Jesse Brown from Canadaland had long lamented Canada's inability to define itself except in contrast to Americans. He's right that we ought to have more positive identity markers but I think it has inadvertently resulted in a very robust independence sentiment. Ie because so much of our identity is defined as differences relative to America the idea of being American is offensive to the core of our identity.
Canada
What's going on Canada?
Related Communities
π Meta
πΊοΈ Provinces / Territories
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
ποΈ Cities / Local Communities
- Calgary (AB)
- Comox Valley (BC)
- Edmonton (AB)
- Greater Sudbury (ON)
- Guelph (ON)
- Halifax (NS)
- Hamilton (ON)
- Kootenays (BC)
- London (ON)
- Mississauga (ON)
- Montreal (QC)
- Nanaimo (BC)
- Oceanside (BC)
- Ottawa (ON)
- Port Alberni (BC)
- Regina (SK)
- Saskatoon (SK)
- Thunder Bay (ON)
- Toronto (ON)
- Vancouver (BC)
- Vancouver Island (BC)
- Victoria (BC)
- Waterloo (ON)
- Windsor (ON)
- Winnipeg (MB)
Sorted alphabetically by city name.
π Sports
Hockey
- Main: c/Hockey
- Calgary Flames
- Edmonton Oilers
- MontrΓ©al Canadiens
- Ottawa Senators
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- Vancouver Canucks
- Winnipeg Jets
Football (NFL): incomplete
Football (CFL): incomplete
Baseball
Basketball
Soccer
- Main: /c/CanadaSoccer
- Toronto FC
π» Schools / Universities
- BC | UBC (U of British Columbia)
- BC | SFU (Simon Fraser U)
- BC | VIU (Vancouver Island U)
- BC | TWU (Trinity Western U)
- ON | UofT (U of Toronto)
- ON | UWO (U of Western Ontario)
- ON | UWaterloo (U of Waterloo)
- ON | UofG (U of Guelph)
- ON | OTU (Ontario Tech U)
- QC | McGill (McGill U)
Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.
π΅ Finance, Shopping, Sales
- Personal Finance Canada
- BAPCSalesCanada
- Canadian Investor
- Buy Canadian
- Quebec Finance
- Churning Canada
π£οΈ Politics
- General:
- Federal Parties (alphabetical):
- By Province (alphabetical):
π Social / Culture
- Ask a Canadian
- Bières Québec
- Canada Francais
- First Nations
- First Nations Languages
- Indigenous
- Inuit
- Logiciels libres au QuΓ©bec
Rules
- Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca
I'm American, let me tell you, if one of us steps foot into Canada intending to invade, you should put a bullet in their skull. Fascism must be met overwhelmingly. Never give it an inch.
What's happening in Ameristan is too dangerous to treat them as anything but an enemy to the stability and prosperity of the rest of the world. As soon as people started getting disappeared for political views, I flipped like a switch, I doubt there's a regime in history that started behaviour like that and didnt keep going until they were stopped.
Ameristan is quickly becoming authoritarian and fascist, this isn't going to fizzle out, it will need to be stopped.
I live in a border city, and everyone here is just waiting for the day that it happens. But we're not okay with it and everyone I know has been making an effort to buy Canadian and show solidarity for one another. I've seen a few signs for our local Conservative MPP who is a nutjob though, likely seniors who don't know any better. However, at least my formerly Trump-loving boss has finally shut up about how great he is now that his shit is directly affecting her. We now openly shit talk Trump in front of her and she just says nothing.
It's so dumb that the threat of a financial recession is what finally brought out the no-more-mister-nice-guy attitude. Not the democratic backsliding, not the open disdain for human rights.
None of those affect Canadians directly. At the end of the day we're all just monkies fighting for resources.
When America says 'we own you now and if you fight it, we'll make sure you starve' it's a different conversation.
People don't (nor should they) take it likely when he says he's going to use economic force. Canada already has an affordability crisis with its social services under incredible strain. If he proceeds full throttle, Canadians will die.
Absolutely.
Seemingly "everyone" is into it. Worker at the beer store even pointed out to buddy in front of me that he was buying american.
Buddy immediately switched it up.
Blowing the faces off foreign invaders is a normal step. If you let them pass, suddenly you don't have a country.
As an American, I feel pretty confident that for at least this round of 4-year political theater, Trump and is minority voting-base are not going to do any military actions towards Canada, although i expect that yes, our country's most mentally challenged individuals are now hook-line-and-sinker onboard with thinking of your guys as the enemy and you should in fact blow them up if they think they have entitlement to play army-boi and cross north to do mischief.
What we have going on right now is someone who learned that human beings embrace and live in a state of cognitive dissonance and he learned people actually like it, people enjoy believing one thing while knowing another. This is why we have reality TV, social media and why we all had to argue with our friends for decades that no, the WWE isn't a real sporting organization, as evident by the fact that they routinely use weapons and necromancy in the ring. The didn't care then, they don't care now, they are just the dumbest fucks on Earth and so bored and emotionally unwell that they rather live in this roleplay world where you can just write a new narrative with new enemies for no fucking reason.
It's not about this term, it's about his magical 3rd term. That's when shit really goes down.
That's good. Godlessspeed. I just hope hypothetical American refugees can avoid getting shot.
i hope the american antifa partisans who stay behind also avoid getting shot
There will be ways to make yourselves known I am sure. Like shooting fascists in the face. That will gain you a lot of Canadian friends.
hope hypothetical American refugees
Canada has a really hushed history about internment. Yank fugees will be fine, but they may be held collectively for a while, in a remote place, healthy but not landed.
Yes. I was at an event yesterday in my small east coast town. So many folks I didn't think would even care are ready to go to war. Literally. I've been quietly watching for a decade or more and slowly building our ability to be self sustainable. They called us crazy at first though we didn't speak of why we were doing what we were doing. Now they come to us and ask for help.
Yup, I've talked to quite a few normies who are mostly on the gun control side of things who are now considering getting a PAL to go practice at the range so they "know how to handle a weapon in case the need ever arise".
Suggest shotguns and rifles. Handguns are the thing you use while you get your real gun. Shotguns are for home defense. Rifles are for country defense. Take the firearms safety courses that are offered, and train with the thing. I sincerely hope you never have to use it, but my fellow countrymen are being idiots again. I'll be down here defending Mexico if it comes to it, but I know that some of us will join in a defence of Canada. Most fucked up civil war in history.
Yes, that's what PALs get you. For handguns you needed an RPAL, but that is no longer possible. Mostly because the PLC couldn't be arsed to blame the US for the illegal guns coming across the border.
The safety classes aren't "offered", they are mandatory.
normies [...] who are now considering getting a PAL
The repeated threat of invasion creates an exception to the norm. This shouldn't be hard to understand. People can be for gun control AND want to prepare for duty.
Iβve ran
I've run
Simple and not rude, thank you for pointing it out despite people feeling hurt downvoting you.
nothing like this, but normal folks doing their best not to buy american products and produce.
Divesting in fascism is the only way forward.