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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chas. who wrote (4831)	7/7/2003 1:47:25 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

Most of our immigrants came from displacement centers in Eastern Slobovia where they fled after horses were introduced on farms and there was no more need for plow pushers. Some had been made homeless by gas explosions in outhouses that occurred after a series of heatwaves hit the steppes in the late nineteenth century. The Tsars co-operated with Canada's lack of government screening by emptying drunk tanks and giving the residents tickets for a carnival as a special treat. Few questioned the odd red uniforms and peaked hats of the receiving personnel, as they figured all ring masters must dress like that and ride horses. Still others were victims of shipwrecks when their hastily built tramp steamers went off course on the way to the States and washed up on Anticosti Island. Chinese is Canada's third most frequently spoken language after English and French. One million people speak it, 80% of whom have come here since 1980. 65% of the alumnae of the University of Toronto, Canada's largest University, live in Asia. (That third most spoken language used to be Ukrainian-Polish-Russian with 500,000 adherents. Some people, born here, who grew up in the prairies and are in their 60's spoke Russian as their first language and speak with a distinct accent. There are communities in Alberta where the only language commonly spoken is Russian and people still wear 19th century costumes. This is not a lie. There are other communities in Quebec where it would be difficult to find one person who speaks passable English. There are also communities in Quebec where it would be difficult to find one person who does not routinely refuse to speak French.) The main nationality in Canada is Hodge-Podgeranian. The lingua franca is argot de dollar. The main occupation is government work, or looking for it. There used to be a few loggers, miners and couple of guys in the Union. At one time people worked on farms, fished, hunted and trapped. They used to build the odd car, and made rags to adorn themselves with. They shipped that trade south and now they make sparkplugs, buttons, and plastic zippers in factories built by JP Morgan. They trade beads and trinkets for Yankee broadcloth. There is the odd bit of work making holes in beads. I heard tell that there was a factory making hay binders and mine trucks down in the Triangle somewhere. I went looking for it, but all I found was a pile of bricks and a silo with a sign saying "Danger Keep Out, Environmental Hazard". There was an old poster on a telephone pole saying "Massey Harris Ltd. and Toronto Iron Works Inc. have posted a bond under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy act to make restitution to a public fund to reclaim lands situated herein. Stakeholders may attend public hearings at the Office of the Environmental Ombudsman at 56 Sparks Street Ottawa, on May 16th, 1965 at 9:00 PM" EC<:-}