#canada

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. ↗

— John Strachan

#catholics #chiefly #church #consider #consisting

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it. ↗

— Karen Kain

#council #even #had #i #nothing

When I was in Canada, I had a lot of time to think. ↗

— Doug Sahm

#had #i #lot #think #time

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films. ↗

— Ted Kotcheff

#films #make #plan #stay

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#country #how #identity #knows #live

What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay. ↗

— Adam Rex

#funny #age

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

Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. "Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his death fires, to appease the wrath of an idol," he points out. What's worse, to the "north, there is an immense region of palpable darkness." (Hi, Canada!) ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#death

You're actually each other's wingman. You never leave your partner vulnerable." - Graham Warner, husband of fun-loving seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner ↗

— Deana J. Driver

#cancer #cancer-survivors #hope #humourosly-inspirational #inspirational

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#film #film industry #i #industry #television