Things to do on CANADA day:

Hug a Beaver

Reasons to

Fear Canada

BY SEAN CARMAN

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1. Ninety percent of population is massed within 100 miles of northern American border.

2. Seems not to mind that one of its provinces has turned almost entirely French.

3. Excessive politeness only makes sense as cover for something truly sinister. But what?

4. Citizens seem strangely impervious to cold.

5. Decriminalization of marijuana and acceptance of gay marriage without corresponding collapse of social institutions indicate Canada may, in fact, be indestructible.

6. Has infiltrated entertainment industry with singers, actors, and comedians practically indistinguishable from their American counterparts.

7. Consistently stays just below cultural radar yet never quite disappears.

8. Parliamentary government and common-law judiciary appear to function acceptably yet remain completely inscrutable.

9. Never had a "disco phase."

10. Seemingly endless supply of timber, donuts, and Scotch-plaid hats with earflaps.

11. Keeps insisting it "has no designs on America" and "only wants peace."

12. Plays a mean game of pond hockey.

Found this on the website http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/ .  I have wasted many a good hour there.

Steve