I don't think I've ever noticed BC's cute lil wiener till now.
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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Whitespace pride! (Okay, only by a bit in my case. I wonder if we have any Yellowknifers)
Also the whole East Coast
Oh shit, Newfoundland left again and took NS, PEI and maybe NB with them. I didn't even notice.
Still in the provinces, but technically northern Canada here! There's like at least 2 or 3 other people living up here!
Wow, maybe even 3! /s
Native Tribes in Canada: "Hey can you give back the rest then?"
Canada: "Lol"
Could have just included the Ontario part snd Vancouver Island and it would still be true lol.
Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island.
According to whose geography?
? 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.
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.
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.
Just outline the GTA and call it a day.
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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.
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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Trump did call Trudeau governor of the great state of Canada yesterday and suggested it should become the 51st state a ~week ago
dude is too stupid to understand why he should not do it.
until i hear some GOP chaney and kissegeer types, i aint worried.
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.
You want to know why Canada still exists despite having a fraction of the manpower or military of the United States?
It's because the United States likes Canada. We think they're fun to have around.
Do you guys actually think about us that much?
That's an abstract question to try to answer; it's not like we sit around and ponder about y'all for hours on end but someone says "This is my friend Bill from Canada" and you just think "Oh cool."
On a societal level, we share the world's longest international border, we're massive trade partners, like, most of the Northwestern hemisphere's best comedians come from Canada...we like Canada, we think they're fun to have around.
Yeah, that's my impression too. It's more like you never sat down and thought about annexing us to start with; at least this side of WWII. We're pleasantly familiar feeling and stay out of the way, so there's no reason to.
Hopefully you know that "your country only exists at my pleasure" is not a compliment. I read this as a deliberate jab at first, but now I'm not so sure.
We’re pleasantly familiar feeling and stay out of the way, so there’s no reason to.
I think I'd go farther and say you're pretty good friends; we have plenty of projects going together, we've got a giant waterfall we do a pretty good job sharing, etc.
Hopefully you know that “your country only exists at my pleasure” is not a compliment.
Wasn't really designed to be; it's more meant to chastise other imperial superpowers throughout history. If you went back through history and took the dominant superpower of any given era and plunked their leadership down in 1950's Washington DC, how many of them form close economic ties and a mutual defense pact, and how many of them march on Ottawa?
If I read our treaties correctly, the official attitude of the United States is more like "Canada shall cease to exist over our dead bodies."
It's a bit of an unfair comparison. WWII had just ended and the world was adjusting to the invention of nuclear weapons. The British stopped invading places too, and that was their whole thing. Also, don't forget, before WWII you did try to annex us.
To date you've chosen to sphere us instead, but it's not because you're all just nice guys.
and that was their whole thing
Yeah that's kinda the point I was making.
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The real anarchy would be to make Canadians live anywhere BUT what's on the map
IIRC one of the 19th century presidents basically campaigned on that, at least as far as the western side was concerned.
54/40 or fight!
They're gonna have to take that ocean pearl out of my cold, dead hands.
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.
As someone who is not living in this map, please no I like it here.
it would be, no internet.
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Excellent. I’m cut out from there so I can make my own country.
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)
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.
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.
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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It’s fucking cold any further up there though.
Just give it a few years.
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