What sucks about Canada?
Dec 19th 2009 | 5:51 am
#32
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From: On top of the Green hill, NS
Re: What sucks about Canada?
The fact that milk is almost twice the price of gas. I'm sure there's enough space here to fit a few extra dairy cows in.
Dec 19th 2009 | 6:02 am
#33
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From: the GTA
Re: What sucks about Canada?
- lack of employment rights for part time staff
- poor empoyment rights generally
- little annual vacation time
- seniority
- very old union practices - closed shops
- having to pay for prescription drugs, OP physio, fibre glass casts, etc
- poor health and safety regs to protect employees
- an 'we've always done it this way' attitude
- superficiality
- lack of discussion of politics/philisophy/literature/music/arts
- filthy shops and restaurants
- odd ideas on what accessibility for people with disabilities is
- rotten fruit and veg for sale, so having to pick through everything before you buy it.
- architecture
- mediocrity and proud of it
- expensive cut flowers even in the summer
will that do?
Dec 19th 2009 | 6:19 am
#34
half a century
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From: Sarf Lundun to East Van :)
Re: What sucks about Canada?
yes they do and there have been some tragic losses over the years (Birks and the original hotel Vancouver to name but two). Vancouver though grew very differently than older cities. Land was cheap and plentiful, menial workers could afford detached houses in what is now the west end - vancouver went straight to a suburban model. Fewer apartments were built as was typical in older cities. Density was not an issue in the 1880's. By the sixties, city hall had relocated from hastings and main, the street car had been closed down (start of the problems that still linger in the area today), and the west end had become a slum, many houses had become tenements with no indoor plumbing and deplorable living conditions. Vancouver was not a wealthy place. A radical plan evolved to demolish the west end and build the highrises you see today. tragic but inevitable.
Dec 19th 2009 | 6:58 am
#37
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Re: What sucks about Canada?
Dec 19th 2009 | 8:38 am
#38
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Re: What sucks about Canada?
Urban planning is one of those professions that you have to make excuses about at dinner parties or other social gatherings. A person is highly unlikely to be a wannabee planner...it is more likely that they would secretly aspire to be an architect..a la George Costanza.
Dec 19th 2009 | 8:44 am
#40
half a century
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From: Sarf Lundun to East Van :)
Re: What sucks about Canada?
Urban planning is one of those professions that you have to make excuses about at dinner parties or other social gatherings. A person is highly unlikely to be a wannabee planner...it is more likely that they would secretly aspire to be an architect..a la George Costanza.
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Dec 19th 2009 | 9:15 am
#42
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From: Nanaimo BC from Lancashire
Re: What sucks about Canada?
Low toilets.
Dec 19th 2009 | 9:18 am
#43
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From: Europe (to be specified).
Dec 19th 2009 | 9:25 am
#44
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From: Nanaimo BC from Lancashire
Re: What sucks about Canada?
Well here anyway, they are about 6inches lower than the uk, having a 6ft 5 OH ......well say no more
Dec 19th 2009 | 9:29 am
#45
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Re: What sucks about Canada?
There have been quite a lot of these threads, but I suppose people want to know what bothers people after they've been here a long time.
