Ambassador Report

[ParrrrTay]

Forum
741 registered members
247,585 posts
Region
Population: 194 nations

Delegate
The Pubs of Parkplace (59 endorsements)

Delegate's Office

WA Resolutions

General Assembly
Repeal "Biological Warfare Convention" - FOR
Repeal "International Language " - AGAINST
Language Preservation - FOR
Physical Sites Protection Act - FOR
Repeal "The Early Learning Act" - FOR
Repeal "First Responder Protection Act" - FOR
Repeal "Vehicle Emissions Convention" - FOR

Security Council
Liberate NAZI EUROPE - AGAINST
Condemn Yauna - AGAINST
Condemn Feux - AGAINST

Ministry of External Affairs
After a contested election, The land won 4-2 over disposablepuppetland.
The voter turnout was very low and disposablepuppetland was running mostly so it would be a contested election and not just a vote of confidence.
I kid you not...

I see The Land is already standing, so if you want a MoEA who will work hard and remember to do stuff on time, vote for The Land.

If, on the other hand, you want a MoEA who won't even remember to keep his nation active, leaves all the work to his deputy, and only logs in every once in a while to post gibberish in the Water Cooler, then vote for me.

My reasons for standing:
- I like being an admin.
- It's good to have some competition for places.
- I want a shiny badge under my avatar and a purple rhombus by my name.

The land hasn't made a mark as yet since the election, but we'll see what happens in the months to come.

Canada welcomes Acheron as the new ambassador for Ainur.
Canada has also received an embassy proposal from Great Britain and Eire.

Ministry of Internal Affairs

Welcome New Members!

• Bill Dearheart
• wetwork
• Acheron

Welcome Back!

• Lorelai County

Do stop on by and play some games in The Arcade
or...spend some time hanging out around The Watercooler

QUOTE <> UNQUOTE:

"Dear Diary,
Step aside tea, this is a job for alcohol."

"My Australian cousin plays it, so that view is firmly ruled out...
Unless I was from Tennessee
I'm not from Tennessee."

"I'm not either but then I'm not from a lot of places..."

"Dear Diary,
Now that I’m an adult, I feel I’m am old enough to hear what the “Beep Beep” is hiding when Road Runner talks to Wile E. Coyote."

"Dear Diary,
If anti-wrinkle cream actually worked women wouldn't have any fingerprints."

I should take a nice hot shower soon. I'm so cold.

Our iceman is losing his cool!

In basketball thread:

"Wanna try a fantasy baseball league...but don't know how, if anyone is interested. Please sign up and know what to do"

In Teh Funniez:

"I’ve invented a new game where you shout and scream swear words at people in public places just to see which one of them punches you first.
I call it Russian Tourette."

Comments to this photo from Shelter:

"@ Shelter, poor little dears. But I'm sure they know what they are doing."

"I thought the plural was deer?"
Quoting limited to 3 levels deep

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[God-Emperor]

Thanks for the update.

[Almonaster]

Forum
756 registered members
254,306 posts
Region
Population: 200 nations

Our Staff
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (58 endorsements)
Minister or Internal Affairs: Matilda Love
Minister of External Affairs: the land
Speaker of the House of Commons: Stormaen

Ministry of External Affairs

Externally speaking we are very happy to be welcoming Great Britain and Eire.

We are also absolutely delighted to welcome Glass Gallows to International Voice..
We are pleased that Glass Gallows has their own sub forum within our newest forum area: Informal Diplomatic Ties
Informal Diplomatic Ties is an area for visiting representatives to announce and discuss international events. If you have an event you would like to announce be sure to stop by!


Ministry of Internal Affairs

Our Internal Affairs Minister Matilda Love took off for real life Canada this month. No real cause for missing her as it has been a quiet month for Internal Affairs.

Just in case you love pics of Canada, here is one:
Tow Hill;



You can find more here

Welcome New Members!

• Augustus
• New Texas
• Volten
• lone star diplomatic mission
• Frattastan
• Tusken
• Felicity
• Shen149
• Madge
• Samuel

Welcome Back!

• Carb

House of Commons

As some of you know awhile back we lost a great member of our group: Jack Tarr.
Everyone worked together and helped Matilda Love create a gift to JT's family, a book of memorable quotes/posts from Jack Tarr. You may view the pages of the book in The House of Commons.


Do stop on by and play some games in The Arcade
or...spend some time hanging out around The Watercooler

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

I'll be better once I get a Scotch and Soda.

*Gives RO some scotch tape and baking soda*
I'm very confuse why you want these :unsure:

In Salutations:

I shall make postmodern sculptures out of broken-game-controllers, post-its-of-forgetten-reminders, and power-supplies-of-uncertain-purpose lying under my desk in celebration.

Dear Diary

Dear Diary,

I wasn't planning on going for a run today, but those cops came out of nowhere.
:ph43r:

Blatant lies about the last poster

^ Is a fact checker for moderated presidential election debates

Last person to post thread:

Winner, Winner Dinner
(Hi Sammi)

*plays Peek-a-boo with himself*

HELP, I can't find me :unsure:

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[Almonaster]

Forum
756 registered members
255,546 posts
Region
Population: 193 nations

Our Staff
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (58 endorsements)
Minister or Internal Affairs: Matilda Love
Minister of External Affairs: the land
Speaker of the House of Commons: Stormaen

Ministry of External Affairs
Canada's Minister of External Affairs has been MIA lately. We believe real life has consumed The Land.
But never fear...Matlida Love has stepped up and is in the running for this government position.

Canada welcomes Charles Sinclair as the new ambassador from United Kingdom.

Ministry of Internal Affairs
Matilda Love has resigned from the position of Internal Affairs to try something new...Minister of External Affairs.
disposablepuppetland and Almonaster have stepped up and are running for this government position.

Doughnuts & Beer
Doughnuts & Beer stirred a flurry of interest this month when ParrrrTay posted this Wikipedia article on The Valiant Five in the Canda XV thread.

It was fun to investigate this piece of Canadian history so close to Canada Day on July 1st.
Some of us had never heard of The Valiant Five. So, Shelter from the Storm busied himself with a mini survey in RL Canada.
He failed to discover anyone amongst his sample that had heard of these women, other than the remarkable Mrs Shelter of course.

Well, nobody is perfect of course.
Turns out we will always be a product of our era to a lesser or greater extent.
Was Judge Emily Murphy a racist? Some would say yes, some think we should give the era a break. Emily Murphy

Matilda Love was inspired to create her current avatar from the five. Here is an enlarged version:


Do stop on by and play some games in The Arcade
or...spend some time hanging out around The Watercooler

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

What you really don't want to do is sneeze into the breeze.

Or discover that the French sneeze into the Bries.

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[Almonaster]

Forum
762 registered members
257,902 posts
Region
Population: 191 nations

Our Staff
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (58 endorsements)
Minister or Internal Affairs: disposablepuppetland
Minister of External Affairs: Matilda Love
Speaker of the House of Commons: Stormaen

Ministry of External Affairs
We have a new Minister of External Affairs, welcome Matilda Love.
We also welcome our new ambassadors, Adel Windsor of the British Isles and Seven Deaths of Europeia.


Ministry of Internal Affairs
We welcome disposablepuppetland, our new Minister of Internal Affairs.

The election results were announced by the Speaker Stormaen as follows:

Minister of External Affairs (VoC)
Devil Heart
Approve – 9 votes (100.0%)
Disapprove – 0 (0.0%)

Minister of Internal Affairs
Disposablepuppetland – 4 votes (57.1%)
Almonaster Nuevo – 3 votes (42.9%)
None of the above – 0 votes (0.0%)

I hereby declare that Devil Heart is approved to serve as Minister of External Affairs and Disposablepuppetland is elected to serve as Minister of Internal Affairs.
Well done to all candidates and congratulations to the winners


Real Life Politics and Current Events
In Science Faction this month we are chuffed because a Canadian-led team has won the Sikorsky prize for building a human-powered helicopter.
Atlas Human-Powered Helicopter - AHS Sikorsky Prize Flight

New Embassy
We celebrate the opening of our embassy with Kingdom of Britain.

Welcome New Members!

• Daniel J.I. Stewart, ambassador from Kingdom of Britain
• Seven Deaths, ambassador from Europeia
• Adel Windsor, ambassador from British Isles
• Commonwealth of Ashyria
• Kinloch hold

Welcome Back!

• Carb
• Pez201
• Fin

Postcards from Canada

<--click me
- from our roleplay RV trip of NS Canada, our jaunt in Vainamonia


Do stop on by and play some games in The Arcade
or...spend some time hanging out around The Watercooler

QUOTE <> UNQUOTE: Directly from Canada, the non-crappy Region!
Discussing Epic Fail...

Since the embargo is in place, am I allowed to use the e-word and the f-word separately or just the other way around like f e instead of the really evil version of e f? I think I might be right now e f-ing with my thoughts on this topic.

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[Libetarian Republics]

Thanks for the updates!

[Almonaster]

You're welcome - it's what I'm here for.

[Almonaster]

Forum
764 registered members
259,597 posts
Region
Population: 166 nations

Our Staff
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (53 endorsements)
Minister or Internal Affairs: disposablepuppetland
Minister of External Affairs: Matilda Love
Speaker of the House of Commons: Stormaen

Ministry of External Affairs

We also welcome our new ambassadors,
Crushita from Ainur.
Alv from The South Pacific.

Ministry of Internal Affairs

Welcome New Members!

• Crushita
• Alv
• Tierrasia

Postcards from Canada

The month of August showed some entertaining activity in the Cover Meme thread. This is where we have a play with mixing random text and imagery to develop a fictional CD cover.
This contribution is from disposablepuppetland:


Do stop on by and play some games in The Arcade
or...spend some time hanging out around The Watercooler

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

In Posting Stats thread...

Al's streaking ahead of everyone.

It's not a pleasant view for the rest of us.

Dear Diary,

I've come to the realization that I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think "Well, that's not going happen."

Dear Diary,

I bet Waldo's parents are worried sick.

For UK readers, substitute Wally for Waldo.



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[Almonaster]

Forum
774 registered members
262,561 posts
Region
Population: 167 nations

Our Staff
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (52 endorsements)
Minister or Internal Affairs: disposablepuppetland
Minister of External Affairs: Matilda Love
Speaker of the House of Commons: Stormaen

Ministry of External Affairs
A welcome visit from Falconias meant that diplomatic relations were re-established between Canada and Equinox.
Canada wholeheartedly approves Falconias' opinion, this development is awesome!

Ministry of Internal Affairs

Welcome New Members!

• Fanix Talleyrand
• Billy Joel
• Prime Minister Tyler
• Hicklestyx
• Snowers
• Alterrum
• Auq
• Kringalia
• Qvait

Welcome back!

• Mousehole, our very best Fiddy!

Postcards from Canada
Canadian discussion is all abuzz around feasibility of construction of a space elevator in the Region of Canada.
The discussion was initiated by Matilda Love in the Map Updates and Requests thread, and quickly picked up by Esselldee, Stormaen, disposablepuppetland and Almonaster.

Such was the enthusiasm that disposablepuppetland began a Space Elevator thread in roleplay.
It looks as if there is a general consensus that the space port needs to be a joint venture amongst interested nations located in the Region of Canada.
We hope that the main station for this venture will be somewhere within or off the coast of Phoooey.
On our map, Phoooey can be located just south of the Canadian Region's equator, towards the east.

<- thank you Almonaster, for posting this picture of our Moon

There are some major technological and financial challenges for the region, but this cannot dampen our enthusiasm.
Most nations agree the port can in fact be located within the Region of Canada.
Devil Heart however is proposing a port be built on the Moon, believing this to be a less expensive and technologically more possible with regard to the structural strength of the elevator itself.

Facts from real life Canada:
On October 8th 1958, Swedish doctor Ake Senning successfully implanted the first pacemaker in a human. The device is based on technology pioneered by Canadian electrical engineer
Dr. John A. Hopps.

Great Bear lake is the largest lake entirely within Canada, having an area of 31,326 km² (Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan are larger; but are shared with the USA).

Do stop on by and play some games in
The Arcade
or...spend some time hanging out around The Watercooler

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

Dear Diary,

I should of never made an arm wrestle bet against a man who was single for more than 6 months.

Me to Mattie this morning:

"If I bring you breakfast in bed, a simple thank you is all that is necessary. Not all this, 'How did you get in my house' nonsense."

Dear diary,

What if soy milk is just normal milk introducing himself in Spainish?

Dear Diary,

Sorry to bother you.

Deary diary

Why must you be write all the time?

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[Almonaster]

Forum
775 registered members
264,629 posts
Region
Population: 180 nations

Our Staff
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (47 endorsements)
Minister or Internal Affairs: disposablepuppetland
Minister of External Affairs: Matilda Love
Speaker of the House of Commons: Stormaen

Ministry of External Affairs

It's been a quiet month. We received some interesting reports from many regions and would be delighted to hear from others.

Ministry of Internal Affairs

Welcome New Members!

• McMasterdonia

Welcome back!

• Vibhor
• Finn

Postcards from Canada

Boreal Tundra caused much head scratching and nearly 2 pages of debate when he posted this picture in the "Where in the World?" thread.

Can you find it without looking up the answer?

Do stop on by and play some games in
The Arcade
or...spend some time hanging out around The Watercooler

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

Dear Diary!

Dear diary,

Every time I get a bout of kleptomania, I take something for it.

We're lost in wilderness!? We have to start drawing straws to determing who's going to be eaten first.

*gets out a bag of pencils, a particularly robust pencil sharpener and a loooooong scroll of paper and begins sketching*

Operation Silly Spam......Almonaster vs Stormaen in 'The Last Person To Post Here Wins: Mach III'

Just a drain on resources.

A mole in the operation.

Should be on garden leave.

You gnome me.

Now you're just fishing.

I also carp pool.

Do you have any tunnels in Rome?

Are you up for roaming.

I'm getting there, any road.

Have you crossed the rubicon?

No, but I've thrown the dice.

Sounds dotty.

ZOMBIEEZ!

Teamwork!

Seconds ago: SLAM-ER was struck by a Cure Missile from The Zombie hunters of Almonaster Nuevo, curing 1 million infected.
Seconds ago: SLAM-ER was struck by a Cure Missile from The Mediocrity of Unthinking Conformity, curing 1 million infected.
Seconds ago: SLAM-ER was struck by a Cure Missile from The Democratic Republic of SetiCrunchers, curing 1 million infected.
Seconds ago: SLAM-ER was struck by a Cure Missile from The Indigenous Alchemy of Jamberry, curing 1 million infected.
Seconds ago: SLAM-ER was struck by a Cure Missile from The Federation of Alterrum, curing 1 million infected.
Seconds ago: SLAM-ER was struck by a Cure Missile from The Imperial Armored Fortress of Firefights, curing 1 million infected.
Seconds ago: SLAM-ER was struck by a Cure Missile from The Familial Spirits of Devil Heart, curing 1 million infected.
Seconds ago: SLAM-ER was struck by a Cure Missile from The Mediocrity of Unthinking Conformity, curing 1 million infected.
Seconds ago: SLAM-ER was struck by a Cure Missile from The Democratic Republic of SetiCrunchers, curing 1 million infected.
Seconds ago: SLAM-ER was struck by a Cure Missile from The Indigenous Alchemy of Jamberry, curing 1 million infected.

^ Have no doubt, normally NS Canadians would prefer another round of doughnuts and beer , but if pressed they will show the love!


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[frattastan]

Congrats on surviving the Zombie Apocalypse.

[Almonaster]

It actually provided a great opportunity for us to get to know several players who don't frequent the forum.


From 25th largest population we had the 14th most survivors, which we're pretty happy about, especially considering we lost over 90% last time.

[Almonaster]

Forum
789 registered members
266,639 posts
Region
Population: 170 nations

Our Staff
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (51 endorsements)
Minister or Internal Affairs: disposablepuppetland
Minister of External Affairs: Matilda Love
Speaker of the House of Commons: Stormaen

Ministry of External Affairs

We are delighted to have opened diplomatic relations with England, The North Pacific and with The South Pacific.
A very warm welcome is extended to:
His Majesty, ambassador from England.
Sanctaria who is the visiting dignitary, and Crushing Our Enemies, who is the ambassador from The North Pacific.
TheStonedSurfers, our ambassador from The South Pacific.
And so pleased to have Aersoldorf, ambassador from 10000 Islands in our region.


Ministry of Internal Affairs

Welcome New Members!

• Caldosa
• His Majesty
• Seamus
• Olive Swallows
• Sanctaria
• Crushing Our Enemies
• Prince John of Isles
• Aersoldorf
• TheStonedSurfers
• Thebens

Welcome back!

• Mirahge
• Tierrasia

Postcards from Canada

This month in the Picture Request thread, Lorelai County posted :

in response to a request for a picture of something wild!
Which ties in with a new thread started by Almonaster where we ask The Big Question
What do you think?

Do stop on by and play some games in
The Arcade
or...spend some time hanging out around The Watercooler

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

Quote - Unquote: (only 1 this month )

Dear diary

Why do I feel like we're not even on the same page any more?

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[Almonaster]

Forum
774 registered members
269,129 posts
Region
Population: 168 nations

Postcards from Canada



Happy New Year to All from Canada!

A more newsy report covering December and January is coming your way in February








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[Almonaster]

Forum
799 registered members
271,639 posts
Region
Population: 174 nations

Our Staff
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
Freedom to Bear Arms - Against
Repeal "Child Firearm Safety Act" - Against
Repeal "Permit Male Circumcision" - Tied
Repeal "Anti-Cyberterrorism Act " - Against
Right of Emigration - For
Repeal "International Radio Act" - Tied
Repeal "On Abortion" - Tied

Security Council
Commend Harmoneia - Against
Commend Eluvatar - Against
Commend Laissez Faireholm - Against
Liberate Slavia - For

Ministry of External Affairs

The Nation States World Fair held earlier this month was attended by ParrrrTay, Almonaster and Matilda Love. We set up our own Canadian Booth where all visitors were able to pick up an NSC badge as a memento of their visit . We set up links to our off-site forum and provided a 'potted' history of Canada. A 'Guess Who' game thread allowed participants to earn themselves a variety of different Canadian themed badges.

January also saw the opening of an embassy for Yggdrasil, and a return to action in Wysteria. We are very pleased to welcome our wonderful new ambassador, CelestialMaple of Wysteria and the arrival of the marvellous Zybodia, visiting dignitary from Yggdrasil.

We also extend a warm welcome to four new and equally marvellous ambassadors from our established embassies. Please do make yourselves a little home away from home, Josh Sebastian of Europeia, TheUnitedSolarRepublic of The South Pacific, Sparaxis of The East Pacific, and last but certainly not least, sophistry of the British Isles


Ministry of Internal Affairs


The space elevator base station is now under construction off the coast of Phoooey:
http://vershner.co.uk/ns/canada/map/mapofcanada.html
This is located on our equator, on a small island off the East coast of Phooey.




In our Space Elevator Role Play the space elevator consortium are currently discussing asteroid selection, and the mission parameters needed for retrieval:
http://z8.|invisionfree|.com/NationStates_Ca...post&p=22056309

House of Commons

*Lively discussion has opened up over the addition of a 'Featured Nation' segment on the Regional Message Board. Everyone is keen but the fun is in the details!

Wysteria proposed a festival of Spring Games with Texas, Yggdrasil and Canada. We are looking forward to all the fun and are so very excited to have been invited to participate. Almonaster will be representing us on The Cross Regional Games Committee.

The initial enthusiasm over the new Regional Message Board poll feature has been 'taken over' lately by the 'Featured Nation' discussion. However judging by first responses, it looks like the occasional poll might be a fun idea. Alterrum has proposed an initial draft for a poll that will help us discover how many in Nation States Canada are also Canadian in real life.

A number of Regions with whom we hold Regional Message Board embassies have been inactive of late. A number of telegrams were sent requesting an update on interest in two regions.
Sadly our embassy with the Democrats has been closed due to inactivity on the part of this region. Happily however, relations with Wysteria are restored.
Relations with Global Right Alliance are still under investigation.
Alterrum noted that "it seems we have forum relations with the North Pacific and Europeia, but we don't have embassies with them in NS."
ParrrrTay responded by sending a request to each of these regions.


Welcome New Members!

• havenevah
• Mattias von Richthofen
• sophistry
• CelestialMaple
• Josh Sebastian
• Gibile
• TheUntitedSolarRepublic
• Artimis
• Quiet Dad

Postcards from Canada

Badges handed out from the Canadian booth at the Nation States World Fair:





Do stop on by and play some games in The Arcade or spend some time hanging out around The Watercooler

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

I'm gonna race you for the win (with a head start).

Bring it on....

No racism, please!

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[Almonaster]

Forum
808 registered members
274,721 posts
Region
Population: 163 nations

Our Staff
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
Repeal "Protect War Correspondents". FOR
Civilian Protection Accord. AGAINST
Radiowaves and Microwaves Act. FOR
Fracking Protocol. FOR
Repeal "Industrial Pollution Control " TIED > No vote.
Repeal "Ethics in International Trade". AGAINST
Assisted Suicide Act. TIED > No vote.

Security Council
Repeal "Liberate NAZI EUROPE" for
Commend Hobbesistan. AGAINST
Condemn The Dourian Embassy. AGAINST
Commend Abacathea. AGAINST
Commend Anime Daisuki. TIED > No vote

Ministry of External Affairs

We welcome our new ambassadors, City 46 from Yggdrasil, South Boston Irishmen from British Isles and vac mikaelson from the United Kingdom.

We are also preparing the best of our nations athletes for the Wysterian Spring Games beginning March 12th.
So far we have entrants from Almonaster Nuevo, Devil Heart and the land.
If you are interested in gathering more particulars about each of these nations athletes, the link is here

And, External Affairs would like to invite all of you to participate in all the fun or our Fantasty F1

Would anyone be interested in playing a Fantasy Formula 1 game this year? It's very low commitment, just 2 names roughly once a fortnight.

Ministry of Internal Affairs
The weather this month on planet earth has been extreme, according to the Weather Channel at Standing Around the Water Cooler
To the north of the planet Michigan has been freezing over, while to the south we have been watching Gippsland burn.

Also featuring at the 1000 page thread in Standing Around the Water Cooler is an on going discussion about real life Pensions, Scottish Independence, a poem about kilts, Canadian secession, Australian States, Swiss bunkers, more on Australian states, and last but definitely not least, education. And don't forget it was Polar Bear Day this month, we have have a few posts up featuring the white fluff in the Polar Bear Survey for you to take a look at. All this, peppered with the usual quips and friendly jibes common to our region.


House of Commons

A discussion on the possibility of including a 'Featured Nation' in the WFE has been opened this month in the good ol' HoC.

Welcome New Members!

• Empire of Ruffandia
• Ecans
• English Vietron
• Kansas Free State
• City 46
• Eggplants
• People United Together
• vac mikaelson

Welcome Back

• Fin
• Billy the Kid
• Joe Bobs

Postcards from Canada
Further to our discussions on the very different weather conditions found in our various corners of the world (see above) the two pictures featured below were also shared this month on our forum.
The first is taken by ParrrrTay of the frozen skin crusting Lake St Clair in U.S.A.
The second was taken by Matilda Love of the sun through a smokey haze during the fires at Latrobe Valley in Australia.




Do stop on by and play some games in The Arcade or spend some time hanging out around The Watercooler

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

"Seven."
"No, dad, it's a rhetorical question."
"OK, eight."

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[Joe Bobs]

Woo I got my name in the update!

Hi Almonaster!

[Libetarian Republics]

Thanks for the update

[frattastan]

Woo I got my name in the update!

Your moment of fame.

[Almonaster]

Woo I got my name in the update!

Your moment of fame.

One of many benefits for visiting Canada.

[Almonaster]

Forum
816 registered members
277,870 posts
Region
Population: 168 nations

Our Staff
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (42 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
Reproductive Freedoms FOR
Cultural Site Preservation FOR
Responsible Armaments Trading FOR
Repeal "On Abortion" TIED - No vote
Moratorium on Animal Testing TIED - No vote
Repeal "Rights and Duties of WA States" TIED - No vote

Security Council
Commend Auralia AGAINST
Liberate St Abbaddon AGAINST
Liberate Anarchy FOR
Repeal "Liberate St Abbaddon" FOR
Commend Blackbird FOR
Condemn Cormac A Stark AGAINST
Condemn Auralia FOR

Ministry of External Affairs

We welcome our new ambassador, Old Zertaxia > ambassador, Global Right Alliance.

Thank you to Billy the Kid for accepting the ambassadorship for Equinox, Europeia, Great Britain and Eire, Founderless Regions Alliance
and Almonaster, The Global Right Alliance

The Wysterian Spring games are in full swing, here are the current results:
Medal Table
10000 Islands (3,2,4)
Yggdrasil (1,2,0)
Texas (1,1,2)
Canada (1,0,1)
Wysteria (0,2,1)

Canada won their first gold medal when Samantha White from Wild Mustanges (Canada) was able to shorten the Previous Olympic record by 1 second, finishing the race at 2:01 minutes and landing her The Gold Medal...
Estancia de las Torres Altas (Almonaster Nuevo) was one of a group of 3 riders finishing just 1 second outside the medals in the final race.
Ryhs Lovett of Devil Heart finished midfield in the first round.
Congrats to Yggdrasil and Wysteria for both winning a second place, and 10K for their bronze.

Canada also won a bronze in Goat Throwing:
Gold: Latrell Spencer (Benevolent Thomas, 10000 Islands)
Silver: Kuuro (The Grendels, Wysteria)
Bronze (3-way tie) :
- Hugo AF29 (Qanzona, Wysteria)
- Lucifer Star(Devil Heart, Canada)
- Martha Salm (New Ecopia, 10000 Islands)

Here are some results for the Fantasty F1:

Race results and points
Nico Rosberg 25
Daniel Ricciardo 18
Kevin Magnussen 15
Jenson Button 12
Fernando Alonso 10
Valtteri Bottas 8
Nico Hulkenberg 6
Kimi Raikkonen 4
Jean-Eric Vergne 2
Daniil Kvyat 1

Game standings
Wopruthien : 33
Alunya : 25
Almonaster : 14
Matilda Love : 10
Boreal Tundra : 10
WFA19 : 4
Hydroponic Nation : 0
The Bruce : 0

Hydroponic Nation was unlucky to pick the wrong driver in both teams.

Note : Under fantasy F1 rules, the results on the tarmac stand despite Ricciardo's later disqualification.

Ministry of Internal Affairs

We have a couple of new threads opened up.
The first is Artwork Challenge where our creative juices are challenged to produce images for us to share at regular intervals.

Billy the Kid has opened a 'Featured Nation' thread, where weekly entries featuring a Canadian nation are written and later posted on the WFE. Working through a few teething problems, but it will be up and running soon.

A couple of very classy events have been held at the Wysterian Embassy


It has been brought to our attention that what this report needs is more Fin

House of Commons

A 'Featured Nation' will soon be included in the WFE, thanks to Billy the Kid for taking this one in hand, and to ParrrrTay for getting them posted.

We have received and invitation to participate with Wysteria in some sort of cross regional activity, still to be decided upon. Canadian citizens have been sharing their thoughts on what and how this might work, and be enjoyable for all.

Welcome New Members!

• ekabosa
• Goggalor
• The Arctic Isles
• adw4111
• The Blue Glue Flu
• Japan Goo and Japan Nude
• Athabasca Sands
• The Arctic Archipelago

Welcome Back

• Old Zertaxia
• jarodl

Postcards from Canada
A charming image entered by Goggalor into the Artwork Challenge
Island

Full size version

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

"The first rule of Fight Club is--you do not talk about Fight Club."

The first rule of Condescending Club is really kind of complex, and I don't think you'd understand it even if I explained it to you.

In 'Quest to 1000 Pages'

Late night snacks: The reason they put light bulbs in refrigerators.

No, it's so OCD types can worry about whether they switch off when the fridge is closed.

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

[Almonaster]

Forum
824 registered members
280,829 posts
Region
Population: 173 nations

Our Staff
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (42 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
Strategic Arms Reduction - AGAINST
Code of Maritime Law - AGAINST
On Planetary Annihilation - AGAINST
Repeal "Rights and Duties of WA States" - AGAINST
World University for Peace - FOR
Repeal "Reproductive Freedoms" - AGAINST

Security Council
Repeal "Liberate Slavia" - FOR
Commend Anime Daisuki - TIED
Repeal "Liberate South Pacific" - FOR
Condemn The Dourian Embassy - FOR
Commend 1 Infinite Loop - AGAINST
Repeal "Commend The NationStates Community" - FOR

Ministry of External Affairs

We had a smashing visit from Yggdrasil, the mead ran purple

Oh my, everyone is starting to look purple to me.

Well my work is done.

and the Moose beer started floating.

Ministry of Internal Affairs

The Canadian Community College was opened this month.

We were lucky enough to secure a virtual copy of Matti Kuusla's Futuro House for our educational office.
I know it is tiny, but it is sweet and adequately fills for our current needs.....and we had to begin somewhere

House of Commons

Three of our long-standing political parties - the Canadian Sovereignty Party, the Fat Whales, and the People who throw Goats and Bagpipers - were archived due to lack of activity. Shortly thereafter a new party, the Eggplant Party of Canada was established.


We had a discussion of tightening ties with Wysteria. This largely focused on the possibility of a shared University. It was noted that we could make a start ourselves to have something to bring to the party. (see above)

We have a welcome up-turn in new members and activity. A note was issued explaining the main government offices and encouraging citizens to stand for office.

Welcome New Members!

• Acadienne
• Sapphires Islands
• Rushn
• Rolexemburg

Welcome Back!

• Goose-ada

Postcards from Canada


Floranomie by Almonaster (click for full size)

QUOTE <> UNQUOTE: Directly from Canada, the non-crappy Region!
"The Last Person To Post Here Wins: Mach III, kehehe"

The cuttlefish scuttled into the scuttle, scuttling any chance that the cute cuticle could catch the cactus cavorting with the colourful cucumber.

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

[Almonaster]

Forum
833 registered members
282,699 posts
Region
Population: 171 nations

Our Staff
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (42 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
Radiological Terrorism - AGAINST
Protecting Migratory Animals - FOR
Sustainable Tourism Directive - FOR
Repeal "Renewable Research Commitment" - AGAINST

Security Council
Commend Hobbesistan - AGAINST
Liberate Liberal Haven - FOR
Sustainable Forest Management - FOR
Commend McMasterdonia - FOR
Liberate Hogwarts - TIED, no vote

Ministry of External Affairs
We warmly welcome two new ambassadors to Canada, Damien Lancaster from United Kingdom, and Malvad from the North Pacific.

We had a merry visit from those 10000 Islands rascally wags this month
and were even caught loitering in a dangerously fun fashion on the forum.

Ministry of Internal Affairs
Not to be outdone by External Affairs' recent stream of lovable visitors:
Our BIG news this month is:

Announcement!

Between the old board and the current one, NS Canadians have racked up an incredible

Yup, that's half a million posts!

Go Canada! :cananim:

House of Commons

A reminder was posted of the various vacancies we have for any citizen in Canada wishing to pick up a more active role.
It was decided Canada would participate in the Wysterian summer games, with Matilda Love picking up the job of reporter to Canada from the games.
And invitation to join the new Eggplants Party was floated.
Almonaster was unanimously instated as Dean of the Canadian Community College.

Welcome New Members!

• fikrish
• Optiplex
• ninda22

Including our visitors from 10000 Islands

• Ecopia
• Benevolent Thomas
• aternox
• Barrarabian Butlers
• Escanaba

Welcome Back!

• New Vinland
• Lady Sammi

Postcards from Canada
In one of our favourite threads, we ask you to pick between:
Scylla or Charybdis?




QUOTE <> UNQUOTE: Directly from Canada, the non-crappy Region!
May 31 2014

First Mate: Cap'n, there's somebody out there usin' our emoticon!
Cap'n: Let 'em, it just means we're pop'lr.
First Mate: Yessir!

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

[Almonaster]

Forum
842 registered members
284,758 posts
Region
Population: 170 nations

Our Staff
Delegate: The Pubs of Parkplace (44 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
Repeal "Freedom to Contract" - TIED - No vote cast
Ban of Perfidy in Warfare - AGAINST
Nuclear Security Convention - FOR
Repeal "International Criminal Court" - AGAINST
Repeal "Multilateral Prosecution Act" - AGAINST
Repeal "Oil Tanker Standards Act" - FOR

Security Council
Repeal "Liberate Liberal Haven" - TIED - no vote cast
Repeal "Liberate Hogwarts" - TIED - no vote cast
Commend Astarial - AGAINST
Liberate Hell - FOR

Ministry of External Affairs

We are very happy to welcome fighter4u from Global Right Alliance and William Mikaelson from British Isles as ambassadors to Canada.

Nation sign ups for the Wysterian Summer Games have begun.

Ministry of Internal Affairs

Science has taken front seat at the 'Real Life' and 'Role Play' threads this month in Canada.

In the Canadian Science Faction thread Alterrum posted this link to an article printed in Scientific American written by Paul J. Steinhardt that asks questions about how the universe might first have looked all those years ago. The art work for this article in beautiful - go take a look.
Almonaster posted a link to an article about a design NASA has for a warp drive ship and another article about a funky new material from the Karlsruhe Intitute of Technology that will render touch invisible.

In Role Play Canada continues to consider what each nation might be able to bring to the on going construction of our Space Elevator
Most of us watch and learn fascinated and try to think up ways we might be able to contribute, given our limited technological capabilities and knowlege.
DPL and Almonaster have presented for us the possibility of two types of tether.
One is a lighter weight structure that is potentially more maneuverable/replicable - but easily taken out with just one rogue hit, or go for the more complex twin linked structures that would provide protection to the vital inner cargo should there be a hit, and can also be repaired in part due to its 'segmented' design.

After debating the merits of friction and maglev transport, a compromise proposal of friction drives to a transfer station above the atmosphere, followed by maglev to orbital levels was reached.

What do you think?

House of Commons
Shock reactions in the HoC this month! In a most uncharacteristic NS Canadian response we trembled, then quivered in anticipation of the new RMB spam feature, enabled!

Welcome New Members!

• Sequelle
• Jordanius
• Sylenvia
• Canada-Mexico
• Bronzehammer
• British Free State
• koyokape

Welcome Back!

• Billy the Kid
• Lardon

Postcards from Canada
In the Quest to 1000 Pages our gallant crew go looking for a boat...


QUOTE <> UNQUOTE: Directly from Canada, the non-crappy Region!
June 1 2014

Dear Diary,

Grammar is important. Capital letters are the difference between "Helping your Uncle Jack off a horse" and "helping your uncle jack off a horse".

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

[Joe Bobs]

Thanks Almonaster!

You know, 'the non-crappy region' line still makes me chuckle.