Since this is my thread I can be off Topic ... hee hee hee ... LOL ... ;-)))

To all my American friends
Happy Birthday USA and many Happy Retutns!

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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY !!!!!!!!!!

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Happy Birthday Canada

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Happy Canada Day eh!

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Enjoy Esme

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Going to the fireworks in Canada Place.

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Reality Internet Personality

Happy Canada Day

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

Just for today, "Blame Canada", not Misfit.

Happy Canada Day! It's one of my favorite places.

I checked it out. There is a point system to immigrate and while the tourism is welcoming, the come and live is a bit staunch. They use a point system... and retirees do not score well on it. It does vary by province though so.. who knows?

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Janice

A good friend from years past had this posted in Facebook...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQf13B8epw

C'mon over. There's lots of room to breath here.

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I do not fight fascists because I think I can win.
I fight them because they are fascists.
Chris Hedges

A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happy Canada Day to our friends north of the border.

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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends!

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

Awesome pics and text Byron. Thank you. Love the song!!

We were supposed to go and stay with my mum today over on Vancouver Island, but the teenager has the hots for some girl and refused to go. He's still too young to leave on his own and I'm not sure I'd want to risk it the state of mind he's in at the moment!!!

So we will stay in Vancouver and go and see some of the celebrations.

Happy Canada day everyone. :))

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Reality Internet Personality

Happy Canada day. My parents were born in Canada
And there are many times I would like to return.

I think I heard it expressed best as "Canada is just the USA .....
..... With a Conscience"

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Janice

Happy Canada day.

Best wishes from Germany.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

I'll probably see if the kids want to go down to Fort George Park where our town meets on Canada Day.
There's a bandstand going all day with musicians and dancers from all countries.
Booths are set up with food from around the world. I went to the Africa Cafe last Saturday and I'll be looking for some more of that.

The forcast is for clear skies but it's only 1 degree C outside right now.
There's no World Cup soccer today so I may as well get out, although, the CFL does begin their season.

Happy Canada day fellow Canucks

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I do not fight fascists because I think I can win.
I fight them because they are fascists.
Chris Hedges

A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

CANADA

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Happy birthday!

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today, July 1st is a Holiday in Canada :-)

it is Canada day!

Happy Birthday Canada

The name of Canada has been in use since the earliest European settlement in Canada, with the name originating from a First Nations word kanata (or Canada) for "settlement", "village", or "land". Today, Canada is pronounced kænədə in English and [kanada] in French. In Inuktitut, one of the official languages of the territory of Nunavut, the First Nations word (pronounced [kanata]) is used, with the Inuktitut syllabics .

The French colony of Canada, New France, was set up along the Saint Lawrence River and the northern shores of the Great Lakes. Later the area became two British colonies, called Upper Canada and Lower Canada until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, the name Canada was officially adopted for the new Dominion, which was commonly referred to as the Dominion of Canada until after World War II.

Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada), formerly Dominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération), is Canada's national day, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act (today called the Constitution Act, 1867), which united two British colonies and a province of the British Empire into a single country called Canada. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as internationally.

Blame Canada by Robin Williams











Blame Canada by Robin Williams






Most communities across the country will host organised celebrations for Canada Day, usually outdoor public events, such as parades, carnivals, festivals, barbecues, air and maritime shows, fireworks, and free musical concerts, as well as citizenship ceremonies for new citizens. There is no standard mode of celebration for Canada Day; professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford Jennifer Welsh said of this: "Canada Day, like the country, is endlessly decentralized. There doesn't seem to be a central recipe for how to celebrate it — chalk it up to the nature of the federation." However, the locus of the celebrations is the national capital, Ottawa, Ontario, where large concerts, presided over by the governor general, are held on Parliament Hill, as well as other parks around the city and in Hull, Quebec. The sovereign may also be in attendance at Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa; Queen Elizabeth II was present in 1990, 1992, and 1997, and is scheduled to attend the celebration in 2010. The Queen also helped celebrate Canada's 100th anniversary on July 1, 1967.

Celebrate Canada Day in Canada's Capital Region (Ottawa - Gatineau). Canada Day National Capital Commission. Follow us on: Facebook · Flickr · Twitter ...



Blame Canada by Robin Williams

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