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On this wintry day, on which a white Christmas has been delivered to many, "Merry Christmas." If you don't celebrate it as such, "Happy holidays." And, to @oldshurst442: "Kala Christougenna," "Joyeux Noel," and "Merry Christmas."

…. and to all a good night. Merry Christmas.

The new China built Encore GX has largely taken its place. The EcoSport was built in India and never sold well. Ford should probably find a way to build it on a new platform somewhere else. They were pretty wretched to drive, so it isn’t surprising that people didn’t like it. The Trailblazer and Trax are better. We swung from 40 to -3 in 18 hours

Downtown. He had parked his car south of Ste-Catherine on Mackay Street. He was visiting a mutual friend's of ours' restaurant at the time on Ste-Catherine between Mackay and Bishop. It was like a Monday or Tuesday night. Like at around 9:00 or 10:00. He just wanted to pop in and say hi. He stayed barely an hour. Put money in the meter for an hour was there for like 45-50 minutes. Real quick. Police never found the car. We thought that the cops will find the car without the engine as at that point in time, Integra GS-Rs and Type Rs were stolen for their engines that were swapped into lesser Civics. But the car was never found. We later believed that it was probably stolen and shipped to another continent. Yup!!! To this day, cars are stolen in suburban areas in peoples drive-ways all the time!!! In and around the Montreal region. To be fair to Montreal-Nord, Montreal, ANYWHERE in and around Montreal, is THE car theft capital of Canada. In fact, many of North America's stolen cars end up in Montreal because the port of Montreal was and continues to be corrupt that the many organized crime...organizations like the Italian Mafia of NYC and Montreal and Chicago etc, and the Biker gangs like the Hells Angels that partake in car thefts ALL OVER North America, have the ins at the Port of Montreal and ship all kinds of stolen cars ALL over the world. A real racket. I think vancouver takes care of the Asian continents part of the shipping of the stolen cars and Montreal takes care of Europe, Africa and Russia. A world racket. Funny you mention Montreal-Nord as that mutual friend of ours married a girl who grew up in Montreal-Nord. The friend is a couple of years younger than us and his wife while the girl's older sister is a year older than us. I hung around the sister a lot. We went to the same high school. Her parents were childhood friends of my moms and my uncles. They grew up in the same island just a couple of villages down. Maybe 3 miles away from each other. The island is Kephalonia. Pastra is the village that my mom grew up in and Agia Irini (Saint Irene) is the island of my mom's childhood friends. I have many many friends like this to which my mom and her childhood friends' kids have become my and my cousin's friends. Kephalonia would be right acorss the middle of the boot in Italian terms. LOL. yes. I think the CRV continues to be Montreal's most stolen car. I wouldnt drive one either. #2 I think is the Ford F150. The Accord and Toyota RAV4 are next if Im not mistaken. I think its also because in the north, all the manufacturing industry is at and the south is more farmland and the negative connotations that come with farmers and farming. Also also, the upscale and rich areas are also more in the middle and north while the poorer is to the south. Greeks are not as divided it seems. The Greek folk that come from the North or the mountains are called "vlahi" meaning highlander but it has a negative connotation meaning uncouth. The thing with Greeks though, we all hate on each other equally, we make fun of each other's regions amongst ourselves and we wreak havoc with each other internally but when it comes to Greece as a whole, we stick together. We WILL screw each other financially ANY chance we get, but THAT has NOTHING to do with what regions we come from. A Greek from the SAME region will try to defraud his literal and REAL definition of 'paisan' but we WILL defend each other when a foreigner comes between us. I take it that Italians will be the opposite of that. Literal/REAL Italian paisanos WILL take care of each other and try to boost each other's economical welfare by helping each other out and not screw with each other but Italians of different regions will not help each other out so easily. With the exception of the Italian Mafia which started out as to help each other out, in Sicily long ago, ended up hurting each other bothn inn Sicily and in America. And of course the rival factions in Calabria that did the same kind of damage. And both being in the South... which does no favours in the looking down part of the Northern Italians to the Southerners like you mentioned. The bolded parts. Both parts. Top and bottom. Do I have that right? Thank-You! You made me tear up quite honestly. Everybody here always wishes each other with well wishes regarding either birthdays or holidays, and I LOVE that we as a CheersandGears community we continue to do that, but when you connect with me on a European level, when we both connect with each other on our Greek and Italian roots respectively, I get choked up. I feel like we would be the bestest of friends outside of this computer screen we share. Καλα Χριστουγεννα In English it would be spelled Kala Christougenna.