food is one of the worst things America does to Canadians. This is a negitave impact because it is makeing many Canadians over weight. Fast food is a hudge problem, it can cause death and heart problems. On avrage America has about one fast food place on every two to three blocks. More than forty percent of Americans are over weight witch effects Canadians by eating the same things that they do. But it does not only effect canada but it effects china and many outher countries to. in the last two years the fast food amount has almost doubled!

The U.S.A. is one of the leading fashion indristries of the wourld. Canada gets most of it's fashion from the U.S.A. Did you know that fashion is a big part of culture. The Americans really help Canadias with the fashion and it is a posative impact on the culture. If you look a lot of the culture in Canada ariginated in America. Finally I found out that the runway fashion shows and capries both started in America.

Amercian superstars
If you look at the American super stars they are so skinny and fit compared to the average American. I mean they have bulging muscles and perfect hair that makes Canadian super stars want to look like them. The average American visits Mc Dolalds once every to weeks at least because there are so many around but the superstars hardly ever eat there. Finally most of the American super stars want people to look like them because they think they look better look better.

Nowhere do the fine arts include comics as a major form, but in society, comics are increasingly finding their place."
Comic strips are usually considered a rather minor art form all over the world, and Canada, unfortunately, is no exception.
"Nowhere do the fine arts include comics as a major form, but in society, comics are increasingly finding their place," says comic strip author Paul Roux from Gatineau, who has created such characters as Ariane et Nicolas, Ernest and Max Media.
In some countries, explains Mr. Roux, comics are confined to specific audiences. "In Spain, they're for children. In the United States, they were confined to newspapers and then there were the superheroes for teenagers."
In the Francophone world, however, comics "are really booming," says Mr. Roux, "and where you'll find the greatest diversity, the greatest amount of writing and artistic creativity on all levels."
Canadian comic strips have their own characteristics. "English-language comics are heavily influenced by American comic books, while Francophone authors are much more influenced by France and Belgium, but some are also influenced by American comic books. They're caught between the two."
How to describe the contribution that comic strip writers make to the arts in Canada? "There are more and more of them because more and more things are being published. In school libraries now, you find more and more. Comics for the general public aren't very available because of a lack of publishers and distributors. That's starting to change. There is a whole market to be developed, not to mention the market that could be developed once we are able to sell much more abroad."
Paul Roux thinks that the Canada Council for the Arts could give the world of comic strips a real boost by adding a new category to the Governor General's Literary Awards - especially since there are already literary awards in the categories of Children's Literature - Text and Children's Literature - Illustration.
"Some awards are given here and there, but none can confer the legitimacy of the Governor General's Literary Awards. There's no doubt that if Canada wanted to help develop comics, it would lend added credibility and attract authors. It would be great!"

By Paul Roux