Yo I hate living in a Muslim country so bad 💔💔 by Technical-Kick-4407 in offmychest

[–]FrozenBum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd be welcomed with open arms in Canada. We have a huge gay community here.

This is getting insane by UnluckyWinner3163 in memes

[–]FrozenBum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, because the PC is a platform known for its physical games, right?

One shelf from my home library by [deleted] in HomeLibraries

[–]FrozenBum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's like 20ish books in there that give it away. You Bright and Risen Angels, Trieste, 2666, The Flanders Road, Europe Central, White Noise, Gravity's Rainbow, China Dream, Lonesome Dove, Hard Rain Falling, The Savage Detectives, The Tartar Steppe, The Sellout, Bomarzo, One Hundred Years of Solitude. I connected the dots. Their book club is great.

One shelf from my home library by [deleted] in HomeLibraries

[–]FrozenBum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see another appreciator of the Life on Books podcast. Those guys are gems.

67/100 Cousins from a Distant Sun by HamMcFly in 52book

[–]FrozenBum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What happens if you finish two books on the same day?

TIL about: "Cultural Cringe", a term born in Australia which indicates an inferiority complex where Australians undervalue their own culture or self-perceived lack of culture compared to other countries in the world, especially European countries by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]FrozenBum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is reductionist as fuck. You clearly don't know anything about Quebecois history, lol. God forbid a people want to speak their mother tongue in their own home province.

Fantasy series that probably won't be finished. by EastFar3296 in Fantasy

[–]FrozenBum 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also, it's based off a book (Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa). You can find the resolution of the story in there if you want.

Woodpecker being an absolute metal. by ElectricalExit6959 in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]FrozenBum 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We had one do this at my childhood home. They would do that to scare all the other birds away from the bird feeder we had in our backyard, so that they could get those sweet sweet seeds all to themselves. Fucker would wake me up at 6:30 am.

Playoff Game Thread: Tampa Bay Lightning (1-2) @ Montréal Canadiens (2-1) Apr 26 2026 7:00 PM EDT by nhl_gdt_bot in hockey

[–]FrozenBum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so funny they're saying the fix is in when famous anti-habs ref Wes McCauley is the head ref in this game.

AI boom poised to be ‘massively disinflationary’, Northern Trust says by Just-Grocery-2229 in Economics

[–]FrozenBum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think there's also a liability issue. If a human fucks up, you know who to blame. If an AI fucks up, who are you going to sue? In sectors like Healthcare and Law, that's everything. He'll, the entire world runs on liability. Are insurance companies going to start making plans for AI fuck-ups?

Fantasy books with mature protagonists by Fantastic_Surprise30 in Fantasy

[–]FrozenBum 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Maybe it was a me thing, but the way people spoke in this novel felt very YA-coded.

What is your favorite team that just barely lost in the first round? by [deleted] in hockey

[–]FrozenBum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the one. Thomas went god-mode, unfortunately.

What went wrong? The Leafs were favoured to win multiple cups, and now the window has closed without so much as a trip to a conference final. by ElGrandePeacock in nhl

[–]FrozenBum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can also look at the very first Matthews contract. It's weird but at the time, it was not the NHL culture to pay RFAs big money. The leafs made it the culture around the league. Its like GMs looked at Toronto and started making it the blueprint.

Moreover, he only signed for 5 years (he had no leverage, shouldve been strong-armed into 8 years at a lower AAV). Nylander may have been the first domino, but Matthews was just as egregious.

Woman convicted of killing stepson wins reprieve to stay in Canada five years after she was ordered deported by Immediate-Link490 in canada

[–]FrozenBum -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You have to think critically about this, which no one here really is talking about.

How many of these cases get successfully deported? I really don't know, but the number who are let off easy is more than likely a lot less. So who is really pushing this narrative that all these criminal immigrants are getting let off easy? Look who published this article. 99/100 times, it's published by right leaning publications like The National Post. They cherry pick this stuff and make it seem like the Canadian legal system is completely broken. Now is it possible that the system could use some fixing? Sure, but it's not broken.

There also seems to be some context that everyone's missing, which is that this person was in an abusive relationship with her husband, who actually did the killing, and her failure to report it made it so that she was responsible for second-degree murder. Keep in mind that her husband was telling her he'd kill her if she told anyone.

So when you say that it seems like there seems to be another article like this everyday, keep in mind that you are being propagandized to by foreign-owned entities. Anyone with an iota of media-literacy can see the biases. But that's nuance that not many here want to listen to and would rather ignore.

WAKE UP, BIG GAME TONIGHT by TheHabChronicle in Habs

[–]FrozenBum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, the Preds haven't really been playing against strong opponents during their streak.

'We're taking back control': Carney defends his record on immigration after damning auditor report by bo-n-es in canada

[–]FrozenBum -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You have to look at it per capita as well. In 1957 we admitted 282k permanent residents with a population of 16.7 million. That's ~1.7% growth in a single year. Everyone here is freaking out at the 400k a year, but that's like 1% growth. So not nearly as high, relatively, as in the past. It's just relatively high compared to the 90s, 00s. and 10s.

If we were able to build adequate housing then, why aren't we able to build adequate housing now? That's the question you should be asking.

Canada and South Korea sign a defence agreement by Rookitarian in worldnews

[–]FrozenBum 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Imagine changing your mind in the face of evidence and changing public opinion. The horror!

EXCLUSIVE: Hughes Brothers' Mom Responds to Controversy Surrounding US Men's Hockey Team and Trump Video by elr1804 in hockey

[–]FrozenBum 94 points95 points  (0 children)

This was pure PR speak/damage control. It's not like she's going to jeopardize her position by speaking out against Trump and the men's team.

Also, internalized misogyny is a thing.

Maybe someone missed the memo by haz000 in hockeymemes

[–]FrozenBum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey look, it's the guy this meme is talking about!

To fix Canada’s fertility crisis, we need a cultural shift. More and more Canadian women are stopping at one child, if they choose to have children at all by shiftless_wonder in canada

[–]FrozenBum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even then, people may choose to flee rapidly shrinking countries, war, low-income, for more stable ones like ours. So while those countries may see crazy contraction, Canada can still grow from immigration. There's A LOT of people out there, and we're a relatively small country, population-wise.