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I had a similar idea awhile ago about recognizing CF service in Canada with a new medal, which I thought could be called the "National Emergency Medal" (or something along that line). This was to have bars for various crisis and/or emergencies such as; FLQ, OKA, ICE STORM, WILD FIRES, FLOOD...

It would make sense to make the GTA a separate province. They have a bigger population than other provinces that aren't ONT or QUE. The Gov't of ONT could focus on other parts of the province. I think that the same thing could be done for Montreal (and, as I posted before, Ottawa). There...

How about a return of the Yukon hat? (ducks for cover) :p

I wish the press would stop using -gate at the end of words to talk about every political scandal (especially if not at all similar to the Watergate scandal in the '70s). Getting kind of pathetic.

National Capital Region (Ottawa/Gatineau) should be given separate federal status (similar to a province). Maybe call it the National Capital Territory (NCT), with the NCT gov't the one clearly having jurisdiction over the whole area. Probably will never happen, but might work better IMO.

What a "coincidence"! ;)

But that's the (original) French version, which is different from the English version. Just sayin'. As far as a purple uniform goes, that would fit well with the "purple" trades. ;) Why stop there? Rifle green uniforms for rifle regiments, scarlet for regular infantry, blue for cavalry...

As the US anthem was mentioned, "The Star Spangled Banner" was written about the bombardment of Baltimore during the War of 1812, strangely enough, a war they lost. (They don't think so). I have no problem with the Canadian national anthem BTW. Just realized this is in a thread about uniforms...

He should have, but from what I've read, it seems that he had too big of an ego. He did quit the Liberal party and started his own political party in '73. It didn't go anywhere though.

Exactly! CCG goes back to being Marine Services Canada and does the same job they do now.

Actually, they were originally the Marine Service of Canada (Marine, as in pertaining to the ocean). You could change the name to Marine Services Canada and the only thing that would need to be physically changed, would be the Gov't of Canada shoulder flash. They would continue on doing the...

Sorry, not trying to be pedantic, but that's not really an accurate assessment. Russia was abandoning their NA possessions as they were costing too much. They sold Alaska to the Yanks because they didn't want the Brits to get it. There was really no chance that the US was going to turn down...

Que Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries". ;)

If aliens are watching us, I'd bet they're sending holo-recordings (or whatever high tech recording system they'd have) back to their planet as a reality show depicting just how stupid an intelligent dominant planetary species can act. ;)

OK, I stand (or sit at the keyboard) corrected. Didn't realize that he had died, but he did believe in aliens.

No need to worry about that, he's too busy giving lectures on the existence of extra-terrestrials. (not a joke)

Been to the Red Lion, didn't see anyone performing with snakes though (but that was back in the '90s).

I lived in NB when I was young, and I can say that is true. Acadians speak a different kind of French than Quebecois and are very proud of their Acadian language and culture.

Cape Breton was its own separate colony for several decades, but later rejoined to NS. Wonder how much separatist sentiment is there? You might see them want to secede from a Maritime union claiming protection for Gaelic language and culture rights.

The two main things standing in the way of a Maritime union are PEI (as with original confederation, they are worried about losing their voice in a bigger union) and the Acadians. I doubt a Maritime union would be officially bilingual (like NB is now) as there would be a large Anglophone...