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"I am Canadian and have lived here the past 8 years, entering with a TN visa, then obtaining an H1B Visa and now have my green card. I came here legally and I did not take a job from anyone, and yes, we do have to prove to Homeland Security that a job cannot be filled by an American. To the gentleman who 'lost his job to a Canadian' -- how was that possible? Was he/she more qualified than you? Folks, don't use such a broad brush in painting your opinion of Canadians. There are smug people all over the world. Do you love every American you encounter?" ["Canadians Among Us!"]

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/dont-hate-canadians#comments Real Estate Canada canadians Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:53:12 -0400 Tom Acitelli 72754 at http://www.observer.com Canadians Among Us! http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/canadians-among-us

She never thought she'd get married. In her own Park Slope living room. On a Friday night. Or that her mother, many miles away, would lecture her about her choice of groom: one of "them," an American. She never thought she'd have to keep so many secrets--from her family, from potential employers, from the U.S. government.

But in February, a 26-year-old woman--whose name The Observer agreed not to print--joined the ranks of illegal immigrants in New York City. She tried to look for new work, but as soon as employers saw her foreign résumé, the questions started. Last spring, marrying her American boyfriend seemed like the only way to secure legal status in the United States.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/canadians-among-us#comments Real Estate Canada canadians demographics Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:22:48 -0400 Leigh Kamping-Carder 72692 at http://www.observer.com Timber From Russia, With Love... Blame Canada! http://www.observer.com/node/35216

Lumber will bring us together

Instead of yet another bleak housing market report, we would like to share some wonderful post-Cold War news: American home builders visiting St. Petersburg have offered to share their top-secret technology, in exchange for... softwood lumber.

Why the cross-continental bargaining? Because as of next month, our very own Canadian neighbors will be starting "a complex system of border taxes and quotas that will artificially raise lumber prices."

In short, those damn Canadians have forced us to share our precious housing secrets with those damn Russians. Can't a patriarchic global superpower ever catch a break?  read more »

Our first press release from SAINT-PETERSBURG is after the jump. - Max Abelson ]]> http://www.observer.com/node/35216#comments Real Estate Canada Jerry Howard National Association of Home Builders Russia Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:12:13 -0400 Observer Staff 35216 at http://www.observer.com Single Housewives Don’t Have Hubby, Kids; Homemade Sorbet? Yes! http://www.observer.com/node/39303 Overlooked in the culture wars, a new phenomenon has been emerging: domesticity without family, or w  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/39303#comments Style Canada eBay Inc. Italy Martha Stewart Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Ann Marlowe 39303 at http://www.observer.com Single Housewives Don't Have Hubby, Kids; Homemade Sorbet? Yes! http://www.observer.com/node/52586 Overlooked in the culture wars, a new phenomenon has been emerging: domesticity without family, or w  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/52586#comments Style Ann Marlowe Canada eBay Inc. Martha Stewartlike Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:00:00 -0400 Ann Marlowe 52586 at http://www.observer.com Weyrich's Canadian Evasions http://www.observer.com/node/28485
When people in politics lie about sex, well, that seems fairly normal. But about Canada? (If you aren't so into reading about Canada...stop reading now.)

And yet the American conservative activist Paul Weyrich seems to misled the Canadian press about an incident The Politicker got rolling with the publication of a leaked email from him, in which -- at the urging of a Canadian conservative -- he asked American conservatives not to talk to the Canadian press about that country's election, for fear of scaring the Canadians.

The story got big play in Canada, and a reporter from the Canadian Press (a wire service) called Weyrich: Weyrich said the e-mail was the product of an overzealous staffer who works for him.... It was apparently widely distributed, he said, adding that he never actually spoke to Chipeur [the Canadian conservative].... "I don't know him, but he has been in touch with Free Congress [Weyrich's group]. He may have called the office and expressed some concern." ....He discussed his views with a staff member in an off-hand way, he said, and didn't expect an e-mail to go out.

Weyrich's version, however, changed pretty substantially in a celebratory article he posted to his Web site:

It has been rather exciting to watch the Canadian Elections. I had the benefit of discussing the projections with one Gerald Chipeur, an Alberta attorney who is involved with Conservatives in Canada.... In fact, Chipeur and I inadvertently were involved in the Elections a few days before Election Day. Chipeur had contacted Free Congress out of concern for what the leftwing Canadian media could do to obtain from some unsuspecting United States conservative an off-the-charts quote which could be hung around Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper's neck. I asked my associate Bob Thompson, who runs our Coalition meetings, to tell American conservatives what the media up north intended to do and request that folks not conduct interviews until after the Canadian Elections. Of course, in this city of leaks, our e-mail had been released only a few hours before I received a call from the Canadian News Service. Our e-mail message mentioning Chipeur was read back to me.

It was, Weyrich declares with some relief, a "small victory":

"In the end, there just wasn't enough there to make a fuss, although there was potential to blow this sky high. Conservatives did not conduct interviews." Whew!
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