Tell me what Canada is like

[Asher]

Originally posted by Kaak
Kaak too? (but you don't have to worry, i assure you i'll find somewhere else to stay )

Hmm...yeah, sure, why not.
You just have to always walk infront of me.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Asher
If anybody comes up here on vacation I'll be more than happy to give them a tour of the local Rockies.

That even includes you, Horsie.

Thanks I've always wanted to see a doctored country.

Now I know what's wrong - this time of year Canada is one giant white out.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Asher
It's Moraine Lake.

Hey, I was right on my first guess.

Is there hotel now at Moraine Lake? Haven't been back for about 15 years.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Tingkai
Hey, I was right on my first guess.

Is there hotel now at Moraine Lake? Haven't been back for about 15 years.

Nope.
There's a really cool trail built all around it, and they let you take paddleboats and rowboats out on it too.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Asher

There's a really cool trail built all around it, and they let you take paddleboats and rowboats out on it too.

On the 2 days a year when its sunny and not howling a gail or lashed by blizzards

[Seeker]

I was born and lived much of life in Salmon Arm, BC on the shore of the Shushwap. The Indian problem I was refering to was not the roadblocks, but the crime, particularly breakins and vandalism. We lived right next to the Little Shushwap Indian Band reserve.

I have lived in Vancouver for only 1 year, in a dingy appartment on Commercial Drive.

I have lived in Ontario for 8 years.

I have only been to Quebec (Montreal and Quebec City) and the Maritimes (PEI, Nova Scotia) once.

My sister lives in Winnipeg, and it is full of inuits.

I guess I just call 'em as I see 'em, we must move in different circles.

Toronto: A lot of pro-Toronto propaganda. The worst experiences of my life have been in Toronto. It was the first place: I ever saw panhandlers, even before the 90s, I ever saw a real junky, I ever saw streets covered in garbage with people wading through it, homeless lying on the streets. I remember last year I was in Toronto with a girl from Sudbury, we met on the Greyhound and she wanted me to walk with her around the city because she was afraid of all the blacks. And Younge Street!! A cesspool of corruption, AIDS, 'trendy' cafes for pretend communists, leather fetishists, etc. You would never see the kind of things I saw walking around in broad daylight on Young Street in Salmon Arm, I can tell you that for free. And the appartments! All the smells of people from countries without soap, atrocious conditions, young hoodlums running wild. Toronto reminds me of Robert de Niro's line from Taxi Driver about scum and filth....

Have I gone off on a rant?? Oh dear, well at any rate I hate Toronto. It was good once, about 20 years ago.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
On the 2 days a year when its sunny and not howling a gail or lashed by blizzards

Yes, gail storms are very common in landlocked provinces.

And the weather here isn't nearly that bad. Not by a longshot. You're acting like we're in the frozen tundra or something.

[Tingkai]

If anyone ever visits Asher, get him to take ya to Lake O'hara. Only about 50 people per day are allowed into the area due to the fragile environment.

The great thing about the limit is that it means you don't have to deal with the crowds.

[Alexander's Horse]

I passed your immigration test so I guess I'll see it for myself soon

[Seeker]

Squilax mountain on Shushwap lake.

[Seeker]

From mein Father's deck

http://www.shuswaplake.ca/photos.htm

[Kaak]

looks cold...

[Tingkai]

Seeker, ya fit perfectly in with the stereotype of a UWO student.

There are a lot of native Indians in Winnipeg, but most of them come from isolated reserves within the province. Quite frankly, your sister doesn't know what she is talking about. I lived in Manitoba for two years and I know for a fact that Winnipeg is not "full" of Inuits.

As for crime, I lived in Penticton for four years and as you likely know, there is a reserve right beside the town. Most of the crime was committed by whites. I know that because I was a court reporter.

But, of course I constantly heard white folks talking about how all the crime was committed by natives. And one of the more ironic anti-indian lines was a guy in a bar complaining how they're all drunks cause he sees them every day when he's drinking beer.

There is massive amounts of poverty within the reserves and a lot of crime committed by native people, but there is also a lot of poverty among the white folks and a lot of crime committed by them.

That girl from Sudbury sounds like an idiot. She sees a black person and she gets scared and thinks he's a criminal. Talk about a redneck.

If you're talking about people who don't use soap then you must be talking about Salmon Arm. I've been there and I've seen the local wildlife. The surprising thing is that you made it out of there and got into UWO. (And that is a compliment. Very few people from the Interior towns have the guts or the brains to go to university).

For those of you who don't know, Salmon Arm is a two-bit town on the Trans-Canada. Blink and you'll miss it. And sadly, Seeker is a prime example of the attitudes you'll encounter among the locals.

For those of you who are not Canadians, let me say that Seeker represents the minority. Most Canadians are tolerent and cosmopolitian.

[Seeker]

"Salmon Arm is a two-bit town on the Trans-Canada"

Now I must take exception to this part, what about the Salmon Run? Gold Rush Days? The Biker Stomp? Harvest Fest?

We are at least a 3 or 4 bit town, much more sophisticated than the benighted denizens of Chase or Revelstoke. Squilax Craft Post is a historic site! There is a cinema, the Salmar. And fancy restaurants, the whole deal. And Costco.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Seeker
"Salmon Arm is a two-bit town on the Trans-Canada"

Now I must take exception to this part, what about the Salmon Run? Gold Rush Days? The Biker Stomp? Harvest Fest?

We are at least a 3 or 4 bit town, much more sophisticated than the benighted denizens of Chase or Revelstoke. Squilax Craft Post is a historic site! There is a cinema, the Salmar. And fancy restaurants, the whole deal. And Costco.

And IIRC, Salmon Arm is a well-known base for neo-Nazis, and, to be fair, the base for an Anti-Racism coalition.