NationStates Jolt Archive

Simple question simple answer. Sadly, I live in Saskatchewan but I will return to Alberta with a vengance in about 3 years. As for the poll, I'm thinking no one on NS lives in the Yukon, Nunavut or the North West Territories but I might be wrong. Born in Alberta, lives in Sask.

Saskatchewan born, Alberta raised, British Columbia residence.

Born and raised in Québec. And a repentant ex-separatist at that.

Simple question simple answer. Sadly, I live in Saskatchewan but I will return to Alberta with a vengance in about 3 years. As for the poll, I'm thinking no one on NS lives in the Yukon, Nunavut or the North West Territories but I might be wrong. Born in Alberta, lives in Sask.
what part of alberta? why dont you like it? i have friends that have travelled canada pretty extensively, and they love it there, want to move to calgary, or deadmonton.

If I were Canadian, it'd probably be Québec. It ain't easy being francophone :P

Greater Toronto Area, Ontario.

Born United Kingdom, Raised Nova Scotian, Living Ontario

what part of alberta? why dont you like it? i have friends that have travelled canada pretty extensively, and they love it there, want to move to calgary, or deadmonton.


I was born in Edmonton but lived in Calgary. And Edmonton could kick Calgary's sorry ass to the moon but enough of that. Alberta is my favourite province and I was angry as hell when I found out I was moving. When I said vegence, I was talking about people, no the place itself.

Good ol' Mani-snow-ba is where I rest my weary feet. I really like it here. :)

If I were Canadian, it'd probably be Québec. It ain't easy being francophone :P

You're a francophone?

Tu vis dans quel pays, si tu n'es pas Canadien?

I was born in Edmonton but lived in Calgary. And Edmonton could kick Calgary's sorry ass to the moon but enough of that. Alberta is my favourite province and I was angry as hell when I found out I was moving. When I said vegence, I was talking about people, no the place itself.
got it. yeah, they love edmonton, big time. i want to go, but i think i may a wimp in the winter. but who knows, i like suffering. i hear there is a pretty bitching metal scene there... but lots of freaks too. and skinheads. what do you think?

You're a francophone?

Tu vis dans quel pays, si tu n'es pas Canadien?

C'est pas si pareil, mais "Location: Sweden" :)

got it. yeah, they love edmonton, big time. i want to go, but i think i may a wimp in the winter. but who knows, i like suffering. i hear there is a pretty bitching metal scene there... but lots of freaks too. and skinheads. what do you think?


Ya, I haven't been there myself for a year or so and given I'm not into heavy metal, your asking the wrong guy :). And I think there are more skinheads around Red Deer (which is between Calgary and Edmonton if you didn't already know). And it gets f*cking cold in Edmoton in the winter but it's that way all across western canada, so we get used to it.

C'est pas si pareil, mais "Location: Sweden" :)

I love those scandinavian liberal paradises. I would totally move there...


If you all didn't speak Swedish, Danish, and all those languages that end in "ish" :p

I love those scandinavian liberal paradises. I would totally move there...


If you all didn't speak Swedish, Danish, and all those languages that end in "ish" :p


Canada isn't Liberal enough for you?

I love those scandinavian liberal paradises. I would totally move there...


If you all didn't speak Swedish, Danish, and all those languages that end in "ish" :p

English is practically a second official language over here. Not that we have official languages - that would be too nationalist for us. :D

Born and raised in the wilderness of northern BC. Now residing in Alberta and missing BC terribly. :(

And Edmonton could kick Calgary's sorry ass to the moon but enough of that.

*enormous laugh* You wish. Edmonton is the city of drug-deals and the Eskimos - and NOBODY likes the Eskimos. *pukes*

Calgary is teh ub3r-city.

Oh, so convenient!

How there's only 10 poll options, and 10 provinces! It must mean something...

*enormous laugh* You wish. Edmonton is the city of drug-deals and the Eskimos - and NOBODY likes the Eskimos. *pukes*

Calgary is teh ub3r-city.


Calgary is alright but honestly, the Stamps suck shit. They keep firing the head coach and hiring someone new, thinkings it will fix that fact the team sucks. I lived in Calgary for 12 years compared to 1 for Edmonton and I'd still take Edmonton over Calgary any day.

Canada isn't Liberal enough for you?

Nothing's liberal enough for me, I guess.


'Cept maybe communism. I wouldn't vote for a communist party :p


But you gotta admit the Liberal party doesn't have much liberal left in it anymore. It's pretty much become a slightly-less-conservative-than-Conservatives party. Now if we were run by the NDP, I suppose I wouldn't even be thinking about moving anywhere else, but unfortunately for me, NDP doesn't weight very heavily on the federal scene, since it can't manage to get a single candidate elected in Québec.

*enormous laugh* You wish. Edmonton is the city of drug-deals and the Eskimos - and NOBODY likes the Eskimos. *pukes*

Calgary is teh ub3r-city.

Not sure if you really care, but most of them really hate being called "Eskimo". They view it as derogatory, from what I've heard, because it means something like "Raw meat eaters" or something. Inuit is widely preferred to it.

Nothing's liberal enough for me, I guess.


'Cept maybe communism. I wouldn't vote for a communist party :p


But you gotta admit the Liberal party doesn't have much liberal left in it anymore. It's pretty much become a slightly-less-conservative-than-Conservatives party. Now if we were run by the NDP, I suppose I wouldn't even be thinking about moving anywhere else, but unfortunately for me, NDP doesn't weight very heavily on the federal scene, since it can't manage to get a single candidate elected in Québec.


You don't want the NDP elected federally. I already have to put up with them running Saskatchewan, I doubt want to have them draining my pockets federally as well.

From Vancouver, but attending university in Ottawa... I will be back. Nothing beats BC!

Not sure if you really care, but most of them really hate being called "Eskimo". They view it as derogatory, from what I've heard, because it means something like "Raw meat eaters" or something. Inuit is widely preferred to it.


Its the name of the CFL team.

*Insert obligatory story about Olav Rokne and be done with it*

Edmonton rules.

Not sure if you really care, but most of them really hate being called "Eskimo". They view it as derogatory, from what I've heard, because it means something like "Raw meat eaters" or something. Inuit is widely preferred to it.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!

It's the name of the team.

Its the name of the CFL team.

Oh.



Very well. You may all point at me and laugh now.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

It's the name of the team.

I see some of you already have been at it. :p

Alright, so much for me. Please don't point my ignorance any more :(

I see some of you already have been at it. :p

Alright, so much for me. Please don't point my ignorance any more :(



Meh, if you lived in Saskatchewan and didn't know who the Riders were, I'd laugh at you but because you live in Quebec, I'll cut you some slack.

I see some of you already have been at it. :p

Alright, so much for me. Please don't point my ignorance any more :(
:p Who likes football, anyway. ;-)

:p Who likes football, anyway. ;-)


You an Oilers fan? Please say yes, I get so much shit from Leaf fans in Regina for being one :(.

You an Oilers fan? Please say yes, I get so much shit from Leaf fans in Regina for being one :(.
Actually, although I live in Edmonton, I am a die-hard Habs fan from the '70s.

Actually, although I live in Edmonton, I am a die-hard Habs fan from the '70s.


:(

:(
Go Guy!

There should be a smiley reminiscent of a guy flying down the ice with his hair streaming behind him.

Go Guy!


I don't mind the Habs, I'm just a die hard Oilers fan. Man, I hate the NHL though, both sides are soooo stupid.

Greater Toronto Area, Ontario.
Ditto.

Do I count if I'm here for eight months of the year for four years?

If so.. an itty bitty dorm room in New Brunswick is my "home."

I can't believe you'd compare Calgary and Edmonton over a football team. :(

Oh, well, I've never lived in Edmonton, but been there three times and hated it every single time.

Albertan-born, Nova Scotian raised.

I live in northen Minnesota and that's more Canadian than BC!!!!

Go Guy!

There should be a smiley reminiscent of a guy flying down the ice with his hair streaming behind him.

I would use that one.

I can't believe you'd compare Calgary and Edmonton over a football team. :(

Oh, well, I've never lived in Edmonton, but been there three times and hated it every single time.



And what makes Calgary so great? All the great redneck thinking? Also, I find the city of Edmonton itself fa rmore interesting than Calgary. And are you a Stamps fan then? Because even my cousin who lives in Calgary and cheers for all their teams says they're terrible. And you started the football comparisons, I just added to them.

I was a Stamps fan until they moved Wally out here to BC. Now I'm a Lions fan. But overall, I'm still a Riders fan, rider pride 4eva. :p

Nova Scotia.

Will be moving to New Brunswick soon to go to college but then I'll be back in Nova Scotia to work.

I still find it amusing that something like 90% of canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.

I still find it amusing that something like 90% of canadians live within 100 miles of the US border.

It's the warmest part of the country and it is next to our only neighbour and biggest trading partner. Makes perfect sense.

I assumed it was more akin to New Hampshire's sole reason for existence. Cheap place to buy goods from more populous and generally more expensive places (ie. everyone in Massachusetts buys tax-free goods in NH). Everyone in northern US takes cheap vacations in canada due to exchange rate.

Though this is changing now as the dollar plummets.

I assumed it was more akin to New Hampshire's sole reason for existence. Cheap place to buy goods from more populous and generally more expensive places (ie. everyone in Massachusetts buys tax-free goods in NH). Everyone in northern US takes cheap vacations in canada due to exchange rate.

Though this is changing now as the dollar plummets.


New Hampshire has more than one reason for existing, thank you very much. (Massachusetts sucks.)
Live free or die, bitches!!

London Ontario, born and raised.

Are there still mounties in Canada?

L'Acadie?
Nouvelle Ecosse?
New Scotland?
Nova Scotia?

Proud Maratimer.

Born and raised in good ol' BC. I love BC. I want to move up north somewhere, though, where it's colder, and we get more snow. *sigh* I live just off of Vancouver, and we don't get nearly enough snow to satisfy my tastes. :p

Are there still mounties in Canada?


Uhh... yes? Aren't they more ceremonial now, though? The RCMP stands for Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but I think that's more just a title... if you mean the actual little red-clad, awesome hatted horseback riders, as I said, I think they're still ceremonially present.

Buuut... what do I know? I could be wrong. I do know that when a police officer dies, there are fully suited mounties at their funeral ceremonies. At least there are a little north of here.

Uhh... yes? Aren't they more ceremonial now, though? The RCMP stands for Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but I think that's more just a title... if you mean the actual little red-clad, awesome hatted horseback riders, as I said, I think they're still ceremonially present.
Thanks, that makes sence.

Ottawa, Ontario.

Born and raised. :cool:

My body lives in Ontario, but my heart resides in Quebec.

By Bernie Lord's Backside, am I the only New Brunswicker?

I was born in Romania but I've been living in Ontario, Canada. I don't understand why some Quebecois want to separate, I mean, the French-Canadians created Canada. They were the first to use the name Canada for this land, the first to call themselves Canadians and the creators of alot of Canadian culture. If anything, the Quebecois would be campaigning for a different head of state other than a British Queen, instead of trying to separate.

BtW, I like the Liberals and they have a chance to become more liberal. The party is separated into two factions, one is fiscally liberal as well as socially liberal like Chretien, Trudeau or Pearson and the other is fiscally conservative and socially liberal like Paul Martin. All that needs to happen is for the fully liberal faction to take back the party. I would say Paul Martin is doing an okay job but it could be much, much better.

Born and raised in BC

Ontario born and raised, and I'm not going anywhere.

Centre of the universe -- Toronto.

Everybody pelt me with rocks!!!

:p

Manitoba. And I almost vomit when I get lumped in as part of the west. We're central, not you, Ontario. And the West is Alberta and Saskatchewan, not Manitoba. Have you ever seen Ralph Klein/Stephen Harper/Stockwell Day/Preston Manning/any Conservative politician talk about Manitoba? Or any politician for that matter? Just look at the election results for the west and see where most of the Liberal and NDP seats come from. We also have Central Standard Time, so we're Central, not you!

Centre of the universe -- Toronto.

Everybody pelt me with rocks!!!

:p

*pelts*

By Bernie Lord's Backside, am I the only New Brunswicker?

If I count, I'm in Sackville.

Riders fan eh? Big one myself, have season tickets and even went out to this years Western Final in BC. Man, what a sad plane flight home :(.

Peterborough, Ontario is where I live. We export more NHL players than any other city on earth. Seriosly I'm pritty possitive there is someone from Peterborough on every team in the NHL. And to add injury to insult we were the first city in Canada to have STEETLIGHTS and the world largest hydrolic lift. BAAAMMM!

I live in the Canadian province of Florida. Judging by the large number of Canadians I would guess this is one of Canada's most populous provinces.

Hamilton Ontario, biznatch (AKA the armpit of Ontario).

Ontario rules. So does Canada. We should all get free happy meals for living in Canada.

:D

Voting in lieu of my fiancé who's a BC born and raised.

Riders fan eh? Big one myself, have season tickets and even went out to this years Western Final in BC. Man, what a sad plane flight home :(.

You did? I was there too... freaky. It was like a NSMeet that wasn't.

Alberta.

Lived in Edmonton most my life and now I've lived in Vegreville for the last year.

Manitoba. And I almost vomit when I get lumped in as part of the west. We're central, not you, Ontario. And the West is Alberta and Saskatchewan, not Manitoba. Have you ever seen Ralph Klein/Stephen Harper/Stockwell Day/Preston Manning/any Conservative politician talk about Manitoba? Or any politician for that matter? Just look at the election results for the west and see where most of the Liberal and NDP seats come from. We also have Central Standard Time, so we're Central, not you!

Have you seen anybody talk about Saskatchewan either? Of course though, anything bad that happens to Alberta automatically is bad for the west :rolleyes:.

In any case, born in Cowtown(Calgary) moved about a dozen times or so in my life until ending up in Edmonton for about 2.5 years and then Shaunavon Saskatchewan until I started going to school at the UofS.

BTW, Esks f*cking rule. Stamps can lick balls.

Born and raised in the capital of this great country and am now schooling in the east.

North Toronto, Ontario. And proud to be Conservative!

And the West is Alberta and Saskatchewan, not Manitoba.

And what is BC? Geographicaly western, obviously. But politicaly we are very eastern. the French Immersion programs in the area are becoming extremely overpopulated lol.

Peterborough, Ontario is where I live. We export more NHL players than any other city on earth. Seriosly I'm pritty possitive there is someone from Peterborough on every team in the NHL. And to add injury to insult we were the first city in Canada to have STEETLIGHTS and the world largest hydrolic lift. BAAAMMM!

You have STEETLIGHTS?

Wow.

We don't even have STEETS.....

:p

(Sorry, couldn't help it).

Montreal born. Ottawa (mostly) raised. Currently residing in Ottawa.

And no, I accept no personal blame for the governments the rest of the country keep sending here to fuck up their lives. My vote counted just as little as yours, and I sure don't notice any Ottawa citizens holding high office in this country on a frequent basis.

Near Sudbury, Ontario.

Have you seen anybody talk about Saskatchewan either? Of course though, anything bad that happens to Alberta automatically is bad for the west :rolleyes:.

In any case, born in Cowtown(Calgary) moved about a dozen times or so in my life until ending up in Edmonton for about 2.5 years and then Shaunavon Saskatchewan until I started going to school at the UofS.

BTW, Esks f*cking rule. Stamps can lick balls.

I guess the west is just Klein/Harper/etc's euphimism for Alberta, without sounding like a new "Bloc Alberta". Looks like no one cares about us Centralers (sniff). Damn you Alberta and Ontario! :mad: :headbang:

I live in White Rock, BC (for those who don't know its in the GVA) I lived in Calgary, AB for about two years (which incidentally was two years too long for my tastes!), otherwise my life was spent being raised in the glorious Shuswap lake country.

:fluffle: to all my Canadian comrades!

And no, I accept no personal blame for the governments the rest of the country keep sending here to fuck up their lives. My vote counted just as little as yours, and I sure don't notice any Ottawa citizens holding high office in this country on a frequent basis.

How long was John Manley a Minister ? How long has Dalton McGuinty been the leader of the opposition/premire ? Granted I like these two guys, but Ottawa has seen Definatly less action than Central Nova & Montreal through history. Thats right, be in aw of my magnificant streetlights and the streets.

Simple question simple answer. Sadly, I live in Saskatchewan but I will return to Alberta with a vengance in about 3 years. As for the poll, I'm thinking no one on NS lives in the Yukon, Nunavut or the North West Territories but I might be wrong. Born in Alberta, lives in Sask.
You are wrong...I joined NS when I lived in the NWT...believe me, those with computers spend A LOT OF TIME on them during the long, dark winters....