I’ve never understood the New Yorkers are assholes reputation. They’re some of the nicest people I’ve ever met.
I had a map out, guy asks where I’m trying to go, I tell him the Met. He starts giving me directions. Another guy overhears and stops to argue with him about the best way to send me there. It was the newyorkiest thing I’ve ever seen. “He doesn’t want to go that way, send him this way”, “if you want to send him that way you might as well send him this other way”.
This is true of America, too. I think most people you are likely to meet in America sit between the “not at all racist” and “I mean yeah but it’s pretty low key and subconscious” end of the racism spectrum, it’s just that our more virulent racists are so often cops and presidential candidates.
Our southern racist neighbor embolden the local racists and make them feel more comfortable doing their racist recruitment in public where it’s more effective.
Canada is always just an election cycle or two behind the popular American culture.
Indigenous women have been disappearing to the concern of absolutely nobody in the country for decades. If anything, the rise in fascist ideology in the US has made people more aware and critical of the racism that already existed in Canadian society
Black people are committing crimes! Latinos are doing drugs! Arabs are terrorists! Chinese people are cheating on tests and stealing your jobs! Everyone in India is trying to scam you!!!
Now back to our regularly scheduled movie about a cool White Nationalist who fights back by shooting everyone with a big gun!
Damn, crazy how this was all here before Americans arrived.
Hi. Am Canadian, am originally from Alberta, love everyone except fucking fascists, and can confirm Alberta is currently Canada’s stanky armpit and has been so for some time.
Oh, is that where all that smoke has been coming from? I thought it was somewhere in BC… We’re getting a bunch of smoke down here in the US (all the way from Glacier down to me in Utah).
Eh, most of those are just idiots who tend to keep to themselves anyway. Just ignore it and consider filling up gas/electricity in one of the larger cities in the region.
But yeah, plenty of rednecks throughout the rural areas…
Fair. The armpittines is due to a small percentage of really weird people and their propensity to be simultaneously ignorant and outspoken. Sad that they affect policy and people’s lives.
The place itself is breathtaking. Though in fairness, I’ve moved from there to Vancouver Island and it’s kind of been eclipsed by a few orders of magnitude.
Thunder Bay has been a race war for decades. If a crime happens in the white part of town it’s likely the aboriginals and if it happens in the aboriginal part of town it’s likely white people. I was nice to an aboriginal person once when I was there and he started crying then hugged me. You can guess which side the police actually investigate
Canada has a good reputation on how not racist they are, but really all that racism is directed at Indigenous people. You’ll be fine for the most part as long as one doesn’t stay in the prairies for too long.
One of the most confusing places to be in is a Canadian machine shop. Half the machines will be imperial and the other will be metric. Work order come in both units on the regular.
For the GP, Canada converted to metric starting in 1970 and completing the conversion in 1985.
So everyone under 55 grew up in metric, but anyone older than that had to convert.
So, baking and cooking are generally done in imperial to this day, but commerce and public works are all metric.
I generally think personal weight in pounds, height in feet, distance in meters, deli purchases in grams, fluids in litres, gravel in yards, chopped wood in cords, etc.
I went to university in Canada for engineering in the early 1980s. We had to learn both Imperial and metric, because almost all the textbooks and equipment came from the US. We would usually convert into metric to do all calculations and then convert back at the end because to do otherwise is insanity.
I would guess that the same is still true today, because the equipment and textbooks still come from the US.
Not so much today; as I mentioned, the transition period was from 1970 to 1985. While some textbooks and equipment still comes from the US, a lot is also sourced from other parts of the world, and some textbooks are Canadian versions now (in metric).
In fact, the textbook countries spent a good 20 years from the late 80s to the early 00s churning out new editions on an annual basis where a bit more was converted to metric every time. This often forced students to buy up to three editions of a book new if a department was using the same text for a course series.
I could actually see the point in learning both, because there is a very good chance that engineers are going to be facing both systems in their professional lives.