Won't this still be better for Canada, as we can soon start experiencing longer warmer seasons, which most other countries have, and is considered more normal?

There's only one globe so if it was warming the whole thing would get warmer over time and all glaciers would be melting, not just some. But the warming and cooling keeps moving from one part of the globe to another so over time it balances out.
In the 1970's they told us there would be another ice age unless we paid extra taxes to prevent it. Now it's all about paying extra taxes to prevent global warming.

Panic..Panic..Panic Enough with this leftist BS. Everything changes, weather changes. Climate changes drastically as a rule. Ice ages across the continents, tropical climates far far north and south. Oceans existed where once great deserts are now. Giant mountains rose from sea level. Stop already with the leftist, panicky, rip-off oriented BS.

@robo Excellent points. If burning carbon based fuels was such an immediate threat politicians would ban them and/or offer incentives to pursue alternative energy sources to rather than tax them.

That's right, folks. When one glacier loses ice, another one somewhere else gets it. This is common knowledge everywhere on the planet. Well, except in Global Warming/Climate Change/Tipping Point School. Look at Googles time lapse photos of all the glaciers. It proves my point.
Also, consider thermodynamics: The first law, also known as Law of Conservation of Energy, states that energy cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system.

Robo, no, the planet is too large for it to be that simple, thermal systems are extremely complex. http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/thc_fact_sheet.html gives you an idea of just the ocean circulation systems but it is far, far more complex than that.
Jetserf, I hope you were being sarcastic, no-one could be that naive, politicians do whatever keeps them in power for the next election cycle, which means telling the public what they want to hear. But it also means pandering to their primary sponsors, and in the US and many other countries, that's the fossil fuel industry. In short, the big, dirty corporations own many of the politicians, so fossil fuels will never be banned outright by those corrupt pollies. This is the case in the US and most definitely here in Australia.
I don't know why so many armchair experts think that their uneducated, ignorant opinions on climate change have more value that the vast collection of data, collected over decades by experts in the field. Are the climate deniers so egotistical that they think that their opinions actually trump facts? I guess they are, because I see the same stupid comments from the same stupid commenters here all the time, and on many other sites as well.

A glacier retreated in the Alps, know what they found? A Bronze age mine and settlement. In other words, the glacier had not been there when that mine was being worked.
We are in a inter-glacial period which is punctuated with dramatic up and down swings in temp trends. Going back to hundreds of thousands of years, this period looks very much like past periods, nothing anomalous.

I take a simple approach... would you rather breath the air in a Canadian forest or downtown LA? Now which should we strive towards?

"In a rare piece of good news, a separate study has shown that a Greenland glacier has gained ice for the third year in a row."
For another piece of good news, try this: the US Parks Service has removed the signs in Glacier National Park (MT) that claim the glaciers will be gone by 2020. They now leave the time frame unstated, as there has been a huge increase in the size and extent of the glaciers in the last few years.
And the snow in the Northern Rockies recently? How about 18 INCHES IN JUNE?!!!
(What's that? Don't you know the difference between climate and weather? Yes, I do, do you?)

I'm not a believer in global warming, but I have seen for myself the melting of major glaciers in Europe between '89 and now. The huge Bossons glacier near Chamonix, France was almost down to the ground in '89 and is now almost gone from view. The large glacier north of Chamonix lying atop the mountain plateau in '89 was deep and white. For some years now it has been black with SOOT (China?) and has melted to the point of almost disappearing.
The same is true of a large glacier above Zermatt, Switzerland alongside the Gornergrat peak at 11,000'. A cog train goes from Zermatt to Gornergrat, where there's a large restaurant and where often in summer there is still ice and snow. Pals and I would take our bikes on the train and then ride back down to Zermatt, taking many side trips along the way ... an incredible ride. We noticed the last time we rode (in '07) that the huge glacier that had been so white and deep was now black (again with SOOT) and almost GONE! Sad indeed.
In Grindelwald, Switzerland, the Upper Glacier in '89 was down to the ground and deep enough that a tunnel was formed in it with "ice rooms" containing ice sculptures, the whole thing lit by the beautiful blue light coming from sunlight through the ice ceiling. For years now that glacier has melted progressively until by 2004 if not earlier, it was no longer visible from the ground. So a 900' or so wooden staircase was built that clings to the steep mountainside to take you to the plateau where the remnants of the glacier still exist. I haven't been there since 2007, so that may be gone now too.
Other than Chinese (and other's) coal soot, I can't imagine what's going on here. It's possible that most of it is just due to natural changes in earth's weather system along with some obvious soot-caused changes. The only other reason I can think of is man-made weather weaponry being used. We know it has existed for decades now, but to what extent any weather changes are due to it is a mystery to all but a few.