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  • Men:do u like romantic girls or non romantic girls?

    Singles & Dating - 4 hours ago

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  • my sisters geting married, help please!?

    Marriage & Divorce - 5 hours ago

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    my older sister is 24 and shes geting married, but she wants to tell my parents tomorow, but the problem is my dad and mum might not me very surportive about it, the main reason is becuase my famile is hindu and his is a hole diffrent religion...muslim. my sis told me and my bro allready and we r fin about it, i havent met him be4 but my brother has and he says that hes cool. but aaperently my brother in law to be has something in common with my dad, so maybe it would help! oh and btw my parents have never met him and dnt no that my sis is geting married! i need some help i want to make sure my parents are happy and come to my sisters wedding, shes the first one in our famile to get married! any suggestions!

  • Any help with this quick one...?

    Singles & Dating - 5 hours ago

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    cut along story short ex girlfriend broke up with me after being together for 2 years...spending many happy times together she talked of having my kids etc...and she wouldn't let me off the phone with out me saying i loved her... she broke it off saying she hadn't been feeling herself lately..so i played it cool and was like ok do wat u want....and then she said i no this sounds sad etc but i can see myself settling down with you and marrying you etc but im not ready for all that yet your all i have known... cut anti her bit short she is now with a boyfriend, even tho she has been desperately trying to get in contact with me...me ignoring it...so i finally said wat do you want she said can we talk i lost like my closet friend in all this to...and it sucks etc...now is there trouble le in paradise? she claims she is completely over me and doesn't fancy me etc..so why all this fuss i have stayed away...she should be all wrapped up in her new guy and i should be the last thing on her mind...why all this after four months of not being together? i said to her i cant be friends sorry...she cant have her cake and eat it as well... its like she wants the friendship without sex...i told her don't contact me etc...will she try again do you think? thanks for reading!

  • Does he like me? Really confuzzled :/?

    Singles & Dating - 5 hours ago

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    Ok, i have this guy friend and i've known him for like 1 year and a half. He is a friendly person and has the most wonderful personality :] I became like really good friends with him like the first week since we started talking to each other. But i didn't fancy him at that time. I was actually trying to help him to ask a friend of mine who he liked. Anways, recently, he has been hugging me A LOT. When i say a lot, i mean like whenever we see each other, whatever situation and we don't care who's around us...he just makes me forget about anything and everything around me. There are also a whole bunch of girls he's friends with but he doesn't hug them as often and as tightly as he does with me (he sometimes like hugs them with just one side or like normal hug but they're not close.) AND like when he drinking something and a girl comes up by him, he just hugs them with like the hand that's not holding the drink. But he hugs me normally, even if he has a drink in his hand. He used to hug me often when we first started talking but it was one of those friendly ones where you don't actually get close you just like give each other a little bit of space. But now-a-days, he hugs me every time. And they're not just like friendly hugs (like 3 second, light hug type) but they're like more than 20 seconds+ and he hugs me tight too. He sometimes comes up from behind me and just rests on my shoulder (even though he's like 3 inches taller than me...and that's probably uncomfortable... I'm like 5ft 6/7 he's a bit taller but I still go on my tip-toes to hug him properly though) We also hang out all the time like at lunch times and break times..which really doesn't help things and he used to hug me when we first met but he liked someone else but he told me just recently that he doesn't like her any-more because he doesn't see him and her going out. Sorry, if it's really long, but i was wondering if he likes me or if I'm just over-analysing this. He doesn't hug his other friends like he hugs me. He only side-hugs them all just a short normal hug. But when he hugs me, it's like a 20 second, tight hug and sometimes we just talk while hugging...just relaxing. My friends say i like him but i deny because if i asked him out and he sad no...it'll be awkward between us and i don't want that because he is like a really close friend of mine. The other day, my friend even said that he blushed when he hugged me in the hall (it was when we were about to have registration and he came out of his last lesson, and then i smiled at him, he smiled back and we hugged for like a long time...then my friend had to say that he BLUSHED!!!) Oh, and that day he made a little sound like "hmm". WHAT DOES IT MEAN!??! My other friend said that he follows me everywhere and always thinks of a reason for him to talk to me (like when I was playing ball with my girl friend...he was like with other people talking and stuff then he just came up to me and hugged me and we started talking and I kinda forgot I was playing something...) We hugged a lot after that and for a long time...all in like 10 minutes. Pleeeeease help me. I think he likes me...no, I HOPE he likes me because i like him A LOT. I'm just afraid to make the first move 'cause he might reject me and it'll be awkward between us (i even hug him from behind and he doesnt care...he turns around to hug me back or just carries on talking to who-ever but leans on my arm or something like that) I think if he did care that i hugged him that way he would have said something (and because he has to like lean a bit back...'cause of the height difference, and that probably uncomfortable) Oh, btw i was thinking of like hugging him on next time i see him then kissing him on his cheek (we've never kissed so i don't know how he'd react.) He usually doesn't mind me hugging him or saying 'i love you', he even says it back. When i hug him, it's like i don't want to let go of him, and when i hug him for like longer than you're meant to- he doesn't say anything :| I'm REEEALLY sorry that this is like an essay, but i really need your help!

  • Please help me, this is very important!!!?

    Singles & Dating - 6 hours ago

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    Please help me decide what i should do? Should i stay in Australia for my boyfriend. I received a job at a firm in New York city and have an apartment on the upper east side and as much i wont to go i have this voice in the back of my head saying dont go. We have been together 4 years and are very stable . with his job he wont be able to come over for a year due to work commitments. After then he can live with me. Im 25 and he is 29. Should i go and hope he doesnt cheat on me?? I love him so much and i dont want to loose him and Its not him that i don"t trust, its all the other girls. A year without his girlfriend, they will try anything. His brother hinted that he has a ring in his top draw and said that he may only give it 2 me if i stay, i don't know if his brother is telling the truth and i don't know if going to New York will put that ring on my finger or keep it in the draw forever.

  • What should i do, Please help me!!!!?

    Singles & Dating - 6 hours ago

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    Please help me decide what i should do? Should i stay in Australia for my boyfriend. I received a job at a firm in New York city and have an apartment on the upper east side and as much i wont to go i have this voice in the back of my head saying dont go. We have been together 4 years and are very stable . with his job he wont be able to come over for a year due to work commitments. After then he can live with me. Im 25 and he is 29. Should i go and hope he doesnt cheat on me?? I love him so much and i dont want to loose him and Its not him that i don"t trust, its all the other girls. A year without his girlfriend, they will try anything. His brother hinted that he has a ring in his top draw and said that he may only give it 2 me if i stay, i don't know if his brother is telling the truth and i don't know if going to New York will put that ring on my finger or keep it in the draw forever.

  • have you ever felt this way?

    Singles & Dating - 6 hours ago

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    everyone is telling me to forget about him and that I deserve better, but I really feel like I don't. If someone as terrible as him doesn't want a girl like me, than how am I worthy to be with someone better? and have you ever gotten over that feeling?

  • Girls: in order what are the most important qualities you look for in a guy?

    Singles & Dating - 7 hours ago

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    for example 1)Confidence 2) Sense of humor 3) Size of penis 4) Money 5) Looks and anything else you want on your list

  • How do I get over my ex? (kinda of long)?

    Singles & Dating - 7 hours ago

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    My boyfriend and I broke up. While we were together, I let him live in MY house, I let him spend MY money, I cooked for him, did his laundry, let his friends stay over, and had sex with him. I put so much more into the relationship than he ever did. And throughout the whole time we were going out he was talking to his ex girlfriend on a regular basis, and I didn't think anything of it because he told me that they were "just friends" and I believed him because I trusted him. He flew down here to live with me, flew home because we broke up, now he's flying to his ex's to be with her. He talked to her with her while we were together, and she's said so many terrible things to/about me, and he never stuck up for me once or told her to stop. How could I be so stupid? I gave him everything, and I got nothing back. I'm hurt, sad, angry and most of all I just feel SO STUPID. I feel like a total idiot. Everyone is telling me that I deserve better, but I really feel like I don't. If someone as terrible as him doesn't want a girl like me, than how am I worthy to be with someone better?

  • my husband owes his exwife alot of money for back child support. is it possible for her to "forgive " his debt?

    Marriage & Divorce - 8 hours ago

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    can his debt be legaly "forgiven" or wipped out? even if he has been ordered by a court? if so how would one go about doing this?
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Canada's sexual history

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While Pierre Trudeau's statement that the government had no business in the bedrooms of the nation undoubtedly influenced Canadian sexual values, it was in fact the bill he was introducing at the time -- the 1967 Omnibus Bill -- that has probably had more impact on our national sexual identity than any piece of legislation since. This bill made birth control and abortion more available, divorce more accessible, and removed homosexuality from the Criminal Code.

Less than a decade previous to this Canada wasn't quite as sexually liberal. The D.H. Lawrence classic Lady Chatterly's Lover was considered criminally obscene at least in Quebec as late at 1959.

But a decade after the Omnibus bill, in 1977, Quebec became the first province to include sexual orientation in its Human Rights Code. It took the Supreme Court of Canada until 1995 to rule that sexual orientation is protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms but the feds made up for it by becoming the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage in 2005.

And, in the same year that gay people were celebrating their legal entry into the world of heterosexual monogamy, straight married couples were celebrating their legal right to have recreational sex with someone other than their partner when, in December of 2005, swingers' club were legalized in Canada.

You could also blame our liberal sexual attitudes on Niagara Falls. According to Chris Gudgeon, author of The Naked Truth: The Untold Story of Sex in Canada, by 1867, Niagara Falls had become the Honeymoon Capital of the World because it was 'a potent symbol of the awesome natural limitlessness of the new country.' From the start, Gudgeon argues, 'Canada and sex were linked in the world's imagination.'

Our sexy rep has been solidified by people like Gwen Jacobs who took off her top on a hot day in Guelph, Ontario back in 1991, asserting she had just as much right to go topless as men. The court agreed and it became legal for women to go topless in Ontario. Toss in our two official nude beaches, Wreck Beach in Vancouver and Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island, the fact that Toronto is home to the Naked News (nakednews.com) and The History of Contraception Museum, featuring the world's biggest collection of contraceptive devices, and you've got one sexy country.

From Dildo, Newfoundland to Bare Butt Bay in Northern Ontario, Cuddle Lake in Manitoba a and The Nipples off the coast of BC, Happy sexy Canada Day!

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  • 1. Posted by JOHN R on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Idiotic Jounalism from amateurs!! No facts, foundation or stats. Typically Canadian!

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  • 2. Posted by Klutz on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Canada rocks my world!!

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  • 3. Posted by roguetheelf24 on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    I'm canadian and proud of it---I just don't agree with the way the our government runs things.

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  • 4. Posted by kustom135 on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    What a waste of print space. Yawn, there are a hundred more interesting topics to pursue, but this woman broadcasts only garbage to impressionable minds. Sex is a bodily function, not a lifestyle or state of mind. And Gwen Jacobs' 'victory' is about the biggest, flabbiest farce around. Another piece from one the perpetual adolescents who are bent on taking over thought and reducing it to their lowly level. Get lost, Vogels.

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  • 5. Posted by not happy on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Hey John R go bury your head in the sand you putz

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  • 6. Posted by rumteetum on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Yawn

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  • 7. Posted by HOUSE OF KNIGHTS AND LADIES on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    If you knew anything about Canadians, you'd realize they are nothing like this. Not that I am against abortion or homosexuality, but a lot of people think attitudes towards sex, marriage, divorce, the raising of children, money and women's lib are too liberal.

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  • 8. Posted by HOUSE OF KNIGHTS AND LADIES on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Obviously, there is a difference between media image and reality, aka a beautiful model or superstar in designer clothing with good lighting and makeup (has professional training, is young, good genetics, diet, sleep, plastic surgery, vitamins, massage) vs. a fat chick with saggy boobs at age fifty shoving her sinking ship of a butt into clingy spandex, cellulite, bad tans, grey hair, thick glasses and dirty nails.

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  • 9. Posted by ashleigh on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Who cares? IF you are going to talk down about Canada, and think that we are "fake" how the hell can we be fake? At least we have free health care and do not have to pay thousands to see a doctor for 10 minutes. I love lots of places in America, and a lot of Americans are amazing. Except people on here like you, talk trash about Canada, you are trash. haha believe it.

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  • 10. Posted by kustom135 on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Josey Vogels doesn't speak for Canada; she might think she does. Actually, she sounds like she speaks for hedonistic downtown Toronto.

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  • 11. Posted by ted on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    I thinks they are selfish and many of them are so fat with drinking and smoking problems .

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  • 12. Posted by slippery on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    IT REALLY IS TOO BAD THAT PEOPLE THINK WE CANADIANS LIVE IN IGLOOS IN A SNOW COVERED COUNTRY . I AM EXTREMELY PROUD TO BE CANADIAN AND HAVE THE FREEDOMS OR SOLDIERS HAVE WON FOR US AS HAVE THE SOLDIERS OF MANY OTHER NATIONS. WE ARE A PEACEFUL NATION, SLOW TO ANGER, INDEPENDENT, PROUD AND SO FORTUNATE TO LIVE IN ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. MAY I ALSO POINT OUT THAT AMERICA MAY BE THE MOST MILITARILY POWERFUL NATION IN THE WORLD YET LITTLE OLE CANADA IS THE ONLY NATION IN THE WORLD TO HAVE DEFEATED THE AMERICAN S IN BATTLE AND ACTUALLY BURNED THE WHITE HOUSE. WE MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO REPEAT THIS FEAT BUT NOR WILL WE EVER BE CONQUERED AS A PEOPLE.. I LOVE OUR SEXUAL FREEDOM SUCH AS IT IS..LOL ps DO YOU KNOW WHAT WE CANADIANS DO WITH OUR OLD CHEWING GUM??? WE RECYCLE IT AND SELL IT TO THE AMERICANS IN THE FORM OF CONDUMS .... HAVE A GREAT DAY !!!! LOL

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  • 13. Posted by the growing minority..5 gen Canadian on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Only Americans would speak negative about positive points relative to Canada. Its like when our ladies hockey team, and junior hockey team hands the Americans their arses...lmao...too often...but anyway...same old thing..only crying and wishing they had what they couldnt have. Read up^^^ and see how foolish they can be.

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  • 14. Posted by Larry T.C. Ren on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Jornalism 101 seems good along side this tripe!

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  • 15. Posted by Yud on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Eh nice news, i did not know that women could go topless in Ontario.Seems to be a good idea, naturism seems to be a very nice idea for me.Go naked.Yeah!!!

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  • 16. Posted by Flasher on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    I really like Canada in general - but, I've never been so deprived of sex ... until I moved here - and I'm a fairly good looking and nice guy. It's all good, but sexual freedom ... from my experience it's more of a theory here. If it would be for anything I'd leave the country for lack of it. Not that it never happens, but it became rare. I like to say good things about Canada otherwise, but when it comes to this part I rather change the theme.

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  • 17. Posted by Evil Yoda on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    John R,... may want to use spellcheck when calling others amateur at journalism...

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  • 18. Posted by crow on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Jezz...JOHN R...Are you really so gay!!!!!!!!

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  • 19. Posted by yoda131342 on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    if you dont like canada move to another country where you belong.

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  • 20. Posted by Mem on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Wait...What? Why do they have a thing about Sexual History? Gosh, I'm scared to live in Canada now if we're known as a 'good sex country'.

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  • 21. Posted by richard_stere@rogers.com on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    ted where in hell did that come from, and what part of Canada did you see. like many americans ,yes some Canadians are obese. smoking is also another common ailment both Canadians and americans share. please ted have an open mind when it comes between americans and Canadians were more alike then some people like to admit , but we are also a little different. we share many of the same problems that americans have. just try not to stereotype a nation on a few individuals.

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  • 22. Posted by brianfel on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    I guess you must be an umemployed bum asleigh. You have free health care. I don't I pay a fortune in taxes to pay for mine and probably lazy freeloaders like you. Plus I get to wait in line for hours at a hospital and wait months for tests. What a system.

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  • 23. Posted by Gary on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Well no one comes to Yahoo for "real news" although as always its great for entertainment since every idiot can spew their %&#* in comment. Actually perfect for Americans since thats all they EVER DO unless their bombing the hell out of some poor counties to bring FREEDOM and WORLD PEACE! (lol) I am so very thankful I am Canadian, since would have probably killed myself long ago if I was forced to be a American programed en-mass by their government and media. If you look at all the "negitive" comments on these sites, ie this/that sucks, is gay, etc etc etc I'd bet money MOST come from American idiots since unless they are kept busy fighting a war, they just vent their hot air about how their the best, smartest, most powerful, etc etc etc country in the world! LOL for being the most powerful country in the world, they sure got their asses handed to them in New York from... Some guy with a beard living in a cave?! LMAO - yes just shows how powerful that American Intelligence truly is!

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  • 24. Posted by alpha 2 on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    i tell you how i see how sexy canadians are ..im a foreigner . first at 18 the bar is high..you can only look but cannot touch .. at 25 ..they are busy looking for the perfect partnair .. at 30 ..they are busy with work and great career .. at 35 ..they are looking for a decent person to marry .. at 40 ..they are desperate to have kids .. at 45 ..they are are looking for sperm donnors .. at 50 ... they are looking for same sex marriage . at 60.. they talk much about afghanistan n' women rights

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  • 25. Posted by sallys_29 on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    What a stupid article!!!!!!!!!!!! It's not about sex!!!! Please!!!!! I worked on a cruise ship and we are laughed at because we are so liberal! That is from most of the other countries!!! Let's put Canada into the place it once was! Christian! Yes! Christian! We were a great nation and debt free and feared God! Let's give it another go and see what happens again. Revival is back! Not a bad thing!!! It's not Yoko Ono, or John Lenon! Get your heads out of the sand! Look up history and learn!!!!! Have a great Canada Day. You see, churches started holidays and hospitals and schools. get the picture! Isn't God Great!

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  • 26. Posted by yoda131342 on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    to all you who dont like canada or our journalisim suck rod canada is the best and you other guys should move to the states where you fit in.

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  • 27. Posted by Flasher on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    yoda131342: I really like Canada - my family also comes from here, but I grew up in another part of the world. It is a good place, but, I have to say, (and I'm not happy to say that): unfortunately it is not nearly as sexual as some people would like it to look like (including me). Sorry to say that, but it's true :(

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  • 28. Posted by mousetoo2 on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    Boy, calling a topless Gwen Jacobs "sexy" is quite a stretch !!!!!!

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  • 29. Posted by kalaslsl on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    There's definitely more sex in Mexico and the USA than in Canada, I know because I've lived in these 3 countries.

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  • 30. Posted by abdullah on Tue, Jun 30, 2009

    A day will come when we could witness a punishment from God similar to what happened to Sodom and Gomorah/ Same sex animals don't mate!

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