CANADA – A Beautiful Place to Live

Canada, second largest country in the world in area (after Russia), occupying roughly the northern two-fifths of the continent of North America. Despite Canada’s great size, it is one of the world’s most sparsely populated countries.

This fact, coupled with the grandeur of the landscape, has been central to the sense of Canadian national identity, as expressed by the Dublin-born writer Anna Brownell Jameson, who explored central Ontario in 1837 and remarked exultantly on “the seemingly interminable line of trees before you; the boundless wilderness around you; the mysterious depths amid the multitudinous foliage, where foot of man hath never penetrated…the solitude in which we proceeded mile after mile, no human being, no human dwelling within sight.”

Although Canadians are comparatively few in number, however, they have crafted what many observers consider to be a model multicultural society, welcoming immigrant populations from every other continent. In addition, Canada harbours and exports a wealth of natural resources and intellectual capital equaled by few other countries.

Canada is officially bilingual in English and French, reflecting the country’s history as ground once contested by two of Europe’s great powers. Canada shares a 5,525-mile- (8,890-km-) long border with the United States (including Alaska)—the longest border in the world not patrolled by military forces—and the overwhelming majority of its population lives within 185 miles (300 km) of the international boundary. Although Canada shares many similarities with its southern neighbour—and, indeed, its popular culture and that of the United States are in many regards indistinguishable—the differences between the two countries, both temperamental and material, are profound

Contemporary Canadians are inclined to favour orderly central government and a sense of community over individualism; in international affairs, they are more likely to serve the role of peacemaker instead of warrior, and, whether at home or abroad, they are likely to have a pluralistic way of viewing the world. More than that, Canadians live in a society that in most legal and official matters resembles Britain—at least in the English-speaking portion of the country. Quebec, in particular, exhibits French adaptations: more than three-fourths of its population speaks French as their primary language. The French character in Quebec is also reflected in differences in religion, architecture, and schooling. Elsewhere in Canada, French influence is less apparent, confined largely to the dual use of French and English for place names, product labels, and road signs.

The national capital is Ottawa, Canada’s fourth largest city. It lies some 250 miles (400 km) northeast of Toronto and 125 miles (200 km) west of Montreal, respectively Canada’s first and second cities in terms of population and economic, cultural, and educational importance. The third largest city is Vancouver, a centre for trade with the Pacific Rim countries and the principal western gateway to Canada’s developing interior. Other major metropolitan areas include Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta; Quebec city, Quebec; and Winnipeg, Manitoba.


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Tosinex:
Christ embassy? Tahh!! I left that social gathering since school days, more than 9 year's ago, when one of the lady executive of the fellowship came up to minister with the shape of her V-jay showing glaring to the crowd due to the tight fisted trouser she wore. I and my friends just concluded it was going to be our last time in any of their gathering. And I was really growing there to become a leader there, with my Jerry curl hair and suit, omo con see fine boy hahaha. Anyways op you are invited to join Agape Christian Assembly, am sure you will love it.

Sorry bros, but I want to believe you actually attended BLW Akure Zone G (FUTA)...quote me if I'm wrong oh. Once a 'belewu' always a 'belewu' lol. Only FUTA students can relate to this

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African Movies Show Our Inferiority Complex. Posted by The Reunion Black Family . African movies scream it al Oh! Inferiorized Africans Oh! Neocolonized Africansn Oh! Benighted Africans Oh! Enslaved Africans Africans without roots Africans accept anyone Anything non-African Anything except their own African movies is a mirror Our jaded mirror of hopelessness Of our dearth of inventiveness Copy, copy copy oh, oh Of always imitating others Those who deride us Those who neocolonize us Those who disempower us Those who otherize us Those who misrepresent us Those who ghettoized us Oh! Inferiorized Africans II. LIGHT-SKIN SYNDROME When film-makers parade stars They parade light-skin stars Biracial is the choice Light-skin tones are the norm Bleached skin tones Contradictory skin tones Bleached forehead area Opposing unbleached ears Light-skin is akin to heroism Dark-skin is akin to villainy Light-skin is upper-class Dark-skin is lower-class Light-skin offers advantages Dark-skin offers disadvantages III. WESTERN NAMES Film stars wear Western names Strange lackluster names Their badges of honor As a badge of Westernization As a badge of education As a badge of social class Westerners don’t use our names Don’t know our names Don’t care about our names Oh! Africans! Lost Africans In the crucible of neocolonialism In one African movie These strange names abound Not a single African name All these slave names: CLARA, TRISHA SIMON, PATRICK JAMES, PAUL THEODORA, BOND SILAS, VERA SYLVIA, ROSE EDWIN, ANN VALENTINE Where did African names go Amma, Memuna Afi, Adzo Yaa, Yawa Kofi, Kwasi Oh! Inferiorized Africans Oh! Neocolonized Africans Even in our postcolony We adore Westernisms IV. FASHION So we wear dog chains Big chains Chains of imitation Gangster-rap chains Chains of enslavement So we wear wigs Our women adorned Adorned in capitalist hair Manufactured hair pieces Pig hair, dog hair Horse hair, goat hair Blonde hair, brunette hair Our hairstyles are gone Oh! Africans Inferiorized Africans V. DEPRAVED MANNERISMS Foreign cultures Of violence Of gun-toting heroism Of depraved sex/sexuality Of drugs, alcohol Of gangsterism Of slanging gurl, gurl (girl) Of weddings Of greetings Of accents VI. EPILOGUE Oh! Inferiorized Africans Oh! Neocolonized Africans Oh! Benighted Africans Oh! Enslaved Africans Time to be proud as Africans Time to stop imitating others Time to showcase our cultures Champion our rich cultures Our vibrant rich cultures Listening to music with young children can be very embarrassing because you just never know what will be done next. Why is it that these days, dancers in music videos do not dance with their hands, legs and faces, but feature women shaking their backsides? At my home, I keep the television in my bedroom for one reason – I like to monitor what my children watch. But once in a while, I decide to give them a treat and bring it out into the sitting room. Imagine my shock one day when l came home to see my very young (pre-teenage) children watching porn. In the middle of the afternoon! Not that it would have been any better had it been in the middle of the night! Like a mad woman, I rushed to the TV and turned it off. “Oh mummy, why?” came their cries. “What do you mean why? What are you watching?” I demanded. “The new music DVD you bought for us,” they replied. “Really?” I asked myself. And to make sure my children were not deceiving me, I allowed them to put the DVD back on. Lo and behold, it was indeed the music DVD I personally had bought for them! My goodness, little did I know the shock I was in for when I decided to sit and watch the DVD with my children. I mean, was I watching music videos or porn with music? I really could not tell (well actually when I experimented and turned the volume off, some of the videos did indeed look like soft porn). From music videos featuring women seductively caressing themselves whilst sprawled across huge beds, to videos which portray the artist as the “don dada”/ “oga”/ “playa”/ “big boy” (call him what you will), coming out of a limousine or another luxury vehicle, sipping champagne, several scantily clad women by his side (all desiring him), where he’s smoking his cigar, tossing dollars in the air, on the girls… Then there is the dancing. Well I don’t know if I should actually call it dancing as in most cases it is nothing other than a woman’s backside twisting. I even watched a video in which we did not see the female dancers’ faces, only their backsides for the entire duration of the Now I like to think of myself as someone with a liberal mind. I strongly believe in freedom of expression. I believe in a woman’s right to dress in any way she chooses. Seriously. I have no issues with the Pamela Andersons of this world, you know, those who choose to dress in the skimpiest of clothes. It really is up to them. When it comes to dancing, once again, I have no problem if someone wants to dance wildly and erotically. I have even been known to shake my thang in a sexy way… what I mind is having a woman’s backside forced into my face when all I want to do is listen to a song and watch a video. I mean, what happened to good old- fashioned choreographed dances? Why is it that these days, dancers in music videos do not dance with their hands, legs and faces? Why does every single video feature women shaking their backsides? The worst part is that I am not even referring to music from American artists. As for them, we have long been used to their way of writing songs and producing videos. Women as sex objects, a hip-hop star wearing more diamonds than you would even find in a diamond mine, money being thrown about that has been the American rap/ hip hop video scene for a very long time. I did not like it then, and I certainly do not like it now that African artists seem to be going that way. I mean, why does a young man from Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania or indeed any African country think it is okay to wear their jeans to their knees. Why do music videos coming from poor Africans living on the continent feature the artists in luxury vehicles, sipping champagne or seductively sprinkling money on a half-naked woman? If American artists are doing this, it is because for most of them, this is the norm. Believe me, it is real for 50 Cent to sip champagne every day if he wants, or for R Kelly to hire a limousine and fill it up with girls for his pleasure, if he so desires. It is real because they can afford this lifestyle. The African artists who are producing music videos like this are just aping somebody’s life. It is so far removed from their reality; l wonder why they would even want to go there? I guess they want to be “with it” and have international appeal. But do they not feel stupid when at the end of the day, they live in ghettos and do not even own a bicycle let alone a luxury fourwheel- drive vehicle. Most of the artists coming out of Africa are from poor backgrounds. They don’t live in mansions or maintain the champagne lifestyle, so it seems really silly to portray this in our music videos. African artists should be using music and videos to tell stories about their people. I am not saying for one moment we should go tribal, wear only loincloths and start throwing spears about (unfortunately, when people think of producing “African” videos, this is the only way they seem to go!). Maybe it is old age, but these days, I don’t enjoy listening to music on the radio because when I try, I just get offended by the noise and lyrics such as “I wanna hit on your bootie” or “I wanna ride her like a Range Rover.” How about “like a dollar bill, I had to unfold her”! Music is so graphic and disgusting these days I wonder what is going on. I also think music is having a negative influence on how young men and women perceive and enter into relationships. Today, it is all about sex, sex, sex, and more sex. Men are singing it. Women are singing it (they will tell you they have been “empowered”. Actually, I should say boys and girls are singing it because really most of these artists are still babies! Don’t get me wrong, I know people have always sung about sex. But it is the way it is done in this day and age. Look, when Marvin Gaye sings “Let’s Get It On”, he is asking for the same thing Usher is when he sings “make love in this club”. They are both purely asking for sex. But look at the way in which Marvin Gaye does it. Romantic, sexy. Non-offensive. Marvin says “if you believe in love, let’s get it on”. These days, songs are about doing it in the club, here and now. Gone is the romance. Because really if you are doing it in a club, it is not love-making but some quick bang, probably against a dirty toilet door! Even female artists are jumping on the bandwagon with people like Khia singing the filthiest song of them all, “lick it good”. What the hell is going on? Don’t for one moment think I am being prudish or hypocritical. Yes we all indulge in sex. But do we have to sing it out loud so crudely? Listening to music with young children can be very, very embarrassing these days because you just never know what will be said next. Currently, there is a song doing the rounds that has the words “I wanna be on you”. On first hearing it, you may be forgiven for thinking the man is singing “I wanna pee on you”. After explaining to my then seven-year-old son that it is “be” and not “pee”, he wanted further explanations as to why the man would want to “be on you”. What do you say to that? Am I the only one who thinks music, dance and videos should be entertaining ways of telling stories? I cannot recall any Michael Jackson video featuring sexy girls wriggling all over him, yet his were some of the most wonderful and truly creative videos. One of the best videos I ever saw is Will Smith’s “Summertime”. Now that is a video. Like a good video should be, it tells a beautiful story from beginning to end. It does it successfully without showing a single half-naked woman These days? All we see in music videos is minutes of backsides. I would not even mind if these backsides were interlaced with other scenes. But what do we see? Backsides dancing in the studio. Backsides dancing in the artist’s face. Backsides dancing in a club. Artists have even written songs to glorify a woman’s backside and to sing about what they would like to do to it. All the music videos are beginning to look the same. It is monotonous, uncreative and demeaning to women. It is time young African artists stopped blindly copying their American counterparts. African artists have to be true to themselves and tell our stories, not stories about gunshots in the hood! They have to be trendsetters who create new dances and fashion to go with their music. Dances, fashion and music which American artists should rather be copying. Continental Africans have such an advantage! We have different languages. We play musical instruments that the Western world may not even have heard of. We can make sounds with our tongues that those in the West cannot. These are unique features that African artists should be exploring. Take the Haitian artist. Wyclef Jean. He does not follow anybody. Wyclef always creates new beats and sounds that others follow. African artists must be more like Wyclef and invent new music. Copying hip hop or rap but doing it in our own language is really not creative. Nor is it creative to produce a music video featuring half-naked girls wriggling their backsides. But hey, these are just the reflections of an ordinary African woman .African Movies Show Our Inferiority Complex.Oh! Inferiorized Africans Oh! Neocolonized Africans Oh! Benighted Africans http:// www.reunionblackfamily.com/apps/blog/show/7079351-african- movies-show-our-inferiority-complex-oh-inferiorized-africans- oh-neocolonized-africans-oh-benighted-africans#.VxF09gdmn5B .twitter

Tho I'm a fan of his teachings, I like the man...but I don't like the way his followers see him like he's one superman...they are 'storghed on him hornestlay'...i was a member for 4 years, so I know wassup.. i believe no man should be exalted that high..the way his members do eye service ehn...nor be here. everybody wants to please their own church pastor...taah

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7. De Storm (most favourite)

6. King Bach

5. Brandon Bowen

4. Thomas Sanders

3. Christian Delgrosso

2. Mr Legendarius

My Best Viners are

1. Anwar Jibawi

Who else watches Vine Compilations please? Let's discuss here



And for those of you who don't know what it's all about...

Vine is a short-form video sharing service where users can share six-second-long looping video clips. The service was founded in June 2012, and American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, just before its official launch. It's a new form of social networking logging the events in the lives of
stupid people. Curiously, this includes three activities: twerking, pretending to chase women, parodying 1st world problems, and fights where a black person says something funny. In short: once you've seen one, you've seen them all.

José Mujica, the 40th president of Uruguay has been described as
"the world's 'poorest' president", due to his austere lifestyle and his
donation of around 90 percent of his $12,000 (£7,500) monthly
salary to charities that benefit poor people and small entrepreneurs.
(he drives an old beetle) -He is an Atheist.

Bill Gates had donated US$28 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. -He is an atheist. Warrent Buffett is a notable
philanthropist, having pledged to give away 99 percent of his
fortune to philanthropic causes, primarily via the Gates Foundation.
He has given to charity more than anyone else. -He is an agnostic #GBAM

Where are the Christians? -They are out there buying private
jets, building mansions and living large. My question is, why is it
that atheists are more interested in charity, in giving hope to the
less privileged and in helping the poor than we the so-called
believers?. Is that what Christ taught us? Is that what the Scripture
says? Is that the essence of life? I believe life is much more than the
material things, the essence of life is to live for others and not for
yourself and your family. If not, Jesus would have just come to save
only his household. I will rather use my last #1000 to make a child
happy than keep a million dollar in my bank account. I will rather
use my money to send a child to school than to keep changing my
car every 2months. Please let's make a decision today -Not to live
for ourselves but to live for others. With this, we can make the
world a better place and make everyone on Earth happy.

Tolulope Moody said, you might not have the money to build somebody a house, but you have the heart to build somebody a home. Help Someone Today

F22RAPTOR:
Its so unfortunate and hypocritical.

I'm airing my opinion, bro.

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well said

I could wish that I was RuPaul right now

and I honestly wish this post won't end....people should keep posting please

okay..so it's my turn...


I'm a Yoruba..born and bred in the North-Central part of Nigeria... I rmbr when i was young wayback then.my parents were separated some months after i was born so i knew no fatherly love. I heard mom married another man when my dad became retired, old and broke; now that's for a woman who as at that time had already given birth to 7 kids..aiye oo (we the two youngest kids were staying with her; my elder sister and i. I later had another stepsister ). I naturally found it hard to mix among my peers because of pesistent derogatory statements often made by my mom..coupled with the fact that I was a 'Nocturnal Ocean Swimmer'; so she beats at the slightest mistake, & do you know what she flogs me with? Electric Blender Conveyor Belt!! Do you know how much that pain that could cause for a 12yo then? My stepsister would taunt and insult me and my mother wouldn't say a word, if i dare do the same, I'd be done for
And it wasnt that i was wayward then, infact because of the flogging, i became very shy and fearful. I dont talk in school,i was scared of the teachers, scared of everybody. I wake up every morning wishing i didn't wake up because all i would get and digest that morning would be insults by my mom of how useless and worthless my dad is..and a very high possibility of being caned again that morning..FOR NO REASON.
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Now today, I'm a vibrant & young man somewhat in his early twenties; hale, hearty, up and doing & also a final year student in FUTA..
I later met my Dad, the man has been kicking fine; in his 60s now; ever smiling. My dad has thought me without knowing himself that 'Regardless of how life goes down, it goes on'. I try to make him happy during the holidays; he's the comedian himself.. Anytime i catch him staring at me, he keeps smiling..saying the last time he saw me, I was a toddler..my elder siblings are cool too. Two of them are abroad.

Ever since i met Christ, my life has been transformed, i don't get to think about all those derogatory statements anymore
I later got to realise that all the allegations made by Mom were nothing close to the truth. But i really dont care anymore..it's past

As regards to my mom, i haven't seen her in years, everything about the north reminds of my traumatic childhood experience, so i never want to go there..
She's now famzing me on phone now when she realised she's getting older and in need comfort

Nevertheless, i love her and I've forgiven 'cause i realise..'You may never know the true worth of your parents until they are gone'

.........Peace...........


Pic:: I'm the dude on the left
indeed, God has been faithful

Movesz:
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The difference is clear im not brain washed..

There is not bad religion
there are only bad people.

#preachunity
#uniteourmotherland
#uniteafrica

#wellsaid

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Ymodulus:
Did they collect tithe and offerings?

Can't Imagine how much they will make. Church is a good business.

with due respect sir, you're a big fool

I was there. nobody paid offering or special seeds whatsoever. the gate entry was free

so you see why I said you're a big fool

I'm sorry if this offends you

MrBenSun:
One move from Drogba, can change their lives forever

haha...I said it

Fkforyou:
Chelsea will experience their first defeat today.
1-0 courtsey of chadli or roberto soldado.
By the way Up arsenal.

lols..iffahear

One move from Drogba, can change their lives forever