Is Russia neighbours to Canada?
Russia and Canada do not touch. The closest points between Russia and Canada is between Ellesmere Island (Canada) and Severnaya Island (Russia). A straight line between the two basically takes you over the north pole. I suppose, in some elementary circles, you could consider Russia and Canada neighbors because they are connected by the Arctic Ocean, and if you really wanted to, you could walk from Canada to Russia across the Ice Cap, but the distance between their two closest points is like 800 mile, but technically, I guess you could say they're neighbors, there's no countries in between if you fo across the north pole... but that's ridiculous, and has no meaningful purpose. Your teacher is immature. JJ=CW i figured it out and reported it... If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it.
Neighbors are shooting at canada geese!!!?
You may not see the whole picture. They have permits to get rid of these extremely overpopulated critters. They damage and pollute lakes and yards and fields when they come in my the millions. In some communities near me with several lakes our DNR chase and trap them and sometimes shoot them to keep them out. They are a huge problem in the USA and have been for 20yrs or more. They no longer move from Canada to South America for Winter......they stay here in the USA year around where there is not enough food and damage their own habitat. Hunting has become so restricted for the past 35yrs and fewer people hunt ..that they have been overpopulated.
My neighbors and friends only buy products made in the USA. I still buy products made in Europe, Canada, and Japan, but not from Latin America or the rest of Asia. Am I helping or hurting their efforts?
Globalisation has changed the whole supply chain. It is hard to find a pure US (same case for all countries) mass production stuff. The little component inside the product may come from different countries or foreign chemical (raw material) has been used.In economical term, this is comparative advantage. You source the most competitive component to achieve the lowest cost. You and your friend cannot alter the trend as the stuff consumed by you is still less competitive. Your action is similar to the tariff. You pay more for same quality stuff.
What is it like living in Washington state near the Canada/USA border?
I live in Lynden, which is a "border town".PROS:•I love Canada and have lots of friends there, so it's nice that it's fairly easy for me to pop across.•Several of the boarder guards live in Lynden, so it's fun to chat with them (once I found out the guy was my neighbor, and one is a friend of mine's dad!)•Our Canadian friends can find their way to our house VERY easily once they get through!CONS: •Whenever our dollar is stronger, the traffic is stupid with how many Canadians are coming through. They clog up the gas lines like you wouldn't believe and it's unbelievably frustrating.•I don't give a shit that it's a generalization, almost ALL of the ones coming across for gas or Costco are TERRIBLE drivers that go 10-15 under the speed limit. So annoying.•If you want to go up to Canada on a Saturday, it's a 2-3 hour wait in the lineup because of all the Canadians heading home from their Costco/gas-can-filling adventures of the day :/
I want to hang the Canada Flag above the USA Flag?
I am Canadian, and only live here to make the money. But I think my country is better, and will eventually relocate back once I make the money here or get a better offer there. But at my house, I want to show I am proud Canadian but also accept that I am in the USA and fly the american flag too. But I have a very big Canadian Flag that I want to hang above a smaller USA flag. So my question is, it is MY property that I own, and I thought you have something called "Freedom of Speech" here. So am I allowed to do this? And if so, if anyone gives me any snarky remarks, am I allowed to tell them "I Dare you to come onto MY Property and take my Canadian flag down, and see what happens" Keep in mind, I am planning on hanging the flags from a big flagstaff up on my roof (The Canadian flag of course to go on top of the smaller American one) so for Anyone to come try to take it down, they will have to climb onto MY roof. A big 'no-no' right? Thanks :)
How do people living in the USA view or think about Canada or Canadians?
I think unless you are near the border, people almost never think about Canada. It is there, and you hear about this celebrity or that being Canadian; it doesn’t feel much different than saying someone is from Montana. Only you know that it’s not technically the same. It sort of feels funny to me: it’s like America without the problems. Which is weird, because America (by which I mean the United States ) is, like, all problems. Take the problems away, and you take away the essence.So there is this weird, yet humorous, dissonance for me.People rarely if ever talk about Canada, unless it is some politician warning us about the “evils” of “socialist” health care systems and the living hell Canadians live in. (Of course, I am being facetious, but the politicians occasionally paint things that way.)Literally, I can not remember Canada ever coming up in conversation in America unlesspeople were talking about driving to Alaska(Canada is in the way)bI was actually talking to a Canadian.it was a reference to Vietnam draftees escaping to Canada back before I was born.Some exceptions to this rule might be to American hockey fans. They might be a little more “Canada-aware” than the average American. (By which I mean resident of the United States. I know, we are all North Americans, or South Americans: you know what I mean.) But most of them live near the border anyway (relatively speaking, at least.)But the stereotype is generally positive: polite…nice people. Less ignorant than we are.That is really about it. There is no real negative stereotype of Canadians that i have ever heard. But, like I said, the topic so rarely comes up.Occasionally on the ‘Net, I come across Canadians that are really annoyingly smug and anti-American. But in real life they are never like that to your face and I like them.Nowadays, when presidents who people don’t like get elected people dramatically exclaim that they are going to move to to Canada, but otherwise, it really doesn’t come up in anywhere that I have lived in. (Which was never close to the border.)
Why did the USA import and embrace ice hockey from our neighbor Canada and did not import and embrace soccer from our other neighbor, Mexico?
The Major League Soccer was founded very recently, just after the 1994 World Cup and one of its goals was, and I guess still is, to develop soccer’s popularity in North America.The professional major soccer league in Mexico is much older and the sport is very popular in the country and its been like that for a long time.So it would make no sense for an overlap of soccer. The mexicans already have teams, why would they create a MLS franchise?In Canada, on the other hand, soccer was in a similar state as it was in America. There was a growing interest in the game and huge potential for growth and no well established major soccer league, so they created some MLS franchises, I think they have three right now, but that could be wrong.It would make no sense for a mexican team to join the MLS. That would be the same thing as creating a canadian franchise that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. Just like the MLS, the KHL probably wouldn’t even want that, they would rather want to develop their own.The National Hockey League had in their “Original Six” teams that were both american and canadian. The Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montréal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins were the first six teams to join the NHL and the league expanded from those six.
Can you name one thing that Canada has ever done for The United States of America?
First off, I don't think most Canadians harbor animosity toward Americans. In some ways, we are just a neighborhood, and neighbors do compare themselves and do gossip "in the house". So, I think of The United States as having the mansion on the North American block, being so wealthy and talented and so blessed with the best chunk of real estate, maybe the best one in the whole world. So, its kind of natural, that the neighbors to the north, living in the modest bungalow, tends to look for those things in which they excel as they see, with some amount of natural covetousness, the phenomenon next door. But, when push comes to shove, Canadians want what is best for our neighbors. Canada helps year in and year out with fighting forest fires in many states, and the same help is reciprocated as needed. Canada has risen to the occasion to protect Americans facing crises overseas. Maybe the most notable was in the midst of the Iranian revolution when the Canadian ambassador harbored quite a few U.S. diplomatic personnel, and even arranged fake passports so they could escape imprisonment or even death. Today, Canada is active in the war against terror in Afghanistan and well over 100 Canadian men and women have lost their lives in that fight, sharing with the U.S. and Britain in the worst theater of that conflict, the Kandahar and Helmand districts. As for other conflicts between the U.S. and Canada, one very large economic issue has been the apparent abrogation of several aspects of the North American Free Trade agreement, in the area of soft wood exports, which is a large industry in Canada. Repeatedly, the U.S. has set up trade barriers in this area to favor certain states, and this is not within the letter or the spirit of free trade. It took about four years and the resort to a binding arbitration panel to put and end to domestic lumber industry favoritism by the U.S. government. Billions of dollars of unfairly levied duties were ultimately returned to Canadian producers. Same thing as of late with "buy American" provisions in the economic stimulus programs.