#canada

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#canada #conspicuous #dangers #fallout #incoming

I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for 'Running off to Canada.' ↗

— Jay Leno

#course #i #off #running #stood

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#canada #coming #credentials #i #impeccable

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#came #canada #cleveland #family #i

Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#allow #any #canada #care #country

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#canada #first #fly #france #geese

I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance. ↗

— John Atkinson

#being #canada #cup #enough #even

For [Stephen] Harper, a national daycare plan bordered on being a socialist scheme, a phrase he had once used to describe the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. For [Paul] Martin, whose plan would have transferred to the provinces $5 billion over five years, the national program was what Canadianism was all about. "Think about it this way," [Martin] said. "What if, decades ago, Tommy Douglas and my father and Lester Pearson had considered the idea of medicare and then said, 'Forget it! Let's just give people twenty-five dollars a week.' You want a fundamental difference between Mr. Harper and myself? Well, this is it. ↗

— Lawrence Martin

#canadian #canadian-history #canadian-politics #health-care #healthcare

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom. ↗

— Michael Adams

#equality

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#canada #develop #great #natural #natural resources