Paul_Shepherd

To be fair...she should never have been in that job in the first place. She was useless,...and a lot of those comments came from staunch liberal supporters.

scrubbedexpat091

I think for me it was both a learning disability and having 2 types of systems being shoved into my brain, if they had picked one or the other, I might have done better, but my poor just could handle metric and imperial all being shoved in at the same time, I still don't fractions well, I can read 1/2 1/3 3/4 but that is about my limit on measuring tapes, fractions confused me and still do, I can't figure out a fraction math problem at all, don't even know how to start it, never did though, my math ability basically ends at multiplication and simple division, but I will need paper and pencil to figure most out, I can only do the lower easy to remember in my head like 3x2 or such, but all the basic math I can figure out I just need paper to do it, or a calculator.

My inability to do well in math has kept me from jobs that require math or an education that involves math classes, so everything I ever did work wise was just basic stuff, adding and subtracting mostly and the computer did all the math, I just had to put in the numbers into boxes so the computer knew what to add and subtract.

dbd33

A very heavy disguise.

BristolUK

Be fair, it's not so easy to 'disappear' votes and then bring in van loads of votes for 'the other guy' with that kind of system.

scilly

We've used computerised voting in the municipal elections in Vancouver at least twice now, possibly 3 times.

It's very easy ..................... go to the polling station, use the "special" pencil to mark an X within the circle next to the names, take back to the clerk, and watch him/her slide it into the machine from within the folder (ie, not seeing how you voted). Machine spits the form out again, and it is then put into another box for retention so it can be checked if necessary at a later date.

Results within a couple of hours after closing.

At the last municipal election we had to choose from the most incredible number of candidates for mayor, city councillors, school trustees and park border, as follows. All names were randomized within the separate lists.....................

Mayor ............... 1 from 21 candidates

Councillors .................. up to 10 from 71

Park Board Commissioners ......... up to 7 from 33

School Board .......... up to 9 from 34 ............... and Mrs Doubtfire was one of the unsuccessful candidates


For some reason, there were many suggestions after the election that the requirements to be a candidate should be tightened up before the next election ................... which is next year. I don't know whether that has actually happened.


But this just shows how fast electronic voting can be......... and there were no complaints about fake results

Mordko

Unfortunately they won the war of independence so they got to decide. The imperial system seems popular in Canada.

dbd33

I'm in Canada and use imperial measures for length, area, and speed but for liquids I think US measures are customary. The tractor and lawn mower, for example, have their tank capacity expressed in US gallons.

scrubbedexpat091

I imagine they exist, but I have never had an oven in Canada in C they have all be in F with no C option, although our toaster oven did come with faceplate sticker for French to put over and its in C but presumably they just stick that sticker into the box for Canada and the oven itself is the US model in a bilingual box.

dbd33

Oh, yes, I know degrees C are used here (-30 and halve) but I don't see them. The house thermostat is in F as is the big roadside thermometer I used to pass on the way to work. I don't think I've seen a recipe which had degrees C, even in parentheses. The meat thermometer, purchased here reasonably recently, is in degrees F only.

Thinking of recipes, a true Brexit benefit would be if the Gruaniad and the BBC included imperial measures in their recipes. Translating everything from metric is a pain in the arse especially knowing that the recipe was written in imperial and translated to metric in the first place.

scilly

I've almost always worked using half imperial and half metric, even in pre-1967 UK, late 1967 in US, and up here.

Even back in my high school days in the 1950s, lab work was almost always in metric while every day life was imperial. Same in the US, and same in Canada until we became "officially" metric.

It got so that I almost had a "split" mind .............. automatically using and understanding metric in the lab and Imperial outside.

Looking back, home refrigerators were in Fahrenheit, lab ones always metric.. My current refrigerator, bought around 2010, is metric. About 5C in the fridge part, about -2 or -3C in the freezer.

Now the only time I use Imperial is for the cooker, which uses Fahrenheit for the oven, and when looking at square footage of a house as I've never had to learn that.

I don't even choose meats, fruits, etc by lb .............. I choose the size or amount I need and the Safeway cashier charges it by the metric, although the price tag on the shelf might be per lb. That's simply because something priced per lb looks cheaper than when it is priced by kilogram, for all those people who refuse to learn metric!

Gas at the gas station is priced per litre at the pump. Our car shows the size of the gas tank in litres ............ obviously not an American model . So did our generator.

Our thermostats, including the one that was in the house when we bought it back in 1972, are in Centigrade. Most of my recipes collected over the years have both C and F temperatures in almost all the ones collected since about 1970 in Canada nd the US, and from Australia. Even quite a lot of my UK ones also have both F and C temperatures (or Mark 4 for gas stoves in UK books).

The measurements that really get me are "cups" ............. is it an American cup, an Australian cup, a British cup or a Canadian cup????? No good using an American cup for a British or Australian recipe, or vice versa, it can make a huge difference.

People like my 40-something daughter work only in metric because that is all they learnt from kindergarten on!


Sometimes I almost feel as if I am living in a separate universe from other people because my experiences are so different from them

JamesM

People lining up for 4 hours to vote.

And to think when I tell people at Hooters that Canada is a developing world country they get passive aggressive.

The chap elected in my riding was charged with sexual assault in 2019 and still won despite being disowned of the Liberal party.

This election was a complete waste of time and money.

Nice hair though.

Oink

My friend's step mom just got reelected, it was fun watching the returns with her. I wish they'd do it like the British style with the retuning officer reading out the results at midnight with someone dressed as Barney the dinosaur standing behind him.

Jerseygirl

Always amazes me how people like him think their past will not come back to haunt them. Of course the media/enemies/opposition etc are going to be digging around to find anything they can use. Why didn’t he come clean from the start?

Paul_Shepherd

Yes purely because much of what is manufactured in Canada is destined for the US... so it has to be in imperial. . I've kind of got used to it now, but would prefer metric, its just so much easier in my job.

Paul_Shepherd

The Bloc leader called it the most pointless election in Canadian history....

A friend in the UK said that on the news item there, they mentioned the Canadian election result quicky and said.... thats a bit of an embarassment!

I can't see him campaigning in another election... its stalemate..... but everyone knew that.....except the one with the nice hair.