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Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$
boxlight writes in to mark the occasion when the Canadian dollar hit parity with the US dollar for the first time in 31 years. The article notes that Canada has run a budget surplus in each of the last 10 years. "This is actually bad for the profits of Canadian corporations that sell their products to the US for US dollars (Canada sells far more to the US that the US sells to Canada); but it means us Canucks will get cheaper Macs as the Canadian prices get closer to US prices with every new release."
Always someone brings up this point but it doesn't reflect the reality of common parlance. In a myriad of languages and dialects of English anything "American" is from the States and the question "Are you American?" implicity specifies a citizen of the United States of America. Someone from Canada is Canadian, from Bolivia is Bolivian, from Peru is Peruvian. None of these people will refer to themselves as American. (And a lot are more than happy not to do so)
A citizen of the USA in various languages:
French: Américain
German: Amerikanisch
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc.: Americano
Japanese: (A-meh-ri-ka-jin)
Chinese: (Mei-gwo-ren) (Mei-gwo = Transliteration of America + "Beautiful Country" characters)
I think you get the picture.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
Um...do you have any idea how fast we've been blowing through the oil sands in Alberta?
In 2000, there basically was NO oil export coming out of Alberta. Take a look at a recent satellite image of northern Alberta...go ahead, I'll wait...
So how old did you figure you'd be by the time we've finished selling our soul?
Sorry, it's already sold. What I meant was, until we've finished delivering the soul we've already sold.
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