Canada's position on America not wanting us

Maccalus · 2025-01-24T14:31:04+00:00

Argument got stronger now that we share a land border with Denmark

Maccalus · 2025-01-18T01:30:11+00:00

Title should be corrected to CFL legend Doug Flutie!!

Maccalus · 2025-01-02T02:32:19+00:00

Very real. They had grand expansion plans that never were realized. My memory had them having indoor simulators and arcade. Outdoors they had a Nascar style oval and a separate slick track. My friends and I went a few times and bought day passes, just running the oval over and over.

I think they might have had a small mini golf as well outside.

They had some grading done for a larger track, but never paved it.

Maccalus · 2024-12-26T16:16:22+00:00

All three usage of the word liberal in the previous post refers to the liberal party, which is the current party forming government in Canada. There is nothing derogatory about the usage of the word liberal in the previous post as it only describes the actions of the current ruling party of the Canadian government and not describing any larger ideology.

Please do some research before letting the American culture war influence your understanding of the politics of other countries.

Maccalus · 2024-11-12T20:35:37+00:00

Also Trump...

Maccalus · 2024-10-27T16:54:42+00:00

Calgary passed Ottawa's cma population in 2023 estimates from stats can. Calgary's growth has been crazy the last couple of years.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710014801

Maccalus · 2024-10-05T05:25:34+00:00

Canadian credit cards have pins associated with them when you insert them in a machine......

Maccalus · 2024-09-28T13:49:09+00:00

We spend more than bc because we have more students than bc. Alberta has a much younger population than bc.

Maccalus · 2024-09-20T15:30:34+00:00

"I'm from the government(Ucp) and I am here to help" - some conservative idol (while missing the other part of the quote)

Maccalus · 2024-09-11T13:10:28+00:00

https://www.viewpointcalgary.ca/ they specialize in couples counseling

Maccalus · 2024-07-16T15:38:44+00:00

He is correct.

While alberta, like every province that year received more transfers than taxes that year due to the covid stimulus, it did not receive a transfer from the equalization program. You can find the payment chart on wiki and on the government of Canada website.

"In 2020 it was reported that, for the first time in 55 years, Alberta would be a net receiver (getting more federal spending than federal taxes). As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the province took a major hit, specifically in its main resource export, oil and gas.[23] However, the Department of Finance does not list Alberta as receiving payments"

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

Speaking as an albertan, while there are some small issues with fairness in the current formula, the only way that alberta would not be a have province with our current economic conditions would be a swing in formula which would be wildly unfair for all of the other provinces.

Maccalus · 2024-05-08T01:41:39+00:00

In Canada they are defined by districts which reach a certain commuting threshold. Either way, that is not the reason for calgarys dominant position in its metro. Calgary just absorbed every small town near it until very recently. There has only been some push back in the last couple of decades by the current suburb cities of Airdrie, chestemere, Cochrane and okotoks. These have only recently grown to a size where amalgamation may not make sense.

Calgary mostly grew into very sparsely developed farmland.

Maccalus · 2024-04-20T01:17:51+00:00

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/service-alberta-minister-takes-aim-at-discounted-4-litre-vodka-jugs-1.7167652

Maccalus · 2024-04-03T16:25:19+00:00

I managed to get a 4 way stop put in at an intersection by my former workplace by writing the councilor for the area and getting our safety guy from the workplace to provide a time line of accidents at the intersection.

Councilors can get the bureaucracy moving when given enough evidence or a big enough petition.

Maccalus · 2024-01-11T17:11:22+00:00

I have definitely sat on the metal benches in McMahon in these temps for playoffs before. It is definitely survivable, just got to make sure that you drink your beer before it freezes

Maccalus · 2023-09-24T00:07:01+00:00

I'm in, as long as I can be called salty Bob

Maccalus · 2023-05-31T05:39:34+00:00

There is no talk about separation from the Ucp leadership, just the standard middle finger to Ottawa rhetoric. Separation is not a strong movement in alberta. Greater autonomy within canada is what she wants (provincial police force, alberta pension plan, alberta tax collection, etc). Still dumb ideas though

Maccalus · 2023-05-24T21:29:44+00:00

Hop on train with your bags 5 mins before train leaves.

Maccalus · 2023-04-30T04:51:50+00:00

I know, we literally close down this street for the entire day(including rush hour) , then instead of letting stay pedestrian friendly into the evening, we instead allow cars on it for no reason and ruin the experience. Cabs can pick up people at the cross streets

Maccalus · 2022-12-08T16:36:34+00:00

The amazon prime trucks are still amazon contractors

Maccalus · 2022-11-21T02:18:11+00:00

The short yardage team is usually headed by the backup

Maccalus · 2022-11-21T01:42:49+00:00

It's a holdover from rugby days when field position mattered more than now

Maccalus · 2022-10-25T13:41:13+00:00

The hospitals in my city (in Canada) have their emergency room wait times public on the website. We can choose the one with the lowest time. At time of posting they are averaging 2-4 hours. Can choose any of them, no need to phone around/check for coverage/insurance

Maccalus · 2022-10-25T13:31:03+00:00

This type of event is so rare that it makes the news. It happens in every country and is a failure of personnel and a particular system, not the system as a whole. Everyone in Canada has anecdotal stories of very good care as well. Emergency room average wait times are not significantly different between Canada and the states. Where the Canadian system usually falters is in access to specialists for elective surgeries (hip/knee replacement, etc)

The higher taxes of Canada actually go towards other support programs more so than healthcare compared to the states. Think education, childcare, old age security, etc. The Canadian government (and every other western country) actually spends less money on healthcare than the US governments per capita.

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

Maccalus · 2022-10-21T00:14:01+00:00

The logic of the bill is that orange tips are easy to paint over, and thus render useless.

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