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The Consulate of Canada

Lets get our inter-regional fun started with the November/December report 





Forum
962 registered members
321,843 posts
Region
Population: 162 nations

Our Staff[/u]
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (39 endorsements)
Minister or Internal Affairs: disposablepuppetland
Minister of External Affairs: Matilda Love
Speaker of the House of Commons: Stormaen

Delegate's Office

WA Resolutions
General Assembly[/i]
Electoral Freedoms - FOR
To Prevent Dangerous Debris - AGAINST
Repeal "Reproductive Freedoms" - AGAINST
Nuclear Material Safeguards - AGAINST
Repeal "Protection of Sapient Rights" - FOR
Repeal "Nuclear Material Safeguards" - AGAINST


Security Council[/i]
Commend You - FOR
Repeal "Condemn the Greater German Reich" - FOR
Repeal "Condemn Omigodtheykilledkenny" - FOR
Commend Travelling Region - FOR
Repeal "Nuclear Security Convention" - TIED: no vote
Condemn The Red Fleet - AGAINST
Condemn DEN - TIED: no vote
Repeal "Commend The Red Fleet" - FOR

Ministry of External Affairs

We are delighted to welcome some new regional embassies and ambassadors:
Zachary from The Allied States
Boy101 from The Universal Allegiance
Santa Joanna from Forest

New ambassadors from our delightful old friends:
Owen Hesse from The Kingdom of Great Britain
Chaplin Dawkins from Ainur

So pleased to have Alta Italia as visiting dignitary from Australia

And last but not least, we say a tearful goodbye to Barrarabian Butlers as our ambassador from XKI (but very pleased he still visits us!) and welcome with great joy the return of Aersoldorf as our ambassador from XKI

Canada at The Nation States World Fair
The World Fair 2015 was strong in dedicated involvement from Canada this year. I am talking about Almonaster, one of a great team from several regions who were responsible for getting the whole show up, and making sure it all ran smoothly. The other members of this crack team were the good folk of the region Greater Dienstad (host region - especially The Macabees, United Gordonopia and Lamoni) and of course the committee - Todd McCloud, McMasterdonia, Astarial, Almonaster, Sopo, and The Grim Reaper (Honorary)

The badge Almonaster created for the event:
was proudly sported by many most nations attending the fair.

Ministry of Internal Affairs

Having such a creatively visual population in Canada, we all have taken like loones to water over the idea of changing our regional flag to reflect real and NS world events. The discussion over changing flags has been intermittently spread over a variety of threads, here are just a couple I located:
http://z8.invisionfree.com/NationStates_Ca...topic=6660&st=0
http://z8.invisionfree.com/NationStates_Ca...?showtopic=6664
Finally we are resolving our national obsession into one thread:
Vexilology

This months Watercooler feature thread is:

Cool Linkage

Welcome New Members!

• Zachary
• Elite-Earth Toy Company
• Robbiethefoxhog1
• Beaver-Rock Bay Harbor
• Coriolanus Snow
• Chaplin Dawkins
• Aquatur
• Alta Italia
• Canatana
• Kalfknuur
• Owen Hesse
• E1even!!
• mister_696
• JustinLawson

Welcome Back!

• Fin
• Aersoldorf
• Auq
• jDELIGHT
• drummond and elmsley

Postcards from Canada

Here are some of the flags regional Canada has enjoyed flying over the last half year or so:


QUOTE <> UNQUOTE: Directly from Canada, the non-crappy Region!

^ Secretary who fiddled the details on the notary that Almo issued with the take-down notice on the selfie which Mattie snapped with Almo calling the debt collector to collect on the bill that Mattie failed to deliver that included interest on the loan from when Barry borrowed the milking machine which startled the cow that spilled the drink which Barry ordered from the bodega next to the earthly crack that Mattie climbed out of that Barry clawed that welcomed Red to Hades for suing the order which owned the church that donated the candle that Almo lit and put in the lantern that Red left for Mrs O'Learys Cow to kick over and set the joint on fire.

*As always...Report prepared by:  The Canadian Citizens

It's great to hear from our friends in Canada! I actually went through the flags when I was looking for one to apply to your consulate...it's a nice touch that many regions don't do

LOOOOOONG LIVE OUR CANADIAN MOOOOOOTHERLAND, BUUUUUUUUILT BYYYY OUR PEOPLE'S MIIIIIIIGHTY HAND

Thank you Wintermoot.
We are flaunting the love currently, a flag of which I wholehearted approve, as you can imagine!

Why thank you Drexyl Nox.
You built Canada?  

Here is a report for the new year:






Forum
971 registered members
323,185 posts
Region
Population: 170 nations

Our Staff[/u]
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (43 endorsements)
Minister or Internal Affairs: disposablepuppetland
Minister of External Affairs: Matilda Love
Speaker of the House of Commons: Stormaen

Delegate's Office

WA Resolutions
General Assembly[/i]
Rights of Sapient Species - FOR
Ban on Booby-Trapped Aid - FOR
Landmine Safety Protocol - FOR

Security Council[/i]
Condemn The Royal Lagrangian - AGAINST
Commend Nation of Quebec - FOR
Commend BearNation - FOR
Repeal "Condemn DEN" - FOR

Ministry of External Affairs

We welcome Shen149 as our new ambassador from the United Kingdom, and thank Tony Benn for his past services.
Welcome Wawona, our first ambassador from Forest.
And we are very pleased to be open a consulate with Greater Dienstad and their ambassador to Canada, Lamoni.

Ministry of Internal Affairs

A quiet month for Internal Affairs. There has been a spate of interesting articles posted in Real Life Politics and Current Events - have a browse


This months Watercooler feature thread is:

Standing Around the Watercooler has been particularly oddball this month, if you can make sense out of it, perhaps you had better make an appointment with someone about that!

Welcome New Members!

• NanuNanu
• Victor Lancaster
• Gotham
• LazyMcFail
• Lamoni
• MannyFresh
• Wawona
• pwjlafontaine

Welcome Back!

• Omnivorous

Postcards from Canada

For January we would like to share this gorgeous fractal from Almonaster with you all.



QUOTE <> UNQUOTE: Directly from Canada, the non-crappy Region!

Have you considered the power of ex-ponents?

The Dead Ponents' Society?

*As always...Report prepared by:  The Canadian Citizens

Omg I didn't know @Matilda Love was our Canadian ambassador! I love that gal!

I do too!

Thanks for the update! It's great to hear from our friends in Canada.

Everyone loves @Matilda Love , how could you not!

I think that's the first time I've actually done an @ before. He he.

Look out everyone, Crushita finally lost his @ virginity!

Awww shucks guys 

Actually I just signed up in Canada to be the Wintreath ambassador properly.
Wintreath is now one of my favourite three regions....shhhhh!
Don't tell anyone else!

Forum
1,016 registered members
330,657 posts
Region
Population: 161 nations

Our Staff[/u]
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (46 endorsements)
Minister or Internal Affairs: disposablepuppetland
Minister of External Affairs: Matilda Love
Speaker of the House of Commons: Stormaen

Delegate's Office

WA Resolutions
General Assembly[/i]
Repeal "Law Enforcement Education" - FOR
Toxic Heavy Metals Act - FOR
Preventing Animal Abuse - FOR
Commend Hell - AGAINST
Repeal "Convention on Execution" - AGAINST

Security Council[/i]
Repeal "Condemn the Pacific" - TIED, no vote

Ministry of External Affairs

A welcome post from Ambassador Hemmings of Celestial Maple from Wysteria.
An exhibition of glass art, well worth a look:
Glass as Art
^Don't forget to check out some of the older exhibits as well!

We have also had a fun puzzle posted by Wintermoot of Wintreath...I believe some of you others have also had opportunity to have a play with this:
puzzle #1

Ministry of Internal Affairs

We have cracked the 1,000 mark for registered members - yay us!
We had a go at some recruiting this month, no positive results that we are aware of.

[SIZE=8]This months Watercooler feature thread is:[/SIZE]

We hadn't heard from 'Worst Jokes You Ever Heard' for some time, bit of a flurry for May....must be everyone is suffering from spring fever or something equally perverse:
http://z8.invisionfree.com/NationStates_Ca...?showtopic=5681
Here ^ it is for those of you of more robust constitution.

Welcome New Members!

• al-hind indus
• Morandor
• Hind Swarajya
• YeahJust
• JSodil
• Gahiland

Postcards from Canada




This months postcard comes from the Canadian extension of the Wysterian Museum, located on the Canadian forums here. We are very honoured to have such varied and inquiring exhibitions brought to us by Celestial Maple of Wysteria at regular intervals. Everybody is welcome to call in and visit the museum at any time. The particular postcard we are sharing with you this month comes from April Surgent's body of work where she creates cameo style engravings from photographs taken from daily life. This particular image has also been adapted by Almonaster for his current avatar:

and is enjoying a new life at this time in the 'Where's the Avatar' thread over at the Canadian Watercooler here where we all take turns guessing what the man at the window might be thinking, where he is from and where he might be going.

QUOTE <> UNQUOTE: Directly from Canada, the non-crappy Region!

Words of wisdom form ParrrrTay over in Dear Diary:

Dear Diary,

I started a new excursive routine today. I'm doing diddly-squats!


*As always...Report prepared by:  The Canadian Citizens

Hehe...your secret is safe with us. Unless someone from outside views this topic, but that's beyond our control!

Thanks for the update! Like I said before, it's exciting to see Wintreath mentioned in your dispatch! I'm glad that Canada is enjoying the puzzles. Congrats on 1000 members as well...considering the steps people have to go through to get to a regional forum (be recruited, move to the region, go to the forum, and register), 1000 is a major accomplishment.

Thank you Wintermoot!
I know you have all been holding your breath for this our June report at last!





Forum
1,017 registered members
332,077 posts
Region
Population: 160 nations

Our Staff[/u]
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (45 endorsements)
Minister or Internal Affairs: disposablepuppetland
Minister of External Affairs: Matilda Love
Speaker of the House of Commons: Stormaen

Delegate's Office

WA Resolutions
General Assembly[/i]
Liberate The Arab League - FOR
The Rule of Law - AGAINST
Crime and Punishment - FOR
Repeal "Preventing Animal Abuse" - AGAINST
Pesticide Regulations - FOR

Security Council[/i]
Repeal "Liberate The Arab League" - FOR
Condemn Macedonia - FOR
Ministry of External Affairs

This month has seen a review of our diplomatic ties with our various regions.
Just a little reminder that if your region has been delivered with a closure message, there is still time until August 1st to call in and say hello to Canada!

We are very pleased to announce that we have our favourite old/now new ambassadors from Ainur and the Kingdom of Great Britain back with us Yay!
We are also delighted to have Lord Ravenclaw from The North Pacific as a visiting dignitary, and look forward to meeting our new ambassador from that region over the next month or two. Skål!
We also got a very immediate response from our ambassador from the United Kingdom, Misael Gamez.
Thank you to all our diplomatic partners, Canada is very proud to have you all as friends.

We had a request in Canada from The Democratic Kingdom of Isaris for some banner ideas for the national paper. Here is a link to the brief, and the results:
http://z8.invisionfree.com/NationStates_Ca...post&p=22120536

Ministry of Internal Affairs

In Posting Stats, we celebrate with disposablepuppetland who has now posted over 5000 posts!

[SIZE=8]This months Watercooler feature thread is:[/SIZE]

Outrageous lies about myself was brought back to life, after a long sleep since September 2014! Biggest lie since it's resurrection?
You decide!!!!!
Redundancies, obviously looking in the wrong mirror, sees not himself but a "Southern belle"
Lamoni quips "Weird Al" Yankovic."
Almonaster admits "Not so weird as weird Al but weirder than slightly weird Al Al Yankovic."
Matilda Love is so disturbed she went around and "painted the exit signs red"
Rylvan...perhaps unsurprisingly, "Plans to put Mercury inside Jupiter inside the Sun, like a cosmic turducken"
Bogans and Boozers is consistent as ever, he "is really a teetotaller"
Welcome New Members!

• Ardrathad
• Charles IX
• Georgiana
• Charles Lancaster
• Pepe Drakan
• Ambassador Rhein

Postcards from Canada



Mattibo - a cyborgly creation by Almonaster for Matilda Love, who has a cyborglian wish!

QUOTE <> UNQUOTE: Directly from Canada, the non-crappy Region!

From: The Last Person To Post Here Wins

those Rotarians are fun!

There's a phrase that's new to the English language! 

*As always...Report prepared by:  The Canadian Citizens

Thanks for the update! Seems things are humming along just fine in Canada.

Matilda Love! Oh, my goodness! What a coincidence!

I have been meaning to stop over on the Canada forum and let you know that I chose your design for my newspaper's banner!

Thank you again! <3