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This guest post is provided to you by Johnna Cornett, an Our Thoughts reader living in California. If you’d like to be a guest poster on Our Thoughts, email us at ourthoughts@gmail.com. They’re talking about the Canadian health care system all day long on the radio down here in the United States. frex: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111084018 I’m [...]

Well, his great-grandmother was. That’s one of the things I took from his funeral. Technically, it wasn’t Canada yet, but close enough. Mormons like to point out famous Mormons, and Canadians like to point out famous Canadians. I’m both, so I can’t help it and take what I can get.

My mind has been somewhat taken up with the news of the deaths of these poor baby girls in Saskatchewan, left to freeze and die in the cold snow, in -50 degree weather, this week. My heart breaks for them, for their loved ones, including the young father who left them (and again we don’t [...]

In the 2006 federal census, statistics Canada began counting same sex couples. Interestingly enough, under 20% of same sex couples in Canada are married despite the fact that same sex marriages have been legal for 2 years.

Looks like the US military will be invading Canada next month. And at a North American Union meeting no less. How appropriate.

What do you think the Canadian parliament would look like if 16- and 17-year-olds could vote in federal elections?

Tomorrow, July 1st. Enjoy Celebrating the birth of this great country of ours!

The new government unveiled its 2006 budget today. Naturally, a few things stuck out in my mind. The lowest tax bracket has received an increase of federal tax The potentially abusable Canada Employment Credit A taxable Universal Child Care Benefit Textbook credit for post-secondary students that doesn’t even pay for one textbook Tax breaks for [...]

A new group of Canadian music artists have banded to protect Canadian music and their fans. Members include Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlan, Chantal Kreviazuk, Sum 41, Stars, Raine Maida (Our Lady Peace), Dave Bidini (Rheostatics), Billy Talent, John K. Samson (Weakerthans), Broken Social Scene, Sloan, Andrew Cash and Bob Wiseman (Co-founder Blue Rodeo). [...]

The Canadian prime minister stated the following during a surprise visit to troops in Afghanistan: Reconstruction is reducing poverty; millions of people are now able to vote; women are enjoying greater rights and economic opportunities than could have been imagined under the Taliban regime; and of Afghan children who are now in school studying the [...]