Happy Canada Day

[JBI]

Cher Canada, c'est a ton tour! Bonne fête 142!

[Lynne50]

Happy Canada Day! right back to you. What do you do on Canada Day to celebrate? Is it like the 4th of July for USA?

[JBI]

Sort of, except we are less patriotic, and have better beer! Kind of like a day off, with mild fireworks (of which, the ones in Toronto were canceled) and various different regional interpretations of the day. Overall though, this means a day off of classes, which I desperately need, so yay!

[The Comedian]

Here's to you Canada!

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[papayahed]

Here's to you Canada!

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yeah, eh.

[*Classic*Charm*]

Thanks to everyone and Happy Canada Day right back!!

Too bad the rain around Toronto means festivities have been cancelled...:(

[Virgil]

Happy Canada Day! Wish you the best. :)

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[1n50mn14]

Would we really be Canadian without the Hockey Song and Stompin' Tom? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZWxErEbQkY)

[JBI]

Thanks to everyone and Happy Canada Day right back!!

Too bad the rain around Toronto means festivities have been cancelled...:(

OR perhaps the strike which caused all the festivities to be canceled - the rain, which I didn't really feel or see, perhaps was a mere minor detail. Either way, it would have been cool to be in Ottawa, as there Canada day is actually a lot of fun - here it's kind of more like a civic holiday than anything else.

[*Classic*Charm*]

OR perhaps the strike which caused all the festivities to be canceled - the rain, which I didn't really feel or see, perhaps was a mere minor detail. Either way, it would have been cool to be in Ottawa, as there Canada day is actually a lot of fun - here it's kind of more like a civic holiday than anything else.

I didn't mean TO specifically, just that I know stuff was all wait-and-see in Guelph, Waterloo, Stratford, London, and the town where I live this weekend because of the weather.

Yeah, Canada day is cool in Ottawa. I was there for it a few years ago. Have you been?

[Joreads]

Well fireworks or not have a great day.

[JBI]

I didn't mean TO specifically, just that I know stuff was all wait-and-see in Guelph, Waterloo, Stratford, London, and the town where I live this weekend because of the weather.

Yeah, Canada day is cool in Ottawa. I was there for it a few years ago. Have you been?

Yeah, supposedly today they have been putting on a full-day free concert, which is being televised, but alas, tests on Monday don't lend me the time to watch such festivities, though I can hear firecrackers burning in the background.

[*Classic*Charm*]

Yeah, supposedly today they have been putting on a full-day free concert, which is being televised, but alas, tests on Monday don't lend me the time to watch such festivities, though I can hear firecrackers burning in the background.

If it makes you feel better, I'm sure it's only the Barenaked Ladies, Great Big Sea, and no-one else you've ever heard of. Maybe they'll throw Celine in there if they're feeling particularly cruel and they can scam some money out of somewhere.

[mono]

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:D To our northern neighbors, HAPPY CANADA DAY! :D

[1n50mn14]

If it makes you feel better, I'm sure it's only the Barenaked Ladies, Great Big Sea, and no-one else you've ever heard of. Maybe they'll throw Celine in there if they're feeling particularly cruel and they can scam some money out of somewhere.

I like both the Barenaked Ladies and Great Big Sea =(.

[*Classic*Charm*]

I like both the Barenaked Ladies and Great Big Sea =(.

Hahaha so do I, it's just that they're the obligatorily present Canadian bands that play the same songs all the time. So it's not as though by not watching the festivities one is missing something new and exciting lol

[kiz_paws]

Here's to you Canada!

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Ha ha ha ha!

To be Canadian is to own a toque, eh? lol :lol:

Here in the Prairies, we went mental with fireworks from 10:00 p.m. on till midnight (at various locations). The mosquitoes actually let us enjoy our moment.... [for now!!] :eek:

Oh Canada, we spell thy name as follows:

C eh
N eh
D eh

TTFN! ;)

[JBI]

Hahaha so do I, it's just that they're the obligatorily present Canadian bands that play the same songs all the time. So it's not as though by not watching the festivities one is missing something new and exciting lol

Neither of those bands constitute even a fraction of Canadian music. Gordon Lightfoot, for instance, Leonard Cohen (at least when he was writing good music), Stan Rogers, Tragically Hip, etc. and those are just a few, rather mainstream artists - the niched ones are even better, and, we have quite a few good composers. Of course, few make them out of here into audiences that can appreciate them - for instance, the French Canadian culture rarely finds an audience in the United States, and probably won't ever - Canadian composers rarely find much of a venue, yet there still is some great stuff coming from them, as well as the large immigrant communities that often have foreign sounds carried with them from wherever they may have come from - Canadian arts and music are too hard to classify, in many ways, we, for instance, have quite a few expat Chinese composers and musicians who have rather niched audiences - that isn't a Canadian sound mind you, but there technically is no distinctly "Canadian" sound that fits for the total population.

Of course though, there certainly is a "What is not" a Canadian sound, and much ink has been spilled over it.

No Canadian would call The Barenaked Ladies essential - Shania Twain (though I doubt it) maybe, but certainly not BNL.

If you are interested in Canadian music, you can listen to it commercial free here: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/

[*Classic*Charm*]

Neither of those bands constitute even a fraction of Canadian music. Gordon Lightfoot, for instance, Leonard Cohen (at least when he was writing good music), Stan Rogers, Tragically Hip, etc. and those are just a few, rather mainstream artists - the niched ones are even better, and, we have quite a few good composers. Of course, few make them out of here into audiences that can appreciate them - for instance, the French Canadian culture rarely finds an audience in the United States, and probably won't ever - Canadian composers rarely find much of a venue, yet there still is some great stuff coming from them, as well as the large immigrant communities that often have foreign sounds carried with them from wherever they may have come from - Canadian arts and music are too hard to classify, in many ways, we, for instance, have quite a few expat Chinese composers and musicians who have rather niched audiences - that isn't a Canadian sound mind you, but there technically is no distinctly "Canadian" sound that fits for the total population.

Of course though, there certainly is a "What is not" a Canadian sound, and much ink has been spilled over it.

No Canadian would call The Barenaked Ladies essential - Shania Twain (though I doubt it) maybe, but certainly not BNL.

If you are interested in Canadian music, you can listen to it commercial free here: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/

JBI, while I do appreciate your regular efforts to bury the majority of my posts in some sort of informative lecture (admittedly- I have a lot to learn in many aspects of literature- it's why I'm here), if there is one thing I do not need to be lectured about it's music, and Canadian music at that.

I did not say that the BNL are essential to the Canadian repertoire, simply that they do seem to frequent events such as Canada day festivities because they serve to entertain the varying demographic who attend these events and most of the more commercially successful Canadian bands are off doing more important things.

If you'd simply like me to admit that I was wrong, here it is! Neither BNL nor Great Big Sea were present on Parliament Hill on Canada Day. No Shania either.

Oh, and thank you, I could no longer remember how to access the radio.

[Mathor]

Of course though, there certainly is a "What is not" a Canadian sound, and much ink has been spilled over it.



who gives a **** if a band has a Canadian sound, and more importantly, what does this argument have to do with the Canada Day thread? :idea:

Also, Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot currently live in Los Angeles in the United States. As far as i'm concerned, what makes a band "Canadian" is living in Canada?

Maybe you should spend more time learning about music and less time insulting people's intelligence. :sick:


in other news:

In celebration of Canada Day I bought a ticket to get see my favorite CANADIAN band "The Weakerthans" when they come to the states in September!!

[*Classic*Charm*]

in other news:

In celebration of canada day i bought a ticket to get see my favorite canadian band "the weakerthans" when they come to the states in september!!

yay!!!!!!!