The Tim Horton’s comments in this thread are shocking, amusing and embarrassing all at once.
I have both admiration and contempt for how Tim Horton’s has co-opted Canadian patriotism and made themselves the national brand even though it’s just shitty coffee and mediocre doughnuts.
I guess people drink their coffee because it’s less expensive than other places, plus the whole “roll up the rim” thing.
I’ve won twice.
It sounds like there is a difference. It there’s a solid green and a solid red on the cross-road, then someone who gets the green can go through the intersection without worrying about someone entering the intersection from the cross-road.
But if there’s a flashing green, that means the cross-road has a flashing red, which is the equivalent of a stop sign. Someone on the cross-road therefore can stop at the flashing red, then lawfully enter the intersection, even though the other street is showing a flashing green. A driver who gets the flashing green has to be prepared for a vehicle to enter the intersection.
Well no wonder drunk driving is so dangerous. Sheesh.
Is this a Haarrperrr!!! situation? Should we be worried? [del]Are you guys going to smuggle nukes into Turkestan for profit?[/del]
Funny looking money. 
I only visited Saskatchewan and Alberta once about 20 years ago.
It was expensive by comparison with the US and there were a lot of Union Jacks about. This was in Ontario around about Niagara Falls. Are the Union Jacks because of historical sites or are Canadians/Ontarionianians into Union Jacks generally?
That I went into some “British Bar” in Downtown Toronto on Yonge Street (Duke of Something or other IIRC, east side of the street) wearing a Coventry City football top, and found someone from Coventry there.
Lucky you. Canada has, so far, been the place I had the worst time getting in to (although the worst time full stop was getting out of Romania).
I was going there on business, basically to install a test version of our EDI solution, set up some test flows and show people how to use it. My first mistake was bringing the CDs with me. My second mistake was being truthful when asked how much a full version cost (about 100k USD). My third mistake was not having a ticket showing I was leaving Canada (I had a ticket back to London from Atlanta and was going to be given the ticket for Toronto to Atlanta by someone I was meeting. Apparently having a ticket from somewhere else on the continent back home was not proof that I was leaving Canada).
It was horrible. God knows how long we were discussing it, but I eventually got in. And the chap certainly was not polite.
Ontario’s flag does feature the Union Jack (as Canada’s flag used to.) Maybe that’s part of it?
Probably some of both. The Niagara area was one of the areas of Loyalist settlement (Niagara-on-the-Lake was the first capital of Upper Canada) and the Union Jack does have some sentimental value for some Canadians. It also has official status as a symbol of Canada’s membership in the Commonwealth. For example, it’s one of three flags flown over the Legislature of Saskatchewan.
You have to remember that Canada’s evolution from colony to nation was peaceful and evolutionary, with Britain gradually ceding control as Canada requested it. Given that history, there was never strong anti-British sentiment as a major component of Canadian nationalism. (There was and is anti-British sentiment as a component of Quebec nationalism, but nowadays it tends to be a sub-set of anti-Canadianism amongst Quebec nationalists. That’s probably historical as well - it’s been a long time since Britain had any active influence in Canada that Quebec nationalists can point to. The Queen on the currency is about it. )
That might be the intent, but, as I say, no one really knows the significance (it isn’t in the driver’s manual, recall). That pretty much subverts the intention.
Really? Could they have been teasing you? It’s kind of a tourist attraction for a reason…
I was surprised while staying in downtown Montreal that after buying some liquor I had to carry it in a bag that I had to buy ( I was planning on just carrying it in my hand down one block to my hotel, but was told that wasn’t permissible), but passed 3 groups of people smoking weed out in the open on the sidewalk.
I haven’t been to Canada since my family went to Montreal for Expo '67 (yes, I’m old).
My two main impression (I was only 6, so cut me some slack):
Even in August, Montreal was COLD!!!
BOY, Montreal’s subways were about a million times nicer than New York’s!
I went to Montreal for Expo, too. I don’t recall it being cold, but I agree completely about the subways. I grew up with the NYC Subway. Montreal’s wasn’t only MUCH cleaner, it was QUIET. New York subway cars braking send out squeals that can destroy eardrums, but Montreal’s were so quiet we had to ask if they were padded, or something.
Same experience at Toronto. I was like, “Wow, the Canadian border officers are even more hostile than U.S. border officers.”
Also, in Montreal, the subway (called the “metro”) has different designs, artwork, etc. for each station. So each one looks unique.
We’ve added many stations since '67.
Don’t the Metro trains run on tires, not railway wheels, and that’s why it’s quieter?