I love Vancouver its the only place that Iwould ever consider emigrating permamently to as opposed to spending a few years working abroad.
The neat thing about the Canadian PM (or at least the previous one – I have not corresponded with the present one) is that he sometimes replies – usually it is a minion that replies, but sometimes the PM personally replies. It’s nice to know that yes, someone, the right someone, is actually listening.
What, did you send a letter to Jean Chretien calling him a big, fat, liar? 
It is quite pretty here, but we seem to have more idiots per capita than anywhere else sometimes.
Although I like to slag my home state, in all honesty, I’d rather not live anywhere else most days.
Calgary’s a bit over half the area of New York City, and of course the actual metropolitan New York area, if you count the Jersey shore, the northern burbs and a bit of Long Island, isn’t as densely populated as you might think.
Calgary’s not going to be as densely populated as a 400-year-old port city, but the old saw that Calgary is some sort of space-wasting extravaganza is just not true; the low population density is an illusion created by where they drew the municipality’s borders. It just happens that the city borders include its own suburbs, whereas most big cities drew their city borders such that they now cut across fully developed land and place much of the population of the actual city outside the political limits of the city. Toronto’s an obvious example; the borders of Toronto really have absolutely no relevance to any human geographic reality.
By Western standards Calgary’s pretty normal. It’s positively compact and economical compared to the broad sweep of highways and strip malls that is Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth, where 88% of the area is taken up by pickup trucks stopped dead in traffic. (By way of comparison, Fort Worth is about the same physical size as Calgary and has two thirds the population.)
In any event, people are going to live where they want to live. If a million people want to live in Calgary, or eight million want to live in New York, then there’s a reason for that. As long as they’re burning fossil fuels, it’s not going to make any difference in the long run precisely where they live.
I had some back and forth with Martin and with my local MP concerning gay marriage and how my local MP was opposed to it, despite support of gay marriage being the party line and being a matter of fundamental human rights that had been tested repeatedly in the courts.
I liked my story better. Sure, yours is all fighting for justice and stuff…
I suppose that is the bottom line. I think we can do better for long-term sustainability than mega-cities, but if we all die from global warming, it won’t matter much.
I like your story better too.
I have this fantasy that when everything collapses, a new world superpower will emerge consisting of Alaska, BC, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California, and they will achieve world domination with ICBM’s tipped with MIRV warheads of weapons-grade pot.
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I have this fantasy that when everything collapses, a new world superpower will emerge consisting of Alaska, BC, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California, and they will achieve world domination with ICBM’s tipped with MIRV warheads of weapons-grade pot.[/Q
This may come close to the fantasy.
Here are two websites that are talking about independence.
Have any Dopers been to Nunavut?
I think we’ve had at least two from there. One was Nunavut Boy, I’m not sure who the other was.
She was a court reporter, IIRC.
I have been to Nunavut.
And in Febuary Nanuvut comes to you in soOnt
Whats this about a heck of a storm up in Stoney plain I hear, power outages and what not. This tornado weather for those folks?
Declan
Or better yet , just like that Granny with Brian.
Declan
Technically, yes, but only because islands in Hudsons Bay and James Bay are part of Nunavut. While paddling from the Kattawagami/Harricanaw to the Moose, we came upon a small rocky island in Hanna Bay (the lower end of James Bay). With a latitude similar to Calgary’s, it certainly is not representative of Nunavut (aside from being on the Arctic Ocean) and is about 350 miles south of Nunavut’s southernmost community on the Belchers, but nonethelss it is technically part of Nunavut. Call it a quirk in boundary making.
My uncle raised his family on Baffin Island, and I have a cousin who runs a weather station four months of each year on Ellesmere Island.
Paging Rube E. Tewesday…