Hi, everybody! You’ve arrived at the thread where all the cool Canadians hang out, along with lots of other Dopers who are Cana-philes, or Cana-curious. This is also the place to drop by if you’ve got a beef about Canada, not that that’s very likely!
I know, the new year doesn’t start in Canada for another nine hours and twenty-five minutes - I won’t be home this evening, and I wanted to start the ball rolling…
So how’s everybody doing?
Trying to get something filed with CRA before the end of the year!
Happy New Year from the home of King Charles! I am in London with my wife and kids before we return home Sunday.
Listening to Rod Stewart singing Auld Lang Syne as the fire slowly dies on the hearth. Snow is gently falling; Piper mutts went out and came back in, covered in snow.
Best wishes to all for the New Year.
Tuned into the local CBC coverage of the celebration at Harbour Front just in time for the countdown, then listened to the fireworks on TV while watching them from our bedroom window.
May the coming year bring us all good cheer.
Cozy day at home with my family. Watched Infoman and the Bye Bye and the highlight in this house is actually the new Mike Chez Rona commercial.
It’s over an hour before midnight here, but close enough. New Year’s greetings to all!
Spending the Eve with a fire on, cold beer, and old movies. Might have a glass of fine single-malt at midnight to toast the New Year. Maybe two glasses.
We’re an hour ahead of you in Sask – just popped a mini-bot of Pol Roger.
I recorded “Bye Bye” for later viewing - just so that I could hear Guy Lombardo’s (a Canadian) “Auld Lang Syne” from Times Square.
After viewing “Bye Bye” , I kept humming “My Sharona”/”Mike Chez Rona”, and thinking about “Quebec Solitaire” and “Damazon”..
I generally enjoy the Bye Bye, even when it’s just kind of dumb. I at least chuckled at most of it, which is really all I ask for. I actually think my biggest laugh was right off the bat, with the very confused kidnapped Ivan Demidov and “My Burd!” and “Help me….”
My entire household stops to watch the Rona commercials, they really just bring us joy. The whole thing has been an insane phenomenon with Halloween costumes and action figures and just a ridiculous success for a television ad campaign, it’s kind of mesmerising. And an earworm of epic proportions.
A bunch of interesting charts looking at Canada’s recent economy (gift linked).
Now that the US has invaded Venezuela, who knows what chaos the Republicans want to create for Canada? It’s going to be an ugly year…
The Canadian Encyclopedia - Canada Quiz
Did all three quizzes, scores below for your judgement/approval:
Some of those questions were surprisingly tough. I, too, got 100%, 75%, and 80%.
93, 65 and 20%….though in my defense that 93 was by hitting an option while trying to scroll and I deserve 100 but you don’t have to believe me on that!
I’m terrible at trivia, haven’t really learned any Canadian history in decades, and felt I vaguely recognized some of this stuff.
I’d be interested in hearing everyone else’s response to Mr. Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday. (And for anyone who missed it, here’s the complete text - Read Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world | CBC News ).
I thought it was great, I think it’s about time a group of world leaders stand up to Trump-ism while we still can.
And then, Don Old goes and says this today - “Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.” I cannot remember a time when I’ve had less respect for the United States, that they’ve let their nation bend the knee to a pack of shits like the Republican party under Trump.
My response in the Carney thread.
What threat has he protected us from? Russia? There was never a realistic chance of us being invaded by anyone other than the US. Most of our wars have been us going somewhere else to get in a fight. Even during the worst days of WWII, before the US finally showed up, Canada was never in danger as a country. Our soldiers in Europe might have been killed, but that’s a long way from Germany actually invading us. Japan was even farther away.
Only because the US exists. If the US had remained under the UK, it would not have expanded or grown to the extent it did. Canada itself might not have been organized as it is now. Imagine multiple countries in that same space and only some of them supporting the USSR and the UK during the war. Outcomes could have been significantly different. To deny that the US has had significant impact on the world and on Canada ignores reality.
I’m confused. We’re supposed to be grateful to the US, because if the US had never come into being we might be in some radically different timeline that could be worse than the actual one? By the same logic, we should be furious with the US, because if the US had never come into being we might be in some radically different timeline that could be much better than the actual one.