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Canada sounds just like Belgium, except for the cold weather

But you guys have more languages to deal with.

...what is the significance of those children just having eaten what looks like a raw bird in bed?, it must signify something.

Belgium only has Dutch, French and German. Canada has English, French and all of the First Nations languages, they have a lot more official languages than Belgium.
I'm not from Belgium btw, I'm from the Netherlands. We are Belgium's big brother. Their rude, pot-smoking big brother.
The Netherlands also has more languages than Belgium on a regional level, Dutch is the official language but Frisian, Low Saxon and Limburgish are regional minority languages.

lol. When I was in my twenties and discovered weed I wanted to go to the Netherlands. Twenty so years later and Canada may soon have it's own coffeehouses.

But the First Nations languages are not official languages in Canada, although some have called or them to be so. Just French and English.

On wikipedia I saw they were regional languages, so official in some places, like Frisian and Low Saxon and Limburgish in the Netherlands.

There is actually a pot store in my street

The dove of peace?

Washington Post

Okay, so Christians have a stake in this too, if Christ was born there. So maybe if a Christian State were carved out of Israel and the disputed territories, Gaza, Golan, etc., perhaps there would be stability. It's a mess as it is anyway so why not?
And send Canadians ... we can get along with anybody and we need a province with a warm climate.

As a jewish girl that loves israel and married to a Muslim boy, I say: two states is not perfect, perfect wouldbe if people just live toguether and no need for different states, no need for mixing religions and politics, but is two states is a achivable way to get peace. I shared this with my Palestinian teacher at college and be totally agreed.

On 19 June 2011, Haaretz reported that the Israeli cabinet voted to revoke Defense Minister Ehud Barak's authority to veto new settlement construction in the West Bank, by transferring this authority from the Agriculture Ministry, headed by Barak ally Orit Noked, to the Prime Minister's office.[281]

In 2009, newly elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "I have no intention of building new settlements in the West Bank... But like all the governments there have been until now, I will have to meet the needs of natural growth in the population. I will not be able to choke the settlements."[282] On 15 October 2009, he said the settlement row with the United States had been resolved.[283]

In April 2012, four illegal outposts were retroactively legalized by the Israeli government.[284] In June 2012, the Netanyahu government announced a plan to build 851 homes in five settlements: 300 units in Beit El and 551 units in other settlements.[285][286]

Amid peace negotiations that showed little signs of progress, Israel issued on 3 November 2013, tenders for 1,700 new homes for Jewish settlers. The plots were offered in nine settlements in areas Israel says it intends to keep in any peace deal with the Palestinians.[287] On 12 November, Peace Now revealed that the Construction and Housing Ministry had issued tenders for 24,000 more settler homes in the West Bank, including 4,000 in East Jerusalem.[288] 2,500 units were planned in Ma’aleh Adumim, some 9,000 in the Gush Etzion Region, and circa 12,000 in the Binyamin Region, including 1,200 homes in the E1 area in addition to 3,000 homes in previously frozen E1 projects.[289] Circa 15,000 homes of the 24,000 plan would be east of the West Bank Barrier and create the first new settlement blocs for two decades, and the first blocs ever outside the Barrier, far inside the West Bank.[290]

As stated before, the Israeli government (as of 2015) has a program of residential subsidies in which Israeli settlers receive about double that given to Israelis in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. As well, settlers in isolated areas receive three times the Israeli national average. From the beginning of 2009 to the end of 2013, the Israeli settlement population as a whole increased by a rate of over 4% per year. A New York Times article in 2015 stated that said building had been "at the heart of mounting European criticism of Israel."[27]

“Very few Christians are appointed to senior positions by the PA”, says one briefing, “in what is perceived as routine discrimination.” In fact, the PA’s record is far better than Israel’s. The president's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, is a Christian. So are two cabinet members, for Finance and Tourism, and two members of the PLO's executive committee. The deputy speaker of the Palestinian National Council, Qonstantin Qurmush, is a priest. Christians abound on boards of banks and chambers of commerce, and head its largest company, CCC. Despite their falling numbers, nine municipalities, including Ramallah and Bethlehem, stipulate their council should have a Christian majority and a Christian mayor. Christmas and Easter are official Palestinian holidays. President Abbas attends three Christmases (the Greek Orthodox, Catholic and Armenian) in Bethlehem and would celebrate Easter in Jerusalem, if Israel let him in. On St. George’s Day, Muslims join Christians to commemorate his martyrdom at his shrine in al-Khadr, near Bethlehem.

By contrast, in its 66 years, Israel has had no Christian presidential spokesman, government minister, or bank chairman. Where Palestine has eight Christians in its parliament, Israel has two. Where Palestine has at least five ambassadors, including to London and Berlin, Israel has none (although its deputy ambassador to Norway is Christian). The Knesset bans Christmas trees which sprout all over Palestine from public display on its premises. Israel’s prime minister does not go to Church for Christmas, and in his first term in the late 1990s aroused Christian ire by backing construction of a mosque next to Nazareth’s Basilica of Annunciation, while his Palestinian counterpart, Yasser Arafat opposed it.

Israel does give its Christians native citizenship, but when its leaders endlessly trumpet their status as a Jewish state, many feel they have second class status. They are not spared strip-searches at Israel’s airports. Exacerbating Christian anxieties,hate-graffiti – such as "Mary is a prostitute" - is daubed on church doors, and increasingly rife. Priests in Jerusalem say spitting on their habits has become well - a habit. The country’s most prominent Christian politician, Azmi Bishara, was hounded out of Israel amid cries of treachery after he dared to suggest that Israel should be a state for all its citizens. Ameer Makhul, founder of the Haifa-based umbrella group of NGOs, Ittijah, is in jail for spying for Lebanon’s Shia group, Hezbollah. Nervously, Christians in Israel as elsewhere in a region sunk in rampant religious nationalism look for surer climes.

no need for mixing religions and politics,

Btw, that's quite laughable for you to say that, Israel-lover, Israel was founded based on a religious book.