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[-] Davel23@fedia.io 125 points 1 month ago

Why is there a big ring of 50+ people per km/sq all around Canada?

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 79 points 1 month ago

It's an old tradition that they don't like discussing with outsiders.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 month ago

It's okay, I'm actually Canadian, please tell me.

(even if you suspect that I'm lying, it would be impolite to accuse me of that)

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago
[-] Davel23@fedia.io 21 points 1 month ago

As is tradition.

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[-] Fermion@feddit.nl 39 points 1 month ago

That's the Night's Watch.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Untapped infinite hog supply in the ocean

[-] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

You ever heard of soudi arabias "the line"? Turns out they stole it from canada

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[-] Blackout@fedia.io 70 points 1 month ago

90% of the poutine is within 50 miles of the US border. What would they survive on up there?

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It really so they can strike the US at any moment.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Are you saying that Canadian forces are massing near the border?

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

The Catholic ones yes

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[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Comes from southern Quebec

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Polar bears, obviously.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The worst part is that there really is a lot of habitable land but it would require employers to make a big push for remote jobs (wink wink federal and provincial governments)

Sure winter is colder up north but even 50km North of the major city centers the land is empty...

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

Or the government could just build trains out to there.

I saw a picture of a train station in China that had been built in the middle of nowhere. Stairs from the subway leading up onto a grassy field. The Americans all laughed at China for it. Then I saw a picture of that same train station a year later. It was in the middle of a metropolis. China has so much housing that there are entire cities sitting empty. Now, if a country with two billion people can manage that, Canada has no excuse.

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I would look up "Tofu Dregs" before applauding China...

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[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 month ago

Once global warming is finished, you just wait.

Canada's going to be laughing at the rest of the world in their tropical paradise. All those beaches.

[-] Manalith@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago

This is how we get right-wing patriots to care about global warming. 'not only will Canada still be bigger than us, they'll have better resorts'

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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

With the way climate change is going, we may soon have access to the virgin lands up north. RIP, but also yay, but also RIP...

[-] Seigest@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago
[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah this is pretty well known. It's been ascertained that, assuming we don't go extinct or collapse back into the 1800s, Canada and Russia (especially Siberia) are poised to become demographic and economic monsters in the next couple of centuries.

[-] ngwoo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Eh, neither muskeg or bedrock turn into arable land just because the winters become milder.

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Super marshy soils and growing seasons that are insanely short combined with -45C winters.

[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 month ago

Edmonton (that moderate city on the western side, just past the rockies) gets to -50°C in the dead of winter for about two weeks.

Some years we get snow for 5-6 months (global warming is fixing that) .

You move more north if you want to. Im fucking good

[-] Killer57@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

Edmonton is the farthest north you can go in the western hemisphere while still having over 1 million people, and yet we still have people that complain about the winters ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Also we hit +40C/104F last month so that was fun.

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[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 month ago

Pfft, what housing crisis?

Map of Australia showing population density, with a red line drawn around the large area of land with less than 1 person per square kilometre.

[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Look at all that fertile land, the Aussies are so silly

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

It’s literally greener than the rest of the map, stupid fucking upside downers

[-] quinkin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The scribbled out Tasmania is pretty funny.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

I miss r/MapsWithoutTasmania! Thanks for appreciating the bit 😂

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago

This is the land of cobra chickens.

We deeply respect the limits they impose on us.

[-] inbeesee@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

It'll be warm soon enough! Keep not eating the rich!

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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago

Let's be honest, what is Canada doing with all that land though?

[-] superkret@feddit.org 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In my experience, using it as a dumping ground for anti-social alcoholics

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Why would you say that about Edmonton?

[-] ngwoo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Resource extraction. Lots of mining, oil further west, logging everywhere south of the arctic circle

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[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 13 points 1 month ago

It's full of bugs and terrible soil, also looks bigger than it is due to map distortions

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[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago
[-] match@pawb.social 13 points 1 month ago

big toast!!

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

They all want to live in Torranto.

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

And vanchoover

[-] atocci@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

It's wild to me how empty Canada is

[-] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

the us is kind of like this too

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Sure, but the year-round livable areas in Canada aren't in that red area.

Livable areas

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