"The best Canadian newspapers are terrible, but it is not a big and important country -- papers here are mostly designed to separate the ad pages>"

Peter, while I agree with your general assessment of newspapers, (gave up my subscriptions long ago), I'm wondering by what criteria you judge a country as "big" or "important". Canada is the second largest nation on earth, and it was always pretty important, at least to me. Like, it's my home. eh? You dissin me?!? May thy toes be smitten with maple fungus, and thy tail be slapped with beaver blight!

;>) daylia