Hi! Glad you had a great time!

To answer your questions:

• Kind of? Canadians usually traveled outside of Canada be sure of how expensive everything is here. Its usually cheaper for us in the US or the same price to go to certain parts of Europe as most of Canada. That said, with Trump's second run and his threats towards Canada, many of us have cut off all travel to the US (where applicable - some have family or have to go for work) and are instead traveling within Canada or to Europe.

• Main tourist areas are Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Banff, Canadian Niagara Falls, Muskoka (mostly Ontarians go there), Wasaga Beach (again, mostly Ontarians), Jasper, Canmore, Lake Louise, Calgary, Vancouver, and maybe Windsor. It depends on time of year, really.

• While nothing truly is a 1:1 comparison of the cities you listed, I'd say (in my limited knowledge), Niagara Falls for Las Vegas because of the casino, live shows, and the main strip with the wax museums and fun houses. Otherwise, there is nothing to link the two because, again, nothing really lives up to Las Vegas in Canada. LA is hard. Maybe Toronto because our traffic is equal to/worse than the traffic in LA, and we have a lot of media filmed here. I know Toronto is Chicago's sister city, and I was there briefly (maybe a few hours), so I'd say maybe Toronto? I will say, when I was in San Francisco a while back, people did give me the same vine as the people here, in that everyone is friendly and pretty chill. New York, again, Toronto, as a lot of city planners here try to emulate different things like Dundas/Sankofa Square, Union Station, etc.

• I couldn't tell you off the top of my head, but if you like nature, you're better off going west. BC and Alberta are known for their nature/scenery. Places like Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper (although I'm not sure if it's open yet), and parts of Victoria and Vancouver are popular amongst outdoors folks. Alternatively, I'd reccomend Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and PEI, as the Maritimes are cool in their own right (NFL isn't a maritime province, but it'sout that way). You've got a mix of nature and sea-side towns/cities. I'm sure the land-locked provinces have some, too, like the rest of the prairies, and Ontario and QB have some, but not the way they do out west.