Canada Post -Our post office is the best anywhere. They
will deliver mail anywhere in this huge country on time and in any
weather conditions and at a fair price with a smile!. When you consider the
great distances, challenging climate and geography and the fact that
millions of individual pieces of mail are processed and delivered every day
you begin to understand what a great job our Post Office does. Support your
local Postie!
Canadian Armed Forces - The best anywhere. Our troops
are terrific! Some of our troops have been called upon to do a forth and
fifth and even an eighth rotation to Afghanistan. And they do it. To be asked to go into a
dangerous territory like this to protect Canada's interests and then to be
asked to go back five and more times is way beyond the call to duty. Our troops are
brave, efficient and professional and represent some of our very best
citizens. And very bad things happen to you when you harm our troops as
many many Taliban have discovered. It's something that never gets into the
media.
JTF-2 These
the boys and girls who will come to your aid when you are severely screwed
in some godforsaken country and the jig is up so to speak. If you are a
bad dude these are Canadians you never want to meet. In true Canadian
fashion they get the job done but don't brag about and operate in a secret
world so we never really know much about them. But knowing that they exist
and are on the job where needed is a very good thing.
Canadian Emergency Services personnel -Firemen,
Ambulance attendants, Police Officers all do a great job and they are
there when you need them! It doesn't matter that it is -30 or that it's 3am
when you call they come. And they solve problems you can't. And they do it
day in day out.
Canadian
Doctors and Nurses. It's no secret that Canada has the best Doctor's and
Nurses on the planet. When you have a Canadian RN or RPN working on your case to
heal you your chances are as good as they can be. I can speak from experience
here. Our Southern Cousins are quite aware of this too and keep on enticing our
Health Care professionals down south with promises of big pay checks and warm climates.
Thankfully most of them come back to the Great White North.
The
Average Canadian - a great person -friendly honest, fit,
hardworking and helpful. Our Auto Workers build the best cars in North
America. Our Forestry Workers lead the world. Our Miners and Oil Field
workers are the best anywhere. Drop into any Tim Horton's and you will see
average Canadians, polite, friendly and talking about the last hockey game.
Visit a store in Canada and a cheerful Clerk will help you out. Stay at a
Canadian Hotel or eat in a Restaurant here and you will receive good value
and a smile. Say that Canadian beer sucks and you will get a black eye. But
nobody is perfect.
Canadian Astronauts -the crème of the crème. Not
to be confused with 
Canadian
Teachers -we all remember our favourite teachers who taught us how
to think and made us better people! I don't know how they put up with us
brats but they do and we are better people for it.
Canadian Entrepreneurs
Despite all the bullshit in Canada we still have hard working spirited Canadians who become Entrepreneurs and work hard to create wealth and keep
this country going. They are saints! Without them the small Ma and Pops the
medium and even large operations our country would grind to a halt, nobody
would be working and everyone would be wondering what went wrong and who to
blame. We have published the best book ever written about business in
Canada by Author Marcie M. Farsea. Check
it out!
Being
Erica This is one of the best TV shows I have ever watched and
it's on the CBC (tuesday 9:00 EST). Erin Karpluk stars as Erica Strange an
overqualified underachiever and the 13 part series is shot in Toronto. The idea
is that we all screw up but Erica gets a chance to go back in time and redo her
mistakes with the assistance of her therapist "Dr. Tom" (Michael
Riley) The acting is excellent the characters are brought to life and the viewer
quickly buys into and is entertained by the stories which all have an
interesting twist to them with a central theme. I think that one of the reasons
I like this series is that Erin Karpluk is a typical Canadian girl -attractive
and smart with a sense of humour and very talented. In fact all the actors do a
great job on this series and I hope it gets extended even during these difficult
times. I was hooked after 2 episodes. This show proves that despite being
neighbours with a country ten times our size Canada can produce a product as
good or better than anything out there!
Canadian Singers Our Canadian
singers are as good or better than anybody and I thought I would include as
examples three from various age groups -I know there are more but there is room
for three here so here goes:
Avril
Lavigne I remember a few years ago when I was listening to
the radio and heard my first Avril Lavigne tune. The first time I heard it
I thought "Hey what's that! That sounds good" I took a lot of
ribbing admitting that I liked her songs because apparently her main fans
at the time were young teenage girls. Avril was very young when she
started -16 I believe and by the time she was 20 or so had developed into
an international star with millions of fans and had done it all her way.
While others used semi nakedness Avril used music and sort of a racoon eye
highlighter. As time went on her appearance and songs all changed and some
fans found this a bit of a challenge but she continued to collect loyal
fans and now is one of the most popular singers on the planet. I have
included a link to our page on Avril with some more links there to
associated pages.
Shania
Twain Yikes Shania turned Nashville upside down when she combined
rock with western. With the help of some brilliant videos Shania became
one of the best loved singers on the planet. I remember being in an
American Casino that had a local band when all of a sudden they started up
on a Shania song and everyone there stopped playing and listened - wow
that was impressive! It was the last song in their set and it
brought the house down. I have included a link to Shania's wikipedia entry
and it gives an excellent overview of her accomplishments.
Anne
Murray The senior partner of Canadian female singers. Anne
is loved by all Canadians and she made it here too. I have included a link
to her wikipedia entry which I think you will find is both very
interesting and most impressive!
Made
In Canada - a website that lists sources of goods made in Canada.
Support your neighbours and buy Canadian!
Hockey Canada has the
best hockey players on the planet. We own the game. Its the way it is on
planet Earth. Oh yes the odd time the Rooskies or some other lesser team
will cheat or whatever and come up with a "win" but those are just
accidents. Canadians are usually polite people who say "excuse me"
too much but get them in an arena watching a Canadian team play anybody and
the beast is unleashed. Then you see a glimpse of the true Canadian character
and you can understand why our kids will play on a frozen lake at 25 below
after Moms and Dads have helped to clear it of snow. You begin to understand
why we can send our troops anywhere even with minimal equipment and they will
beat the best anyone has to put up against them under any conditions. It all
goes back to hockey and playing on a frozen lake or pond or river at 25 below.
The true north strong and free.
Canadian Woman Anchors As a male I
admit to being smitten by our female Anchors in Canada. What a wonderful group
of women we have here. Both on CTV, CBC and Global, Canadian women are fabulous.
Not only do they look great which I guess is a sexist thing to say (but so what)
but they are intelligent and fun to listen to and very informative. Yes the men
do a good job too but sorry guys I just don't think you look as good. I will
name a few just for the record in no particular order; Sandie
Rinaldo , Marcia McMillan,
Heather Hiscox, Kate Wheeler, Susan Bonner, Jacqueline Milczarek Carole MacNeil,
Susan Hay, Beverly Thompson,
Bridget Anderson, Catherine Clark , Cindy Burgess and Paula Todd.
I could and should go on but I think I have made my point.
Canadian Senators
There are actually quite a few really
good ones and the one I have picked as an example is Pierrette
Ringuette Senator Ringuette is passionate about credit card
rates and trying to help the Canadian consumer and she has earned my admiration.
She could sit back like some of the other senators and just collect her perks
but she has chosen to make a difference. I have listened to this lady pin back
the ears of Canadian bankers and ask very insightful questions of them. She does
her homework, she is smart, attractive, and a true Canadian trying her very best
to help improve the situation with credit card rates. Well done Pierrette! and
the Senators like her that are working hard for Canadians.
Marcie
Party Here is an incredibly effective way of completely
changing how politics works in Canada by hitting the old parties where it
hurts -in the pocket book. For every vote the Marcie Party gets you
support the platform and you save the taxpayers $7 per vote over the life
of the government. Instead of tossing your vote away and funnelling money
to parties who will never win anyway you now have an alternative. The
Marcie Party will never collect any taxpayer money because they don't need
it or want it. Four elections in five years is lunacy and here is your
chance to opt out but let the rascals know what you want. Each election
costs in excess of $300,000,000 and disrupts the functioning of government
including the delivery of government services so the actual cost is much
more. Don't get mad get even! VOTE MARCIE PARTY IN O9!!
Canadian Public Servants -Oh sure
we pick on them but the fact is they are a dedicated, hard working, honest and
friendly group for the most part and they do a hell of a good job. But don't
tell them that or they will be spoiled!
Canadian Members of Parliament Canadians
have a love hate relationship with their politicians. The Country has so many
special interest groups that it is almost impossible to lead so the best leaders
are the ones who just get down and do their jobs and stop trying to play
politics all the time. Unfortunately we have a PM who loves playing politics and
has forgotten that he sets the standard for behaviour in the House of Commons. First of all we elect them and then soon, after a cooling
down period, we start hurling rotten vegetables at them. Just to mention some
particularly fine MP's that ARE doing their jobs we have Minister of Health Leona
Aglukkaq, NDP Defence Critic Dawn Black, Liberal MP Anthony Rota
who is PM material and even the Bloc has a few good ones despite the fact they
really want to separate from the country! It is a very tough job and for every
ten people that love you 3 or more hate your guts!
YOUR
VERY FIRST BILLION -finally somebody comes clean on how to operate a
successful business in Canada -all the stuff you need to know but nobody
will tell you! Ok I admit it we published this book so we know that it is
good! In fact its' the best book ever published about business in
Canada".
At
the End of My Leash If you have or want to have a dog in the family or
if you just like dogs this is the show for you! Brad Pattison is passionate
about training dogs. Some might say he is a bit intense about it but look at the
results. In fact I have tried several ideas from the show and they work! So for
an entertaining and great learning experience watch a few of Brad's shows.
Shot in BC and Alberta another example of Canadian talent.
Volunteers
Many people in Canada volunteer their time and energy and even their
personal resources to help their fellow Canadians and people around the
world. There are millions of examples from those helping in boy scouts and
girl guides to hockey and soccer coaches to people working in food banks and
soup kitchens and volunteers who go overseas. I can't mention them all here
so I picked one person as an example.
Jenny Flett – Fort Chipewyan, AB
Over 80% of the Canadian
population lives within 100 miles of the Canada-USA border!!! And
most of them live in a few large cities. So one could argue how is our North Strong and Free? As far as the
north goes nearly all of it is completely empty! We don't even have a ship in
Canada capable of going thru the Northwest Passage. In fact we have so under populated the far north that others including our friends to the south are
laying claim to parts of it. Luckily there are two sides to this
story. We do have a significant force in the form of 4100 