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Ah yes, Canada. (lemmy.world)
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[-] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 71 points 2 weeks ago

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

Canada: "Lol"

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 39 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago

Just outline the GTA and call it a day.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago

Vancouver is not on Vancouver Island.

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

According to whose geography?

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

? 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.

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] LordPassionFruit@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] prayer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

it would be, no internet.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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)

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] PyroNeurosis 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 7 points 2 weeks ago

Canada looks like a shit gun.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I was thinking a gun from warframe

[-] Soleos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Canada is the north side of the st. Lawrence river, everything else is just that area's backyard

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Archelon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Ashen44@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

Wow, maybe even 3! /s

this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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