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YouTube – How to lose friends and alienate countries.

I can’t put it any better than redditor, gcranston, puts it:

See, this is why Fox News can’t get a broadcast license in Canada.

I might also mention

1. War of 1812: Lit the White House on fire; American’s commemorate this in their National Anthem
2. Vimy Ridge: First time Canadian Troops under Canadian command; advanced so fast troops were ordered to halt because supplies couldn’t keep up. When asked how we took the untakeable position [so] quickly, Canadians respond with “No one told us it was impossible to do”
3. Passchedaele: Canadian troops inspire the original use of the term “Storm Troopers”
4. Dieppe: Canadian troops undertake practice invasion of the coast of France. Terrible loss of Canadian life. Lessons learned directly led to the successes at Normandy.
5. D-Day: Despite lessons learned from Dieppe, no beach head other than Juno – the Canadian Beach – was successful. American pilots actually bombed Canadian troops stating “no way are they that far inland; we’re still stuck on the beaches!”

I’d go on but I’m just too furious with this lack of respect for my country. I will only say that Canada is in Afghanistan cleaning up America’s mess, operating in the most dangerous part of the entire country. Maybe the reason Fox can’t remember Canadians are in Afghanistan is that THEY WERE DOING SO BADLY THERE THEY HAD TO START ANOTHER WAR WITH IRAQ TO DRAW PEOPLE’S ATTENTION AWAY?!?

Fox News, I say to you with with deep sincerity: Go Fuck Yourself.

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It was so apparent during the controversy surrounding Harper’s economic debacle a few months ago that the general population has no idea how our government operates so this may educate a few of my fellow citizens.

YouTube – RMR: Canada explained.

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From: YRG Workout
Arthur Boorman is 5′8” 297 pounds and 47 years old. Arthur’s has 3 kids, 5 cats and works over 70 hours a week as a special educator where he teaches kids and adults with learning disabilities. In Arthur’s youth he was paratrooper with US Army. After 14 years of service and well over 500 jumps he was ready to retire. That’s when he got called up for the first Gulf War. Unfortunately Arthur was sent home early from that War “permanently” disabled. Allowing his injuries to dictate his life, he gained more and more weight until it eventually threatened his life. Something had to change, so Arthur tried YRG. He listened to the inspirational CD that Dallas Page included with the order entitled “Own Your Life”. Arthur began his exercise program, changed his eating habits and took control of his lifestyle. In 10 months he lost 120 pounds. His braces and crutches have been retired. He went from needing straps and a chair to achieve the YRG positions, now he teaches them. Arthur is an inspiration to all that know him, press play on the video that chronicles his journey, and let him inspire you too! [ed: cleaned up the text some]

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So I bought an enclosure for old ATA HDDs to help my friend get some files of his ancient computer that blew up. When I got home I decided to see what was on 3 old HDDs that I had laying around. A lot of memories were found within, pictures, old projects, videos, etc. Amongst the flotsam and jetsam I came across the following gem. It was an internal commercial used by Telus back when I first started working there circa 2003. It was horrible then and it’s horrible now, a lot of laughs were had at it’s expense. I don’t remember the whole story but I believe it was some film student working as a telemonkey in one of the centers that was drafted to make this video. I’m not saying it was his fault, because the source material wasn’t great to begin with, but the matrix/mission impossible motif was absolutely campy and the “rap” was down right edutational. I bet the guy does his best to not acknowledge this dark point in his professional life and I would not blame him.

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