On Afghanistan and the meeting this morning, as General McChrystal -- is he satisfied with the NATO involvement in the Marja offensive -- the British and the Canadians were involved.
The Canadians and British are deploying military transport aircraft.
After several vacations in Europe, I found that the best company at dinner came from Canadians or the British.
The United States is also unique in the scale on which it attracts human capital: of the 314 laureates who won their Nobel prize while working in the U.S., 102 (or 32%) were foreign born, including 15 Germans, 12 Canadians, 10 British, six Russians and six Chinese (twice as many as have received the award while working in China).
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"People reading novels by Canadians or watching the British film The Full Monty or seeing non-American music videos on MTV or non-American reporting on CNN, " insists the Encarta's editor-in-chief, Kathy M.
Last year, new British citizens from Somalia outnumbered Australians, Canadians, Jamaicans and Americans put together.
So the Canadians, offspring of the British parliamentary tradition, have to be explained away as closet southerners clinging to the border.
In Yugoslavia , two Canadians and a pair of British policemen, who were training a post-war police force in Kosovo, appeared before a military court in Belgrade to answer charges of spying.
Valley is not overawing: according to a recent survey, Russians comprise only about 2.4% of immigrant entrepreneurs in the area, a modest figure when compared to Indians (33%), Chinese (8%), and even British (6.3%), Canadians (4.2%), Germans (3.9%), and Israelis (3.5%).
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In the Affleck version the Americans are alone having been turned away by the British embassy and yet finally finding refuge with the Canadians.
The Canadians are so concerned about foot-and-mouth that they recently turned back a British military ship over fears that mud on the wheels of vehicles on board could be harbouring the disease.
On March 23, U.S. and British soldiers, acting on intelligence gained from a detainee, freed Briton Norman Kember, 74, and Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, from a house west of Baghdad.
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