I'm battling a nasty cold at the moment, but otherwise I'm doing great. I head back to the great white north in April which is fast approaching! I'm definitely going to miss Denmark, but I know I'll be back eventually. I'm already bracing myself for the inevitable culture shock I'm going to go through when I return.

Nova Scotia, huh? Sounds like it'll be a great trip. You been before? The maritimes are beautiful in the summer. I went to Lunenburg a few years back and had a fantastic time. Halifax is a great city too - had lots of fun there.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Good, good! And yourself? When are you coming back to North America, Jesse? I'm sailing from Connecticut up to Nova Scotia in June, I can't wait.

In reply to this comment by JesseoftheNorth:
Glad to hear it. It is a cinematic gem. How ya been, Schmawy, my man?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
101 Reykjavik, great flick. Watched it last night.

Good, good! And yourself? When are you coming back to North America, Jesse? I'm sailing from Connecticut up to Nova Scotia in June, I can't wait.

In reply to this comment by JesseoftheNorth:
Glad to hear it. It is a cinematic gem. How ya been, Schmawy, my man?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
101 Reykjavik, great flick. Watched it last night.

I saw Yellowjackets in Halifax, Nova Scotia once and it was one of the best concerts I have EVER seen!

In reply to this comment by Haldaug:
Yey, I'm going to see them live here in Bergen tomorrow.

It sucks, but not quite as much as the others I've been exposed to. I amended my previous comment before.

Uhh, you probably know why I was commenting, and its not for the reasons you're implying in the below.

(EDIT: Also sorry for profile replying this, I didn't mean to break it out from the thread)

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If someone was to point out how great Canadian health care was, we'd probably not hear a peep out of you. But let one descending perspective shine through and the gloves are off.

I'm just going off what I read. What can I say? Maybe you don't have enough of them? Who knows. But, this was a small black eye against socialized medicine. No offense to Canada. It's a beautiful country. I happen to love, LOVE Nova Scotia!

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
We have helicopters up here, too. Build them, in fact! We even have air ambulance companies here, too.


In reply to this comment by blankfist:
>> ^NicoleBee:
This seems less of a 'socialized medicine' problem and more of a 'rural medicine' problem, which you folks also have down south.

Yes, but she was at the Mont Tremblant Resort, which is a tourist attraction. http://www.tremblant.ca/index.htm

And, down south, we actually had ("had" because I no longer live there) great hospital care. We had helicopters that fly you to your hospital, and when my uncle was ill before I was even born they had a helicopter fly him from Florida to Duke University Hospital. And most hospitals have a trauma center inside of them. In fact, I've never been inside one that didn't. Just pointing that out.

If someone was to point out how great Canadian health care was, we'd probably not hear a peep out of you. But let one descending perspective shine through and the gloves are off.

I'm just going off what I read. What can I say? Maybe you don't have enough of them? Who knows. But, this was a small black eye against socialized medicine. No offense to Canada. It's a beautiful country. I happen to love, LOVE Nova Scotia!

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
We have helicopters up here, too. Build them, in fact! We even have air ambulance companies here, too.


In reply to this comment by blankfist:
>> ^NicoleBee:
This seems less of a 'socialized medicine' problem and more of a 'rural medicine' problem, which you folks also have down south.

Yes, but she was at the Mont Tremblant Resort, which is a tourist attraction. http://www.tremblant.ca/index.htm

And, down south, we actually had ("had" because I no longer live there) great hospital care. We had helicopters that fly you to your hospital, and when my uncle was ill before I was even born they had a helicopter fly him from Florida to Duke University Hospital. And most hospitals have a trauma center inside of them. In fact, I've never been inside one that didn't. Just pointing that out.

Upvote for it the video being about my home province, but I gotta say that I have no love for this guy. He has spent less time on the job then any other premier in Nova Scotia's history, fiddling around the province for popularity instead of actually doing his job. A real class act.

Picnicface are from Halifax. Which is in Nova Scotia. Which is in *Canada. Which is in the world. Which is in Canada!

eh..

* Antigua dollar - Antigua
* Australian dollar - Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island, Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu
* Bahamian dollar - Bahamas
* Barbadian dollar - Barbados
* Belize dollar - Belize
* Bermudian dollar - Bermuda
* British Columbia dollar - British Columbia
* British North Borneo dollar - British North Borneo
* British West Indies dollar - British West Indies
* Brunei dollar - Brunei
* Canadian dollar - Canada
* Cayman Islands dollar - Cayman Islands
* Continental dollar - Colonial America
* Cook Islands dollar - Cook Islands
* Dominican dollar - Dominica
* East Caribbean dollar - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Fijian dollar - Fiji
* Grenadan dollar - Grenada
* Guyanese dollar - Guyana
* Hawaiian dollar - Hawaii
* Hong Kong dollar - Hong Kong
* International dollar - hypothetical currency pegged 1:1 to the United States dollar
* Jamaican dollar - Jamaica
* Kiautschou dollar - Qingdao
* Kiribatian dollar - Kiribati
* Liberian dollar - Liberia
* Malaya and British Borneo dollar - Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, British North Borneo and Brunei
* Malayan dollar - Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore
* Mauritian dollar - Mauritius
* Mongolian dollar - Mongolia
* Namibian dollar - Namibia
* Nevisian dollar - Nevis
* New Brunswick dollar - New Brunswick
* New Zealand dollar - New Zealand, Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Pitcairn Islands.
* Newfoundland dollar - Newfoundland
* Nova Scotian dollar - Nova Scotia
* Prince Edward Island dollar - Prince Edward Island
* Penang dollar - Penang
* Puerto Rican dollar - Puerto Rico
* Rhodesian dollar - Rhodesia
* Saint Kitts dollar - Saint Kitts
* Saint Lucia dollar - Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent dollar - Saint Vincent
* Sarawak dollar - Sarawak
* Sierra Leonean dollar - Sierra Leone
* Singapore dollar - Singapore
* Solomon Islands dollar - Solomon Islands
* Straits dollar - Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore
* Sumatran dollar - Sumatra
* Surinamese dollar - Suriname
* Old Taiwan dollar - Taiwan
* New Taiwan dollar - Taiwan
* Texan dollar - Republic of Texas
* Tobagan dollar - Tobago
* Trinidadian dollar - Trinidad
* Trinidad and Tobago dollar - Trinidad and Tobago
* Tuvaluan dollar - Tuvalu (not an independent currency, equivalent to Australian dollar)
* United States dollar - United States of America
* Zimbabwean dollar - Zimbabwe

This first weekend is going to be an interesting test of how many *requeue actions are performed. I'm going to do a "race" with this vid and another clip I have with similar appeal and the exact same vote count - http://www.videosift.com/video/Nova-Scotias-Premier-invites-David-Letterman-with-Top-10

They're currently both in the "top 15 expiring soon" list with 6 votes. Let's assume (big fat assumption, but that's what testing is about) that they have roughly the same appeal. Which one will win the race to be sifted up first? (assuming I keep requeing both when they get close to the 2 days...?

Fair enough; slotting it into basic politics then - it was '08 solely b/c of the short Huckabee gag

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I must not be Canadian.. do not want

While watching this I thought, "it'd be hilarious if - could you imagine Huckabee doing this" ... and then he references the guy. Wow. I'm in sync with the Premier of Nova Scotia. Awesome.

Maine is essentially Nova Scotia, it would seem. I don't miss it!

Edit: Actually, I think Maine is like a wannabe Nova Scotia- a concept that kind of blows my mind, to be honest. Nova Scotia has 170 lighthouses, as if that were something to brag about.

It was shown in Canadian theatres before "Grindhouse." The guys who made it for the SXSW contest are from Nova Scotia.

Speaking from my perspective: I believe there is alot more the to the immigration issue then the media paints.

First of all the reason illegal immigrants are hired is because they offer cheaper psychical labor, this is true in many of the border areas. This is also true in Montreal, where they are usually hired as cooks and waiters and other menial jobs. They simply have no choice in arguing for a better wage. Thus they tend to live in squalid conditions, most of them desire to stay in the country so they do not commit crimes.

Furthermore some of these immigrants who do hold advanced degrees hold non-US or non-EU degrees, most of these are from Indian, Ex-USSR, Japanese, Chinese and many other university diplomas. Even if they hold years and years of experience above their peers, it doesn't matter their alien degree somehow invalidates their knowledge.

This is especially true in the medical field which I am more familiar with, they are required to write lengthy exams to re-certify their knowledge. These cost alot of money, require several stages and act as a deterrent. The immigrants don't hold the finical ability to sustain that and thus get jobs as taxi drivers and cooks and such. I once got a taxi ride with a neurosurgeon who graduated in Moscow.

Now pardon me but how does somebody who works as a neurosurgeon one day, takes a flight and then suddenly loses all knowledge so much so that he needs to be re-certified? There are other ways in the medical profession that such cases could be handled by hospitals and such, if the doctors were simply flagged for a extensionary period or re-treated as interns within the hospital system. Doctors know Doctors. Simply.

This is a dire problem in Canada, doctors here don't command the wage they do in the US. So they get a state-funded medical education here, and then brain drain occurs to the US. Someone who is graduating in the medical field wants to work in NY or Toronto not in Sydney, Nova Scotia or some forest in Quebec. Meanwhile you have this pool of immigrants would would be willing to do so if it means a life in the west in legal status practicing their profession. So right now every doctor I see in Canada am a lil' suspicious of because it kinda means they didn't make the grade and made it out.

What am alluding to is that the discussion of how immigrations really works is not really addressed in the media. It's always painting the illegal immigrant issue as some plague that hits these green lands of ours. There more issues to it then we really dare to address. The labor market wants the wages to be high, this goes against the needs of the corporate sector to depress wages and reap a profit. And the goverment, well they just don't even discuss the issue, as long as the lobby wing doesn't complain. The voters they might as well be ignored.

I'm so jealous of you guys for getting to try it. I'm a complete FANATIC for sushi, and have read many accounts of the wonders of Fugu.

Then again, here in Nova Scotia real wasabi is impossible to get, so Fubu is beyond unimaginable. I wonder about Vancouver, to whence I may be travelling in the fall...?