23-06-2011, 10:07 PM
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Re: Canada`s Shame
Originally Posted by Azz
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You get good and bad in everything - Canada's bound to have its fair share of idiots too - just like the rest of us have ours.
At the time of the upheaval everyone jumped onto the racial tension bandwagon as being the root cause. Of course it was not, it was a drug turf war that escalated.
Previously I made a bit of a light hearted comment about it but I can tell you from personal experience that it was scary.
Of course we have moved on from them we have to or get swallowed up in further depression.
27-06-2011, 06:54 PM
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Re: Canada`s Shame
I think Canada is permitted the odd day of riots without feeling ashamed after all we have had plenty here from football hooligans to race riots and student protests.I saw an item on the news about a couple kissing in the midst of the mayhem which accords with the old saying 'its an ill wind that blows nobody any good'
08-12-2011, 05:40 AM
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Re: Canada`s Shame
As probably one of the only Canadians on this forum, you're darn right we were ashamed. But try to remember that Canadians are as impassioned by hockey as Europeans are impassioned by football. And to have the North American professional hockey supremacy be won year after year by a team from the U.S. (nearly 20 years now, I believe) and to be oh so close to finally winning it, emotions across the country were very high. When loss, disappointment and alcohol-saturated youth are mixed with these volatile emotions, all the ingredients are there for this type of thing to happen. I, personally, was shocked and had a very difficult time talking about the event with my friends who reside in Vancouver. But, when I saw the other 99.9% of Vancouver residents come out next day with mops, brooms, shovels, buckets and cleaning supplies and spend their day cleaning up the city, I found that talking about it became much easier.cdn guy
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