floofloof@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 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-square55fedilinkarrow-up1248arrow-down17
arrow-up1241arrow-down1external-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 · 5 months agomessage-square55fedilink
minus-squarezipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46·5 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-up27·5 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-up4·5 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!