I certainly hope so.
“Poil” is French for “hair.”
“Lievre” is French for “hare.”
So, PP’s last name could mean “Hair-hare.”
Yeah, it worries me that PP could be the next prime minister.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Among the many things I am grateful for, I’m giving thanks for my online (and sometimes in person) friends at the SDMB!
Hear, hear!
Happy Thanksgiving.
And a Happy Thanksgiving to you, Le Ministre, and to all my Canadian friends here on the SDMB! Does anybody have any special plans?
Me, I’ll be at the track. It’s the last day of live horse racing locally, and it looks to be a good card. Wish me luck!
In other news, I saw a new loonie today. Not sure what the reverse is (mother and child?) but the obverse is definitely King Charles, with “Charles III D.G. Rex.” Kind of weird, but I guess we’ll all get used to it in time.
Even though I’m not a monarchist, I really don’t mean this disrespectfully. After ~61 years of singing “God save our gracious Queen”, I’m afraid poor Charles III is going to get “God save our gracious Qu-uhh-ing” out of me for quite some time yet. 
Took the ferries from Roosevelt Island to Red Hook in Brooklyn for brunch and a brewery/distillery tour yesterday. (That’s my first time ever in Brooklyn - I still have Queens and Staten Island to go.)
Today, I’ll likely take a long walk through the new neighbourhood. Not much else planned for Thanksgiving…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Quietly at home just with hubs.
Lovely.
On Monday we went to the park to walk around and look at the fall colours. On the way there, I saw a flattened skunk, a flattened raccoon, and a flattened squirrel. I think that’s called a “Toronto trifecta”.
Yes, as soon as I saw the thread title, this was exactly it. My knowledge of Canada at this point consists of knowing it is cold and knowing that the RCMP uniforms are oh so cool! LOL
Not all of it is cold - Victoria, Vancouver, and the Gulf Islands can be as rainy as Seattle in the winter, but not significantly colder…
Where I come from, however, is cold. Really cold.
That makes sense. Vancouver is only 142 miles farther north and on the Pacific. The cold makes sense, too. Is that why the large majority of Canadians live within 200 miles of the U.S. border?
The portion of Canada that is mostly uninhabited is so because the land isn’t arable. This includes some areas that are no colder than inhabited portions, especially in northern-ish parts of Ontario and Quebec. See: Pre-Cambrian Shield. Look, for example, at how far north you have to go in Manitoba before the population density falls to near zero versus in Alberta. A small part of this is because it’s a tiny bit warmer further west at the same latitude. Most of it is because everything turns to rock and lakes with no soil just north of Winnipeg, but you can go all the way up to Peace River before the same happens in Alberta.
But of course the population density of the more northerly argricultural land in the Prairies is still pretty low and doesn’t have any more impact on the overall population distribution of Canada than the populations of Montana and the Dakotas do on that of the US. Most Canadians live within 200 miles of the US border, because most Canadians live in the greater metropolitan areas of Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, all of which are situated near the border because of navigable river/lake situations.
Thank you for the excellent info. The link showed it well. Many people here think that, if the climate warms enough, Canada will be the new Mid-west bread basket, but i can see now that it a very simplistic notion based on the terrain you have up there.
If you’re at all interested, there’s a fantastic book called “Between Friends/Entre Amis”, which was a gift from the Government of Canada to the people of the United States to celebrate the US Bicentennial in 1976. It’s a collection of still photographs of the US/Canada border. It’s a challenge to track down, but your local library may well have a copy… https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM698108&R=698108
And, of course, it isn’t that Canadians have settled so close to the US border, but that the US drew the border so far north in many places… 
Add an ‘h’ to the beginning of this link for an interesting video.
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Mayor Chow must not have been far behind, holding a press conference how more bike lanes would prevent this needless cruelty. Doug Ford would be up next, telling us that roadkill now has a license to sell wine and beer.
Election day tomorrow in rainy BC. I am hoping the climate change denying anti-vax trickle down millionaire tax cut party does not get in.
I hope so, too. I admit to being biased against conservatives to begin with, but I just don’t understand the drift away from fact-based policy that’s happening in the greater Conservative movement, both in Canada and the US.
Ditto. Just went and voted with my oldest son, who voted for the first time. I really don’t understand why this election seems so close. I can’t wrap my head around voting for the B.C. Conservatives.