That may be, but from what I’ve read, a dominion nowadays is just a member of the Commonwealth where the Queen remains head of state (as opposed to head of government).
Nitpick: 4th.
It’s so big it needs two places on the list. 
I kinda liked that. Sure, you had to pay, but the toilets were clean, attended, and plentiful. Better than the situation in many city centers here where many places don’t make toilets available.
Hated that.
I’d bet the sweet butter was honey butter.
I’ve known restaurants to mix honey with butter and whip it, so maybe that’s what you encountered.
I agree, it tastes odd.
Some of those things I find hard to believe, too, and I’ve lived here my whole life. Starting right at the top of the list, for instance, fruits and vegetables are about half the price of meat. Yeah, there’s variation, and the most expensive veggies are more expensive than the cheapest meats, but overall veggies are cheaper.
And in my family, it really is an unthinkable notion that you would go visit family, but not stay with them. The only time you’d stay at a hotel would be if it was something really big like a wedding, where the hosts couldn’t possibly put everyone up.
You can enter private homes wearing your shoes in the U.S.
I was amazed that my friends in Canada expected me to remove my shoes before coming into their house. I’ve heard its that way in Japan too.
Not true, I lived I in Russia and if you got a DWI, you were fucked.
The custom is starting to catch on a bit here, too, though it’s not yet common, and not to anything like the degree you’d find in Japan. My household is of the casual, whatever-makes-the-guest-comfortable sort. I remove my shoes at the entry, and many of my friends, particularly the younger ones, tend to follow suit. I make neither request nor complaint either way. (Of course, a substantial proportion of my friends are anime fans, martial artists, and the like, which no doubt has something to do with it.)
In other households, I take my cue from my host, insofar as it’s practical.
Are you under the impression that it does not snow, or that salt is not used on the roads when it does, in the UK?
You better have some clean-ass shoes is all I’m going to say. I hate, hate hayte vacuuming up tons of grit and shit because some dillhole is such a snowflake he has wear his goddamn hiking boots all over my carpets.
The term "dominion isn’t used at all any more.
Try living on a small hobby farm. Sandy dirt in one area, clayish dirt in another, chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl and at one point in time we had sheep. Around here you wear wellies or clogs outside [or dressier shoes or runners for leaving the farm] and take them off at the door otherwise you might as well just have a dirt floored shack. I may be a medieval recreationist, but I draw the line at living in a croft.
Aussies who visit the States that I’ve talked to tend to mention how polite the drivers are. It’s true, in my experience. QLD drivers are often a bit crap when it comes to manners.
Customer service is another one. Generally the impression is good, although at least one guy found it overbearing.
That scale is 1.05:1, incidentally.
One of my favorite bits from that article was the guy from India saying that he was amazed how U.S. traffic managed to function smoothly without the intervention of traffic police.
We (Americans) may bitch about traffic frequently, but apparently, it could be a lot worse!
So, the guy would be right at home in America
Please, not this again.
Some Canadians (IME, mostly in the west) expect you to remove your shoes upon entry to their house, in all conditions. Some Canadians don’t care if you walk into their house in your shoes (IME, mostly in the east), unless your shoes are muddy, snowy, or otherwise wet; in which case, you’re expected to remove them.
My local friends here in western Canada are often surprised when they come to my house on a dry day, to hear me (originally from Ontario), say, “Don’t worry about your shoes.” Heck, I tromp in, wearing my shoes (as I learned to do in Ontario), and they–sometimes reluctantly–follow suit.
Americans often love to say things like, “The US is big and diverse, and what goes in New York isn’t necessarily what goes in California.” The shoe issue is similar in Canada. What goes in Alberta is not necessarily what goes in Ontario.
Though it remains in certain places. Stone carvings on some government buildings do say “Dominion Public Building” (see, for example, the Post Office at Mongomery and Yonge in Toronto; here’s an illustration, though it’s a little hard to see) and I seem to recall that the old Customs House on Front Street in Toronto has a modern sign that says “Dominion Public Building.”
That being said, I’ll agree that the term “Dominion of Canada” has been discarded in modern times. In a world where France is officially (in English), the “French Republic”; and North Korea is officially “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”; and Australia is the “Commonwealth of Australia,” I guess that now, we’re just plain “Canada.”
Maybe that’s not such a bad thing.