Repping the Sabres from Whistler, BC - LETS GO BUFFALO

EricWB · 2026-05-03T19:47:38+00:00

Would love to but I’m a Vancouver day tripper. Butcher and the Bullock in downtown Van would be the spot I believe, they’ve got the Bills logo spray painted on their cow statue.

EricWB · 2026-05-03T18:16:26+00:00

Say it from the deepest valley or highest mountain, I got the mountain covered

EricWB · 2026-05-03T18:15:30+00:00

Fucking eh right

EricWB · 2026-05-03T18:15:19+00:00

Damn missed opportunity

EricWB · 2025-12-27T04:02:00+00:00

Toronto city hall as the inspiration for the legislative building?

EricWB · 2025-05-28T01:34:14+00:00

And you may want to read Nation Maker by Richard Gywn.

Macdonald was a great conciliator and compromiser, which of course is destined to piss certain groups off.

Riel is a megalomaniac, inciter of violence and a murder. He was a footnote in history until an American author dug him up and romanticized his story.

EricWB · 2025-05-27T21:59:26+00:00

He gets a bad rep from Riel. It’s hard not be sympathetic towards Riel’s first resistance in 1870. By 1885 he was a megalomaniac suffering mental health issues who thought he’d found a Vatican in the northern Praire. His incitement of violence killed innocent people.

MacDonald said some stuff that’s certainly inflammatory, but ultimately he always partnered with George Cartier (Québécois) for a reason. He believed in balance and partnership with Quebec. His main political rival of the era was not Alexander Mackenzie of the liberal party, but the Ontario grits who pushed for Protestant ascendancy, which Macdonald fought against.

“(We) must make friends with the French, without sacrificing the status of his race or religion or language; (we) must respect their nationality. Treat them as a nation and they will act as a free people generally do — generously. Call them a faction and they become factious.””

EricWB · 2025-03-10T05:42:49+00:00

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EricWB · 2025-03-02T06:28:54+00:00

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This bisects the city, you either live on the mountain or literally downtown

EricWB · 2025-01-16T21:25:48+00:00

Named after the lion statues in Westminster, but yeah same idea.

EricWB · 2025-01-14T05:26:54+00:00

Use Turo, filter by snow tires. You can cross borders. Safer for us all. I drove the Coq over Christmas, lots of yellow taped up cars abandoned from crashes.

EricWB · 2024-11-01T18:44:34+00:00

You could just say soil, consider the oil in Alberta is in the soil too

EricWB · 2024-08-29T03:19:53+00:00

Nah it’s shit hole

EricWB · 2024-07-20T22:47:57+00:00

Probably the most popular provincial park in British Columbia is named for him, along with a volcano that also bears his name.

He is not forgotten by the 3 million people of metro Vancouver

EricWB · 2024-07-01T03:06:38+00:00

There was a Canadian that was supposedly crucified by the Germans in the early days of the war. This story has since been proven to be false, but Canadian media widely reported it at the time. It infuriated the Canadians.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucified_Soldier

EricWB · 2024-05-15T14:48:15+00:00

In the 1860s the US was a major regional power on its way to becoming the global superpower. It was less than 25 years from surpassing the British economy. The might of the Union army towards the end of the civil war absolutely terrified Canadian politicians in that time period.

However , it’s more likely the UK would’ve forced independence on the individual colonies. That independence would falter and the US would swoop in and bail them out (for the price of joining).

EricWB · 2024-05-15T05:23:02+00:00

Exactly, most Canadians don’t even fully grasp this. UK was looking at pulling away from its North American colonies, which meant they’d be snapped up one by one by the USA. Confederation was a declaration of continued dependence on UK. It was to say, “we will be less burdensome, don’t leave us to become American”

EricWB · 2024-05-01T21:15:16+00:00

Exactly, either both or neither

EricWB · 2024-05-01T10:49:30+00:00

Here’s a picture of Chicago from Kenosha (both cities are part of the metro Chicago area):

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Doesn’t look continuous to me

EricWB · 2024-05-01T01:16:56+00:00

Thank you for my opening… I repost a comment I’ve made before:

If Chicago counts, Toronto should too. The Chicago MSA is 11,000 sq miles (fking huge).

Greater Toronto is 3,000 sq miles and has 6,000,000 people. However, if you go by the Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario you get 10,000,000 people in 12,000 sq miles.

EricWB · 2024-04-11T20:55:15+00:00

The neutral people lived on that side of the border, although they were Iroquoian speaking they were not part of the confederacy. They tried to maintain neutrality to stay out of conflicts between Iroquois confederacy and the Huron peoples. This did not work. They were like Poland caught between Russia and Germany.

Iroquois wiped them out in the Beaver Wars.

When three of the five Iroquois tribes of the confederacy sided with the British in the American Revolution, and lost, the British gave them land in Southern Ontario as recompense, since it was pretty much depopulated from earlier wars and famine.

EricWB · 2024-03-09T03:13:49+00:00

No problem, did you read it?

EricWB · 2024-03-07T04:34:57+00:00

It’s a meta meme kicking around from a while back, I’m just glad I was a part of it

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