! What to buy from Canada, that's @ a better price than USA? |
| I have a relative coming from Canada in a couple of days. What easy to purchase items are cheaper in Canada than in the United States? Interested in items that are not necessarily available in the U.S... |
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Passport to get into canada? |
| do you need to have a passport to get into canada if you are driving?? what are the laws now? i knew they were passing a law that now you had to have one, but i heard that because of the excessive ... |
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I would like to live in Canada, how can i do that? |
| i live in mexico right now but i would like to live in Canada with all my family(wife and 5 teenagers) what do you think, could you help me?... |
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I want to emigrate to Canada? |
| and I know your winters are very cold, but please can any one tell me, were it is not to bad with the cold, I said to day to my family, that I would have to do the food shopping on a monthly bases, ... |
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Is it easy for a black person to get a job in Calgary? |
| In Montreal, anybody can get a job, but it's harder for visible minorities to move up in position. How is Calgary in relation to this?... |
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Beautiful places in Canada? |
| I plan on moving to Canada within the next 2 to 3 years. Problem is, I don't know where abouts to move. I love lots of snow and cold weather and love to snowboard. I want to be a professional ... |
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Ice rink??? |
| Does anyone know where I can find an Ice rink that actually has ice on this time of year in Toronto any addresses or phone numbers will be appresiated ....And please be sure its ... |
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I am visiting canada for a month period and would like to rent an apartment. any good website or help.? |
I need something close to
76 Grenville Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1B2, Canada (Women's College Hospital)
any help is appreciated.... |
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Niagara falls ?? |
| i am going to niagara falls this month and i was wondering if my sister and i need a passport to get to the canadian side .. i am 15 and she is 9 .. we are going with our parents who do have ... |
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How to mail a letter from Canada to USA? |
i want to send in my entry form to a magazine contest from Canada to USA. do i just put in my mailbox mailing place or do i have to go to a special place and give it to them
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What is best package for trip to Disneyland? |
| We are planning a trip to Disneyland in Nov. '07. from B.C. any hints as to good place to stay and good all inclusive? Best hotel, etc. Any things we should not bother with?... |
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Cross canada? |
| I'm driving from Toronto to Vancouver next week and someone told me that I shouldn't go ( wait till spring) because the pass between the rockeies is to dangerous in the winter time. Is this ... |
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Eric S |
What are the benefits of NOT being American? |
I actually would like to construct a detailed book on this topic. But in short:
1) You are able to get almost ALL USA news reports, and yet compare and contrast it to a place/culture that differs from USA. Americans only know 1 place, their own backyard.
2) In a country that isn't built around global domination and contains less GDP, the politics of that country have a direct economic effect on the citizens, which constructively makes local communities more willing to stay tunes and care about what their politicians are trying to accomplish. This tension unites communities and creates social awareness.
3) Definitely being a citizen of a country outside the USA makes you more likely to know how to survive without money, without people making everything for you, without having McDonalds and a shopping mall on every corner. This means the correlation between dollars and life satisfaction is less for non-Americans, meaning Americans actually undermine how happy or unhappy these people are.
Canadians, add some more to this list. I think we can also say for some of these that Canada is also exposed to similar traps as Americans, but to a lesser extent, the next down from there being Europe and Australia, then Asia, then the Middle East, and lastly, the most uninfluenced by US culture, The African Continent.
But for purposes of this question, lets look at all countries of the world, rich and poor, except the USA. Additional Details Oh whoops South America and the rest of Latin America is more influenced than Africa but less than Asia. |
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Kirra
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"I have concluded Canada...despite it being 10% of USA's population"
I didn't realise Canada was part of America. I thought it was a separate country. |
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Lu Lu
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In Australia we are used to being rich and having everything provided for us, so to speak, just as you say in number 3. We have lots of McDonald's and malls and all that rubbish as well. So do many many countries, so that is definitely not unique to Americans. Living outside the US you can be just as rich and just as spoilt.
Many countries outside the US have free health care which is a massive benefit. From what I understand a serious injury can mean big financial trouble if you are uninsured in the US. Not so in the countries with free health care.
Free education (higher) or at least access to reasonable student loans to pay for your university degree, etc. |
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itsmeofcourse!!
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The rest of the world pretty much hates all Americans, or from my experience at least. |
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Dead Day Afternoon
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Canada is just so much nicer.
It's cleeaner, safer, people are less arrogant.
I'm not against the Yanks but I would never live there.
The way i see it, America's government is always talking about how rich and powerful it is. Compare it to people, are the richest and strongest people you know the best people? Prolly not. |
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Stephanie
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Five myths about Canada you need to know about!
1. Free health care.
Canada's health care is not free. It is funded by a heavy tax
regime that takes hard earned money from even the working poor. If
you make $C20,000 a year. You will be taxed. Make more? Like $C75,000
and up? Oh, you can bet you will get hit with taxes. In some
provinces like Alberta, you also get the additional privilege of
paying health care "premiums" on top of your taxes.
The big hospital unions like the Registered Nurses and various
so-called "para-professionals" have taken over the health care
system and destroyed it. This is what happens when you create a
a monopoly, and worse, a government owned monopoly.
2. High standard of living
Huh? Since when? This country has one of North America's biggest
drug ghettos. It's called Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Canadians
have a lower per capita GDP than Americans. They also make less
money than Americans, and ironically many other countries: Ireland,
Germany, Switzerland to name just a few.
3. Peaceful
Nope! There are just as many acts of violent crime, drug gangs,
domestic murders in Canada as in the U.S. It's just never adjusted
for per capita, ie. the actual population of the two countries
and the size of the cities in each country. Canada has serial
killers, drug shootings, pollution, gang violence. How come we don't
hear much about this in the world's media, the way the U.S.'s
problems are constantly brought up?
4. Strong economy
No! Canadians just piggyback off the U.S. economy and they still
can't manage to get their unemployment rate down to anywhere near
to the U.S. rate, which was hovering in the low 5's most recently.
Canada's rate has varied over the last decade or more from 11% to
a low of about 7%. The country just sells off its raw natural
resources rather than having a productive economy through
strong innovation or research. Yet the Canucks complain about
selling those resources to the U.S. Huh?
5. Canadians are polite self effacing and humble
Whoa! Canadians are anything but polite and "European" as they
like to tell the world. Most Canadians I've met are ignorant,
boorish, self absorbed anti-American bigots. Go to a Canadian
workplace: see how they treat you, especially if you are a brown
or black person.
Go to a restaurant or a store. The tone is very cold and "British"
in nature. Look at how they drive. I have driven in Britain, the
U.S. (San Diego, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Seattle area).
Nowhere have I seen such stupid backward drivers as I have seen
in B.C. and Alberta.
Basically Canada needs to have its huge pompous self absorbed ego
deflated. Canadians are hypocrites and they love to be delusional,
and self absorbed about how great they are. The U.S. incidentally is the
country where a lot of Canadians, (about 250,000 at last count), go
to live well, retire and of course, for employment. Hypocritical or
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Francois Quebequois
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Another Canadian in denial.
have to ask this kind of comparison question on the net.
www.notcanada.com |
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J'aime la natation!
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Hey, Eric. You always seem to talk about wanting to become Canadian. First tip, learn to spell. We don't say "Wow I didn't realise the flaw in the English language." We spell it 'realize' with a zed. |
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