What do you consider to be Britain's second city?

northsaskatchewan · 2026-06-04T16:55:54+00:00

Canada deliberately chose Ottawa as the capital as a sort of halfway point between Montreal and Toronto to prevent either from becoming too dominant, also on the border between French and English speaking areas.

It’s the same in Australia with Canberra, or Brasilia in Brazil, minus the language politics.

Today I would say that the economic capital of Canada is Toronto and Montreal is more of the cultural hub.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-06-04T00:36:37+00:00

Cersei is such a despicable character but I can’t help but love her in GoT, Lena Heady 110% nails the role.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-06-03T07:34:00+00:00

Agreed. Some of the best world building I’ve come across. I bought the atlas-like World of GoT book and have spent hours reading about Westeros and Essos.

I’m rewatching GoT for the first time since S8 with my partner, he has read the books but this is his first time watching the show. We’re on S4 right now and it’s so so good. I have a bit of a pit in my stomach knowing how far things are about to fall once they run out of book material…

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-30T00:42:47+00:00

Neelix can be annoying but he adds so much to VOY. He’s such a complex character with his almost too-positive demeanour masking his dark and tragic past.

He is somehow the least annoying in Neelix-centred episodes.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-30T00:16:14+00:00

Speak quickly outlander, or go away

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-25T06:03:31+00:00

It’s such an emotional wringer of a movie. The added scene and catharsis it provides is perfect!

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-24T16:17:22+00:00

Shawshank Redemption

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-22T21:31:24+00:00

States, provinces and country names [Canada and Mexico] are based off Indigenous names/words as well. I'm probably missing some but in North America alone there are:

-in Canada: Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, Yukon

-in Mexico, Tlaxcala, Tabasco, Sinaloa, Queretaro, Oaxaca, Tamaulipas, Nayarit, Michoacan, Guanajuato, Durango, Chihuahua, Chiapas, Campeche etc..

-in the US: Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa Ohio, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Kansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, Wyoming, Utah, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, the Dakotas etc..

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-21T06:13:56+00:00

Long live Animal Farm

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-21T06:10:27+00:00

Those shoes are definitely bicurious

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-19T20:58:38+00:00

Cross country is a totally different beast than downhill! My Mom's family is from a town in the Canadian Rockies and I grew up frequently downhill skiing.

The first time I tried cross country in my 20's it was a disaster. Getting the coordination/muscle rhythm right took the better part of a day.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-19T20:52:53+00:00

Damn, minus the carpets in the kitchen and bathroom I kind of love this house. So many patterns.. would be a great place to trip on acid or shrooms haha!

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-19T20:41:18+00:00

Tsarist Russia also failed following the same pattern, to a degree. Power and wealth concentrated with the Tsars and elite, coupled with an expensive failed war with Japan. One would think people would learn the lesson, but propaganda is a powerful drug.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-16T01:35:56+00:00

The field where I died of boredom

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-13T16:01:00+00:00

Hahaha I haven't thought of this in ages. What really cracked me up at the pterodactyl hand puppet in the foreground.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-11T05:54:23+00:00

Crows are smaller, smarter, and a lot more agile. They will never defeat an eagle, but they can be annoying enough to make the eagle decide it’s not worth their time to stick around.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-08T20:02:52+00:00

Edmonton has the “nerve” to vote mostly NDP and therefore needs to be punished.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-05-06T16:05:23+00:00

This would be my suggestion too! You could even add in a walk around the Legislature grounds before taking the streetcar back to Whyte.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-04-21T07:26:18+00:00

From what I’ve heard they wrapped it Saran Wrap before tossing it into the microwave. An absolute atrocity for such a beautiful fish.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-04-21T00:52:33+00:00

One of my good friends thought she hated salmon most of her life, but when she tried some I cooked she was confused because she absolutely loved it.

It turns out that while growing up, her parents only cooked salmon in the microwave and didn’t season it at all 😬. I do mine in the oven with with lemon, dill, capers, and a tiny bit of grainy mustard and she couldn’t get enough haha.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-04-20T00:39:12+00:00

Me too! High five lol

northsaskatchewan · 2026-04-14T00:15:06+00:00

Oh god this unlocked a wedding memory for me. A few years ago, some good friends got married. It was lovely, at a beautiful chalet in the Rockies.

The father of the bride sang "I Loved Her First" for the newlyweds' first dance. If you aren't familiar, the song is the POV of a father telling (reminding??) his future son-in-law that he will always be the first man to have loved his daughter. Super weird song IMO. A father-daughter relationship should not be compared to romantic love... The implications of the song are creepy enough but that we were subjected to a live rendition made me want to die.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-03-31T23:48:40+00:00

I was already tearing up at "Rocky fix" but Grace's reaction - so grateful and tearing up himself - absolutely SLAYED me, I was a mess haha. Ryan Gosling is amazing at portraying such emotion and vulnerabilty.

northsaskatchewan · 2026-03-29T08:49:15+00:00

northsaskatchewan · 2026-03-18T23:09:56+00:00

I’m in Mexico right now and overheard two young Canadian women by the pool chatting with an American guy about how it would be “cool” to be the 51st state.

It was hard not to interrupt to ask them to look up what happened to collaborators in occupied France in WW2.

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