A lot are commuting to Alberta now.
Well, the problem before was that the children were essentially kidnapped. What I’m proposing doesn’t involve stealing children from their families.
Maybe, but there is no simple solution to global warming, the environment and the Kyoto protocol, yet (if polls are to be believed) this is going to be one of the most important issues in the next election. The level of difficulty of solving the problem doesn’t seem to matter, actually caring about the problem does. And we just don’t.
k so i completely agree with what this person is saying. i’ve lived in many towns and for the last 4 years i’ve been stuck in south oshawa. the first year i was here i got used to hearing gunshots and police sirens (no exaggeration) and met a 12 year old drug dealer. i’ve seen parents full out hand their kids drugs and alcohol just to get rid of them. if you have kids i wouldnt suggest moving to oshawa unless you want to see your daughter working her own corner as a proste-tot (a prostitute under the age of 18).
i’ve seen these things with my own eyes and can tell you there is no exageration in what i say and thats exactly why im moving out of oshawa in a coupla days and i am never comin back thank heavens!
They have an A&W beside the bus station. Its not all bad. (That was always where I stopped for lunch when I did the Winnipeg-Thunder Bay drive. I gave up on great dining experiences on that run ages ago)
But no, in general Dryden in pretty nasty, as are most of the northen ontario mill towns. Longlac is pretty nasty, it was boring when I lived there as a child in the 1970s (one CBC station, a very small library in a converted trailer home) but lately it is pretty scary. I believe it was the first town in “the Region” to get its own OATC (methadone clinic) mainly for rampant oxycontin use. Stores only stock the shelves two items deep due to rampant theft.
I don’t get the hate-on for Winnipeg. I like it. Yeah it has nasty areas but so do most cities. Vancouver has beautiful scenery with some terrible rampant poverty and homelessness issues and it is hard to make friends here. In Winnipeg it was hard to go somewhere and not make friends.
oh damn a zombie thread. I knew all these arguments had been made before… 
Yeah… the proste-tots working the mean streets of Oshawa probably weren’t even born when this thread was started.
sorry
This might be a zombie thread but man, it was depressing reading. When people ask me why I don’t move back to Canada, I’ll just point them here.
I’m curious as to whether any progress has been made in the Indian communities.
I wish ex-shwa the best of luck; her (?) tale is new.
In London I saw a woman being ushered out of a Rolls by her chauffeur. She daintily stepped over an unconscious man on the sidewalk — who appeared to be homeless — as she made her way into Harrod’s.
The worst town in Canada, at least PR-wise, brings to mind Alberta’s Eckville that may still be home to Jim Keegstra, a white supremacist and activist in the Social Credit Party (that ran Alberta for decades) who taught his students that the Holocaust didn’t happen.
I considered a get-rich-quick scheme of opening a barber shop in Eckville and calling it Hair Hitler.
As far as I can tell, nope.
We will always have the mountains to run off to but it sure isn’t quite the nice little city it used to be is it? On the other hand there is much more going on culturally than there was twenty years ago. The traffic and terrible drivers are only going to get worse but it is not nearly the redneck mono-cultural cow-fest it once was.
Not really.
just to name some of the more prominent problems in my little corner of Canada. Well used to be, until March. Isolation, poverty, poor drinking water, rampant mould, suidice, third world living conditions. In Canada. Today.
It was interesting to read my post from five years ago - I still don’t really want to live in Calgary, but I still can’t figure out where I’d rather live. The traffic and terrible drivers have indeed gotten much, much worse - that’s kind of the reason I want to leave here - I just don’t want to do this traffic thing any more.
Hey, once the oil dries up, I figure everyone will leave and we’ll be back to a much smaller city again! 
I read some of each link. It’s very bleak.
Conditions on the Native American reservations here in the US are deplorable, too.
For a time, aboriginies(?) in Australia weren’t considered people.
It seems that indigenous people are segregrated to their detriment, whether from guilt or greed. There’s a lot of emotion involved in these situations 
and rightly so, but even just speaking economically, it isn’t working for either side. Not for the people living in Third World conditions and not as much for those who made it such, no matter what the general belief.
Aren’t there enough “great minds” to work some of this out? Isn’t there a way to implement transitions that could be, even minimally, accepted by all? Change can become the norm in time, and include respect and observation for all peoples histories while enabling real independence.
IMHO we need to do better. Education and employment shouldn’t be a pipe dream.
I agree with all of that,Becky, but we’ve kind of created a situation where the politicians are as paralyzed as the general population. No politician is going to touch a hot button issue where she recommends changes to native conditions, even if they would be beneficial in the long run.
Calgary resident chiming in to say that Winnipeg sucks. BRUTAL winters (probably the worst of all the large cities) and not much to do. Also, TONS of mosquitos.
To be fair, I’ve only spent a few days there, so maybe I missed some awesome stuff.
Education and employment aren’t a pipe dream. Education and employment on remote reserves is a pipe dream.
Windsor exists to provide bars for 19 & 20 year-old Detroiters. Until recently, it also provided the closest legal gambling.
I have never been there but if you would like a nice case of mesothelioma, try living in Asbestos, QC.