…No, a car can hit a cow and people can live, though the cow may need to be put out of its misery.
A semi-rig can hit a moose and the moose will shake its head, confused, before going back into the woods. In the meantime, the semi-rig is a flaming totalled wreckage on the side of the interstate.
Moral of the story: You do not want to hit a moose with any vehicle, ever, unless you are hitting a moose with the Death Star.
I have seen a number of harry potter posts that go something like, “If there was magic and wizards in (country) they’d _____.” Usually there are also long discussions that go along with these about how each country deals with the statute of secrecy.
And all I can think is, Canada wouldn’t even bother trying to enforce the statute of secrecy. Because what is the point? How would you even know if it was a magic thing or just a Canada thing?
Is that guy just taking a regular old moose through a drive thru to get coffee or is it animagus?
Was that prime minister crazy or did he actually talk to ghosts?
How do you steal 20 000 litres of maple syrup? Trucks or portkeys?
The minister of immigration formally gave Santa Claus citizenship and a passport.
House hippos.
All magic would do to Canada is make the internet about 90% more sure that Canada isn’t a real place.
I’d just like to point to @jabberwockypie and say that she could have lived in a far more unusual Not Real place than Maine and she should probably consider herself fortunate.
That moment when you grew up in rural Canada and you see someone on a US show claiming that Alaska is “the last real wilderness in North America” and end up contemplating how he just literally doesn’t know that 60% of the area of your country exists.
The usual vague stat is that 75% of us live within 100 miles of the US border.
There are about 35 million Canadians. 6 million (approx) live in Toronto; 4 million (approx) live in Montreal; 2.5 million (approx) live here in Vancouver (if you properly count our whole metro area, rather than being kind of weird and actually just counting the south-side Vancouvers which a different set of numbers on wiki does, because they’re weird, so don’t be misled if you look there); and 1.3 million (approx) live in Calgary, Ottawa-Gatineau and Edmonton each.
Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are The Big Cities (yes I know, stop laughing) of Canada, and we make up 12.5 million out of 35 million total – something over a third. When you’re generous and add Calgary, Ottawa and Edmonton, the top six cities contain approaching 17 million, which is half of our population.
Of the next six largest cities, however? Four of them are in Ontario. (Kitchener, Hamilton-Waterloo, St Catharines-Niagra, and London; the other two are Winnipeg and Quebec City). So that puts Toronto, Ottawa, and these four in Ontario. They are all within relatively short distance, compared to the rest of the country, of Toronto. So in some senses, yeah, most of us live SOMEWHERE around Toronto, which is why Toronto gets convinced it’s the centre of the universe and gets so annoying the rest of us want to burn it down. (Especially the other Ontarians.)
While I’m at it, exactly half of the population of Manitoba lives in Winnipeg. Not even in all the towns and cities AROUND Winnipeg, not in the southernmost fifth of Manitoba: in Winnipeg.
So yeah. For anyone wondering, I grew up up in the second-most northerly cluster of pale yellow in BC. I now live in Vancouver.
In closing I will share my favourite population of Canada fact: the population density of the NWT is officially zero. Now, slightly more than 40K people live in the NWT? But that means that compared to the territory involved, there are fewer than 0.1 of them per square km. Their population density is officially zero. XDXD
My home province, Saskatchewan (the big rectangle in the middle of the map), has an average population density of just under 2 people per square km, and about 1.1 million people total. About half of those people live in either Regina or Saskatoon.
We get unreasonably excited every time the census shows our population has grown. I’m pretty sure there was a party when we passed a million people about a decade ago.
I’ve blurred the links in the poster (as to not give these pieces of trash more exposure), which all link to White Supremacist websites.
People need to stomp this nazi trash out.
HI, YES THIS IS SHIT. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, SAVE THEM AND BRING THEM TO THE POLICE OR REPORT THEM. IT WILL GO TO THE HATE CRIMES DIVISION.
BE CAREFUL.
When this happened in Toronto, they put razor blades around the signs. Please be careful.
Never use your bare fingers to take down racist signs. Give the paper a carefully feel over for bumps that might be sharp objects. Use something to scrap off the boarders like a screw driver.
Alternatively just cover the sign with something else; like a new sign, stickers, or spray paint.
You can’t buy spray paint in Winnipeg if you’re under eighteen.
Ontario-based photographer Michael Davies timed this impressive shot of his friend Markus hurling a thermos of hot tea through the air yesterday in -40°C weather near Pangnirtung in Canada’s High Arctic.
ok so i was in physics class my freshman year and my prof was trying to do a fun start to the lecture and she was like “who here knows what the secret to a perfect slap shot is?” and she obviously expected no one to know and someone from like the back of the lecture hall shouted out “swinging the stick fast!” and before she could even respond i blurted out “you make sure your stick hits the ice just behind the puck so your stick torques back and snaps forward just as you’re hitting the puck” and my prof was like “oh. yeah. how do you know that?” and i was too busy burying my face in my book to answer that my high school science fair project was “Taking the Perfect Clapper”
the project was so extensive and i literally made my brothers blow their arms out taking clappers as i sat and clocked them like,,,, i did one trial where put a camera above them and studied the distance between where their sticks hit the ice and the puck and what the perfect distance is and whether a slower swing from a more precise distance is more powerful than a faster swing from a worse distance i also studied stick height vs the “perfect distance”,,, by the end of it my brothers both wanted to die but the next year in bantams my baby brother lead his league in scoring, and like half of them were clappers sooooooo
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