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Well the US is fracking

Donal — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:57:36 +0000

In reply to So the EU are

Well the US is fracking itself and Canada is doing much the same for tar sands, so maybe they are alike.

Oh take pride in by-gone

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 08:45:46 +0000

In reply to So the EU are

Oh take pride in by-gone days. Once upon a time the Canadiens were great as well.

(we'll see how long Apple holds up post-Jobs - in Europe, Nokia's Winphone is already 10% vs. Apple's 15%)

So the EU are

acanuck — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 07:08:23 +0000

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So the EU are Novell-Lotus-WordPerfect and Canada is Apple?

Please tell me we're not BlackBerry.

Reminds me of how Novell,

Donal — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 23:46:31 +0000

In reply to Why Canada and the U.S. Should Merge, Eh?

Reminds me of how Novell, Lotus and WordPerfect tried to cobble themselves together to fend off Microsoft, while Apple simply tried to do their own thing better.

Diane Francis, who wrote the

acanuck — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 23:34:44 +0000

In reply to Why Canada and the U.S. Should Merge, Eh?

Diane Francis, who wrote the WSJ article, is trying to sell her new book. Francis, a dual citizen born in Chicago, spent decades as a business columnist and editor at the Financial Post and its successor the conservative National Post. Her arguments are purely economic, and that's the problem: the reasons Canada won't join the United States aren't economic.

Francis claims we share basic values. True, but only to a certain extent. Despite a federal government that caters increasingly to its right-wing base, most Canadians embrace gun control, universal health care, linguistic diversity, employment insurance and old-age security. We also frown on lunatic politicians (and parties) driven by religious fanaticism, homophobia, misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and wiful ignorance.

Work on those a little bit, and we'll get back to you, OK?