Young 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-link floofloof ( @floofloof@lemmy.ca ) Canada@lemmy.caEnglish • 4 months ago message-square31fedilinkarrow-up1133
arrow-up1133external-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.com floofloof ( @floofloof@lemmy.ca ) Canada@lemmy.caEnglish • 4 months ago message-square31fedilink
minus-square nick ( @nick@midwest.social ) linkfedilink19•4 months agoAs an American this is depressing, Canada was always me mental escape hatch. “Well I’ll just move to Canada if shit gets to bad here” Which I know is hella reductive and not nearly as simple as it sounds, but who needs logic
minus-square zipzoopaboop ( @zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ) linkfedilinkEnglish32•4 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-square TQuid ( @TQuid@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish27•4 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-square zipzoopaboop ( @zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ) linkfedilinkEnglish8•4 months agoEspecially in Alberta
As an American this is depressing, Canada was always me mental escape hatch. “Well I’ll just move to Canada if shit gets to bad here”
Which I know is hella reductive and not nearly as simple as it sounds, but who needs logic
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