But I’m from New Brunswick! I’ve been told that if we don’t let the Irvings refine oil and clear-cut our forests, our economy will collapse!

An extremely subjective and esoteric set of criteria. Sometimes it’s because the representation of Jesus is hot, sometimes the crucifix is rather ornate, sometimes it’s just different from what I’ve seen before.

I ended up with three crucifixes by various happenstance, and then I kinda just started buying cool ones whenever I’d see any in thrift stores.

Seriously, our flag is like the best thing Canada has going for it.

Although as much as I loathe little corner Union Jacks on flags, I have to admit I’d probably get a kick from the reaction of the entire province of Québec if it were to happen.

It’s apparently attested since at least the 2nd century BCE; Roman playwright Plautus is usually credited with coining the term.

Hey, just because I’m a degenerate doesn’t mean I don’t care about maintaining healthy relationships with my friends!

Whenever I drive (which is rare) and I go through an intersection on a yellow light, I punch the ceiling of the car. I’ll even punch the air above my head if I run a yellow on my bicycle.

Someone told me back in high school that it’s bad luck not to do so, and for some reason it stuck with me.

Pretty sure that’s heronsy.

I honestly feel that’s less of a diss on the Neo and more of a statement on how overpowered phones are now, especially considering the limitations placed on mobile OSes.

Apparently, buck used to be a slur in the US for a black or Native American man.

A suggested etymology for buck naked is that it refers to the the nude state of black men when they were sold at slave auctions. AFAIK it’s not attested anywhere, just a hypothesis.

Both butt-naked and buck naked are used.

Comparing them with Google Ngram does show that buck naked predates and is slightly more frequently used than butt-naked, but I’d say butt-naked has been widely accepted into the lexicon. Bonus, it doesn’t have (possibly) racist origins like buck naked has.

Hey! As a vegan stoner, I resent that. I use an Arch-derivative (EndeavourOS btw).

French people and French-Canadians both use anglicisms, just in different ways.

For example, if we take the sentence “I parked my car in the parking lot for the weekend”, someone from France might say:

J’ai stationné ma voiture dans le parking pendant le weekend

whereas someone from Canada could say

J’ai parké mon char dans le stationnement pour la fin de semaine

Both have influence from English, but in different places. English loanwords in Canada tend to originate from the beginning of the 20th century (a reason why many car-related terms in Canadian French are anglicisms, such as “bumper”) and in France loanwords tend to be a more recent phenomenon.

I’m French-Canadian. My native language is French, I spoke French at home growing up and the entirety of my education was in French.

When I’ve visited Paris, I had people switching to English despite me speaking exclusively in French to them.

Peanut Butter Sunday and FUUDGE are two French Canadian bands worth checking out!

unbiased source of news

I honestly don’t think this is possible.

Who’s deciding what counts as “biased” or “unbiased”, and how do we ensure there’s no corruption there?

How do we determine “the truth” about controversial subjects when general opinion is split?

Even if you did determine a magical method to broadcast exclusively factual information without any spin; the choice of which information gets broadcast inherently introduces bias. You can’t put literally everything that happened on Earth in a day on the evening news, so you have to choose and prioritize which information to broadcast, introducing the bias.

I’ve always thought a better solution would be having news sources be more explicit about their biases, rather than pretending they don’t have any, but I realize that just introduces more problems without necessarily fixing anything.

Here’s a page on the official Transport Canada website that does indeed link to the same survey as OP.

IIRC, Spotube streams its music from YouTube.

They’re literally giving the richest family in the province 45 million in “tariff relief funds” over the next three years.

The Irvings own New Brunswick, except maybe a little patch in the north-west that’s owned by the McCains. Two of the top ten richest families in Canada, living in one of the poorest provinces. Weird coincidence.