The Canadian Cafe will have one member absent.

They ALL come back sooner or later.

To "Cheyenne" Wyoming?

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The Canadian Cafe will have one member absent.

They ALL come back sooner or later.

To "Cheyenne" Wyoming?

and to Capistrano

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I lost my map.

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I lost my map.

When the swallows come back to Capistrano
That's the day you promised to come back to me
When you whispered, "Farewell," in Capistrano
'twas the day the swallows flew out to sea

excerpt from "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano" by Leon René

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Thanks for that Mista Gee!

Yup Bill Shatner is a Canuck (A francophone at that!) through and through.
Here's the original commercial for the three people who haven't seen it.

I AM CANADIAN! (aka "The Rant")

This commercial created quite a stir and sparked a million parodies.

Wiki

I Am Canadian ...... in Space!

N E time, Mr. P

:D

Thanks for showing us the story behind the Shatner vid!!


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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

Go Tribe!!!! And Thank You Canada!
Apparently we owe a vote of thank you to Canada for their Canadian Soldiers! Thank You!

The Jake's bug swarm aids Tribe in victory!

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Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!



That's right, we celebrate a little earlier up here. My mom is cookin' up a big FAT bird with all the fixin's!!
I'll be back when the Tryptophan wears off. LMAO!!

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Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!



That's right, we celebrate a little earlier up here. My mom is cookin' up a big FAT bird with all the fixin's!!
I'll be back when the Tryptophan wears off. LMAO!!

Send a breast this way please!

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November 11th is Remembrance Day.

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November 11th is Remembrance Day.

We need to remember now...more than ever.

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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A Time lapse - Red poppy - "Flaming June"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KaEkLrk-QM

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Hello everyone.
Today, I found a very interesting site, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
For anyone who has lost a loved one who served in the Canadian, or Commonwealth, Forces, this site is a great resource.

This is dedicated to my Great Grandfather , whom I never knew, or met.
And I shall never forget
his Sacrifice

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like take off eh! to The Great White North

From the Toronto Star Newspaper
This Christmas, get real

Buying a Christmas tree could be considered an act of environmental activism. But not all trees are green. Environment reporter Catherine Porter guides us down that forested path ...
Dec 02, 2007 04:30 AM

REAL VS. ARTIFICiAL

There's no real choice between artificial and the old-fashioned, grown-from-the-earth Christmas tree.

True, the plastic kind are reusable. But the majority are made in Asian factories out of polyvinyl chloride, which contributes dioxin to the air during the manufacturing process and again if the tree is burned. Exposure to dioxins, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, can cause cancer and developmental and reproductive problems. But most people only hang onto their plastic trees for five years before chucking them into the landfill, where they'll remain for centuries, or worse, they are burned in an incinerator. They can't generally be recycled.

LOCAL VS. IMPORTED

Real Christmas trees, on the other hand, provide wildlife habitat, protect against erosion, sequester carbon dioxide – something we need in a warming world – and even produce oxygen during the eight to nine years they grow before being cut and hauled to market. They're 100 per cent renewable and recyclable. City trucks collect them from the curb in January and they're ground into mulch for our parks.

To boot, they're considered a profitable agricultural crop – a rarity today, when Toronto garbage collectors earn more than double the income of an average Ontario farm worker, and when more and more farmland is being gobbled up by developers and urban sprawl.

Ontario's Christmas tree industry is puny compared to Quebec's and also overshadowed by both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. According to Ross Gough of the Christmas Tree Farmers of Ontario, many of the trees stocking the yards of big box stores around Toronto are trucked in from there. Why help protect eastern farmland when our own is so threatened? Add Christmas trees to your "Buy Local" list, and if you are picking up one from a lot, make sure it's from the Green Belt. That's the 720,000-hectare swath around Greater Toronto protected from development three years ago by the provincial government.

CHEMICAL VS. NATURAL

Many local growers spray their Christmas trees with chemical pesticides. One of the most popular sprays is Roundup – a herbicide produced by Monsanto that contains glyphosate. Although the Canadian government and many farmers consider it benign, scientists have linked it to recurrent eczema, respiratory problems, elevated blood pressure and allergic reactions. It's banned in Denmark.

As for the insecticides, a North Carolina professor discovered traces of them in the urine of Christmas tree workers and their families, putting them at greater risk for neurodegenerative diseases.

There is actually no such thing as an organic Christmas tree in Ontario. As Hugh Martin, the Ontario government's manager of organic crop production puts it, the focus of certification has been on food and "most people don't eat Christmas trees."

But there are many local Christmas tree growers who don't use pesticides at all, or at least only sparingly.

Even big growers such as Alliston's Somerville Nurseries employ integrated pest management, which means they mow between trees to keep weeds down and only spray to combat an infestation of spider mites or spruce budworms.

Murray Crones hasn't used any pesticides on his 25-acre tree farm east of Newmarket for more than 30 years. Pests, the 85-year-old farmer says, "have never bothered us enough to do anything with them."

So before driving out to cut down your own tree, call the farm and ask if they use chemicals. That's what Rick Smith, the executive director at Environmental Defence plans on doing. He will head out to a tree farm in the Green Belt that's pesticide-free.

"The most environmentally friendly alternative," he says, "is doing the old-fashioned thing."

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Heyas Pawly!!! Good to see you, Guy!!!!!


In New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, we like our natural trees and we just about all tree farm with the help of government forresters. I know because my father and I had help in growing a huge woodlot on some land we had (not for commercial reasons, we just wanted to keep the property nice).

Now PEI, I can't vouch for. I've never seen a bigger bunch of cheating so-and-sos. LOL

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Now PEI, I can't vouch for. I've never seen a bigger bunch of cheating so-and-sos. LOL

LMAO!! Anne(O.G.G) would be shocked at such an accusation!!

Nice to see you to Beets! We've been getting pounded here in Southern Ontario (15-20 cm of snow followed by freezing rain and more snow after that! How are the Maritimes?

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Now PEI, I can't vouch for. I've never seen a bigger bunch of cheating so-and-sos. LOL

LMAO!! Anne(O.G.G) would be shocked at such an accusation!!

Nice to see you to Beets! We've been getting pounded here in Southern Ontario (15-20 cm of snow followed by freezing rain and more snow after that! How are the Maritimes?

I'm sure isn't one of those viscious Islander businessmen, though. :]]

I can't believe it! In the early going, we've had much less snow around here than you guys. Hey, that's a switch! We sometimes get these odd winters where it's even a Black Christmas, but then in January through May...LOOK OUT! LOL

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I thought I just saw Bob and Doug eh....