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I am not happy with Canada

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Here's another Fun Fact about Canada:

Labatt Park is the "oldest continually operating baseball grounds in the world", with a history dating back to 1877. Since December 31, 1936, Labatt Park has been owned by the City of London.
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Ichinisan said:
Did anyone look this over?

Making claims about coastline is kinda pointless.
https://youtu.be/gB9n2gHsHN4
...but they do have a lot regardless.

Avril Lavigne is more we'll known than Alanis Morissette? Celine Dion? Shania Twain? I'm old.

-40° C is -40° F?
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I am skeptical of these type of things. Some stuff just seem impossible/wrong on that poster. -40 C is more or less -40 F.

Coastline thing is more due to three coasts as opposed to jagged coastline.
 
pmv said:
Oh come on...immigration officers are like this everywhere. It's the nature of the beast. When you aren't a citizen that's the point where you get to see a very different side of the country. And immigration officers like all professionals start to see the public as the enemy.

That experience doesn't sound particularly bad to me. You are just taken aback because you don't cross borders very much, I'm guessing, and probably are white and English-speaking.

I've had very much the same on entering the US, and many, many people have had much worse. Watch out if someone with the same name as you is on the no-fly list.

At least nobody tried to shake you down for a bribe, as you get in many poorer countries.
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Heh, yet in the US when some illegal immigrants charge a border patrol agent and they get shot at everyone gets all butthurt about immigrant rights. It's funny how those people would praise other countries like they welcome people with open arms or something.

Oh the irony. People skip crazy and go straight to dumb as fuck.
 
Just went to Canada over the weekend and had a nice time. I will say the Canadian immigration people generally seem grumpier than the US ones but maybe they're just tired of all the 19-20 year olds who drive over there to get drunk.
 
Exterous said:
Just went to Canada over the weekend and had a nice time. I will say the Canadian immigration people generally seem grumpier than the US ones but maybe they're just tired of all the 19-20 year olds who drive over there to get drunk.
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I was about to say the same thing about US immigration. I was questioned on how little clothing I had with me for a three day trip 🙄...
 
sdifox said:
I was about to say the same thing about US immigration. I was questioned on how little clothing I had with me for a three day trip 🙄...
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Maybe its just "Oh good someone from <the same country as the official>. Go right on through please."
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"Goddamnit another person from <the other country>. Probably some ahole up to no good."

Due to some weather related issues we changed our departure from DTW to Windsor but still flew back to DTW meaning we had a car sitting at the Windsor airport. When we went to get it back the Canadian official almost didn't believe me so we played 20 questions for a bit. The US guy had no problems with my 30 minute visit to Canada.
 
It's all bullshit security theater.

In the 90s the borders between Canada and the US were more or less open. You didn't even need a passport to drive across.
 
My wife has been a permanent US resident since April, 1985. When her mother was dying she was traveling frequently between Virginia and Montreal. During the sequester nonsense when she was going through US Customs at Dorval to return here she texted me that she was in "immigration jail". Fortunately they finally let her through but when she told me what had taken place it was enraging and typical bureaucratic BS of some pinhead having a bad day and looking for someone to screw with. Her green card was the same card she was issued when she first came here in 1985 and the guy was berating her for not having gotten it replaced but those green cards had no expiration date. He then proceeded to use his fingernail to start separating the lamination while telling her that the card was coming apart and threatening to not let her back into the US. He then told her if he saw her come through there again with that same card she would not be allowed in and that she absolutely must get a new card.

We found out that the new card would cost us 490.00 dollars and was not an instantaneous process (of course bureaucracy again) but she filled out all the paperwork etc. Meanwhile she still needed to travel back and forth and of course the next time when she was returning she had a copy of the paperwork with her and the woman at US Customs that time told her there was no reason to replace her current card, it was just fine. Obviously since she had already paid the fee and started the process it was a moot point. As a bonus the new card comes with an expiration date so at some point we will need to cough up another 4 or 5 hundred bucks for yet another card.
 
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