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I was not born in Canada, but I chose to immigrate here and it's one of the top 5 best choices I've ever made. I have access to so much that in other places wou
by footy 9mo ago
I was not born in Canada, but I chose to immigrate here and it's one of the top 5 best choices I've ever made. I have access to so much that in other places would be wildly expensive. My life is richer due to the diversity of the people I am surrounded by, if I bought every book I borrowed from the library last year it would have cost $3000 or more, and even after moving away from a large city I have access to public transit good enough to cover most of my needs.
It's actually really wild to think I spent a couple of years working in Boston more than a decade ago, and I used my zipcar subscription way more often than I've ever had to use a communauto in fake london (a city no one would mistake for having good urban planning).
- shevy-java 9mo ago[flagged]
- garbawarb 9mo agoHardly. The NDP is polling terribly.
- jleyank 9mo agoNote to readers…. The NDP uses orange as their team colour.
- I-M-S 9mo agoAnd is the party whose political program is the closest to what the article rightfully commends as great about Canada, yet all it gets in return from many a Canadian is cheap potshots.
- jleyank 9mo agoI would be curious what they could do with Ontario, but they have problems getting the seats.
- I-M-S 9mo agoAs is, the first-past-the-post system will continue to give PCs an unfair advantage until they either splinter into two or are outflanked by a yet nonexistent party from the right. Neither option doesn't seem likely at the moment.
- jleyank 9mo agoThe other option, I guess, would be for the Libs and NDP to merge, shed their conservative members to the PC and try to be the Ontario party. Splitting the centre-left while not splitting the centre-right is really counterproductive. And if I was a PC grandee, which I';m not, I'd get all my buddies donating to the NDP to keep things the way they are now. Perhaps the Libs and NDP need to foster the far right to peel voters away? But man, there's a risk in that kind of behaviour in case they ever win. That'll be the wrong kind of orange wave.
- retired 9mo agoBeing Dutch* it's such a strange concept that you don't have to pay to bring books to your home. I hope that we will see that over here as well in my lifetime. It would do wonders to increase literacy in the population.
- usui 9mo agoIs this a strange concept due to you being European or because of your particular European country? I thought public libraries where you can borrow books is a common thing in Europe, but I could be wrong since I just assumed that.
- AlexeyBrin 9mo ago> Being European it's such a strange concept that you don't have to pay to bring books to your home. Pretty sure Europe is diverse enough that there are countries where the access to public libraries is free.
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