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Background: A land of vast distances and rich natural resources, Canada became a self-governing dominion in 1867 while retaining ties to the British crown. Economically and technologically the nation has developed in parallel with the US, its neighbor to the south across an unfortified border. Canada's paramount political problem is meeting public demands for quality improvements in health care and education services after a decade of budget cuts. The issue of reconciling Quebec's francophone heritage with the majority anglophone Canadian population has moved to the back burner in recent years; support for separatism abated after the Quebec government's referendum on independence failed to pass in October of 1995.

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By generalkernel
May 27th 2008

Shortstop is Posted Back to Japan

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal

Shortstop
This is the girl I will miss...

Two days ago, Shortstop left Montreal. Even though the things that come out of her mouth are fucking retarded most of the time, she’s an amazing friend. My best female friend up here in Montreal (more by virtue of the fact that 99% of McGill girls are dumb, skanky, white Toronto girls), we’re pretty tight. And I’ve gotten used to her brand of humor—saying retarded things is probably a great way to spice up the biting, witty sarcasm that most of my friends employ. After spending a whole Sunday at Tam-Tams, drinking with Trini-Boy and then running into some friends [View Full Entry]

By Mariannli
May 26th 2008

Des Appalaches au parc du Bic

North America » Canada » Quebec

Randonnée dans le Parc des Appalaches

Ça y est! je pars tout à l'heure... j'ai décidé de mettre sur ce blog des photos de toutes les expés, y compris celles en dehors de cet été! Donc voilà celles du bas-st-laurent! [View Full Entry]

By generalkernel
May 21st 2008

Drunk Gen Takes Control

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal

Our Money
Enough to throw a party?

I woke up around 11am, groggy from 5 hours of sleep. Things flooded back to me. Dice…Mexican girls…$60…bikes…roulette…black 6…. Shit. I slammed my head back into my pillow. This is worse than a hangover. Combined, D-German and I had zero dollars. Zero. I guess technically, I had $2.45 residing in my bank account and D-German had some other trivial single digit amount, but we were flat broke. And hosting a goddamn party tonight. I rolled underneath my covers, trying to go back to sleep to escape the reality. But reality won ov [View Full Entry]

By myriaminbelgium
May 20th 2008

My 1st entry!

North America » Canada » Quebec » Québec City

Hey guys! I'm just testing some features on this website, to make sure I'll know how to handle everything once I'll be gone! I'm officially leaving in 2 days so I still have a lot of things to prepare and to plan, but everything is going well ! :) So don't forget to put this adress in your links and come check during the next days what's up on the other side of the ocean! [View Full Entry]

By generalkernel
May 19th 2008

Getting to Tokyo with $60

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal

D-German
After a night of doing ____...6:30am

This week has been a blur. Last Friday me and D-German hosted a party at our apartment where we gave hamburgers to everyone and they brought beer, we got a little drunk with a select group of people, met our ginger haired Minnesota neighbor with a black grandfather, then when we were cleaning up the mess, we decided to do _______, we were up until 7am, collapsed asleep, then that same evening made dinner for Yuriko (Shortstop) and her roommate, a few days of school blurred past with a few trips to the gym, a few trips to various neighborhoods, a [View Full Entry]

By Simon Austin
May 19th 2008

If Philly was soggy, this is wet

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal

hello again, it is chucking it down with rain so I thought I would take the opportunity to do a little blog! i got up early yesterday and walked up to the top of Mont-Royal -it isnt acutally a mountain but people from montreal like to think it is apparently! So, i scaled the hill and got some really cool views, there is a chalet at the top where you can sit and look out across the whole of montreal which was good, if only to have a rest! once i had 'abseiled' down the mountain - well, followed the path, [View Full Entry]

By Mariannli
May 18th 2008

Départ

North America » Canada » Quebec » Rivière-du-Loup

BIC2008
un souvenir avant de partir Charles, mon amour

AHHHH lalala. Le temps passe vite, chose sûre! Voilà 1 an que je m'envolais, jour pour jour, en Suisse! Cette fois, je ne vais pas travailler, mais effectuer des stages dans mon domaine (géographie, environnement, agriculture bio, aide aux montagnards). Vous pourrez suivre mes aventures sur ce blog: et non sur facebook, ni sur mon skyblog. Laissez vos commentaires, il me fera plaisir de vous lire! [View Full Entry]

By Simon Austin
May 17th 2008

'O Canada'...

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal » Old Montréal

Hello all! I hope you are impressed with the speed between my last blog and this one! I got to Montreal after a rather long train journey; it should have only been 10 hours but some tourists hadn't booked return tickets from Canada and didn't have insurance or something so we were delayed for a couple of hours. Luckily I had some books to read so it wasn't too bad. The weather today was great, which always helps so I wandered around a fair bit. I had a look at the old town and the Notre Dame of Montreal. Then I [View Full Entry]

By generalkernel
May 16th 2008

Classical Music Lubricates The Date

North America » Canada » Quebec » Montréal

$Math Class$
Math Class
Trini-Boy and Yours Truly in class

We set a time and place over the next few emails: Milton Gates, 1:30pm, right after my class. Because I was all nervous and jittery, I shot out of bed as soon as my alarm beeped at 10am, instead of hitting snooze ten times and racing off to math class at 11:00. Faced with so much time, I took a shower, ate breakfast and spent two minutes choosing my clothes, instead of the usual 2 seconds. I glanced at the clock. 10:20. 40 minutes until class. D-German had left for work at 8am, so I had nothing to do. I went [View Full Entry]

$Math Class$

By TravelBas87
May 16th 2008

Canada... Work work work!

North America » Canada » Quebec » Gatineau

Tulips in Ottawa
The Dutch send Tulips to Ottawa every year to thank the Canadians for their extensive help in WW2, quite some experience to see as a Dutch person in Canada. Especially since no one in the Netherlands ... [more]

Okay, after spending more than 4 months in Canada now, I think it's time to write down a bit, and create my first blog ever. As said above, I am currently staying in Québec, Canada, where my girlfriend lives. I am a Dutch citizen myself, I like to travel the world, and I think that although I have traveled my share for a 21-years old, I haven't seen anything yet. Since I've been here for quite a while now, I got the chance to experience a Canadian winter here, and I have to tell you all that it's nothing like I'd [View Full Entry]

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