Soy Estadounidense. I wouldn’t mind if Canada joined as multiple states, if and only if an overwhelming number of Canadian voters approved of it. Quebec and Puerto Rico should probably be made independent countries.
[I want Canada to remain Canada] If all Canadian provinces were to join the US as state equivalents, what would their electoral college makeup be? I don’t know much about Canadian politics, except that Alberta is red (by US standards), but how might that impact the current US political system? Would they tilt the EC blue? How about Congressional representation? I would think an influx of Canadian senators and house members would push our Congress to blue as well? For that matter, how about adding Greenland as a state? Might that be an unintended consequence of such an asinine hypothetical?
IIRC, the Ford Fiesta/Focus/Fusion were all actually designed by Ford Europe. So I wonder if the engineers were following the apparent European practice of putting the fuel filler on the right.
My AMC Hornet had the gas tank behind the license plate. Pulled it down to access. Many could not find it. (I had to remember to tell friends who borrowed the car)
Total population of Greenland is 56,865 according to a quick Google. This is about 10% of the population of the current least-populous state (Wyoming), and on par with American Samoa.
Canadian population by province/territory (2021 census):
Ontario - 14,223,942
Quebec - 8,501,833
British Columbia - 5,000,879
Alberta - 4,262,635
Manitoba - 1,342,153
Saskatchewan - 1,132,505
Nova Scotia - 969,383
New Brunswick - 775,610
Newfoundland & Labrador - 510,550
Prince Edward Island - 154,331
Northwest Territories - 41,070
Yukon - 40,232
Nunavut - 36,858
The big ones should fit in just fine but the little ones might screw up the electoral calculations. Which I will leave to someone else.
A lot of your suburban/rural firehouses (the ones that were typically volunteer) also had a social hall that one could rent. If you have outsiders going to visit, whether that’s a wedding, a b-day party, a blood drive, or just a meeting you don’t want them parking in the closest spaces, reserved for the firemen, in case they get a call & have to rush to the station & get the apparatus out ASAP, where literally seconds count.
The lot I was thinking of is also a general downtown shopping area parking lot, on its other side; but yes you’re correct – I’m not sure whether that firehouse has a social hall, but the one somewhat closer to me contains in the same building a social hall and the village offices; both blood drives and voting for the two relevant local districts are held in the social hall, and I’m pretty sure you can rent it.
I went ahead and identified rough US state population equivalents for Canadian provinces and territories, and how they might have electoral and congressional representation:
Ontario - 14,223,942 (Pennsylvania, 19 EC, 17 Rep, 2 Sen)
Quebec - 8,501,833 (Virginia, 13 EC, 11 Rep, 2 Sen)
British Columbia - 5,000,879 (Alabama, 9 EC, 7 Rep, 2 Sen)
Alberta - 4,262,635 (Oregon, 8 EC, 6 Rep, 2 Sen)
Manitoba - 1,342,153 (Maine, 4 EC, 2 Rep, 2 Sen)
Saskatchewan - 1,132,505 (Montana, 4 EC, 2 Rep, 2 Sen)
Nova Scotia - 969,383 (Delaware, 3 EC, 1 Rep, 2 Sen)
New Brunswick - 775,610 (North Dakota, 3 EC, 1 Rep, 2 Sen)
Newfoundland & Labrador - 510,550 (Wyoming, 3 EC, 1 Rep, 2 Sen)
These would likely be treated as US territories*:
Prince Edward Island - 154,331 (Assume 0 EC, assume 1 non-voting Rep and 0 Sen)
Northwest Territories - 41,070 (Assume 0 EC, assume 1 non-voting Rep and 0 Sen)
Yukon - 40,232 (Assume 0 EC, 1 non-voting Rep and 0 Sen)
Nunavut - 36,858 (Assume 0 EC, 1 non-voting Rep and 0 Sen)
Greenland - 56,895 (Assume 0 EC, 1 non-voting Rep and 0 Sen)
*Non-voting representatives can advise on committees, but cannot vote on legislation. Territories have no Electoral College votes, and no senators.
So for those provinces that would end-up with Electoral College votes and congressional representation, how do Canada’s entities sort into our binary (Democrat/Republican - Blue/Red) political system? We don’t have a sorting hat, and I know Canada has more than two political parties, but hey, if you are coming into our tree house, you gotta play by the rules.
My birthday is ambiguous if written out in DD/MM/YYYY format so unless I’m sure that nobody who needs it would think it was the US style, I would always write 3 letters for the month. Verbally I’d always say the full month.
The way the poll was worded, “do you say the name of the month” made me think it meant verbally, in which case I would say the name of the month, and that was how I voted. But if I was writing it down, like on a form, I’d usually use the number.
Most of my life, I would have said the name of the month. However, in the last few years, I have nearly always been giving it to someone who was typing it into a computer, so they want a number.
Yeah, really ten states, But altho if they came willingly, I wouldnt mind, no muscling or threats.
Could join Alaska.
Yeah. I voted that I’m fine with Canada staying Canada, but if they actually wanted to join the USA, I wouldn’t mind. I would however wonder why the hell they wanted to do that, especially if we were all in anything like the current situation.
It is my distinct impression that Canada, in the sense both of the inhabitants and of the government, definitely doesn’t want to do that. Didn’t we already have a war over that once? – well, more than once, apparently, the number depending on how you define “war” and probably, at some points, how you define “Canada” and “the USA”.
– if I’m being asked my birthdate at the doctor’s office or some such, I say it as m/dd/yyyy. (I presume they’re using US style because we’re in the US.) If I’m being asked my birthday by a friend, I’ll say [month] [date].
I spent Christmas Day in the ER (and the next three days in the hospital), and I was surprised at how few ambulances I heard. I was sleeping sporadically and badly, so I wasn’t just sleeping through them.
Yes. There’s a difference between birthday and birthdate.
Stable patients don’t get lights & sirens; we stop at all lights/stop signs for them just like a normal car should.
Even for those runs were lights are used, time of day matters, as well as amount of traffic & traffic flow. The hospital we went to most frequently there was a traffic light about ½ mile away but other than that, it was a straight shot with only one or two lightly used residential streets T’ing onto the street that we were driving over (so they had a stop sign, while we didn’t). If the traffic ahead noticed the lights & pulled over I wouldn’t necessarily put the sirens on. If we took someone to the Trauma Center in the city, with city grid streets that siren was on the whole way, even in the middle of the night.
Less noise makes patients less anxious & less noise makes it easier for the medic to hear things like breathing sounds.
Definitely? My Sask relatives have pondered it, but not seriously. Certainly not under duress or under the next administration.
It would really suck if you moved to Canada to escape the next four years and ended up living in the 51st state.
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Cats and catpans poll: there were no options for our situation: 2 pans, 2 cats. All of the “2 catpans” options were for 1 cat, or more than 2.
Interesting and smart. My room was almost directly over the ER, so I guess most patients coming in were stable.