The blacks I was refering to where from the States so used to the cold. B.C. has a milder climate, maybe that is why we have so many Sikh's and Orientals? When I lived in Ottawa oh boy 8 months of winter. The snow is trucked out of town. I thought at first they were nuts until I saw the snow coming and coming. The musquoto's ate you up. Where I live we have none of them
Didn't see this answer in time. You must have acted suspicious to have been so treated. Lot's of hippies around in those days. So what set if off only your looks?
So get yourself one of our handsome Canadian guys. Lol I myself have my third Dutch guy. Garlic festival oh la la. That must have smelled to high heaven. Several people in my community move to Yuma in the winter because they are golf nuts. Some rent out their homes for cheap. My next door neighbours only asked $800 they could ask and get it, if doubled. If you bought a house you could stay for 9 months? I know those snowbirds from Canada can only stay less then 6 months or they have to pay taxes. Where would you want to buy a home if you decided to do so?
Wow I did not know there could be such a differents between provinces. Some meds are subsidized but for sure not all. I will check out the stores you mentioned. I need to check out my home insurance as we plan to travel some in Canada. Thanks for the info. eyes.
Going through New Brunswick I was surprised how much French was spoken there. The Acadians displaying signs in the front yard showing their pride, interesting. In Moncton we stayed in a B&B one suite had a private bathroom. We took it and heard; They took the penthouse lol
We've all heard that Americans pay less taxes than Canadians. But in fact, for more than half of Canadians, the grass is still greener here at home.
In Canada, governments tax upper middle-income earners and the rich much more stiffly, and go easier on those with lower incomes. The poor, and those in the lower middle-income ranges, end up with more in their pockets in this country than they do in the States.
For simplicity's sake, the cutoff point comes at about the $60,000 level, slightly above the average Canadian family income.
This isn't what the tax-cutting advocates emphasize - people like Reform leader Preston Manning, conservatively-minded media commentators, and the executives of Canada's largest corporations. Taxes, they chorus, are a big factor in the so-called "brain drain'' of talented Canadians and help account for the shift of corporate head offices to south of the border.
In very rough figures, the federal finance department calculates that Canadians pay an average 35 per cent of their income in taxes and Americans pay 30 per cent - 5 per cent less.
But before you rush off to the States, consider some of the lesser-known facts behind the broad 5-per-cent generalization.
Statistics Canada took a look at what Canadians and Americans have left in their pockets in a 1998 study by Michael Wolfson and Brian Murphy. The researchers compared the disposable income of Canadian and American families - what's theirs to spend after taxes and deductions.
"Families . . . living in the United States are not necessarily better off in terms of disposable income, than their Canadian counterparts,'' they concluded. "Indeed, roughly half of Canadian families had disposable incomes in 1995 that gave them higher purchasing power than otherwise comparable U.S. families.''
Good attitude Raven. I have llved in Calgary and in Jasper park. I love the prairies the open spaces and your beef. Now again surounded by mountains and large lakes.
Kitty if you would like to be on my private email let me know by emailing me here. I send stuff on to people , mostly j0kes and informative things. If you don't want religious jokes or anything political just tell me and I won't send it okay.
Kitty if you would like to be on my private email let me know by emailing me here. I send stuff on to people , mostly j0kes and informative things. If you don't want religious jokes or anything political just tell me and I won't send it okay.
This is one more part of the disarming of America and why ammo has nearly trippled.
This is totally crazy and it should make you want to slap the idiots in Washington DC from the president all the way down..
Georgia Arms is the 5th largest retailer of .223 Ammo in America . They sell 9mm, ..45, .223 ammunition. They normally buy spent brass from the US Department of Defense. Spent brass is "one time used" shell cases used by our Military for training purposes.
They buy the brass, recondition it, and then reload the brass for resale to Law Enforcement, Gun Clubs, Gun Shops, and stores like Wal-Mart. They normally buy 30,000 lbs of spent brass at a time.
This week the DoD wrote a letter to the owner of Georgia Arms and informed him that from now on the DoD will be destroying the spent brass, shredding it. It will no longer be available to the ammo makers, unless they buy it in a scrap shredded condition (which they have no use for).
The shredded brass is now going to be sold by the DoD to China as scrap metal, after the DoD pays for it to be shredded. The DoD is selling the brass to China for less money than the ammo makers have been paying, plus the DoD has to pay to have the brass shredded and do the accounting paperwork.
This sure helps the economy now doesn't it? Sell cheaper to China , and do not sell at all to a proven US business. Any hidden agenda working here? Obama going after the Firearms Industry and our ammunition!! The Georgia Arms owner even related a story that one of his competitors had already purchased a load of brass last week. The DoD contacted him this week and said they were sending someone over to make sure it was destroyed. Shell cases he had already bought!
The brass has no value to the ammo maker if it is destroyed/shredded/melted. The ammo manufacturer only uses the empty brass cases to reload different calibers, mainly .223 bullets.
The owner of Georgia Arms says that he will have to lay off at least half of his 60 workers, within 2-3 months if the DoD will no longer sell spent brass cases to the industry. Georgia Arms has 2-3 months of inventory to use, by summer they're out.
If the Reloading Industry has to purchase new manufacture brass cases, then the cost of ammunition will double or even triple, plus Obama wants to add a 500% tax on each shell.
You can read the information and see the DoD letter to Georgia Arms here: The Shootist Site
If you're not outraged at what this administration is doing you should be! Be Afraid! Be Very Very Afraid! Get involved! It's Your Freedom and Our Country They're Stealing! If You Fail to Act Now, there may not be a Free United States tomorrow!
I implore you to get involved and forward this to as many people you can. Contact your legislators and put them on notice, We're fed up with what's going on! This is a call to action.. Act now while you still can, or stay silent, roll over, and watch our country die!
A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, The young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside. "That laundry is not very clean", she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."
Her husband looked on, but remained silent.
Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, The young woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a Nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:
"Look, she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."
The husband said, "I got up early this morning and Cleaned our windows."
And so it is with life. What we see when watching others Depends on the purity of the window through which we look.
I did not know Wal-Mart too? In Canada we don't need to be a member to get meds. We/I blame the pharmacudical companies for the high prices. Now I learn it is also the induvidual pharmacies.
Costco? Costco is the only place that sells precription drugs a little bit over cost price. You don't need to be a member, just tell them at the door that you just want to go to the pharmecy.
Yes Prince Island sure belongs to Canada. My new friend has been in many places around the world but not that much in Canada. He tells me he kept it for "dessert". so we plan to visit more here in Canada
I have been very fortunate having lived for over 4 years in a National park, Jasper. Fabulous like living in the zoo. Elk, deer, mountain goats, big horn mountain sheep.
There is one province I wish to see more of and that is Nova Scotia I did not spend enough time there. Having lived in the mountains most of the time I love to go and drive through the prairies. Those open spaces
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The blacks I was refering to where from the States so used to the cold.B.C. has a milder climate, maybe that is why we have so many Sikh's and Orientals?
When I lived in Ottawa oh boy 8 months of winter.
The snow is trucked out of town.
I thought at first they were nuts until I saw the snow coming and coming.
The musquoto's ate you up.
Where I live we have none of them