floofloof@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 10 months agoYoung Canadians are being priced out of home ownership and even parenthood. Why on earth would mandatory national service make them love their country more?www.thestar.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1247
arrow-up1247external-linkYoung Canadians are being priced out of home ownership and even parenthood. Why on earth would mandatory national service make them love their country more?www.thestar.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squarezipzoopabooplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46·10 months agoOutside of gun control and health care, Canada is USA minus a few years. The same stupid cultural shit happens here too just a bit later
minus-squareTQuid@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·10 months agoMoved from the USA over 25 years ago. Never moving back, though I visit. I sum it up like this: “Canada: better than the States—and no better than that.” We sadly keep using the wrong yardstick. Or metre. I do like that we have metric.
minus-squareASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoit’s not all bad. soon they’ll get cellphones and flat screen tvs!
Outside of gun control and health care, Canada is USA minus a few years. The same stupid cultural shit happens here too just a bit later
Moved from the USA over 25 years ago. Never moving back, though I visit. I sum it up like this: “Canada: better than the States—and no better than that.”
We sadly keep using the wrong yardstick. Or metre. I do like that we have metric.
Especially in Alberta
it’s not all bad. soon they’ll get cellphones and flat screen tvs!