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Is the NW Territories considered a province or a "territory"?

Just wondering.

BTW, I can name all of your provinces. I bet that most Americans can't. But who is the current Prime Minister? I don't see him much in the news.
 
BTW, I can name all of your provinces. I bet that most Americans can't. But who is the current Prime Minister? I don't see him much in the news.


I can name them too, and have been able to do so since I was in kindergarten. Since Dad was born in Alberta it was kind of mandatory. I knew the lyrics to O, Canada almost before I knew the ones to The Star Spangled Banner.

Trust me, as far as my Canadian relatives are concerned a PM who isn't in the news very much is a GOOD thing...
 
I believe it is still a territory along with Nanavut and Yukon.

Pete
 
I bet most everyone knows who the mayor of Toronto is. :eek:

CW

It's Gold Finger, right?

goldfinger.jpg
 
Then can you name the two northernmost cities ever to host a World Series?

Minneapolis is one. And I think, Mr. Minnesota, that this is a trick question. I was going to say Toronto is the second, but that little nag in the back of my head is telling me that it's probably a suburb of Minneapolis where the Twins played in the 60's...
 
Charlie Sheen ?


Pretty close! :D

Sheen has at least got it going for him that he once fooled Denise Richards into thinking that he'd reformed.

The Toronto mayor seems to have patterned his administration or personal peccadillos after that of Wash., DC mayor Marion Barry. Different race, but the same substances.
 
Hey..
I have one of yall's nickel who do I send it to ?

I think I still have a couple as souvenirs from a year spent in Nfld. They have a beaver on one side and the Queen on the other. I think. Been awhile since I checked them.

There used to be a rumor that their paper money showed the Queen with a devil in her hair, but I never saw it, if any such illusion was indeed present.

Any idea why the Territories don't just become Provinces?

BTW, thanks to Canadian Forces for the help in Afghanistan. Are they and the Aussies still there?

I think that Vancouver Island is the cougar attack capital of N. America. I once interviewed a man who survived a cougar assault there by virtue of his Schrade LB-7 lockblade folding knife. It was a near thing, but he lived, after staggering into a logging camp with his scalp torn off and and other serious injuries.

I once stood in a club in Labrador and watched an Eskimo/Innuit in his sealskins put a quarter in a juke box. It seemed a meeting of the ancient and the modern.
 
I can name all of the Canadian..... wait, strike that. I know you have to go through Canada to get to Point Roberts, Washington by land. :)
 
I once hired a Canadian communications fella. A great guy. Took him a while to get his green card. I told him to gas up a boat and take a holiday across Lake Michigan. He told me he was not Cuban.....

All the A's, nice day A.

Or life is about learning. His statement would be It is all aboot learning.

Good person, we got to be friends. When the communications bubble burst he went to nursing school and got a permanent card. He is on his way to citizenship. His big complaint was his parents moved from the US of A to Toronto for a better job..... And he was born there. A, well it's all aboot which side of the line you are born on. A?
 
I once hired a Canadian communications fella. A great guy. Took him a while to get his green card. I told him to gas up a boat and take a holiday across Lake Michigan. He told me he was not Cuban.....

All the A's, nice day A.

Or life is about learning. His statement would be It is all aboot learning.

Good person, we got to be friends. When the communications bubble burst he went to nursing school and got a permanent card. He is on his way to citizenship. His big complaint was his parents moved from the US of A to Toronto for a better job..... And he was born there. A, well it's all aboot which side of the line you are born on. A?

Were his parents US citizens when they moved to Toronto? Did they renounce US citizenship? I believe that if his parents were US citizens he already is a US citizen through them, and that he would have dual citizenship. Perhaps the laws have changed over the years, but I have aunts and uncles born in Canada to my US Citizen grandparents and they have both US and Canadian passports. Hate to say it, but when my aunt travels in Europe she always uses the Canadian one. Fewer hassles, especially in France.

He should check with an immigration attorney.
 
US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is of Cuban descent, but was born in Canada. He's a US citizen, of course, and is widely expected to seek the Presidency in 2016.

There has been some controversy over whether he qualifies as a native-born American.

Some famous Canadians work in Hollywood, but I don't know if any became US citizens. The best known are Wm. Shatner(Ontario) and Pamela Anderson (B.C.) Also, A..J Cook, who plays Supervisory Special Agent Jennifer Jarreau on, "Criminal Minds" is Canadian, as is her best friend, who plays the Secret Service bodyguard on the new series, "Intelligence." I can't think of her name. And the brunette in the film, "Wild Things" is Canadian, but I think went back up there. She used to star on, "Party of Five", too. Neve Campbell. Pretty good actress.

I'm sure there are others working here in TV and movies, but have no idea how many become Americans. There are some Aussies here, too, but they nearly always have to fake US accents, so most never know their origins. One who might surprise you is Anthony LaPaglia from, "Without a Trace." Poppy Montgomery from that show is also Australian. So is the hot blonde from, "Chuck." But I think she went home when that show ended.
 
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