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

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there will always be great writers.

I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

Growing up in Canada, I didn't watch football much.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

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

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.

First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

Bryan Adams might not be what I want to put on, but he's a pop singer with a great voice and great guitar tone. Plus, he's done more for Canada than Rush have, because he works all the time. I envy him for that.

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

I have tons of fans in Canada. I've sold hundreds of thousands of books there.

I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.

Standup keeps me grounded and keeps me in touch. I get to go from small towns to big cities, across Canada and the U.S., and you're out there and talking to people. You get a sense of what they respond to.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.

Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer.

Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.

My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

I don't do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

We've actually got utility crews in from Canada.

We believe that Sears Canada shareholders should consider the actions of the senior management and the largest independent shareholder when making a decision with respect to whether to tender their Sears Canada common shares.

We've always thought it would go a long way if Canada would volunteer price information so our producers would know if they are being beaten on price or on other factors, like quality.

We're making fun of people who pick ridiculous targets to blame anything about what's going on in their lives, so Canada was just the perfect, ridiculous, innocuous choice for a target.

What we're saying is from Vancouver to Thunder Bay, Ont., that western part of Canada is looking like it'll be warmer than normal, so it's a continuation of what the fall has been like.

What happens to Canada and what happens to Canadians matters. I believe that Canada needs a party that embraces change.

We had 106 people do the Double last year, and there were people from 34 states, Japan and Canada.

We grew into the game and got as strong as the U.S.. We have to thank the U.S. and Canada for the possibility of playing against them. Sweden is now part of the league of the top women's teams.

Usually Canadian data doesn't mean that much but we were so close to testing the previous (dollar/Canada) lows that when we got better productivity numbers it gave the market a push.

With the introduction of the only non-stop service to Shanghai, Air Canada continues to expand its services to meet the needs of travelers and freight forwarders in the fast growing China market.

We feel that some of the protections that we have obtained with the negotiated agreement between Canada and the United States is better than rolling the dice in court.

We're getting letter from people saying they just feel refreshed by another voice within the Anglican church of Canada,

We're better now, but so is every one else, we have to elevate our game to the next level. This is the best Team Canada I've ever been with.

We know from previous research that shopping cart abandonment is fairly high in Canada with about one in two shoppers reporting that they did not finalize at least one online purchase in the past three months. Shipping costs, customer service shortcomings and privacy and security concerns are holding consumers back from doing more of their shopping online.

Until Canada ends its unfair practices, the U.S. lumber industry will never stop insisting that action be taken under U.S. trade laws to fully offset the subsidies and dumping.

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

World Vision and Care Canada are working through their local networks on the ground to meet the needs of these devastated communities,

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

As far as sex slavery goes, in Canada, if the woman has a Canadian accent, I'm confident that she hasn't been trafficked and forced to work as a prostitute.

The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

We are all discovering together, of course, just how huge this disaster is, ... It is touching a lot more people than we thought on Saturday, so I think Canada has been pretty fast off the mark.

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

Wayne is a natural leader of the Roots athletics team, Team Roots, and a great ambassador for our company. Both on and off the ice, he exemplifies the best of Canada and the Canadian and Olympic heritage of Roots.

We have great respect for Canada and Britain as well, and if they start shifting policies with regards to marijuana, it simply increases the rumblings in this country that we ought to re-examine our policy.

Justin Bieber's tour bus was stopped by Canadian border patrol agents. And they found marijuana. The agents said Bieber was a disgrace to Canada and should never come back. Then they found the marijuana.

When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

There are more Americans in the spotlight. I think the media of America goes all over the world, whereas the media of Canada doesn't go anywhere, you know?

We really haven't spent that much time pursuing Canada as a market, and it's unfortunate for us, because it's our home, ... But in the financial grand scheme of things, it's a small market.

We hear about the experiment that is Canada but we are now entering the most interesting phase of that, where people are interacting with their own culture and understanding the degree of tolerance we have created in this place.

We did receive yesterday a letter from the Competition Bureau of Canada stating that it has begun an investigation into the activities of carriers that are engaged in the provision of international air cargo services to and from Canada.

The fact is that there is a huge string attached to all of the money that flows for health to the provinces and that string is the Canada Health Act.

The crazy excuses, Iranian nuclear threats or Nigerian unrest, I shake my head when I hear it. It was hurricanes before. It's a very crazy market, and unfortunately we're stuck with it just like Air Canada and any other transportation companies.

There is a little pressure there, especially it being held in Canada with the media requests and all that kind of stuff. I think (Team Canada coach) Brent Sutter will do a good job deflecting some of that away from him.

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why. One was the proximity to the highway, which was used many times by people heading to Canada to flee the draft, and the area looks like Highway 1 in Vietnam.

The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?

I've never had food in my fridge. All I have in my fridge is one shelf of Canada Dry ginger ale, Diet Cokes on the next shelf, and ZeroWater on the next shelf. That is it.

We have a situation where tariffs are imposed politically and we need to have an independent, non-political body that rules in favour of Canada or against Canada in a very expedient manner,

I had no idea Canada could be so much fun.

I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.

The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.

This program carries an internal cost, but protecting our environment is a priority investment. Regardless of your notebook PC, pocket PC or LCD PC monitor brand, if you live in Canada, we will retrieve and dispose of it for you.

The reason Canada has dropped is because Canada is way ahead in doing this.

When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint.

We've said consistently that the federal government should not take more in tax from people than they need for program expenditure purposes, because while Alberta is very competitive tax-wise, Canada is not," ()

I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.

We have significant new restaurant expansion opportunities in both Canada and the areas where we have established the brand in the United States.

We won't face the same pressure against the Swiss that we'll face against a Finland or a Canada. But I expect a battle. It is the Olympics. Hopefully, every country brings their best game.

We were coming back into the States from Canada when that all went down. I didn't come up with the idea. The idea came from the promoters. I said, "Yeah, let's do it." Seattle was the right place for that. That was the original home base for me, so we had a great turnout.

We want to make sure we don't slide back to where we are too dependant on cattle exports and we don't have enough capacity in Canada . The only way processing exists, is if its able to make a return on investment.

We're seeing volatility in the energy markets and commodity markets with gold being part of that that's hurting Canada.

We're not concerned about the election. Canada has a long history of stability through changing governments. We're committed to working with whichever government is in place.

Major central banks in the world have talked about hiking rates, so if the Bank of Canada signals they are coming to the end of rate increases, it may push investors to sell the Canadian dollar further.

Many people will still gain a huge benefit from coming to Canada.

Scouts and college recruiters realized Canada was an untapped market. We have a gold mine of athletes, lots of kids willing to work hard.

Sears Canada is selling a prime asset that historically has contributed significant earnings and has reduced the volatility of consolidated earnings.

Softball Canada wants us to bid on the next one right away,