A combination of factors:

-colonial history, Algeria among them (and it wasn’t that long ago!)

I disliked Steven Harper but think alot of the hate of him was overblown... except his economic policy was objectively terrible. He doubled-down on a oil economy and took credit for Canada’s lucky survival through the recession (in part based on the harsh and internationally ridiculed Liberal banking rankings), and…

That’s a pretty weak excuse though... the reality is that Canada sets the number of refugees it takes, it sets it low, and it takes a fraction of Germany’s by proportion, or Sweden (smaller than Canada!). Canada’s strict point-based immigration has actually been held up as a model by the AfD (extreme right-wing) party…

Alt-Right conspiracy rhetoric is still a thing though: you have small-town candidates for AfD (the extreme right party) saying stuff like “the refugee crisis is a CIA plot to destroy Europe.” Neo-nazis know how to work within the system so their literal statement don’t cross the line legally.

The strength of Germany I…

Yes, but people do get around it by being careful.... there is still garbage press like “Bild” (very comparable to the “Sun” papers).

Breitbart is expanding into Europe apparently... you guys are exporting it to Germany now. :/

That was on the 78th anniversary of Kirstallnacht in Germany. Sad indeed.

The reality is that most people, past a certain temperature, just go from house to car to next indoor place. If it’s negative 25 Celcius... you probably aren’t really playing outside unless you’re rather hardcore.

The reality is that most people, past a certain temperature, just go from house to car to next indoor place. If it’s…

A Russian submarine was once spotted in the Canadian arctic, and they bombed it with Canadian flags. Just flew planes over it and dropped flags.

They were cleared by the U.S. military investigating its own actions, who only revealed details of the investigation after the video provoked international discussion about Iraq. Heck, it’s still a topic: the recommendations of the U.S. military was that journalists should keep them informed about where they are…

Manning obviously has issues, but the “Collateral Murder” video does stand out as one of the iconic whistle-blowing pieces of the Iraq war, with one of the soldiers on the video later discussing publicly the horrific experience, and saying such events happened everyday in Iraq.

I mean freelancing can be great, but it also can sometimes need rules to stop it from being exploitative. Our social and tax and insurance systems are set up for a world in which the vast majority of people work regular full-time jobs, and “freelancing” is done by a few go-getter professionals who are paid extra in…

Ugh, “gig economy.”

It’s not new, innovate, or revolutionary... just business as usual, but somehow overstepping pesky regulations and labour protection.

Because all industries have good and bad parts, and rent’s gotta get paid. Somedays I get to draw super amazing illustrations. Other days I’m designing a PDF for an email. Such is life.

Probably also funny, because although your Canadian accent might be rounded out a bit, the British definitely would say you have a fairly strong Canadian accent I’m guessing? Such things happen living abroad, haha.

The last time I called home, they didn’t understand when I said “sauna” because hanging around Europeans shifted my pronunciation.

Saww-nahhh = North America
Sowww-naaa = Europeans speaking English

I already sometimes say “flat” instead of apartment, but I absolutly will never adopt the British “schedule” or…

I think definitely regionalisms go really fast... weird bits of the accents round out a bit, or at least just enough that your family is alarmed by the change, but not enough that people in other places notice it.

I still get laughed at for my regional accent abroad, and yet people back home think I shifted to a “news…

For sure there’s alot of variance... I have a friend from South America, and actually when he moved up north he was pretty bewildered by the social issues taking up more time than the poverty/volunteerism/Bible study. Not to say that South American countries are hotbeds of tolerance, but yeah... his feeling was that…

I’m sure Jesus would be thrilled about an entertainment spectacle celebrating a massacre.

“Gold Nova” rank is the entry point; if you rank down you lose access, and you have your “Overwatch” score so if you’re bad at it, I guess eventually it just ignores you. Also yeah, there’s multiple people, so it’s not like a single player deciding if she/he bans your account.

I mean CS also tends to have alot of Steam…