Hi folks! I am from the US, and currently enrolled in a low-residency program at a Canadian university. I’m really enjoying my first semester of classes.
The classes are remote for now, but I will be in Vancouver for a month long summer session this year and next year. I’m looking forward to it! Vancouver is a city that I really like!
You mean the Saskatchewan Namestealers?
Haha! Or is it the Name Stealers?
I was half-expecting them to come out as the GreenWhites.
Well, to be utterly fair, Saskatchewan has had more citizens who could legitimately call themselves ‘rough riders’ than Ottawa… 
Paul Theroux on his recent travels through Canada, and the difference between Canada and the US - Canada is 'so different from the United States,' says writer Paul Theroux | Hanomansing Live | CBC.ca
The Alberta referendum is finally here. There doesn’t seem to be much support here in Edmonton, and I’m looking forward to the issue being set aside in a week or so.
Hoping all the Alberta dopers remember to vote!
My condolences to those affected in Wainwright. I wonder if the high winds were predictable. I see this vote as a storm in a teacup, unlikely to pass and expensive if it does. The answer to the other nine questions will also be interesting.
From the Grauniad:
“Albertans are going to the polls to decide their place in Canada, in a referendum that has exposed deep divisions within the province, not least in the separatist movement itself.”
“On Monday, voters will respond to the question of whether Alberta should remain in Canada, or hold a second, binding independence referendum. A minority have long argued that separation is the only way to address their belief that Alberta is short-changed by its financial relationship with Ottawa, and prevented from fully exploiting the province’s vast fossil fuel reserves.”
“Any enthusiasm either side might have held headed into the referendum was muted after a deadly fire broke out at a major military base in the province. On Saturday afternoon, a blaze tore through the CFB Wainwright and into the nearby town. Canada’s armed forces announced with “profound sadness” that there had been multiple deaths and injuries.”
“Opponents of independence have focused heavily on the costs of separation, with the University of Calgary’s school of public policy saying in June it could be up to $170bn over a five-year period and be highly unpredictable in the long term. The issue has not divided neatly along partisan lines. The former premiers Jason Kenney and Rachel Notley – from the rightwing Conservative and leftwing New Democratic party – have appeared on stage together, setting aside a bitter ideological rivalry that more usually defines Albertan politics.”
“Mark Carney, who grew up in the province, visited both Calgary and Edmonton last week to campaign for a united Canada. “At this pivotal moment, Albertans have a choice: to build a stronger Alberta and a greater Canada to leave for our children, or to burden them with years of deep division and great uncertainty,” the prime minister told a raucous crowd.”
(Normal link, probably walled. Voters are asked if they want US tightening of immigration, Senate reform, qualifying for social programs, voter ID etc.)