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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

I don't think I've ever noticed BC's cute lil wiener till now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Canada looks like a shit gun.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

It's Legendary though and will cost you $1867 to unlock.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Do you hear that, Randy? The Americans cocked the shit gun

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I was thinking a gun from warframe

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Whitespace pride! (Okay, only by a bit in my case. I wonder if we have any Yellowknifers)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I'm just happy the line on the west is so thick and dark. I'm not used to this kind of representation for the Island and I'm loving the token charity there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh shit, Newfoundland left again and took NS, PEI and maybe NB with them. I didn't even notice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Still in the provinces, but technically northern Canada here! There's like at least 2 or 3 other people living up here!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Wow, maybe even 3! /s

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Native Tribes in Canada: "Hey can you give back the rest then?"

Canada: "Lol"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Canada : "holding it for the Clovis people"

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Could have just included the Ontario part snd Vancouver Island and it would still be true lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

According to whose geography?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

? It's just a fact. The urban agglomeration commonly known as Vancouver (any of them) is not on the large, west-coast island known as Vancouver island.

I suspect you're trolling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I am. It is a post about truncate Canada geography after all.
However, being myself not versed in north-american geography, I've only learned today that there was such a thing as a Vancouver island.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ah, okay, sorry. It's the one on the west end of this map. The city of 3 million called Vancouver is just across the channel on the mainland. The same English navy captain charted them both, which is where the name comes from.

The places I've heard of on the island are Victoria, Tofino and Nanaimo, but those aren't very large centers, and if you include them then you have to include all the prairie cities as well. The rest is covered in mountains, temperate rainforest and retired British expats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well he landed there. But he's not there now, not for a while. Nor the town: that's on the mainland (aka the Big Island with Moncton and New Denver on it) .

Fun fact: there's a Victoria Island but Victoria isn't there either, the person nor the town.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Well he landed there.

Was Vancouver a person? I'm learning a lot about Canada in this post about not knowing Canada (^_^)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Just outline the GTA and call it a day.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The real anarchy would be to make Canadians live anywhere BUT what's on the map

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I'm a Canadian and I would have to drive ~8 hours to end up on that map.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

IIRC one of the 19th century presidents basically campaigned on that, at least as far as the western side was concerned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

They're gonna have to take that ocean pearl out of my cold, dead hands.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's the one!

Apparently Polk never actually campaigned on it, though; it was just around the same time. It seems the British version was going down to the 42nd parallel, and the actual result of the 49th is pleasingly near the midpoint.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

As someone who is not living in this map, please no I like it here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

it would be, no internet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I am sure some US hardliners see the map and wonder how is this country still independent.

These positions are not defensible from military perspective.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

C'mon, it even looks like a rifle
Who would be insane enough to invade a country, that already looks like a weapon?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump did call Trudeau governor of the great state of Canada yesterday and suggested it should become the 51st state a ~week ago

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

dude is too stupid to understand why he should not do it.

until i hear some GOP chaney and kissegeer types, i aint worried.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I'm not worried about imminent invasion either. A trade war will already basically cause chaos, though, and it could escalate from there. Hopefully the government is up to the task.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Excellent. I’m cut out from there so I can make my own country.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I think that if climate change causes a lot of snow in the north to melt, it will create a lot of new arable space further north that people could potentially migrate to (even from other countries, eg climate migrants from the inhabitable equator)

(disclaimer: never been to Canada)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

We've been choked by forest fire smoke every summer for a few years now. I hear some of the boreal forest that burned down is coming back as plains. Also, interestingly, we never stopped clearing new farmland around the high 50's of latitude.

It's really noticeable already as far north as I am. People will talk about how freakish the weather has been here, and then suddenly get quiet if anyone says "climate" instead of "weather" because it's oil country and they still want to be on the denier train. Man, humanity is depressing sometimes.

The flip side is that the traditional breadbasket areas in the center-west of this strip are basically turning into desert.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I feel bad for them. They've got a shit lot in that they know they're causing damage and they could stem that tide, but in doing so would have to give up what they know and have poured their lives into so far.

Not everyone's ready to sacrifice their comfort or livelihoods for others and jump when there's no guarantee they'll be caught by the social safety net.

There will always be someone desperate and ready to deny the truth of their surroundings to fill the gap left, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's big of you. I can sympathise with someone who's doing bad things, but when they're intellectually dishonest about it as well I start feeling like glassing everything and letting life start over.

It's just so damn hopeless. If that's the level we're at the atrocities will never stop, and we'll keep blaming the other guy for it.

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