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[–] rozodru@piefed.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Cool, cool...As a Canadian I will ask Americans A. where you gonna work? and B. where you gonna live? because both situations here are....yeah not great. good luck though I guess. Well I suppose if you want to live in a shoebox in Toronto those prices are apparently "coming down".

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

A shoebox? In this economy?

[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Now tax them!

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 hours ago

I'm waiting on the last birth certificate we need for our application. Let's go Saskatchewan administrators! Find that old birth record please, we know it's in there somewhere.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I'm actually looking into this right now. Other than tracking down all the birth certificates and stuff, it seems pretty straightforward.

The bill is C-3, since the article didn't seem to mention it.

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 45 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

As a Canadian I welcome our new American refugees. Please leave your guns at the door and be sure to grab your free plate of poutine when you arrive.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 1 points 37 seconds ago

I live in california and you have no idea how hard it is to get competent poutine here.

I can get shit from places ive never heard of but i cant get fucking poutine.

[–] RobMyBot@lemmy.ml 4 points 40 minutes ago

You have no idea how tempting that offer is.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Most Americans vacationing in Switzerland consider themselves Canadian in public. We can always spot the fake Canadians though.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Lol is it the way they say "about" ?

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

The first tell is usually the volume (*when talking amogst each other), followed by wanting things to be adjusted to accomodate them in ways that don't make any sense in Switzerland.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

And by volume they mean loudness

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

appreciate the clarification.

Would be funny if it was the big hair or muricans tend to move in groups. Which both could be valid.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I think he wanted to clarify it wasn't because of their weight.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 1 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

McDonalds is so expensive here, they usually loose 20lbs in the first 3 days after arrival.

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

All those Canadians living under a hostile government, invasions have happened for less.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You can even finish off the White House this time.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

I always found the story of that so fascinating.

The British commander that took Washington wanted to take the city peacefully and entered the city under a flag of peace but some Americans in the city opened fire and wounded his horse and killed some of his soldiers. That made him change his mind and he ordered the burning of all public buildings in the city. And his orders were followed so only public buildings such as the White House, parts of the Capitol, the Department of War were burned. The only government building that survived unscathed was the Patent Office because the guy in charge of it pleaded with the British and they listened to him.

The general also wanted to burn down some newspaper that was printing negative stuff about him but some women convinced him not to do it as the fire would likely spread to their houses. He instead ordered the soldiers to take the newspaper building down brick by brick and then ordered the printing equipment destroyed so they can't write more about him. I always found that to be hilariously petty.

Also another story I heard was that President Madison was so sure that the British wouldn't take the city that he had a dinner party prepared that for that evening. When the British sappers came to burn down the White House they ate all the food and drunk all the wine prepared before starting to burn the White House down.

After sometimes a big storm came and put out the fires and even a tornado landed in the middle of the city. The British decided to get out at that point as the storm caused a lot of damage to the city and casualties to their troops and civilians. As they were pulling out the general asked some woman if this is the kind of weather they get in these God forsaken lands. The woman told him the storm was sent by God to save them from their enemies and the general retorted that the storm actually helped them finish destroying the city.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

My great grandparents were from Didsbury, Alberta so my entire immediate family qualifies... Would be interesting to see how this shakes out.

I think the only fear would be Trump cronies going nuts and trying to deport us.

[–] muxika@piefed.muxika.org 4 points 5 hours ago

This is the inverse of Super Troopers 2!

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I really don’t want more Americans to have the right to fuck up our elections and politics.

I’m so god damn exhausted of Americans.

I get you’re not all bad, but even the non trumpers have politics that are a reason they left.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 0 points 45 minutes ago

I’m not your bud guy.