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Re: CBC "The Greatest Canadian" contest - bullshit

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From: emtecca
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 23:12
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but trees are more productive...

"*xVx*" <vstar@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote in message
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> rocks are more honest than trees
>
> "SHARX.." <SHARX@SHARXTANKSnospam.com> wrote in message
> news:CGChc.637$mP2.492@edtnps89...
> > Svend RobbingStores wrote:
> > || Yeah and I bet they're biased towards humans too.  why the hell
> > || would I vote for Suzuki when I could vote for a tree?????
> >
> > Trees are far more honest than any human being.
> >
> >
> > ||
> > || In article <4086e0e9$1_1@aeinews.>, Basilic@no.thanks says...
> > |||
> > ||| I guess a lot of you hockey fans saw this commercial.
> > |||
> > ||| The CBC has a contest where you, Joe/Jane Public, gets to nominate
> > ||| who the Greatest Canadian is/was. After you nominate, they tally
> > ||| the votes and pick a winner.
> > |||
> > ||| Nothing wrong so far....but,
> > |||
> > ||| on their web site, www.cbc.ca/greatest , they offer a list of
> > ||| people to choose from. No, you don't have to choose one of these,
> > ||| you could, in fact, choose whomever you like, could be your
> > ||| neighbour.
> > |||
> > ||| Now, going through this list I saw that they have listed non
> > ||| Canadians, i.e.. Bell, Cartier, Champlain, Cunard (only made it to
> > ||| the C's). This is quite deceiving, whereas some people could get
> > ||| the idea that these non Canadians were actually Canadian, funny as
> > ||| it sounds.
> > |||
> > ||| That's the rotten CBC for you. I've complained to them stating that
> > ||| they should rename the contest, to something like "The most
> > ||| influential person towards Canada" or modify the list to contain
> > ||| true Canadians (born here or immigrated and became naturalized).
> > ||| We'll see if they do anything. IMO I don't think so because the CBC
> > ||| are decievers and are quite BIASED.
> > |||
> > ||| Having vented, go Suzuki go.
> >
> >
>
>
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Subject: Re: CBC "The Greatest Canadian" contest - bullshit
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