It's cool that you're in the well-insulated house business. But we're still cooking the planet and jet aircraft are bad.
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As the country lost its connections to the British it became more easily influenced by the Americans.
Not very often I see someone characterizing the British as the good guys.
My experience is that Firefox often has problems on Google-owned properties. Either performance/responsiveness or functionality just not working. Why this would be is left as an exercise for the reader.
Tim Hortons invasion
We already have bad coffee and stale donuts down here.
Municipal police mostly came from the great railroad strike of 1871.
Separately Canada has an Ambassador to the UN.
Do you think he and the consul-general room together?
By the way, the building that he's moving into is literally part of "Billianare's Row." It's the swankiest of the swanky ultra-tall-and-narrow "every apartment is a penthouse" building built along central park in recent years. I guarantee you there are cheaper places to live in Manhattan.
One thing that's crazy is during 2008 Canada was one of the only countries where were no housing busts or bank failures. It was explained at the time that they didn't deregulate like the US did in the 90s, and didn't go crazy with Eurodollar and derivative speculation like the European banks.
The takeaway was that in Canada banking is still a boring business managed by professional adults, overseen by stern but fair regulators who would ensure that things don't get out of hand.
So what the hell happened? Seemed like the Canadian government and finance people took the lesson that they missed out on a hell of a party and they're going to have their own housing bubble with blackjack and whatnot.
Why does Canada need a consul general in New York City? It's not capital of any government. It''s not very far from Canada, so Canadians in need of consular services could probably find someplace more convenient. The whole thing seems like a way to grift the Canadian taxpayers into swanky Manhattan digs for some well-connected asshole.
We get crappy government by voting for it.
Yep, and our choices are Sideshow Bob or Grandpa Simpson. Vote wisely.
As a person who's not a young adult anymore I'm not sure how or if it ever was. My young adulthood was full of angst, rumination, poverty, debt, etc. Looking back there were definitely good things that I miss, but I'm in such a massively better financial and mental place these days that I can't imagine going back.
Funny you should mention that McKinsey published a paper a few months back concluding that GenAI will take over most of the jobs in America because it was good at doing what McKinsey Associates do. Missed by the authors is that the job of a McKinsey associate is to confidently spout nonsense all day long and that's actually exactly what chatgpt is programmed to do.
I always heard "Canada is three mining companies standing on eachother's shoulders in a trechcoat."
Although that one applies equally to Australia.