Canada is a failed state

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I live in Nova Scotia, and not in Halifax so not in the city, in the middle of nowhere pretty much, The fact that I call Halifax "The City" should be good enough indicator, but if that doesn't tell you how small Nov Scotia is now over 1 million, but that happened right around covid before we started importing people in. We only even got Doordash because of covid. We don't have Uber, we have taxis and a bus that goes by once an hour. That's it. The one good thing about our taxis here compared to the city is we don't use metered fares - It's always been point A to B is X$ and A to c is X+1. My point is, you got drunk downtown after getting out of class instead of stumbling up the hill 1.5kms you could pay $4 and hop into a taxi. If you had them stop at the late night minimart on the way there they charged you an extra buck, maybe. Depends on the driver and how busy it is. That kind of a small town.

I had an emergency this morning and needed to get to the bank before it opened. Bus wasn't an option. I had to call a cab, $10. BOTH WAYS. She said it's been that way a few months now and that they had just raised the prices for out of town that was in town for a while now.

I know some of that inflation and just getting old but twenty fucking dollars. I hate it here.
 
Hectic Heckler said:
Canada has become an untrustworthy ally
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When the USA was preparing for the strikes on Iran, they didn't even attempt to inform us or ask for our help like they did with Europe. They already distrust us and keep in mind, even the democrats are sus of Canada, for example the dems are calling for the ban of chinese evs from Canada from crossing the border.
 
Well colour me surprised, the courts are deciding to exacerbate the Alberta independence issue

An Alberta Court of King’s Bench justice has quashed Elections Alberta’s approval of a petition seeking a referendum on Alberta independence from separatist group Stay Free Alberta.

The decision puts the future of the independence petition, which Stay Free Alberta said has garnered more than 300,000 names, in question.

In two decisions issued Wednesday, Justice Shaina Leonard found that chief electoral officer Gordon McClure made an error in law to approve the second citizen's initiative petition and failed to consider an earlier decision that said separation would violate Treaty rights.

Leonard's conclusion says there was an error of law, "rendering the [chief electoral officer]'s decision unreasonable."

She also found that the government, as representative of the Crown, failed in its duty to consult with applicants Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Blood Tribe, Piikani Nation, and Siksika Nation.

Stay Free Alberta collected signatures between Jan. 2 and May 2. Mitch Sylvestre, leader of the group, delivered the petition to Elections Alberta's Edmonton office on May 4.

Jeff Rath, one of Sylvestre's lawyers, was unhappy with Leonard's decision.

“We disagree fundamentally with the decision which appears on its face to violate principles of natural justice and contain numerous errors of law," he wrote on X.

"We have been instructed to prepare and file the appropriate appellate documents.”

Premier Danielle Smith said in question period that she would have more to say on the judge's ruling after she has a chance to read it.

"We will be reviewing the results of this judgment and then making some decisions," she said. "We obviously have a number of different processes that are ongoing right now."
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Leave it to Canadian judges to do the one thing that increases the likelihood of what they're wanting to prevent.
 
Scale Smerch said:
Well colour me surprised, the courts are deciding to exacerbate the Alberta independence issue
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The Court of King's Bench in Alberta has its judges appointed by the Federal Government. Just so everyone is aware.

This is more legal fuckery than it is anything else. What law was violated? What duty to consult is there? Referendums are non-binding, they can be ignored, they usually are ignored. Now, this benefits both Smith and Carney as they go "whelp my hands are tied." Smith's strategy is to do nothing, while Carney's is use media to inflame tensions. Both are working against it behind the scenes.
 
Scale Smerch said:
Well colour me surprised, the courts are deciding to exacerbate the Alberta independence issue


Leave it to Canadian judges to do the one thing that increases the likelihood of what they're wanting to prevent.
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Even if Ottowa shuts down the "legal" way of independence, I really dont think albertans will do shit. I honesty think they will just take it and continue to be buck broken tax serfs.
 
harbringer883 said:
Even if Ottowa shuts down the "legal" way of independence, I really dont think albertans will do shit. I honesty think they will just take it and continue to be buck broken tax serfs.
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Honestly at this point I’d just take something Happening worthy. If I’m going to be stuck here I might as well try and be entertained.
 
harbringer883 said:
Even if Ottowa shuts down the "legal" way of independence, I really dont think albertans will do shit. I honesty think they will just take it and continue to be buck broken tax serfs.
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"Legal" Seperation is very poorly defined. I don't think this is the end, plus Stay Free Alberta are filing appellate documents so this will go though the next step. I think there has been multiple attempts to block the petition. They may succeed in preventing it from being added to the October referendum but it'll probably still happen eventually.
 
12345 said:
I live in Nova Scotia, and not in Halifax so not in the city, in the middle of nowhere pretty much, The fact that I call Halifax "The City" should be good enough indicator, but if that doesn't tell you how small Nov Scotia is now over 1 million, but that happened right around covid before we started importing people in. We only even got Doordash because of covid. We don't have Uber, we have taxis and a bus that goes by once an hour. That's it. The one good thing about our taxis here compared to the city is we don't use metered fares - It's always been point A to B is X$ and A to c is X+1. My point is, you got drunk downtown after getting out of class instead of stumbling up the hill 1.5kms you could pay $4 and hop into a taxi. If you had them stop at the late night minimart on the way there they charged you an extra buck, maybe. Depends on the driver and how busy it is. That kind of a small town.

I had an emergency this morning and needed to get to the bank before it opened. Bus wasn't an option. I had to call a cab, $10. BOTH WAYS. She said it's been that way a few months now and that they had just raised the prices for out of town that was in town for a while now.

I know some of that inflation and just getting old but twenty fucking dollars. I hate it here.
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Nova Scotia is nice (maybe more like was nice lol) I have a lot of family that live there and have spent a considerable amount of time there and the biggest thing I have learned is that a lot of people that live there are retarded and think they live like 20 years in the past. The absolutely glaze migrants for some reason and I have family members that get excited when the see brown people working at Tim Hortons as if that's the only indian in the whole province.

Went to Halifax in the early fall last year after not being there since pre COVID and it was a lot worse than I remembered. Garbage in a lot of spaces, entire street smelling like piss, tons of homeless by the Tim Hortons by the ferry terminals and a lot of stuff on the waterfront shops closed or torn down. Seemed to be construction. Went to the Boondocks and it seemed shitty, went to Peggy's cove and they built an ugly walkway on the rocks for some reason. Kinda sad at the state of the place.
 
Betonhaus said:
"Legal" Seperation is very poorly defined. I don't think this is the end, plus Stay Free Alberta are filing appellate documents so this will go though the next step. I think there has been multiple attempts to block the petition. They may succeed in preventing it from being added to the October referendum but it'll probably still happen eventually.
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Good luck, once they say the indians have (more) power then it's over. Because now not only would they have to do something the poor Indians won't like, they'll also have to backtrack this. And "consulting" with them is impossible, they'll never agree to let someone so anything with land because that means they aren't getting the land. And any type of separation will defacto mean they will have zero special power in Alberta anymore. Unless Alberta agreed to give them like 90% of the land after separation (plus weekly payments of everything they want) that's also a no go. Even IF it's not completely killed (it is) this means years of fighting in courts against "laws" and rules that don't even currently exist


If it wasn't permanently destroying the country it would almost be hilarious how this small group of unelected random drug addicts (that also all hate each other) have full control over multibillion dollar infrastructure projects, any attempt to grow the country in anyway, the ability to leave, run their own separate higher power legal system etc. (sorry Chinese!), be free from all government obligations, and say over all resources. While constantly whining about being victims hundreds of years ago and bullied.


Maybe the indians should start wearing tiny hats and growing their noses
 
Brain Problems said:
Cape Breton is gorgeous. NFLD is another world. Never been to PEI. NB is lovely but it's been a while and I really just remember St Andrews.
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Yeah my family had a farm just outside of Sydney in Cape Breton and it looked straight out of a postcard. If you haven't been to PEI I would recommend going, it's pretty laid back there and the beaches are nice despite how cold the water can be. There's some nice golf courses right by the water and you can see the fishing boats coming and going as you play.

12345 said:
Too many people thought that warning about waves and slippery rocks didn't apply to them.
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Always Indians thinking rules don't apply to them. I always thought it was pretty obvious to not climb on the wet rocks. Whenever I visit I always go and climb around the rocks, there's plenty of stuff to climb away from the water and the slippery rocks. (Also if you an avaition enthusiast there are a couple memorials to the Swissair plane that went down near Peggy's cove back in the 90s.
 
Spooky Space Kook said:
the biggest thing I have learned is that a lot of people that live there are retarded and think they live like 20 years in the past
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The farther East from Montreal, the further back in time one travels: in terms of technology, ability, information, and culture. Atlantic Canada has spent the last few decades (if not centuries) in semi-isolation, for better or for worse. Long affected by inter-provincial brain-drain, generational poverty, and unsatisfactory political realities, most communities there tend to be insulated and unaware of the problems afflicting major urban centres across the country.

The monopolists and oligarchs have a tighter control of the Atlantic provinces than anywhere else. The Irving family comes to mind; owning almost everything in NB from industry to media. Naturally, they are also the only ones that can so publicly flaunt regulatory and fiscal laws there.

Also, the further East one travels, the less teeth they will see.
 
Scale Smerch said:
Leave it to Canadian judges to do the one thing that increases the likelihood of what they're wanting to prevent.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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OutInTheRain said:
The Court of King's Bench in Alberta has its judges appointed by the Federal Government. Just so everyone is aware.
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Oh boy, some unelected, out-of-province dipshit is allowed to boss around Albertans and this isn't supposed to only dump more fuel on the fire? Outstanding.
 
I've never read Conrad's Heart of Darkness, but the title alone leaves me to reflect on the state of affairs for Canada and the collective psyche of the nation. You could say I'm a bit of a Carl Jung fanboy as I invoked consistently in my literary critiques back in the university days so I'm familiar with the concept of the shadow. My read on Canadians that support the current government, institutions, and the status quo are the kind of people who buried their shadow, deny its existence, and if forced to acknowledge it, claim that they defeated it. The problem is that creates immense pressure where cracks will appear and the shadow if seep out and corrupt virtues.

I don't buy that a plurality of Canadians voted for the Liberals after years of incompetence and a litany of scandals in 2025 out of love for king and country. Behind all the forced smiles and cheers there was nothing but hatred. Hatred for Trump, sure, but also decades of resentment towards the United States for "hogging" the spotlight that Canadians felt entitled to. Civic virtue became nothing more than cheap grace for the malice many of my fellow citizens hold towards the United States. Every policy announcement intended to throw sand in the giant's eye while we flirt with their geopolitical rival. Meanwhile, they project their worst vices impulses on the Americans, Alberta separatists, and any poor soul that has the audacity to dissent.

Frankly, it's difficult NOT to regard Canadians as evil, albeit in a more banal form than the cartoon supervillainy shown in animated series of yore. Behind every grin I see on Canadian patriot, I sense a seething hatred and behind every declaration of love for country I sense a strong to inflict harm on others. Granted, this is just my perception with the same potential for bias as any human, but I do sense that the collective shadow of Canadian society is ready to break free and when does, it can get ugly and brutal. For those Canadians who claim to be on the side of angels, I would warn them that Lucifer was an angel before the fall and look what happened to him.
 
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