“I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.” PeopleThinkingLooksCountryEyeCertainViewsComedyBirdBritishCanadaLook At MeObjectivity Author:Eric McCormack
“It was a long hard bumpy road, but this great country kept me inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world.” PeopleWorldLongCountryHardCharacterSpiritInspiredDrivingCanadaDevotedGreat CountryMarching OnBumpy Roads Author:Stompin' Tom Connors
“The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.” MeanCountryStatesFoundUnitedUnited StatesEconomicProveAchievementPatternsEducationalCanadaCanada And The United States Author:J. Philippe Rushton
“Many of the countries outpacing the United States in the deployment of high speed Internet services, including Canada, Japan and South Korea, have successfully combined municipal systems with privately deployed networks to wire their countries, .. As a country, we cannot afford to cut off any successful strategy if we want to remain internationally competitive.” IfsWantCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulCuttingInternetStrategySouthIncludingSpeedCanadaJapanWireKoreaDeploymentHigh SpeedSouth Korea Author:John McCain
“The Unites States is the largest developed country. Canada enjoys a flourishing economy and advanced technology. Mexico is an important developing country. China attaches great importance to the friendly cooperation with the three countries,.” ImportantCountryStatesThreeEnjoyTechnologyEconomyImportanceChinaDevelopingCanadaFriendlyCooperationMexicoFlourishingDeveloping CountriesDeveloped CountryAdvanced Technology Author:Li Zhaoxing
“A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.” CountryAgeEarthNextWaterCuttingTreeLandHarmonyTiredBlowSoilCanadaContinentsForeignersAlteredDrainsShort TimeBlown AwaySod Book:The Hemingway Collection Source: The Hemingway Collection
“My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the world - not the whole world which couldn't care less, but my private world, which is my country, Canada.” WorldWantFeelsLongCountryDoneWholeCareCareersShareWhole WorldCanadaEcstasySurveysExhibitionsManiaZestLong Careers Author:Joseph Plaskett
“The Arts Council of England, in a 1998 report on 11 countries, found that Germany spent $85 per capita on the arts. The United States spent a shocking $6. And Canada, in its stubborn balance, spent $46... It's the Canadian way to be halfway between the Old and New worlds.” WorldWayArtCountryStatesFoundUnitedUnited StatesBalanceEnglandGermanyReportsCanadaMuseumsNew WorldStubbornShockingCouncilHalfwayOld And New Author:Michael Audain
“Don't stop. Keep right on going. Hitch up your trailer and go to Canada or down to Old Mexico. Head for Europe if you can afford it, or go to Mardi Gras. Go someplace you've heard about, where you can fish or hunt or collect rocks or just look up at the sky. Find out what's at the end of some country road. Go see what's over the next hill, and the one after that, and the one after that.” IfsLooksEndsCountryNextHeardSkyRocksEuropeFishesHillsLook UpCanadaMexicoHuntsTrailersMardi GrasCountry Roads Author:Wally Byam
“Our objective is to begin a national conversation to better support individuals and families living with ASD in Canada. The Summit will review the recent National Needs Assessment Survey and provide leaders with a better understanding of ASD surveillance across the country. We are pleased that Minister Bergen will be part of this important discussion.” NeedsImportantCountryIndividualUnderstandingLeaderSupportConversationObjectivesMinistersDiscussionCanadaReviewsSummitSurveillanceSurveysAssessment Author:Cynthia Carroll
“My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer - how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.” WayI CanRealCountryInterestDealsClassObjectsBenefitsSpringAdvantagePressesBurdenSecureConsumersInjuryCanadaCommerceManufacturingSurplus Author:Robert Peel
“Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.” HeartIdeasSoulCountryCitiesCrimeAffectionAspirationCanadaCarrieToronto Author:Aleister Crowley
“Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the country because we always seemed so far behind style-setting New York, I now thank God for the cultural lag. Ours, after all, is the good neighbourhood. A society well worth preserving.” IfsMenWellsCountryYoungLeftBehindsStyleNew YorkSettingSettingsYoung ManCanadaThank GodDecencyLagNeighbourhoods Author:Mordecai Richler
“So far as one can generalize, the most graciouis, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have given us the most exciting politicians of our time: Trudeau, Lévesque. Without them, Canada would be an exceedingly boring and greatly diminished place.” PeopleCountryWould BeGivenPoliticianExcitingBoringOur TimeCanadaInnovative Book:Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!: requiem for a divided country Source: Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!: requiem for a divided country
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.” CountryStatesGrowsUnitedUnited StatesBasesPreparedBoringCanadaSugarTurkeysMonopolyGreeceSymphonyCubaBulbsFiddlePlantationsNetherlands Author:Andrei Gromyko
“The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.” CountryInternationalCurrentsCanadaRepublicOther CountriesHandfulTry AgainPrevailingCzechCzech Republic Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.” KnowsFeelsMadeCountryPoorRedFeel GoodIndianCanadaPatriotismReservesGreat CountryPheasants Author:Allen Sapp
“Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.” WayTwoCountryStatesUsedMilitarySizeFirmCanadaFuneralVehicleSparesUndertakingsSwearingCadillacsEntourageOttawa Author:Judy LaMarsh
“The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.” PeopleIdeasCountryStoriesValuesWishIdentitySolitudeMythPreservesCanadaPonderingContemplativeReverie Author:B. W. Powe