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2008 Jul 13, 1:46am   8,628 views  360 comments

by Patrick   follow (60)  

Some observations of Canada from my 10 day house-swap with a Canadian family in Toronto:

Native Canadian people are helpful, but Canadian immigrants don't talk to strangers.
Most things are more expensive than in the US, like $6.50 Canadian for a Hagen Daas ice cream bar in Toronto Island park.
The Lindt chocolates are all forgeries, just crap in elite wrappers. Canadians are unaware of the fraud, since they've never had good chocolate.
Via Rail beats Amtrak by a long shot. Via Rail is clean, on-time, and cheap.
Tap water tastes pretty good.
There are two sales taxes instead of just one: provincial and federal.
Beer and wine in Ontario are sold only by the provincial liquor monopoly, at twice the cost as in the US. BYOB/W
Public pools are free, though run-down.
Immigrants in Toronto are the largest percentage of any city in the world.
The subway system in Toronto is efficient and inexpensive.
Milk comes in a bag rather than in a gallon jug.
Prostitution advertising is brazen and cheap.
There are many Muslim women, some completely covered in Burqas.
Women have more tattoos than in the US.
Marijuana can be smelled in the air on many major Toronto streets.
There is a visible gay population in Toronto.
There are a surprising number of Canadian flags on cars and houses.
The Canadian accent becomes more noticeable the more you hear it.




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1   Patrick   2022 Aug 20, 4:35pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/canadas-euthanasia-laws-expand-mature-children-mentally-ill/


Canada’s Euthanasia Laws Expand to ‘Mature’ Children, Mentally Ill


This is not good.
2   Patrick   2022 Aug 21, 8:31pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/canadian-man-euthanized-hearing-loss/


Canadian Man Euthanized for ‘Hearing Loss’
4   AD   2024 Mar 17, 7:39pm  

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What the F ?????

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Marco Ricciardi said last month, according to City News. Cst. Marco Ricciardi recommended Toronto residents to leave their key fobs “at the front door” to avoid car thieves breaking into their homes. The thieves are often armed and Ricciardi reminded residents that these are “not toy guns.”

https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/world-news/toronto-police-slammed-for-advising-residents-to-leave-car-keys-within-easy-reach-for-thieves/

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6   Patrick   2024 Apr 23, 5:20pm  

https://fortissax.substack.com/p/the-great-canadian-darkness


The Great Canadian Darkness

... All you want to do is file your taxes this year, but the web developers who made the site have friends in parliament and they outsourced the federal contract to a company overseas while pocketing the rest of the departmental budget. Someone answers the phone. Shouting, they ask you for your name and birth date. You tell them your birthday is August 20th. Sukhdeep, "John," insists that your birthday is August 2nd, and to prove your identity, you need to send physical copies of your identification to a tax office halfway across the country to unlock your account. This is going to take 6 weeks at the minimum, but "sorry saar, pleased to be helping you today saar, no I cannot unlock your account saar." You ask to speak to a manager; he tells you to please hold and then hangs up. ...

'John,' on his next call in Poonjabby, unlocks the personal income tax account of Jasleen. Her account was locked because the automated system detected fraud. Multiple people were using her Social Insurance Number. Jasleen assures Sukhdeep that nothing is wrong, and that everyone in their household pitches in. Their 'household' of 4 international students, not including her 6 family members (who are not on the lease and sleep on second-hand mattresses in the living room), splits the rent of a two-bedroom condo for $2700 a month. ... The two-bedroom Jasleen occupies is owned by a Chinese family who live abroad 2/3rds of the year. Their family is rich because they employed child labor in their Guangzhou factory, and by golly did they own the means of production. Now they speculate on Canadian housing markets to evade taxes in the Mainland. They pretend they’re from Hong Kong. The earnings they make on the luxury properties are spent in British Columbia’s casinos. Why do you care? You can’t afford a house anyway, Gweilo. ...

On the side of the gas station, you see a figure curled up into a ball, and a faint, flickering light. A Canadian homeless man is huddled under an umbrella, tilted on its side. He’s wearing a Canadian Forces cap. There’s an encampment not far from here. Most of its inhabitants are also Canadians. A quarter of the people in that maple favela work full time and live in their cars because they can’t afford rent. The local boomers think they should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but they’re a paycheck away from running out the fire exit of a Canadian Tire with a polyester budget tent that doesn’t breathe. You smell a faint mint, like an After Eight you had once at your late grandparents'. You know that smell. With the homeless man is a small can of propane he stole. He’s trying to use a small burner to light the last traces of fentanyl in the bubbler pipe to no avail. You sympathize, but you’re tired of these junkies. Really tired. Petty crime has exploded in your area. Smash and grabs on cars, and auto theft are at an all-time high. You can’t keep anything in your shitbox Honda Civic anymore, not that it matters. Another $400 plus tax on your credit card for that rear window (if you’re lucky). ...

Pulling into your local Walmart, you see a filthy twin-sized mattress strapped to a car. ... In the driver's seat is a woman in a hijab. A man, presumably her husband, sits in the passenger seat wearing a knockoff designer tracksuit and fake jewelry. In the old country, only he would drive. Here, his wife can gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss her way through a Human Resources department. Three children sit in the back. One of them is severely disabled and you can hear them screaming through the windows. It sounds like a deaf lumberjack shouting “timber.” You think back to that memory-holed Joe Rogan episode with Gavin McInnes where they discuss how disgustingly inbred and unhealthy the Muslim world is. Mom and dad are probably cousins. Sweet Home Islamabad. ...

Canadians bear the brunt of high costs. Another glance and the brick of old extra old white cheese is $11.26. That was all before the oligarchy of grocery chains claimed Long Coofid hit their distribution network. Besides, probiotic bacteria are bad for you, chud. Trust the experts at Health Canada, who as of 10 years ago were still telling Canadian parents their children needed 5 servings of carbs a day from refined, processed white rice & pasta. ...

The only son, barely 11 or 12 years old, is wearing purple eyeshadow with glitter, a trans flag around his neck like a cape, a pair of headphones (self-diagnosed autistic), and is walking with a cane despite no discernible disabilities (he has none). The international TikTok clinic told xer/xim they were all the above. Mom just wants to fit in, so she rolls with it. Junior wants hormone replacement therapy and hasn’t told her yet. If she has a problem with it (she doesn’t), the horse police will show up at her door and remove her children. You move on and pivot to the egg fridge. A dozen eggs is $7.97 not including tax. "These would be 50 cents in the States," you think. ...

Instead of waiting in line for boomers to stand slack-jawed and stare at debit machines beeping 'REMOVE CARD', and then ask the cashier if they accept scratch tickets (they don’t), you make your way to the self-checkout. Two stands catch your eye. One has leftover paper plates from Diwali, the other has plastic and paper cutlery for the Chinese New Year. Passing by girls' clothing, you see shirts with the word 'JUSTICE' printed across the chest, next to other shirts that say '#ATTITUDE'. You get into the self-checkout. While scanning your items, you notice the Punjabi clerks aren’t paying attention. They exchange pleasantries and send memes to each other on TikTok. Two separate couples are deliberately not scanning items. “Times are hard,” you think. A Canadian kid with his father audibly asks why they have to pay when others steal. “It's the right thing to do,” he says. The kid looks confused, and a little sad. His young heart aflame with indignation. He’s right. It makes you sick. ...

You think about how you just need to save up enough cash to move to Alberta. Wages are higher, taxes are lower, you hear. That Premier, Danielle Smith, seems reasonably sane enough despite the character assassination over not allowing children to mutilate their genitals in horrific ritual sacrifice to the DEI God and greedy doctors. ...

Can’t crack open a beer on a park bench, but you can fire up that bubbler pipe. You have to stand 7 meters away from doors and entrances, but open-air fentanyl use in kids' jungle gyms is a-okay to our longhouse courts. In the distance, you also vaguely hear weird Christian music playing. There are Black Israelites in purple uniforms on the sidewalk, yelling at a small black boy about how he is the real Jew, how white people were created in a cave by an evil wizard named Yakub in the Caucasus Mountains, and that melanin is magic. ...

Immediately under the white woman shenanigans is a now-deleted post by a Jeet. He gloats about how when the "Britishers" came to India, they threw bread crumbs at children the way a man might feed a flock of birds. He says that his fellow Jeets deserve access to white people and that they have no right to complain. He believes this is revenge for "pilfering the gems of India." You laugh at this taunt, remembering that beaches in Ontario have signs not directed to anyone in particular, but are mysteriously in English, French, and Hindi about not defecating in the sand. Very curious. Poo in the loo.

This is boring (and depressing). You go to Google dot com and type “Canada Reddit”. The top post, a "secret" leaked report from the horse police to federal ministers, claims that they’re worried about revolutionary activities once Canadians realize how dire their situation is. Golly gee, you don’t say? They carefully, of course, pin the blame and public outrage at the obliterated quality of life for the next three generations on misinformation and disinformation. These are contrary to The Science and Our Democracy. The Right Side of History must win in this endless campaign. The federal government, of course, is not responsible. The 2.2 million LEGAL immigrants per year, the population increase from 35 million to 42 million between 2015-2024, solely due to immigration in a scheme sponsored by a Blackrock-affiliated think tank founded by a Jewish man, had nothing to do with it. ...

You scroll through more posts. Toronto Police are openly telling the public to leave their car keys by the lanyard so that when the inevitable car-thief break-in occurs, they don’t assault you in the middle of the night for them. They’ll arrest you if you defend yourself, by the way. Proportional use of force and all that, chud. Nuh-uh! No self-defense for you! If you kill your enemies, they win. Scrolling further, a gold heist. Every single one of the perpetrators is brown, with a token Caribbean they managed to rope into their scheme. Brown people stealing at Toronto Pearson International? What a surprise. You’ve had enough. You mosey on over to your bed, resisting the urge to doomscroll further. Your phone is plugged in. You’re consumed by darkness and the sounds of the city by your open window. It gets too hot in there, so you crack it open. It’s not uncommon to hear a homeless person scream at the top of their lungs in the dead of the night followed by an ambulance and the inevitable police siren, but you’re so used to it, they put you to sleep. 6 hours and 15 minutes, your alarm says.

You toss and turn for 30 minutes before passing out from exhaustion. Ready to do it all over again tomorrow.“The Canadian Dream,” as they say, or whatever bullshit American idiom Poilievre has appropriated “for freedom” these days.
7   HeadSet   2024 Apr 23, 6:24pm  

Well, they voted for it. And they will do it again.
10   RC2006   2024 Jul 27, 11:01am  

I'm in Montreal for a few weeks. Staying in downtown so far doesn't seem to bad as far as older cities go. Roads and stuff seem really run down glad I didnt get a rental.

Seems like less fat people.
11   MolotovCocktail   2024 Jul 27, 7:39pm  

Heavy Tax Burden and Income Disparity

Middle-class families in Canada face the challenge of paying up to half their income in taxes. This, coupled with rising living costs, has created substantial economic strain. Canadian incomes are comparable to those in West Virginia, while house prices are akin to those in Los Angeles, making financial stability difficult for many.


https://theconservativeweekly.substack.com/p/canadas-economic-downturn-a-crisis
13   GreaterNYCDude   2024 Dec 3, 2:40pm  

I always thought of you let each province vote on being annexed into the USA as States, at least the western provinces would jump at the opportunity. Manitoba, Seskatchwean, and probably Alberta.

This goes back to the 90s when Quebec wanted to succeed.

Not sure if we'd be able to support them though, we're already in debt up to our eyeballs.

Although they do have natural resources, that's a win.
14   MolotovCocktail   2024 Dec 3, 3:41pm  

GreaterNYCDude says

Not sure if we'd be able to support them though, we're already in debt up to our eyeballs.


That's the rub: Canadian Supreme Court ruled back in the 90s that a province could leave the Confederation (As Canadians like to call it since Dominion is part of the country's official name imposed upon them by the Brits), but it had to pay up it's apportioned part of Canada's national debt in order to do so. Which back then was huge.

This is what really put a damper on Quebec's independence movement.
15   WookieMan   2024 Dec 3, 5:57pm  

GreaterNYCDude says

I always thought of you let each province vote on being annexed into the USA as States, at least the western provinces would jump at the opportunity. Manitoba, Seskatchwean, and probably Alberta.

Eh, make our country more liberal? I'm out on that idea. We just control them as a different country as we have been. A place like Vancouver is probably not much different than Seattle given the proximity.

They also need to make it easier for Americans to visit if they want our money. They could boost their GDP by 10% by allowing American citizens with felonies and DUI's into the country. I think the case is toast, but theoretically Canada cannot let Trump in if fully convicted. And the fact is people make mistakes. Obviously not murderers but Canada has a strict border going in.

And no I don't condone DUI's, it gave me a kid I was never expecting to raise. But come on, one non-lethal DUI for say swerving a bit warrants banning you from a country? Canadians are drunks anyway. I have at least 5 buddies that cannot get into Canada. Big fishing guys too which is the biggie up there in the summer. Skiing/snowboarding in the West. Banff. Lots of lost revenue.

I'll visit, but really have no interest in any part of Canada being a part of the US. I think USVI would be better. Islanders are conservative down there. Uniforms in public schools. Everyone goes to church. Are there idiots, yup. But it would 100% be 2 Republican Senators and Probably 2 house seats? I don't know the permanent population so I could be off on house seats.

3 Provinces joining the US would be 6 blue Senate seats and a loss of the House. The large cities up there are all liberal. Think Minnesota and Minneapolis. Montana and the Dakotas are outliers because they have no major city.
17   MolotovCocktail   2024 Dec 3, 6:26pm  

WookieMan says

They also need to make it easier for Americans to visit if they want our money. They could boost their GDP by 10% by allowing American citizens with felonies and DUI's into the country. I think the case is toast, but theoretically Canada cannot let Trump in if fully convicted. And the fact is people make mistakes. Obviously not murderers but Canada has a strict border going in.


We are the same way. Learned that from a Canadian.
18   WookieMan   2024 Dec 3, 6:46pm  

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

WookieMan says


They also need to make it easier for Americans to visit if they want our money. They could boost their GDP by 10% by allowing American citizens with felonies and DUI's into the country. I think the case is toast, but theoretically Canada cannot let Trump in if fully convicted. And the fact is people make mistakes. Obviously not murderers but Canada has a strict border going in.


We are the same way. Learned that from a Canadian.

You are semi correct. My DUI sister in law used my other sister in laws ID on a DUI conviction. Yeah.... that kind of person. US customs gave her shit, but she sorted it out and they let her in. BIL is Canadian so they go back and forth.

I know this is about Canada, but one of my buddies was fishing up in Canada and they were taking pictures. They were smoking weed out of an apple and US Custom searched them and went through their camera. It was drama, and one of my other buddies folded and said they were smoking weed. Everyone got searched. They got rid of it all before. But the one guy in the photo is not allowed into Canada and has a red flag on him entering the US.

Best part is he actually knew the US border patrol agent. Another high school friends brother.

We are more lenient than Canada though from my crossings. Obviously the southern border is open, so the US is generally not as strict by default.
25   WookieMan   2024 Dec 4, 3:59am  

DOGEWontAmountToShit says






Most people don't read anyway unless it's email. I know this is for a Canadian school, but generally doesn't much matter. The hockey players for sure don't read. As adults I'd say only 10% of the population actually reads books anymore.

The other thing is most of history is not accurate. Think slavery. Not Canadian, but most of the history of slavery is not what people think it was. Hollywood and cinema hyperbolized it. Most blacks at that time couldn't read or write. So it was leftie white people at the time writing it making the history of it. Free food, lodging and a job. Most would have died because of low intelligence. They were also assets no different than a renal property. Why tear it down or damage it yourself? Tangent over.

Also are they going to remove classic fiction books like Lord of The Rings? Where little people (hobbits) save Middle Earth from the dark skinned Orcs and Sauron with the help of all white fair skinned Elves and dirty white dwarves.

I also don't know what Canadians think inclusiveness is. Outside of the Nordic areas, it's probably close to the whitest countries on the planet. Black and dark skinned people don't like winter or white people except the properly educated blacks. By default DEI is dead upon arrival by design. You can't force it. They're a white country, just own it.
27   rocketjoe79   2024 Dec 10, 12:16pm  

Trump is a GOD-LEVEL Troller. "Great State of Canada", that's hilarious.
29   MolotovCocktail   2024 Dec 12, 4:55pm  

This is one pissed off Snow Mexican:


30   Ceffer   2024 Dec 12, 5:01pm  

LOL! Trump isn't talking conquest, but he is probably indexing the dissatisfaction of at least the middle three provinces who may have made overtures already along the lines of annexing. The most northerly three provinces would put zoned up to the 'battle of the Arctic' and its resources.
31   stereotomy   2024 Dec 12, 5:05pm  

Tell the 'muricans that Canada is on sale - $0.70 to the USD and dropping as we speak.

A little more depreciation and the strip clubs in St. Catherines will be hopping with Yanks. Talk about an American injection of aid. . .
33   HeadSet   2024 Dec 12, 7:31pm  

DOGEWontAmountToShit says





Totally the wrong flag. If one wants to cite history, one must be accurate.
34   MolotovCocktail   2024 Dec 12, 7:44pm  

HeadSet says

Totally the wrong flag. If one wants to cite history, one must be accurate.


Canada was never a real country for much of it's history.

That's why when you talk to a Canadian about politics, they almost always define themselves by how they are not American vs by anything that defines them as uniquely Canadian.

And even when they try that, they flub it as so ^^^^.
35   WookieMan   2024 Dec 14, 11:45pm  

DOGEWontAmountToShit says







Lol. We can easily cut them off, cut them off trade wise and they're then broke. Energy is about is about the only real value Canada can produce. We're independent. We turn off the pipes coming in and they lose 20% GDP. They can't ship it across the Atlantic or Pacific cheaper than we can. It would be a fatal error.

I hate the word tariff. Think of it as marketing to sell your product in a county that actually has money or the key demo. It would be like owning a billboard and not charging the person. Who does that? We do and have. They can pay a fee for access, it's not a big deal. Politicians that never ran a business don't understand this concept. Candoa won't raise prices because we won't buy it. So if they want to sell stuff they have to eat it.
36   DemoralizerOfPanicans   2024 Dec 15, 12:53am  

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

That's why when you talk to a Canadian about politics, they almost always define themselves by how they are not American vs by anything that defines them as uniquely Canadian.

"Oh no, here comes the Dudley Dooright 1st Company of the RCMP. The only armed force Canada can muster in 48 hours."
37   DemoralizerOfPanicans   2024 Dec 15, 12:54am  

WookieMan says


I hate the word tariff. Think of it as marketing to sell your product in a county that actually has money or the key demo.

I think of it as, we own the mall and we own most of the stores inside. Why would we allow competitors to compete against our own stores in the mall that we own and not charge them a percentage of sales like almost any retail property owner in a high demand area does?
39   stereotomy   2024 Dec 15, 11:01pm  

Quebec would never join the US (they're descended from frogs, so go figure, although the frenchies are the best looking strippers). All of the non-woke provinces would jump at the chance but would never be let free (Alberta is the TX of Canada and funds every other province).
40   MolotovCocktail   2024 Dec 16, 9:30am  

stereotomy says


Alberta is the TX of Canada and funds every other province


No. The federal government does. And not every province gets funding until recently.

https://deputypm.canada.ca/en/news/news-releases/2022/12/16/federal-government-announces-record-transfers-provinces-and

Back in the 00's and '10s, the Feds did take a lot of tax revenues from Alberta to finance the transfers to the rest. But that has dried up and provinces like Ontario and Quebec also were transitioning from being net contributors to being a net receivers due to demographic collapse.

Ottawa saw this coming. In fact, it contributed to that decline with its greentardation inflicted upon Alberta. This is why they massively ramped up immigration over the past ten or so years. They needed the wage slaves to prop up the system and to reduce their dependence on raping mostly just one province.

But it caused a spike of unaffordable housing AND a hit on middle class wages (Canada only accepts skilled immigrants).

So the main contention that drove the Albertan independence movement went away and the big population provinces (those with Toronto, Vancouver and Montreàl) once again are net contributors.

For now. If the immigrants return to India on retirement, that's a big plus for Canada. The Chinese ones will likely stay. Immigrants also have higher birthrate, usually.

Of course, Canada will no longer be Canada after that. Just like California already is no longer California anymore.

Look to Canada letting Ukrainian refugees pour in after @socal2 's "greatest military on Earth!" are finally routed. Ukrainian is already spoken more than French in Canada as it is.

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