Canada

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Meanwhile in Canada, the Canadian Parliament debates . . .

Another greenhouse effect

Indeed.

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NY Times | Canada has an unusual problem with Syrian refugees - too many people want to help

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NY Times | Canada has an unusual problem with Syrian refugees - too many people want to help

Let them fight over the refuges. Make them feel like it is back home.

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NY Times | Canada has an unusual problem with Syrian refugees - too many people want to help

Let them fight over the refuges. Make them feel like it is back home.

I've always been both amused and bemused between the social differences between "melting pot" USA and "multicultural" Canada.

USA. Obsession with race, religion, and ethnicity.

Canada. Whatever. We're Canadians.

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NY Times | Canada has an unusual problem with Syrian refugees - too many people want to help

Let them fight over the refuges. Make them feel like it is back home.

I've always been both amused and bemused between the social differences between "melting pot" USA and "multicultural" Canada.

USA. Obsession with race, religion, and ethnicity.

Canada. Whatever. We're Canadians.

Don't think Canada and the US are so different.

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NY Times | Canada has an unusual problem with Syrian refugees - too many people want to help

Let them fight over the refuges. Make them feel like it is back home.

I've always been both amused and bemused between the social differences between "melting pot" USA and "multicultural" Canada.

USA. Obsession with race, religion, and ethnicity.

Canada. Whatever. We're Canadians.

Don't think Canada and the US are so different.

As an outsider, who lived in the USA, traveled extensively in Canada, I used to think so to until I spent time in both countries.

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NY Times | Canada has an unusual problem with Syrian refugees - too many people want to help

Let them fight over the refuges. Make them feel like it is back home.

I've always been both amused and bemused between the social differences between "melting pot" USA and "multicultural" Canada.

USA. Obsession with race, religion, and ethnicity.

Canada. Whatever. We're Canadians.

Don't think Canada and the US are so different.

As an outsider, who lived in the USA, traveled extensively in Canada, I used to think so to until I spent time in both countries.

I was trying to find an episode of Barney Miller that dealt with the difficulties of foreigners adapting to living in the US. After A long and funny monologue about this one woman that was in the squad room says this is exactly the way she feels as a foriegn (with a US accent) Where are you from she gets asked? "Canada" It was very funny but I couldn't find the video.

Historically Latin Americans consider Americans to be aloof and generally polite. They consider Canadians to be more so on both counts.
The Canadian government has worked very hard to make Canada look different from the US with propaganda on the CBC. For years it was "diversity" and how Canada was the most diverse country in the world. They used to repeat a slogan that went something like "Canada is a special place in its diversity" or something like that anyway. Maybe even true that they are still saying that today. I haven't been there much in the last decade. But major US cities individually are far more diverse than the entire country of Canada. If you said Toronto is the most diverse city on earth I would tend to agree with you. But then again had the French Canadians gotten their way on separatism with Canada missing Quebec and Ontario the mostly likely outcome for the rest of the provinces and territories would have been to try to become part of the US.

Otherwise there is no right to free speech in Canada. Not an absolute one anyway. And like the US, Canada has two left coasts

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Ottawa launches an all-out trade war against Washington.

The WTO complaint suggests the Trudeau government has evolved in its approach , said John Weekes, Canada’s former WTO ambassador and chief Nafta negotiator. “This is really about sending a signal to the Americans that we’re prepared to be tough.”

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Bloomberg | Canada tops the list of healthiest countries in global ranking

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Nat Post | Judging by the throne speech, Canada is en route to a train wreck

In policy terms, almost every sentence of the address was a disaster