Our flag is merely reflecting the fact that our country is bigger, our ice is deeper and wider, and our beer is better.

Canadians may live in igloos but we think that they are built on moral high ground that overlooks the Americans. Americans get things done while we play hockey. Hockey...the opiate of the Canadian people. After all, who can overcome the voodoo of a Looney buried under center ice, eh?

Tom

Clearly, there's a Leftist Ameriphobe working at Canwest.

Such unprofessionalism in the MSM...

Is humour deprecated? Is it more trouble than it is worth? I think so.

This is a perfect example of the ambiguous joke; say something stupid, then when you get called on it just say it was a joke, and that it is the complainer who is stupid. Seems to happen a lot these days.

The British are famous for their humour. What has it got them? They've ruined their own country because of The British Disease: "being ever eager to demonstrate how good a fellow you are by never really taking anything too seriously." Maybe if they had taken immigration more seriously they wouldn't be in such a pickle now.

Woah dfsafdas,

The British "never really take anything too seriously"?

Have you ever been to Britain? Have you ever tried opening a bank account in Britain? Have you ever tried doing anything in Britain?

This place is full of archaic rules and a misplaced tendency to live by the rulebook even where it isnt pragmatic. I ve never seen a country with such an enthusiasm for how things should be done, as opposed to how things can be done. They take everything pretty seriously down here - and if the rulebook says "no", it stands, regardless of how idiotic and archaic the rule is.

And British immigration policies, whatever its deficiencies, is one of the most stringent policies.

I assume you are talking of the muslim immigrants. Well for what its worth, the first wave came while those muslim colonies were still British colonies. And the second batch came from newly independent British colonies that expelled them. Mind you, all of these guys had British passports. And the British, always abiding by the rules, couldnt turn them back.

The British sense of Humor is alive and well. But so is archaic british stubborness on the rulebook.

I suspect the guy wasnt being ambiguous. He was just making a fairly explicit joke. Besides, the Canadian flag is closer to the photographer than the American flag. This is all about an inferiority complex, Physics be damned, eh.

"I assume you are talking of the muslim immigrants. Well for what its worth, the first wave came while those muslim colonies were still British colonies. And the second batch came from newly independent British colonies that expelled them. Mind you, all of these guys had British passports. And the British, always abiding by the rules, couldnt turn them back."

Have you ever lived in Britain?

The real problem isn't the older generation of Muslim immigrants at all; it's their grandchildren who are getting involved in Islamist extremism.

As for the flag, yet another case of our childish Canadian psuedo-nationalism.

Mark Steyn penned a while back that Canada doesn't have a "flag" per se. It's more of a logo.

An suitable analogy might be the Conservatives who "ironically" refer to Stephen Harper as "scary". It's not that they believe it, it's that they get it.

Aren't they clever? At the end of the day, however, they're propagating a meme, and are literally indistinguishable from Liberals, a tragedy that escapes their hipness.

Mark Steyn said " we don't have a flag, we have a logo"??? That's it!!!! I'm deeeeeply offended!! I'm launching a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission!

Lucy

Sometimes things really are just meant as a joke.

The Canadian Inferiority complex is a Liberal partisan psychosis. Anyone else has moved on to realities and has either profited by trading in the large American markets or recently profited by pulling out of them as we escape the debt-ridden sink hole the Fed reserve has made of the US.

...it's no longer like sleeping with an elephant as Commissar Trudeau said (himself deep in a communist paranoia of US economic power)It's like putting up with a coughing wheezing relative who is about to expire from the excesses of an opulent life of borrowed money and corrupt leadership.

The future belongs to nations who break the globalist cycle...nations who are independent rather than codependent or interdependent, nations with sound debt-free economics and currency systems, nations who build domestic prosperity before investing in some one else's prosperity, nation's that put the economic security of their own people above some global village economic model.

Canada is in a position to rise to a leader nation, as is Russia but we have to lose self destructive socialism first...both domestic socialism and global economic socialism... and we have to regard the US as a dependent client, not a master or a partner.

The US embraced global economic socialism (globalism) and is now inter dependent rather than independent...that US dependency is Canada's economic advantage.

Ah!,the Canadian flag,
(Relax Scott Brisson, I said "FLAG")

I would respect it a lot more if it had the side bars in blue instead of red, because you see, these bars are suppose to represent "From sea to shining sea"...I guess it yet reminds us we had a Liberal Gov at the time it was created...Have we ever had anything other than Liberal governments anyway?...Even when the Conservatives were in power all of the 18 years since Confederation?...Canucks hate taking chances and make changes or try new things so in this forever Liberal wasteland, the majority would now prefer to dumb billions of gallons of red dye into both costal oceans than change the flag now.
Change something in Canada??? Oh, the humanity!
Pierre and Tommy would roll in their graves.

Besides, having red, white and blue on our flag would be so pro American...

d bob...
darn it i wanted to do that. can we do a class action ? LOL

"But subsequent actions by several countries - including a series of high profile announcements last summer by Prime Minister Stephen Harper of major Canadian investments in ice-reinforced patrol boats, a deep-sea port and a military training base - were widely seen as fanning the flames of an international dispute over the Arctic."

Widely seen by whom? Left-wing commentators? Is the writer suggesting that Stephen Harper is wrong to assert Canadian sovereignty?

Sometimes a joke is just a joke. I'd say the author of the photo caption isn't so much engaging in patriotic jingoism as mocking it.

Obviously, the solution to the "problem" of conflicting U.S. - Canada claims in the Artic is combat by champions. We could take Al Gore and David Suzuki, dress them in armor, mount them on polar bears, and have them tilt at one another with lances made of rolled-up carbon credits.

OK now I need a new keyboard - and a coffee refill. LOL

Lighten up people!!

I'm the least anti-american guy you'll find but come on! That was kind of funny.

You don't automatically hate Americans if you engage in a little friendly rivalry.

Admit is, you want us to whup their asses in hockey every time! Because (think blades of glory here) CANADA IS HOCKEY... lol.

There is a difference between a lighthearted taunt and the kind of crass, leftard anti-americanisms you see from the Dippers and the Council of "Canadians" losers.

Personally, IMHO, America should annex Canada and get it over with.
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Spectacular misread by the typically clueless Mackenzie Redux. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, here is your BT braintrust, spewing on and on about "Trudeau this" "socialist that", incapable of understanding a joke, which for a change is actually funny. At least Warwick got it - there's still hope for him.

For a long time Canada has had an Inferiority Complex.

I believe this is due to Canadians seeing themselves as part of Great Britain (and many still do).

Everything that was American or British was better (due to the export of culture, etc.). I even remember wishing I was an American as a kid.

However, my parents, who are Irish, have a deep identity of who they are. So when we were dissed by Brits in Canada (or in the UK), who refused to become Canadian Citizens, or crossed the border to the US at Buffalo to see what America was like and were dissed - my parents would just look at us kids, smile and wave and say, "Don't forget we're Irish, and they're not - too bad for them!". They had a strong identity

My Dad became a Canadian Citizen as soon as possible because he knew how great Canada was - foreigners know how great Canada is - even if locals sometimes don't (even though the "Oath of Allegiance/Citizenship" was to the Queen and not Canada at the time). My Mom refused to become a Canadian Citizen until the Canadian constitution was repatriated (because she couldn't believe that a country had to go to another country to change or update it's constitution - how wimpy can you get).

During the preamble to the Superbowl on Fox, I loved the recitation of the "Declaration of Independence". I loved the bit by Craig Ferguson (a Scotsman) on becoming an American Citizen and reciting, in a huge auditorium, the Pledge of Allegiance - serious stuff. I love the new tradition of the Irish recitation of the "Easter Proclamation" of 1916 every Easter. Canada needs to do something similar.

Canada today has a strong identity. Guys like Harper are helping it along. Things like the Highway of Heros, the fight in Afghanistan, the reclaiming of the Canadian North, all contribute to our growing identity.

I would like to see Canada become a Republic and completely untied to Britain (although friends with Britain). Britain's best friend is not the US, it is Ireland, and this is of choice from strength and identity, not colonialism.

Size matters.

Canadians don't have an inferiority complex, We just don't run off at the mouth about ourselves. When you are number one, you can either braq about it and suffer the distain of others or you can accept it and act as if we are all equal but different.

Leaving aside the peepee measuring of the article, which is the purest distilled Liberal propaganda, the whole premise is crap.

"... vast, untapped oil and gas deposits are fuelling an undersea land grab..."

Ignoring the reason those deposits are untapped. Its the Arctic ocean. Its cheaper to process Alberta oil sand for fuel than it is to drill for it in the Arctic ocean.

The only reason anybody is paying the least attention to the area is global warming. Once that farce has passed, even the Russians will stop pretending they care.

You miserable mediocrities going on about Canada's inferiority complex.

What a laugh.

...air brush some more copyrighted material on a few helmets, Kate. That'll impress 'em.

Ignore the trolls, people... they can't get the attention
on Wornout or Cherniuk's sites so they drag their sorry butts here.

Trolls really do have to have some very strange masochistic personality disorders.

It's like it amuses them that they're making themselves look like halfwit mental patients.

The article? meh.

The illustration (photo?) and caption? Now that's funny. A Colbert like skewed take on the realities.

Lighten up folks. All sacred cows need tipping once in a while.

I just saw the loveliest Canadian flag and now I can't find it. The red fields were comprised of natural red maple leaves with a real leaf in the center.

akamai hosted. Figures.

CBC Fan...that's a low blow. There's a lot of value to airbrushing the Roadrunner and other choice cartoon animals on helmets. And it's a crying shame that YOU CAN'T SEE IT!!!

You, sir, must be a communist, because apparently you don't quite get the fact that Kate is delivering a need to the marketplace. But I guess that's just something you wouldn't understand, what with your socialist nanny state leftist moonbat rantings.

And as for this article, it is totally ANTI-AMERICAN, and I for one am very glad that Kate retains her independence and has NOT sold out to the MSM!

I wonder if our inferiority complex is as good as theirs.

Hey, I'm an American, a Texan actually, and I think the picture's funny.

Ten or fifteen years ago we had Flag Wars around here. People would put up flags, and the guy next door would take a look at them and put up bigger ones. For some reason, car dealers were the most enthusiastic participants. Nothing quite as patriotism-inspiring as thirty-foot American and Texas flags floating in the wind.

Over a Suzuki dealership.

The flagpoles are still around -- well, a structure strong enough to support flags that size doesn't just evaporate -- but only a few people are still doing it. Not that people don't fly the flag, mind you, but there no longer seems to be the obsession about it.

I think it would be neat to have a flag-size contest at the border crossings. We go twenty feet, you go six meters, then jump it up an increment. It'd be much nicer (and friendlier) than the current competition to see who has the nastiest Customs agents.

Regards,
Ric

ian: Go drink 12 cans of Iron Horse and say that again with a straight face.

Remember the white knuckly days in the *60s when huge CCCP bombers flew over the North Pole heading for American targets and Russian subs were closing on Cuba?

SAC scrambles from Churchill and Thule were our antidote in those days.

Recently Putin had stealth bombers closing over the Nimitz. Guess we are back to more white knuckle fun.

Guess we will forget about property line squabbles with the USA when Putin makes flights over *His* under-ocean peninsula from Vladivostock to Ellsmere Island. = TG

Bour3 at . . 2:34 PM . . said,

** I just saw the loveliest Canadian flag and now I can't find it. The red fields were comprised of natural red maple leaves with a real leaf in the center. **

Wish you could find it. Anything like this?

I like the idea of blue bars for the two oceans. A golden maple leaf too.

http://tonyguitar.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html

Scroll down 2 or 3. = TG

We all can thank that pissant provincial inferior intellect, Pierre Elliot Trudeau... he turned Canada into an image of the value-less and amoral liberal party by destroying every symbol that connected Canada to its proud past. The Canadian flag more like a logo? Heck, it is a logo - look at any piece of federal propaganda and departmental stationary. You wouldn't have been able to turn our real flag, the Red Ensign, into a soulless logo. Trudeau, the least intelligent PM we ever had, also gave anti-americanism its biggest boost. The guy counted Fidel Castro, last of the slimy communist dictators, as a friend. That, if nothing else, should be a clear indication of the man's total detachment from morality. Thank Trudeau for the inferiority complex, people. He was an inferior mind, a small man, and the morons making up a sizeable proportion of the Canadian electorate loved him. Says something about the intelligence of the average voter - the smallness and nastiness of all too many Canadians.

"We could take Al Gore and David Suzuki, dress them in armor, mount them on polar bears, and have them tilt at one another with lances made of rolled-up carbon credits."

gordinkneehill, thanks for that one. If that were to happen it would be the best thing those two ever did.

It looks like a perspective shot. Do I have to explain to you what happens to images in foreground and background?

Throbbin, do you know what Photoshop is?

Phantom, you don't need Photoshop to utilize perspective. Ever notice the fishing catch shots where they hold the fish towards the camera? Adds 10 pounds to the fish story.

But you should have seen the one that got away ;-)

truthsayer at February 14, 2008 11:05 AM

I like the way you think!
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Posted by: Ric Locke at February 14, 2008 5:12 PM:

I think it would be neat to have a flag-size contest at the border crossings. We go twenty feet, you go six meters, then jump it up an increment.

Where do I send money to support this idea?