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Topic: Mail in ballot.
Posted By: Sapper740
Subject: Mail in ballot.
Date Posted: April 14 2025 at 2:00pm
| Just sent my ballot in for the April 28th Canadian Federal Election for my old riding of Burnaby North - Seymour. Keeping my fingers crossed that enough Canadians are fed up with the Leftist lunacy and vote in Pierre Poilevre. |
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Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: April 14 2025 at 2:22pm
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Howzit your still able to vote here when you been gone & a U.S. citizen for so long? ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: April 14 2025 at 4:31pm
Birthright citizenship. I was born in Canada and thus are and remain a Canadian citizen no matter my status in another country. As a veteran of the Canadian military, a father of Canadian citizens and residents, a friend to dozens of Canadians, and a relative of dozens of Canadians I very much care what is happening to the country and thus regularly exercise my franchise as allowed under the law.
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hoadie wrote:Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: April 14 2025 at 5:26pm
| good for you , im not canadian but i do hope your right about them being fed up with the left wing lunacy - its gone on far too long , |
Posted By: Zed
Date Posted: April 16 2025 at 10:33am
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Polievre seems to be much smarter than Trudope! For the sake of Canada I hope he wins a landslide victory. ------------- It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: April 16 2025 at 2:18pm
I deeply pray for a Conservative win..a MAJORITY in fact. Alas, methinks that won't happen. The main reason is (IMHO) that the people of Quebec are afraid of Trump - so they have shelved their sucessionist views for the time being, & have fled to the Liberals from Bloc Quebecois.(Quebecers would NEVER vote Conservative). Then theres Ontario..specifically the Toronto area.(Sodomites!) Full of immigrants that owe their loyalty to the Liberals that let them into the country (& all it's social supports!  )Between Quebec & Ontario, they control the entire election. They outnumber the seats in the entire rest of Canada. Its a rigged system. If it goes down as a Liberal majority, I'm pretty sure you will see the western provinces seriously play for separation - they don't need the rest of Canada. (If I was younger - I'd seriously move there & go with them! ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 3:40pm
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It just may happen as you say, Hoadie. People here in Alberta are really fed up. ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 4:20am
Its been festering for a long time. I remember in mid 70's when I was out there...there was a separtist movement then. It's getting stronger & louder with every Liberal gov't. ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 5:38am
| B.C. had a significant separation movement in the latter decades of the 20th century but the changed demographics due to immigration has erased all that. Liberals in Canada and Democrats in America are trying to cancel out conservative voices by importing easily manipulated 3rd worlders. The most recent election in the U.S. was our last gasp and had the Republicans lost the Dems would have taken us to the tipping point with no return. Now Canada is facing its last gasp election. |
Posted By: bubba ho tep
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 4:22pm
| Exactly. A good friend whom held dual citizenship because his dad was canadian only had to relinquish his canadian citizenship status when he joined the US Army. I went with him to quebec before he joined up...and talk about some really arrogant snobby french speaking chaff !!!. You call and order food in english there and they hung up on us !. His father had to call and order in french - those cheeky buggers !. |
Posted By: bubba ho tep
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 4:25pm
| The debate Polivere just did with Carney - excellent and Pierre punted carney all over the field. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 5:31pm
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Just wait till they discover you're Canadian-born! Suddenly they no longer speak English, which they did yesterday.  That was the day my reasonable, almost bi-lingual, command of Les Français, mais pas du nord de l'Amérique du Nord, ont fait une chute dans la benne à ordures. Veins iki, mon-sewer! doux caffes ou late, sil vous plate, vite, gar-kon! It went downhill from there.  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 5:48pm
| It's to close to call, according to the polls (which really don't mean anything). I'm truly hoping this turns oot like the pre-election bull like in the US... Dems have it in the bag! Trump is toast! Etc... If Canadians vote with common sense, we win. If they vote for "fear of Trump", we lose. If Liberals get in, Trump will eat us alive, and you know what? I kinda hope they do so the people with their hands always oot (Liberals and NDP) will soon realize there is no money. Just four more years of decline. |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: April 19 2025 at 3:27am
Tabernac Shamu, Kwand-two parlay la frank-says?
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: April 19 2025 at 9:58am
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Ikki en parlay Franglais moose bean, murky.  Should be in UPPERCASE though, because if you shout it louder its "more French"  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: April 19 2025 at 4:33pm
| i guess im glad i dont speak french , however there was a good chance id have learned that when i was young if my Alsatian grandparents had been of that persuasion rather than german - it was a flip of the coin back then , the area kept changing hands , |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: April 19 2025 at 6:52pm
When I was in high school in Canada we had to have two years of French, German, Spanish, or Latin. I chose French figuring that would be the most useful....not so much in Canada as it turned out but in Syria where the older generation are all fully bilingual in French and Arabic. Driving around the Syrian side of the AOS on the Golan Heights was always a barrel of laughs with their poorly marked mine fields. I spoke almost no Arabic but If I could find an elderly gentleman it was almost for sure he spoke French and would give us directions.
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: April 20 2025 at 9:20am
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I learned Schoolboy French as a kid, then re-learned all of it living in Northern France. I've been told that I speak it with a local accent from Aisne (not surprising I guess) & use several words, phrases & intonations of the "dead" language of "Picard". Again hardly surprising. "Picard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="nofollow - / - ˈ - ɪ - ɑːr - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard_language#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow - - [4 - ] also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" rel="nofollow - US : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="nofollow - / - p - ˈ - ɑːr - - ˈ - ɪ - ər - pih- - PIH-kərd , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard_language#cite_note-5" rel="nofollow - - [5 - ] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard_language#cite_note-6" rel="nofollow - - [6 - ] French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French" rel="nofollow - [pikaʁ] " rel="nofollow - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lyoko%C3%AF-picard.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lyoko%C3%AF-picard.wav.mp3" rel="nofollow - - - - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Lyoko%C3%AF-picard.wav" rel="nofollow - ⓘ ) is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langue_do%C3%AFl" rel="nofollow - langue d'oïl of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages" rel="nofollow - Romance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family" rel="nofollow - language family spoken in the northernmost of France and parts of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainaut_province" rel="nofollow - Hainaut province in Belgium. Administratively, this area is divided between the French https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauts-de-France" rel="nofollow - Hauts-de-France region and the Belgian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallonia" rel="nofollow - Wallonia along the border between both countries due to its traditional core being the districts of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournai" rel="nofollow - Tournai and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mons,_Belgium" rel="nofollow - Mons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallonie_Picarde" rel="nofollow - Walloon Picardy ).
The language or dialect is referred to by different names, as residents of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picardy" rel="nofollow - Picardy call it simply Picard, but in the more populated region of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord-Pas-de-Calais" rel="nofollow - Nord-Pas-de-Calais it is called Ch'ti or Ch'timi (sometimes written as Chti or Chtimi). This is the area that makes up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_Flanders" rel="nofollow - Romance Flanders , around the metropolis of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille" rel="nofollow - Lille and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douai" rel="nofollow - Douai , and northeast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artois" rel="nofollow - Artois around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9thune" rel="nofollow - Béthune and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens,_Pas-de-Calais" rel="nofollow - Lens . Picard is also named Rouchi around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valenciennes" rel="nofollow - Valenciennes , Roubaignot around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roubaix" rel="nofollow - Roubaix , or simply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patois" rel="nofollow - patois in general French. In 1998, Picard native speakers amounted to 700,000 individuals, the vast majority of whom were elderly people (aged 65 and over). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard_language#cite_note-7" rel="nofollow - - [7 - ] Since its daily use had drastically declined, Picard was declared by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Educational,_Scientific,_and_Cultural_Organisation" rel="nofollow - United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) a "severely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_language" rel="nofollow - endangered language ". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard_language#cite_note-8" rel="nofollow - - [8 - ] However, as of 2023, the Picard language was listed as “vulnerable” by UNESCO" ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: bubba ho tep
Date Posted: April 20 2025 at 10:23am
| My mother many decades ago had befriended an old lady . She hailed form south Africa via canada. That old lady could tell stories that had my litttle tyke ears all tuned in on. One special lady indeed. She left SA before it got bad. Wound up in the quebec area - she spoke fluent french , her husband did not. She would tell tales of the hubris of the quebec french and how they figured she could not understand them...until she scolded them in better french then they knew !. Absolute funny stories she had , and some tense ones as well. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: April 20 2025 at 11:18am
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Oh yes I've done that too. But only if my atrociously mangled Frengilsh didn't warn them off. as I'd spoken it fluently the day before. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: April 20 2025 at 1:40pm
| I speak French with a bit of Canadian 'oot' and Texan 'y'all' mixed in along with a little Spanglish for good measure. A thousand years from now some archeologist will find a recording of me talking French and announce the finding of a long lost tribe of Texican Frenchies. |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: April 20 2025 at 4:35pm
| And the lost tribe of Israeli. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: April 21 2025 at 9:31am
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Isn't that "The Lemba"?  "The Lemba are a southern African Bantu-speaking population claiming
Jewish ancestry. Allele frequencies at four different Y-specific
polymorphic loci, as well as extended-haplotype frequencies that
included data from several loci, were analyzed in an attempt to
establish the genetic affinities and origins of the Lemba. The results
suggest that > or = 50% of the Lemba Y chromosomes are Semitic in
origin, approximately 40% are Negroid, and the ancestry of the remainder
cannot be resolved. These Y-specific genetic findings are consistent
with Lemba oral tradition, and analysis of the history of Jewish people
and their association with Africa indicates that the historical facts
are not incompatible with theories concerning the origin of the Lemba." ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: April 21 2025 at 8:09pm
when i was in high school they offered some foreign language , but id already been jaded by my grandparents forbidding's , it was a time when the war was fresh and i sorta understood their position because id been exposed to the neighbors comments about buying american and "cheap japanese imports" but i also had had a fake uncle and aunt - he was one of the americans that had been in japan after the war setting up their production facilities , he brought home a war bride , he worked for my father as a production engineer , so as confusing as it all was to a kid growing up and later a high scxhool student , i never learned a foreign language , a shortcoming to be sure .... both of my kids did , and my wife knows some japanese from when she was growing up there durring VN , i wish i had but at this point in life im not inclined
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