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Most half-hour shows are 22 minutes, once you excise the commercials. As for actual program titles, though, Rick isn't with This Hour has 22 Minutes any longer; in case you haven't heard, he has his own show now! And, IMNSHO, it's quite incisively entertaining.

Did they "detain" you???

The RCMP, as I know them, are a domestic police agency.
The Canadian equivalent of our CIA is the CSIS.

OP was it this way in 1992? If not, why would each Consulate have RCMP stationed at it around the world?

Consulates and Embassies are "home turf". Being inside a Canadian one is like being on Canadian territory. RCMP may be on duty inside the Consulate; you would notice, thought, they do not wander outside the property line.

Was the CSIS around in 1992, or is that a new department like Homeland Security?

You can find a short history of the CSIS here: http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/hstrrtfcts/hstr/brfbgnndx-eng.asp and a longer version here: http://www.espionageinfo.com/Bl-Ch/Canada-Intelligence-and-Security.html

That's when it helps to remember that "we" are not the media.
Russia used to show old gangster movies when they wanted to propagandize about America and Americans.
Distortion doesn't help and neither do sweeping generalizations.

Best thing I can say to foreigners is, if you want to know what an American thinks, talk to one, or better yet, talk to bunches of them, individually.
The range of answers might surprise you.

Sometimes it seems to me that we have collectively gone insane too. Then I remember that some of us have just been sleeping for the past eight years.

My heart goes out to all Canadians who mourn the loss of loved ones who have served in the military alongside our own.

Don't forget that radical Islam is all about breaking the will of ANY Western country that doesn't agree with their agenda, and the scariest thought is the fact that Canada is closer than we are to allowing Sharia Law to supercede Canadian and natural law in Islamic neighborhoods.

It's not good for Canada, and it's not good for regular Muslims either, who do well when they mainstream into the laws and customs of their host countries, because their visibility is interpreted as a positive cultural adjunct to the mix instead of a xenophobic and hostile enclave that attacks outsiders.

The same applies to the USA, and any host country that is thinking of giving autonomy to Sharia minded communities.

When in Rome...
Jeff H in TX
No, I don't have a horse, I don't own any large 4 wheel drive trucks, I don't chew tobacco and I don't worship George W. Bush.
Oh yeah, almost forgot...I don't beat my wife either.
And somehow they let me stay here.

This is very strange...

OP and I have a different view of RCMP from you Joe. She cited human trafficing, pornography in SE Asia and the RCMPs involvement, and I wrote my personal experience with a partner of two years who stated he was RCMP. I saw his travel documents, he traveled under a different name. I picked up him up from work at the Consulate on many occassions as we took BART and I'd wait in the Consulate's lobby for him to get off from work.

There must be more to the RCMP than meets the eye - and it's not as straight-forward as is being presented.

Because the two are not jiving.

Could he really have been CSIS and not RCMP as he told me? I know his dad was the head of the Kaula Lumpur "mission" that's what the partner called it because we'd receive mail from Indonesia from his parents and he went there several times to see his folks.

...and I know he wasn't American, because he started each sentence with: Am...

I told him in the US, we start sentences with: Um...

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Uh-oh! The infamous Fox "News" channel has insulted Canada and roused the Sleeping Giant of the North! Say good-bye to Twenty-First Century Fox! They are toast!

Fox News Arouses the Sleeping Giant of the North


Since Canada has one-tenth of the population of the USA, the four Canadian soldiers killed last week would be equivalent to 40 dead American soldiers in one week. As I recall, on a per capita basis, Canada has lost more soldiers in Afghanistan than the USA has.

Although Fox "News" has so many competitors among the economic elite, I think they stand a good chance of winning the "Traitor of the Year" Award. Of course, the year is still young!

A Canadian friend has suggested that Canada's elite Joint Task Force 2 should invite Mr. Gutfeld to one of their beach romps, dress him in Capri pants and give him a paint set, and then let him have a two-minute head-start down the beach.

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