-class city, consistently voted among the best places in the world to live (I assume those who decide on such things ignore the lower-east side which is as impoverished as anywhere in North America - bar Mexico - and I believe has the highest incidents of HIV infections for an areas its size on the continent as well).
The economy is also very heavily regulated, which means the recession didn't hit us as hard as other "Western" nations.
I really don't know what to tell you, I'm not much of a patriot or anything like that but I will state that it is a great place to live for the most part. I'd stay out of Alberta if I was you, along with the rest of the Praries it's essentially Canada's bible-belt.
If you have any direct questions I'll be happy to try and answer them for you.
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hope i can visit someday.
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Molson Ice and Labbat Blue
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Went last year. Loved it but wouldn't want to live there. Too vast and reckon it would be too cold for me in winter.
Favourite place was Jasper - felt and looked just like the town Rambo shot up in First Blood. Met some good locals and had some decent piss ups shooting pool woth them. Really friendly. It's weird walking home and suddenly a huge elk (?) just wanders down the street. Also came across a bear (cue the gags about 'did you wipe it off and apologise ?';) ) but luckily was in the car.
Went onto Vancouver and that was great place too - though wandered off course one night and ended up in the area where all the homeless are. Couldn't believe it in two minutes I went from really nice area to streets with hundreds of bag ladies and junkies on. Was watching my back there I tell you !
Then onto Vancouver Island to see the whales and grizzlies. Nice but again even more remote.
In conclusion i am staying in Yorkshire
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Lyle hates it, so it must be doing something right!
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I really don't know what to tell you, I'm not much of a patriot or anything like that but I will state that it is a great place to live for the most part. I'd stay out of Alberta if I was you, along with the rest of the Praries it's essentially Canada's bible-belt.
If you have any direct questions I'll be happy to try and answer them for you.
An overstatement of course, but I suppose there is some truth in what you say.
The economy of Alberta is by far the strongest in the country because of all the oil, and Calgary is a very nice city, not particularly conservative, that is only a couple hours away from the Rocky Mountains. Calgary also has the Bow River flowing right through the middle, which is a world famous trout stream.
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Trailer Park Boys.
How does someone from Ireland know about the Trailer Park Boys?
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Mark TKO
Went last year. Loved it but wouldn't want to live there. Too vast and reckon it would be too cold for me in winter.
Favourite place was Jasper - felt and looked just like the town Rambo shot up in First Blood. Met some good locals and had some decent piss ups shooting pool woth them. Really friendly. It's weird walking home and suddenly a huge elk (?) just wanders down the street. Also came across a bear (cue the gags about 'did you wipe it off and apologise ?';) ) but luckily was in the car.
Went onto Vancouver and that was great place too - though wandered off course one night and ended up in the area where all the homeless are. Couldn't believe it in two minutes I went from really nice area to streets with hundreds of bag ladies and junkies on. Was watching my back there I tell you !
Then onto Vancouver Island to see the whales and grizzlies. Nice but again even more remote.
In conclusion i am staying in Yorkshire
I assume you wandered to part of the Downtown East Side. It's not really dangerous at all though, it's just really sad.
As for Vancouver Island, that's where I live and I've never found it to be overly remote. Victoria, the city I live in, has over 300,000 people and Vancouver is about 1.5 - 2 hours away. Some parts of the Island are definitely remote though.
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VanChilds
Molson Ice and Labbat Blue
I doubt you can get them down in Texas, but Sleemans, Rickards Red, and Alexander Keiths are my favorite Canadian beers from large-scale manufacturers. However, as a rule I try to avoid those types of beer because all the preservatives ruin the taste for me. Okanagan Springs beers are great too, but I think they're more of a micro-brew style, I know they don't put any preservatives in their stuff.
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CFH
I really don't know what to tell you, I'm not much of a patriot or anything like that but I will state that it is a great place to live for the most part. I'd stay out of Alberta if I was you, along with the rest of the Praries it's essentially Canada's bible-belt.
If you have any direct questions I'll be happy to try and answer them for you.
An overstatement of course, but I suppose there is some truth in what you say.
The economy of Alberta is by far the strongest in the country because of all the oil, and Calgary is a very nice city, not particularly conservative, that is only a couple hours away from the Rocky Mountains. Calgary also has the Bow River flowing right through the middle, which is a world famous trout stream.
I'm from B.C., I'd be run out of the Province if I said anything nice about Alberta. They do have an incredible economy, no doubt about that. As for Calgary, I wasn't very impressed when I was there, but it's a helluva lot nicer than Edmonton.
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It's big.....It' cold.....Lots of places to dump corpses and you could go back agan and again to visit them as the cold weather would preserve them quite well. Great country for grave robbing I would imagine.
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Trailer Park Boys.
How does someone from Ireland know about the Trailer Park Boys?
Fenster is about as Irish as Tony Cascarino ;)
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It's big.....It' cold.....Lots of places to dump corpses and you could go back agan and again to visit them as the cold weather would preserve them quite well. Great country for grave robbing I would imagine.
Most of the country is cold in the winter, but on the southern west coast it's very nice temperature wise. It rarely snows more than a few cm's here each winter, if it snows at all.
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CFH
I really don't know what to tell you, I'm not much of a patriot or anything like that but I will state that it is a great place to live for the most part. I'd stay out of Alberta if I was you, along with the rest of the Praries it's essentially Canada's bible-belt.
If you have any direct questions I'll be happy to try and answer them for you.
An overstatement of course, but I suppose there is some truth in what you say.
The economy of Alberta is by far the strongest in the country because of all the oil, and Calgary is a very nice city, not particularly conservative, that is only a couple hours away from the Rocky Mountains. Calgary also has the Bow River flowing right through the middle, which is a world famous trout stream.
I'm from B.C., I'd be run out of the Province if I said anything nice about Alberta. They do have an incredible economy, no doubt about that. As for Calgary, I wasn't very impressed when I was there, but it's a helluva lot nicer than Edmonton.
BC is home, but after living in T.O. for 20+ years I have come to realize that British Columbians in general seem to have some kind of inferiority complex about their position in confederation or something. They resent the hell out of the east, and they seem to resent Alberta too. Other than that though, they're a pretty good bunch. :cool:
I spent a year in Calgary when I was in my 20s. Loved it. Like you I wasn't crazy about Edmonton. Honestly, I could live most places. For me a city is more a state of mind (my mind) than it is geography.
Montreal is a great city too.
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An overstatement of course, but I suppose there is some truth in what you say.
The economy of Alberta is by far the strongest in the country because of all the oil, and Calgary is a very nice city, not particularly conservative, that is only a couple hours away from the Rocky Mountains. Calgary also has the Bow River flowing right through the middle, which is a world famous trout stream.
I'm from B.C., I'd be run out of the Province if I said anything nice about Alberta. They do have an incredible economy, no doubt about that. As for Calgary, I wasn't very impressed when I was there, but it's a helluva lot nicer than Edmonton.
BC is home, but after living in T.O. for 20+ years I have come to realize that British Columbians in general seem to have some kind of inferiority complex about their position in confederation or something. They resent the hell out of the east, and they seem to resent Alberta too. Other than that though, they're a pretty good bunch. :cool:
I spent a year in Calgary when I was in my 20s. Loved it. Like you I wasn't crazy about Edmonton. Honestly, I could live most places. For me a city is more a state of mind (my mind) than it is geography.
Montreal is a great city too.
I can't speak for other people from B.C. really, but there is definitely a deep-seeding sense of dissatisfaction with the rest of the country. In general, most people (myself included) seem to feel that we are underrepresented in government and that the needs and desires of anyone west of the Rockies are rarely considered. As for Alberta, I think it's just a contrast between ideological perspectives. B.C. is the most liberal place in Canada and Alberta is the most conservative, there's bound to be friction. We are however united in our dislike of Ontario.
As I've stated before, my political views are not the norm, but I would have no problem if British Columbia became it's own nation. I'd probably actively support it if it were demonstrated to be feasible.
I've always wanted to see Montreal, I intend on doing so very soon.
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CFH
I'm from B.C., I'd be run out of the Province if I said anything nice about Alberta. They do have an incredible economy, no doubt about that. As for Calgary, I wasn't very impressed when I was there, but it's a helluva lot nicer than Edmonton.
BC is home, but after living in T.O. for 20+ years I have come to realize that British Columbians in general seem to have some kind of inferiority complex about their position in confederation or something. They resent the hell out of the east, and they seem to resent Alberta too. Other than that though, they're a pretty good bunch. :cool:
I spent a year in Calgary when I was in my 20s. Loved it. Like you I wasn't crazy about Edmonton. Honestly, I could live most places. For me a city is more a state of mind (my mind) than it is geography.
Montreal is a great city too.
I can't speak for other people from B.C. really, but there is definitely a deep-seeding sense of dissatisfaction with the rest of the country. In general, most people (myself included) seem to feel that we are underrepresented in government and that the needs and desires of anyone west of the Rockies are rarely considered. As for Alberta, I think it's just a contrast between ideological perspectives. B.C. is the most liberal place in Canada and Alberta is the most conservative, there's bound to be friction. We are however united in our dislike of Ontario.
As I've stated before, my political views are not the norm, but I would have no problem if British Columbia became it's own nation. I'd probably actively support it if it were demonstrated to be feasible.
I've always wanted to see Montreal, I intend on doing so very soon.
That deep-seated sense of dissatisfaction has been around for as long as I can remember. I remember when I was a child and my father ranted about this. He hated Trudeau with a passion.
Honestly, I don't think BC is that badly off. If you believe in proportional representation according to population, then I think the system is probably quite equitable. If you think about the money a province puts into the federation in taxes compared to the money it gets back in funding, then BC is probably better off than Ontario.
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Trailer Park Boys.
How does someone from Ireland know about the Trailer Park Boys?
I'm from England.
On a satellite station, paramount comedy, they showed it a couple of years ago. I loved it.
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CFH
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Trailer Park Boys.
How does someone from Ireland know about the Trailer Park Boys?
Fenster is about as Irish as Tony Cascarino ;)
ahahaha ;D
I'm more Irish than him. Fact.
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Mark TKO
Went last year. Loved it but wouldn't want to live there. Too vast and reckon it would be too cold for me in winter.
Favourite place was Jasper - felt and looked just like the town Rambo shot up in First Blood. Met some good locals and had some decent piss ups shooting pool woth them. Really friendly. It's weird walking home and suddenly a huge elk (?) just wanders down the street. Also came across a bear (cue the gags about 'did you wipe it off and apologise ?';) ) but luckily was in the car.
Went onto Vancouver and that was great place too - though wandered off course one night and ended up in the area where all the homeless are. Couldn't believe it in two minutes I went from really nice area to streets with hundreds of bag ladies and junkies on. Was watching my back there I tell you !
Then onto Vancouver Island to see the whales and grizzlies. Nice but again even more remote.
In conclusion i am staying in Yorkshire
I assume you wandered to part of the Downtown East Side. It's not really dangerous at all though, it's just really sad.
As for Vancouver Island, that's where I live and I've never found it to be overly remote. Victoria, the city I live in, has over 300,000 people and Vancouver is about 1.5 - 2 hours away. Some parts of the Island are definitely remote though.
maybe it wasn't dangerous but I panicked. I can handle 10-15 blokes attacking me no problem but now I'm late 30s I reckon I would have struggled with more than twenty thirty.
Stayed in a place called Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island. Very remote and stank of fish ! Was good for the grizzly tour though and whales etc..
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East coast of Canada here, from the rebellious "french canada" ;) Strangely enough, the views over here (in general, of course) are a lot like Vancouver: Very liberal, opposite to conservatism and pro-ecology and well known for its will (or let's say by a huge part of french canadians) to split apart from the rest of Canada. In general, the bigger clash comes with the middle's meadows too, especially saskatchewan and Alberta but provinces like New-Brunswick or BC are normally getting great along with Quebec (in general).
As it has been stated before, ideology is quite variable from a Province to another, I would say that starting on each coasts it's more "liberal" and the more you head for the middle, the more conservative it gets, Saskatchewan and Alberta being the most convervatives you can get.
Funny that peoples talk about Trudeau here, he's not hated only in Vancouver but also in Quebec where he's seen as a traitor in Quebec because of the feud with Levesque and peoples were pissed off power 10 when they renamed Dorval Airport P-E-T Airport... especially because ironically, he's the one who, at the time, decided to move everything from Dorval to Mirabel, only to hunt away countless farmers to take possession of their fields to build Mirabel who's not used anymore now.
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CFH
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Mark TKO
Went last year. Loved it but wouldn't want to live there. Too vast and reckon it would be too cold for me in winter.
Favourite place was Jasper - felt and looked just like the town Rambo shot up in First Blood. Met some good locals and had some decent piss ups shooting pool woth them. Really friendly. It's weird walking home and suddenly a huge elk (?) just wanders down the street. Also came across a bear (cue the gags about 'did you wipe it off and apologise ?';) ) but luckily was in the car.
Went onto Vancouver and that was great place too - though wandered off course one night and ended up in the area where all the homeless are. Couldn't believe it in two minutes I went from really nice area to streets with hundreds of bag ladies and junkies on. Was watching my back there I tell you !
Then onto Vancouver Island to see the whales and grizzlies. Nice but again even more remote.
In conclusion i am staying in Yorkshire
I assume you wandered to part of the Downtown East Side. It's not really dangerous at all though, it's just really sad.
As for Vancouver Island, that's where I live and I've never found it to be overly remote. Victoria, the city I live in, has over 300,000 people and Vancouver is about 1.5 - 2 hours away. Some parts of the Island are definitely remote though.
maybe it wasn't dangerous but I panicked. I can handle 10-15 blokes attacking me no problem but now I'm late 30s I reckon I would have struggled with more than
twenty thirty.
Stayed in a place called Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island. Very remote and stank of fish ! Was good for the grizzly tour though and whales etc..
It's definitely not a nice place, and I understand that it would seem very dangerous to someone not familiar with the area and the circumstance and I certainly wasn't passing judgement on what you said. I was just commenting that, in my and many others experience, it's not a dangerous place per se, just an extremely depressing one. There was a club beneath the notorious Ivanhoe hotel where myself and some friends used to occasionally go to watch metal shows, and aside from having to avoid the discarded needles on the streets we never experienced any danger.
I've never been to Telegraph Cove, but I'd imagine it's a beautiful place. Lots of Black bears and other wild life I'd imagine.
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Molson Ice and Labbat Blue
I doubt you can get them down in Texas, but Sleemans, Rickards Red, and Alexander Keiths are my favorite Canadian beers from large-scale manufacturers. However, as a rule I try to avoid those types of beer because all the preservatives ruin the taste for me. Okanagan Springs beers are great too, but I think they're more of a micro-brew style, I know they don't put any preservatives in their stuff.
I'll look around and see about those brands...I do enjoy yalls beer...not so much your whiskey but yall make a hell of an ale
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CFH
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VanChilds
Molson Ice and Labbat Blue
I doubt you can get them down in Texas, but Sleemans, Rickards Red, and Alexander Keiths are my favorite Canadian beers from large-scale manufacturers. However, as a rule I try to avoid those types of beer because all the preservatives ruin the taste for me. Okanagan Springs beers are great too, but I think they're more of a micro-brew style, I know they don't put any preservatives in their stuff.
I'll look around and see about those brands...I do enjoy yalls beer...
not so much your whiskey but yall make a hell of an ale
Not a fan of Rye? I used to drink Crown Royal (and to a lesser extend Jack Daniels, which I know is different) like it was going out of style when I was a kid. Now I stick to vodka, the hangovers are much easier to handle.
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Well as a one time bartender and liquor snob, I can safely say Crown Royal has pulled the greatest PR ploy in the history of booze. Canadian Whiskey is usually blended and to me lesser quality than single batch. Crown puts it's bottle in a purple velvet bag and has convinced a lot of people it is a top shelf whiskey. It has a very smooth and to ME a rather watered down flavor so it appeals to a lot of drinkers. I do like a rye whiskey from time to time but much prefer a single batch bourbon to a blended whiskey.
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I assume you wandered to part of the Downtown East Side. It's not really dangerous at all though, it's just really sad.
As for Vancouver Island, that's where I live and I've never found it to be overly remote. Victoria, the city I live in, has over 300,000 people and Vancouver is about 1.5 - 2 hours away. Some parts of the Island are definitely remote though.
maybe it wasn't dangerous but I panicked. I can handle 10-15 blokes attacking me no problem but now I'm late 30s I reckon I would have struggled with more than
twenty thirty.
Stayed in a place called Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island. Very remote and stank of fish ! Was good for the grizzly tour though and whales etc..
It's definitely not a nice place, and I understand that it would seem very dangerous to someone not familiar with the area and the circumstance and I certainly wasn't passing judgement on what you said. I was just commenting that, in my and many others experience, it's not a dangerous place per se, just an extremely depressing one. There was a club beneath the notorious Ivanhoe hotel where myself and some friends used to occasionally go to watch metal shows, and aside from having to avoid the discarded needles on the streets we never experienced any danger.
I've never been to Telegraph Cove, but I'd imagine it's a beautiful place. Lots of Black bears and other wild life I'd imagine.
no probs - didnt think you were passing judgment mate ;)
i was just amazed at how it went in a couple of streets from a really nice area to that - so many people too.
I still say that I have had the best Indian meal ever in Vancouver at Vij's
Went on a boat trip from telepgraph cove to some place where the grizzlies are - was about 2 1/2 hours. Knight's Inlet or something like that ?
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Mark TKO
maybe it wasn't dangerous but I panicked. I can handle 10-15 blokes attacking me no problem but now I'm late 30s I reckon I would have struggled with more than twenty thirty.
Stayed in a place called Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island. Very remote and stank of fish ! Was good for the grizzly tour though and whales etc..
It's definitely not a nice place, and I understand that it would seem very dangerous to someone not familiar with the area and the circumstance and I certainly wasn't passing judgement on what you said. I was just commenting that, in my and many others experience, it's not a dangerous place per se, just an extremely depressing one. There was a club beneath the notorious Ivanhoe hotel where myself and some friends used to occasionally go to watch metal shows, and aside from having to avoid the discarded needles on the streets we never experienced any danger.
I've never been to Telegraph Cove, but I'd imagine it's a beautiful place. Lots of Black bears and other wild life I'd imagine.
no probs - didnt think you were passing judgment mate ;)
i was just amazed at how it went in a couple of streets from a really nice area to that - so many people too.
I still say that I have had the best Indian meal ever in Vancouver at Vij's
Went on a boat trip from telepgraph cove to some place where the grizzlies are - was about 2 1/2 hours. Knight's Inlet or something like that ?
The Downtown Eastside is a messed up place. It's located downtown (obviously) and between two very popular tourist spots in Chinatown and Gastown, so it's easy enough to stumble in to.
I've never heard of Knight's Inlet, but that doesn't mean much. It would've had to have been somewhere on the Mainland as there are very few grizzlies on the Island. They do periodically swim over though.
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Vancouver is beautiful.
Yeahh, Vancouver is indeed beautiful, nestled in between the mountains in the sea. However, having your major population center tucked away in the extreme southwest corner of the province does present certain logistical difficulties. Traffic can be a freaking nightmare.
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VanChilds
Well as a one time bartender and liquor snob, I can safely say Crown Royal has pulled the greatest PR ploy in the history of booze. Canadian Whiskey is usually blended and to me lesser quality than single batch. Crown puts it's bottle in a purple velvet bag and has convinced a lot of people it is a top shelf whiskey. It has a very smooth and to ME a rather watered down flavor so it appeals to a lot of drinkers. I do like a rye whiskey from time to time but much prefer a single batch bourbon to a blended whiskey.
To me, there is nothing like a good Talisker, my favorite scotch whiskey and by far. I also dig a lot the Cao Ila or the Laphroaig, some of the finest malts produced in Good ol' Scotland:) I am not too fan of the Canadian whiskeys neither, we produce some very good rye whiskey over there but to me, it's hard to beat the Scots at that game. Santori makes some quite wicked whiskey too but... Highlands prevail:)
As for Vodka, till you haven't drink a Stolichnaya Elit, a Ultimat or an Imperia, there will always lack something in the life of one who loves vodka but haven't tasted these blends:)
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GO LEAFS GO ! ! ! !
Do you know what is the only thing that the Montreal Canadians fan have and that the LEafs don't?
A color picture of the stanley cup. Sorry, don't hate me, it was really just a joke;)
