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You’re innocent until proven guilty,” Mandy exclaimed, unable to hide her gleeful smile. She missed the way people used to have normal conversations, used to be more caring for each other than themselves, back in the Seventies and Eighties. These days, she realized, neighbors kept to themselves, their kids kept to themselves, nobody talked to each other anymore. They went to work, went shopping and shut themselves up at home in front of glowing computer screens and cellphones… but maybe the nostalgic, better times in her life would stay buried, maybe the world would never be what it was. In the 21st century music was bad, movies were bad, society was failing and there were very few intelligent people left who missed the way things used to be… maybe though, Mandy could change things. Thinking back to the old home movies in her basement, she recalled what Alecto had told her. “We wanted more than anything else in the world to be normal, but we failed.” The 1960’s and 1970’s were very strange times, but Mandy missed it all, she missed the days when Super-8 was the popular film type, when music had lyrics that made you think, when movies had powerful meanings instead of bad comedy and when people would just walk to a friend’s house for the afternoon instead of texting in bed all day. She missed soda fountains and department stores and non-biodegradable plastic grocery bags, she wished cellphones, bad pop music and LED lights didn’t exist… she hated how everything had a diagnosis or pill now, how people who didn’t fit in with modern, lazy society were just prescribed medications without a second thought… she hated how old, reliable cars were replaced with cheap hybrid vehicles… she hated how everything could be done online, so that people could just ignore each other… the world was becoming much more convenient, but at the same time, less human, and her teenage life was considered nostalgic history now. Hanging her head low, avoiding the slightly confused stare of the cab driver through the rear view mirror, she started crying uncontrollably, her tears soaking the collar of her coat as the sun blared through the windows in a warm light.

All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.

You’re not an artist, you’re not a scientist, you’re not an intellectual. All that’s left to you is politics.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.

A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.

At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.

Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.

Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.

Canada is the greatest nation in this country.

Canada join the United States? Where would young Canadians run off to for adventure? Where would Americans run to escape?

Canada can be tough for urban music.

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

Canada is so far away it hardly exists.

Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.

Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

Canada will also look into their policies to avoid a repeat. They will go after their exporter.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.