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Canadians - What have they ever given us?

Good stuff to have emerged from Canada

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maddul
For the computer geeks,,
Ati and Matrox
willy
The game of Basketball, Velcro (everyone needs it) and the Zipper ...

Just to add a few that were invented by Canadians!
willy
people to make fun of is more like eh.
If you're gonna use the EH, use it correct!!

People to make fun of is more like it, eh?
Kat
New York Times today:
I LOVE Canada: It's so clean!" Visiting Americans may be about to lose their favorite cliché about their chilly neighbor. Over the past few weeks, a judicial inquiry in Montreal has heard charges that Canada's governing Liberal Party was running a system of extortion, embezzlement, kickbacks and graft as dirty as anything Americans might expect to find in your run-of-the-mill banana republic.
Oops. Eh?
the whole article - Woe Canada
jml
People to make fun of is more like it, eh?
My bad, eh. I just have shitty grammar, eh.
latecomer
owen hargreaves
greg rusedski
gideon
they remind the inhabitants of the us of a, that it is possible to live in north america and 1. be polite to people and mean it. 2. go to school without being body searched or shot. 3. show your appreciation of the manner in which a sportsman has played or your agreement with a speakers statement by clapping your hands, not by doing monkey impressions in the style of "WOW WOW WOW WOW".
Bumpy
Comedians:
Michael Meyers
Alex Trabek (if you think Jeopardy is comedy)
Tom Green (doesn't belong here)

Music Bands:
Barenaked Ladies
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Our Lady Peace
Crash Test Dummies

Lumber:
An infinite supply!
worm
beaver hats. I would love to wear a beaver as a hat.
Yeti
With or without earflaps ?
Bumpy
Woman's legs as earflaps?
Showem
Pablum is also a Canadian invention.

First country with standardized free medical care to all.

Came up with the idea of using UN troops as peace keepers.
Yeti
The Cowboy Junkies.
Showem
Terry Fox, who with his attempt to raise money for cancer research by running across Canada (Marathon of Hope), inspired Terry Fox runs across the globe.
BostonSportsFan
Wait a minute, DW, wasn't basketball invented in Springfield, Mass?

Edit: Not saying he wasn't Canadian!
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