WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I doubt not then but innocence shall make false accusation blush, and tyranny tremble at patience.
America And Canada Side By Side
A slight diversion from the regular programming here at ATTBS.
America and Canada have a lot in common. In some respects, not so much.
- America has the Kennedys and the Bush family; Canada, the Trudeaus and Mulroneys.
- America has freedom of speech (thanks to Elon Musk, more than a few comedians, and many others pushing back); Canada has freedom for some speech (determined by the CBC and other media).
- America has freedom of religion; Canada, freedom from religion (thanks to the NDP and the Liberal Party of Canada).
- America has the F35 stealth fighter; Canada had the Avro Arrow.
- America has the NFL; Canada, the CFL.
- America has Kamala Harris; Canada has Chrystia Freeland.
- America has Donald Trump; Canada has Pierre Poilievre.
- America has 470 ships in its navy; Canada has 68 ships in its navy.
- America has an elected senate; Canada has an appointed senate akin to the House of Lords in the UK.
- America has Texas; Canada has Alberta.
- America has Hollywood; Canada has Vancouver.
- America has New York City; Canada has Toronto.
- America has Florida; Canada has... snowbirds and Florida.
- America had Merv Griffin; Canada had Elwood Glover.
- America has Barbra Streisand; Canada has Céline Dion.
- America has Dolly Parton; Canada has Shania Twain.
- America has Bishop Robert Barron; Canada has Father Raymond de Souza.
- America has NASA; Canada has the Canadian Space Agency.
- America has Bud Light; Canada has Lucky Lager.
- America has Father James Martin; Canada has Father Thomas Rosica.
- America has Little Orphan Annie; Canada has Anne of Green Gables.
- America has Idaho potatoes; Canada has Prince Edward Island potatoes.
- America has Bob Dylan; Canada has Bruce Cockburn.
- America has Bourbon whiskey; Canada has Canadian whiskey.
- America has the greenback; Canada has the loonie and the toonie.
- America has the Bald Eagle; Canada has the Canada Goose, the Common Loon, the Red Tailed Hawk, the Tundra Swan, and - according to Canadian Geographic Magazine - the Grey Jay.
- America has the Green River shale oil formation; Canada, the Athabasca tar sands.
- America has Dr. Thomas Sowell; Canada has Dr. Jordan Peterson.
- America has Lila Rose; Canada has Mary Wagner.
- America has the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and 14 other intelligence offices; Canada has CSIS, the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada (CISC), and the RCMP.
- America had The Smothers Brothers; Canada had Wayne and Shuster.
- America has the largest road network in the world; Canada has the most lakes in the world.
- America has disco fries; Canada has poutine.
- America has John Batchelor; Canada has Charles Adler.
- America has Washington, DC; Canada has Ottawa.
- America has Bruce Springsteen; Canada has Bryan Adams.
- America has the Rockies; Canada has the Rockies.
- America has, as of March 2024 (Google AI), 737 billionaires with a combined wealth of $5.529 trillion; Canada has 67 billionaires with a combined wealth of $315 billion.
- America has the Statue of Liberty; Canada has Brock's Monument.
- America has The Hyperion, a coastal redwood (116.07 metres or 380.8 ft); Canada has The Carmanah Giant (95 metres or 315ft), a spruce.
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Forsooth, when ignorance doth wear so bold a face, and folly struts with such unblushing pride, methinks the time hath come to cast off patience, and with a tongue that brooks no further slight, to bid these dolts depart, and find some other ear to plague with their unlettered prate! - Fidesius Justus
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