Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler So, what exactly makes Canada so great?

Not sure why I am starting this thread, but let's have a go...

Besides Axiom speakers coming from Canada, what else makes the country great?

#1) They have their own bacon named after them...

What else?

From Ren and Stimpy

"Our country reeks of trees
Our yaks are really large
And they smell like rotting beef carcasses

We'll probably go to hell
and that's our great reward
for being the Royal... Canadian... Kilted... Yaksmen"

Bren R.

2nd largest country in the world with only the population numbers of California filling it up

Nick, thanks for asking.HHere is a list of some of the things which were invented in Canada .I'll be the first to admit, that I was surprised at some of these.
This is actually rather hard to answer, because there are so many things that I could say here(as I'm sure Americans would if asked the same question) from personal freedoms, respect and tolerance to the beauty and variances across the country in it's people, geography and history. Cheers
PS....who else would you blame!!?

It is God's country up there, I would love to live up there, just would have to find a job first.

I always like to elevate the importance and beauty of embracing multiculturalism. Canadians seem to truly appreciate the influences of English, French, First People, Pacific-Rim immigrants and others too numerous to mention. In some ways, Canada seems like a better salad bowl than the US. Americans have no better friends in the world than Canadians; a blessing we too often take for granted.

Road trip! A day in the life of Canada.

Banff

Calgary

Collingwood

PEI

Cape Breton

Man, I'm so lucky being here:

Vancouver

How's the rain?

Coincidentally, February has been really dry. Today's gorgeous, probably about 13C now, not a cloud in the sky. Was driving yesterday with the sunroof open and all the windows down, include the rear. First time this year. Nice.

That said, the old saying around here goes something like "If you can can't see the mountains, it's raining. If you can see them, it'll rain soon."

Still, wouldn't give it up for anywhere. Rarely too hot or too cold. Not to say that the odd trip somewhere isn't nice.

Hockey must be amongst the things that makes Canada so great.
Now that I live in a place w/ a team to follow, I've learned to love the sport immensely.