Cool. Iqaluit is a nice place to visit. I lived there for a coupla years, wouldn't repeat, but a nice place to visit.

I actually graduated from the high school on the hill (not the white one, but a similar blue and white one above it).

Unfortunately that igloo church burnt down a year or 2 ago.

I think every Canadian should visit Nunavut at least once.

I often say that Canadians perceive Nunavut the way Americans perceive Canada.

In reply to this comment by calvados:
I know it some. I know some people who used to live in Iqaluit, too -- they were there for five years recently. I used my Aeroplan points to visit them there -- saw the big white modular school and the igloo church and so on.


In reply to this comment by Throbbin:
Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.

You know your north?

In reply to this comment by calvados:
I say there's some *darkness to this vid as well considering the hard living and poverty.

Which settlement are you from, Throbbin?

I know it some. I know some people who used to live in Iqaluit, too -- they were there for five years recently. I used my Aeroplan points to visit them there -- saw the big white modular school and the igloo church and so on.


In reply to this comment by Throbbin:
Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.

You know your north?

In reply to this comment by calvados:
I say there's some *darkness to this vid as well considering the hard living and poverty.

Which settlement are you from, Throbbin?

I can't stand this. This, is borderline slander of Canada.

Mounties and Police are two different sections of Canadian law enforcement. My father is a cop, my Grandad was a Mountie.

The Mounties do NOT wear the red jacket as standard uniform, they wear it as DRESS clothes, the same way that police officers have dress uniforms.

This can't possibly be real. It can't, they're talking about every Canadian stereotype under the sun, except the fact that we live in Igloo's and ride dog sleds, and even then, the fact that we live in the "Frigid North" implies it. Even though I'm sitting here looking out my window at the sun shining out on my snow-free front lawn, watching motorcycles ride up and down the street because of how nice it is outside.

Christ, Nomino is so right it's absolutely absurd. The Canadian army has so many achievements, even freaking HITLER respected them.

From wiki: "While the German leader had no qualms about destroying culturally significant locations in France including many French war monuments which were torn down by the Nazis, the Vimy memorial carried no messages of Allied triumph over Germany. So it was protected by Hitler, who assigned special units of the Waffen SS to guard the monument from defacement by regular German Wehrmacht soldiers.[10] University of Ottawa historian Serge Durflinger[1] notes that "Hitler admires it immensely, he says so at the time. As a result, the Germans respect[ed] the memorial all through the war."

Respect from potentially one of the most evil bastards that have ever lived, and these assholes can't do anything but make fun of our army?
An army that has suffered casualties at the hand of the united states on multiple occasions? the first few Canadian casualties IN the this fucking war were 9 soldiers that were bombed by U.S. planes.

Jesus, I don't generalize Americans, because I know there are those of you who aren't completely ignorant to the truth, but people like this need to learn some fucking respect and do some research before they decide they want to make fun of an entire nation.

>> ^NetRunner:
This is unbiased and fair.


Is it? Why because she uses facts to bolster her stuffy, superior anti-GOP rhetoric? And that's all it takes to make things fair and unbiased? The fact that there are facts present is enough? Interesting.

I say it's theater and smug, indignant partisan hackary whether you approve of her message or not. Everything from the GOP IN EXILE animation of the elephant making camp in an igloo to her smarmy holier-than-thou quips like "What happened in 1937? Oh yeah, that's when FDR put it on hold which is exactly what the Republicans want to do now." Etc. etc. etc.

For me, fair and unbiased news isn't smugly laden with partisan teeth thumbing. When it is, then it's unfairly biased and certainly not news, but instead nothing more than an opinion column or a comedy show. The fact that what she's saying is agreeable to you doesn't qualify it as news.

Les Cowboys Fringants:Les Étoiles Filantes
From LyricWiki
This song is performed by Les Cowboys Fringants and appears on the album La Grand-Messe (2004).
http://lyricwiki.org/Les_Cowboys_Fringants:Les_%C3%89toiles_Filantes

(English translation below)

***French original
Si je m'arrête un instant
Pour te parler de ma vie
Juste comme ça tranquillement
Dans un bar rue St-Denis

J'te raconterai les souvenirs
Bien gravés dans ma mémoire
De cette époque où vieillir
Était encore bien illusoire

Quand j'agaçais les p'tites filles
Pas loin des balançoires
Et que mon sac de billes
Devenait un vrai trésor

Et ces hivers enneigés
À construire des igloos
Et rentrer les pieds g'lés
Juste à temps pour Passe-Partout

Mais au bout du ch'min dis-moi c'qui va rester
De la p'tite école et d'la cour de récré ?
Quand les avions en papier ne partent plus au vent
On se dit que l'bon temps passe finalement...

... Comme une étoile filante

Si je m'arrête un instant
Pour te parler de la vie
Je constate que bien souvent
On choisit pas mais on subit
Et que les rêves des ti-culs
S'évanouissent ou se refoulent
Dans cette réalité crue
Qui nous embarque dans le moule

La trentaine, la bedaine
Les morveux, l'hypothèque
Les bonheurs et les peines
Les bons coups et les échecs

Travailler, faire d'son mieux
En arracher, s'en sortir
Et espérer être heureux
Un peu avant de mourir

Mais au bout du ch'min dis-moi c'qui va rester
De notre p'tit passage dans ce monde effréné ?
Après avoir existé pour gagner du temps
On s'dira que que l'on était finalement

... Que des étoiles filantes

Si je m'arrête un instant
Pour te parler de ma vie
Juste comme ça tranquillement
Pas loin du Carré St-Louis

C'est qu'avec toi je suis bien
Et que j'ai pu' l'goût de m'en faire
Parce que tsé voir trop loin
C'pas mieux que r'garder en arrière

Malgré les vieilles amertumes
Et les amours qui passent
Les chums qu'on perd dans' brume
Et les idéaux qui se cassent

La vie s'accroche et renaît
Comme les printemps reviennent
Dans une bouffée d'air frais
Qui apaise les coeurs en peine

Ça fait que si à' soir t'as envie de rester
Avec moi, la nuit est douce on peut marcher
Et même si on sait ben que tout dure rien qu'un temps
J'aimerai ça que tu sois pour un moment...

... Mon étoile filante

Mais au bout du ch'min dis-moi c'qui va rester...
Mais au bout du ch'min dis-moi c'qui va rester...

... Que des étoiles filantes




***English translation
If I stop a moment
To tell you about my life
Just like that, quietly
In a bar on St-Denis

I'd tell you the memories
Well-etched into my memory
From that time when aging
Was still but illusory

When I annoyed the little girls
Not far from the swings
And my bag of marbles
Became a real treasure

And these snowy winters
Of constructing igloos
And going back inside with frozen feet
Just in time for Passe-Partout

But at the end of the road tell me what will remain
Of the little school and the playground?
When the paper planes no longer fly on the wind
We tell ourselves that the good times are finally ending...

...like a shooting star

If I stop a moment
To tell you about life
I note that quite often
We do not choose but we endure
And that the dreams of little lads
Dissipate or collapse
In this hard reality
Which casts us in the mold

The thirties, the belly
The kids, the mortgage
The pleasures and the sorrows
The strokes of luck and the failures

Working, doing one's best
And struggling, and getting out
And hoping to be happy
A little before dying

But at the end of the road tell me what will remain
Of our little passage through this mad world?
After having existed to buy some time
We'll tell ourselves that we were in the end

...but shooting stars

If I stop a moment
To tell you about my life
Just like that, quietly
Not far from St-Louis Square

It's only with you that I'm okay
And that I lost the taste to care
Because you know seeing too far ahead
Isn't better than looking backwards

Despite the old bitternesses
And the loves that pass
The friends we lose in the mists
And the ideals which fall apart

Life holds on and renews
Like the springtimes return
In a puff of fresh air
Which appeases pained hearts

So if tonight you want to stay
With me, the night is soft we can walk
And even if we know that all lasts but a time
I'd like you to be for a moment...

...My shooting star

But tell me at the end of the road what will remain...
But tell me at the end of the road what will remain...

...Just shooting stars

yw! and thanks right back atcha', for inadvertantly teaching me that cougar has another meaning, in Canadiana of all places!

i doublechecked, before i hit submit, to make sure that you crazy yeti igloo people didn't go inventing an alternate spelling of 'couger', like colour & flavour & nuculour.

xx, to some extent you're right, but we have one big fat loophole.

We sometimes allow a clip that's already contained within a larger clip because of the awesome nature of the edit you're dealing with. In this case, it's pure igloo - the other clip has other gags which dance around the point we're getting at here.

This is such a clip.

The scariest thing is that Dubya showed up on "Talking to" and called our Prime Minister "Jean Poutine" instead of "Chretien" (Poutine being a delicious french fry based meal).

<shudder?>

I'd say this qualifies as a dupe. It's a segment which is entirely contained within http://www.videosift.com/video/canadas-national-igloo-what-americans-think as well as http://www.videosift.com/video/Rick-Mercer-Talking-to-Americans.

That is awesome!

Don't get me wrong, Huckabee is a moron. As a Canadian, I was particularly offended by the "Talking to Canadians" interviews done a few years ago, when then Arkansas Guvner Huckabee made himself look like a dimwit by congratulating Canada on our "National Igloo" (which also bothered me because I am Inuk).

But, this is brilliant. I guess it was only a matter of time, but Chuck would have looked good in a commercial with Obama.

It's Chuckbama time!

I think it's analagous to kids being jealous of the most popular kid in school. Toronto just gets all the attention (and gov't money) because it's the biggest place in Canada.

Everybody else just lives in igloos!