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Comedy Central & Canadians

SlipperyPete (http://canada.videosift.com/member/SlipperyPete) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:44:12 -0700

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Some requests to those who post content from Comedy Central - especially 'popular' clips like those featured on The Daily Show & The Colbert Report:

1) Comedy Central is *blocked. Until vids submitted from Comedy Central are automatically tagged with the *blocked invocation, please take the 0.5 seconds and do it yourself.

2) Please post the original date of broadcast in the description. This makes it easier for Canucks to search and find content for The Daily Show (http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/full-episodes) or The Colbert Report (http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-colbert-report/full-episodes/)

3) If a fellow Canadian does seek out and watch the clip in question, take an additional 3 seconds and post the link in a comment so others can bask in its visual glory.

Thanks =)

- SlipperyPete

Learn Inuktitut online!

Throbbin (http://canada.videosift.com/member/Throbbin) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:29:11 -0700

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Check out http://www.tusaalanga.ca/

Now even YOU can learn Inuktitut (the language of the Inuit ) online - complete with soundfiles teaching you how to pronounce words. Give it a try, and let me know what you think.

- Throbbin

Throbbin catches Gold Star, Penguins Applaud

rasch187 (http://rasch187.videosift.com) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:02:40 -0700

(27 comments - 210 views)

Throbbin's been with the sift almost 2 years now and finally got his gold star (well, his second gold star really, but that's not important). When he's not starting polls on which fabric softener is the best, this urban inuk posts some damn fine videos and writes great comments. His pqueue igloo has gotten quite full, so head on over there and free some of them!

Congrats to this quality Canadian sifter!

Now let the eskimo/inuit jokes begin...

- rasch187

O Canada: Happy 142nd birthday!

calvados (http://canada.videosift.com/member/calvados) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:10:09 -0700

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Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canucks! There's no country I'd rather call home

Show love to KimzSendai! http://www.videosift.com/video/Happy-Canada-Day-1

- calvados

Canadas ISPs Must Have Surveilance Capability Under New Bill

SpeveO (http://canada.videosift.com/member/SpeveO) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:56:01 -0700

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"It is pretty much exactly what law enforcement has been demanding and privacy groups have been fearing. It represents a reneging of a commitment from the previous Public Safety Minister on court oversight and will embed broad new surveillance capabilities in the Canadian Internet." Law Professor Michael Geist

Michael Geist's blog with some context and a good history of this legislation's progression

The CBC's take on it

The Globe and Mail's view

- SpeveO

Needed Channels! - What do you want to see?

Sagemind (http://canada.videosift.com/member/Sagemind) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:56:29 -0700

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I just figured we could nail down the names of some much needed channels. I think it would be interesting if we all named our wants. Everyone is so different and we all post diverse stuff.

What have you noticed missing?

- Sagemind

Sagemind turns yellow!!

NeuralNoise (http://canada.videosift.com/member/NeuralNoise) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:43:54 -0700

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Len has reached gold right after me, showing what a good example I´ve set.
Len likes Toys and Star Wars, and Star Wars Toys.
Len has never seen the 2G1C video, which we should not allow to continue, rickrolling him into watching it asap.
Len is much worried about the Texas Flunking Garbage Patch.

Now you may all go to his pqueue and be merry with it!

(also check out his site, he has been busy painting AND poeting:
http://www3.telus.net/Nickel/ )

- NeuralNoise

So is it just me?

Throbbin (http://canada.videosift.com/member/Throbbin) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:10:52 -0700

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Or does the sift community completely lack a sense of humour?

http://www.videosift.com/video/Phil-the-Alien-Trailer

- Throbbin

NFB releases its entire film archive online for free

arvana (http://arvana.videosift.com) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:11:37 -0800

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The National Film Board of Canada just released its entire archive of 700+ films online for free:

http://www.nfb.ca/explore-by/title/

And they're embeddable!

Some of my favourites are already sifted:

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Cat-Came-Back-1
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Big-Snit-classic-Canadian-animation

...but there are many many more that are worthy of adding.

- arvana

Happy Boxing Day, whatever THAT is... :-)

firefly (http://firefly.videosift.com) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:16:49 -0800

(7 comments - 503 views)

Happy Boxing Day, British sifters. C'mon, what is it really? Out with it!

- firefly