Canadians

[Blarg]

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[D44kpunk]

vancouvers weather is identical to seattles' if you've been there, it rains every day and is like 50-80s year round

[Shiroikage]

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hahahahaha, yeah
For some reason, it never really properly rained when I came up for a week back in Sept.
My relatives were kind of surprised.

[Ksandra]

haha well I don't mind rain, and 50s-80s year round isn't too bad~

ty again guys for the info. If I think of more questions I'll post them.

[Howie Roary]

oh, and stop by for a visit in Toronto

toplessness is legal for women

[Ksandra]

I am definitely not the type of woman who should be topless

[Howie Roary]

I'll be the judge of that

[Blarg]

I think you can go topless everywhere

[Blarg]

I just wish women would have more respect for the law and stop wearing shirts

[Howie Roary]

optional laws are mandatory

[Blarg]

optional laws are mandatory

I'm pretty sure there is a law stating this

[Greatguardian]

but is it optional?

[Chun Liroy]

tl;dr

[Greatguardian]

it could be an optional law stating that optional laws are mandatory, what do you think of that mr smarty pants?

[Howie Roary]

optionally, you could mandate that opting out of mandatory optional laws were optionally mandatory with respect to the options of the mandate

[Blarg]

it could be an optional law stating that optional laws are mandatory, what do you think of that mr smarty pants?

I was going to write that it was an optional law after but I thought the joke was too obvious and only a moran would have brought it up

[Greatguardian]

[Blarg]

don't worry, not everyone can have a highly refined upper-class sense of humour like myself. besides, how could I call myself upper-class without the existence of the lower-class like yourself. so I thank you

[Cadsuane]

First thing to remember is that Canada's a really big place, and probably none of us here have really seen that much of it. Some relatives of mine are out west working in boomtowns, but other than that I don't know much about the west. Then I hear about some friends working up north in the territories, eating caribou and getting northern living allowances for living in the middle of fucking nowhere, seems like living on the moon to me. Well, not the Caribou part. I did grow up in Labrador.

The maritimes have historically been poor places but that trend has been changing. Newfoundland's a weird place with a lot of memory. Anyway, maybe Americans wouldn't even know where Newfoundland is on a map? So I'll start from the beginning. Newfoundland (pronounced "new-fund-land") is the western most land in Canada comprising an island off the coast of Labrador, and Labrador itself. People there speak in a regional accent which is sort of like Irish but not really, but it's kind of charming and visitors tend to pick it up after awhile. Historically it's been a poor place which is why there's a Newfie diaspora across Canada, stereotypically of seasonal workers gathering in places like Fort McMurray in Alberta. Newfs have a way of ending up back on the Rock somehow, in fact "Home" is like a proper noun to them which means Newfoundland. They traditionally vote liberal, eat a lot of codfish and berries which grow wild in the north (fuck I love partridgeberries), and are stereotyped along with Nova Scotians as being the nicest people in Canada. There's lots of work to be had there these days I hear, but what I do remember from my time living there is that you have to love the sea to enjoy the place. The weather is brutal but I miss the fish. Hard to get a decent cut of fish on the mainland for less than a pound of flesh.

I guess this information's more relevant to you: public school quality varies from schoolboard to schoolboard, which are usually public-private trusteeships. I've heard horror stories about inner city Toronto high schools, while the public highschool I went to in Ottawa had a large number of computer labs plus a graphic design lab full of mac-pros and other cool gadgets. I remember hearing shit about like, public schools in the U.S. cutting phys. ed. and music programs due to funding shortages? I don't think that happens very much up here. The job market in Ontario for educators is doing pretty well I hear, or at least the student teachers I've met say it is. I think it's a pretty highly qualified field though. Most of my high school teachers had Master's degrees.

[Cadsuane]

Also yeah second the the Montreal culture bit. It reminds me of Porto or Lisbon so much that it doesn't seem like it should be in North America at all.