Word: canadas
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Cultural differences: Keanu grew up in Canada. Barbra grew up in New York. Ergo, Keanu is by nature more friendly and more civil...
...Singapore highlights the fact that the cyberworld is not -- and probably never will be -- a global village in which everybody speaks the same language and thinks the same thoughts. On the contrary, every country tends to remodel its piece of the network according to its cultural preferences. Even Canada, despite its many commonalities with the U.S. -- including its phone system -- does things its own way. ``Are we any different?'' asks David Sutherland, head of computing and communications at Ottawa's Carleton University. ``The answer is typically Canadian: yes and no. Because of our cultural differences, we seem more bent...
Like the U.S., Canada is experimenting with two-way data services. Le Groupe Videotron Limitee, a firm based in Montreal, plans to start an experimental system in the city of Chicoutimi, Quebec, that will send and receive electronic mail, regulate thermostats, order pay-per-view movies and get weather reports and stock market quotes. If it works, the plan is to widen it to as many as 1.5 million homes in Montreal and Quebec City. Outside the relatively well-wired confines of North America, however, getting connected can still be a frustrating and costly experience. In Europe and parts...
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Claude Trembly, leader of a group of grain workers on strike against ADM/Ogilvie in Montreal, said through an interpreter that workers in both Canada and the United States face similar problems...