The Canada Thread • Page 2

That law is on the books, yes, but the border service is too non-confrontational to ever enforce it. Technically I am a fugitive.

 

Big mountains, yes. The parks up here are way nicer than the ones in Colorado and I really need to head out there more and explore some of them. I've only been to Banff once and I only got to spend 2 days there.

Big cities, not as much. Toronto is only 2.5 million I think and that's our biggest city. I live in Winnipeg, which is the capital of Manitoba, and it's only 700,000.

 

My dad grew up in Quebec, and I'm a dual citizen. Every time I visit Quebec it's just a nice chance to unwind and relax.

 

Nova Scotia represent!!

 

I was born in Creston, BC.
Lived in Fort St John, BC awhile.

Been to Alberta, SK, Ontario, Manitoba, Yukon, NW Territories and I think that's it.

Canada is the best.

 

great thread eh?

 

I had the Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver skylines in mind, rather than population, when I posted that. They all look pretty impressive to me. The nearest concentration of high-rise buildings for me is Phoenix, which is nice, but it doesn't compare to the Canadian cities I've seen pictures of.

 

I've been to every major western city and most of ontario in the east. I still need to get out to montreal. Don't care about anything east of that lol.

 

Montreal is so fun. Can't wait to be back for Osheaga. I haven't been to the east coast since I was like 13 and don't really have the desire but it's really beautiful in a completely different way than the west.

 

Toronto technically is, but the metro area is 6 million+, so it's pretty huge.

 

Still nothing compared to metro areas in the US and Europe though.

 

There are only 7 metro areas in the US bigger than Toronto's. Half of which don't even have a million more people. It's pretty comparable to most of the US large cities.

 

I agree that it's comparable, but Toronto still has some growing to do before it catches up to New York City and that's just a reality, haha. I'm not trying to hate on Toronto or anything, even though lots of Winnipeggers supposedly do. I actually had more fun there in 3 days than I usually do at home. And some girl working at the CN Tower let me go up for free because I was wearing an Alkaline Trio shirt. It's a fun city with lots of cool stuff to do. But unfortunately that does not represent most of the rest of the country. Most of Canada is underpopulated wide open space.

 

Yay for Canada.

 

Yeah, I feel this way about Montreal, I think. I played a show down in Toronto this weekend, and while the show itself went off great, it reminded me of how generally disappointed I am in Toronto as a city.

I've always had the desire to live in big cities, so I can't really comment on small towns (I've been in a lot), but out of all the big cities in eastern canada I've been in, Montreal is the only one I truly love. Halifax is beautiful too.

Anyone else from Quebec here btw?

Also hmu if you're coming down to osheaga. I feel like after almost hanging out at osheaga back in like 2012, and somehow being in the same strip mall in whitby last weekend, we're bound to eventually cross paths lol. my new place is 5 minutes away from the metro that takes you to Jean Drapeau island.

 

Toronto has that crazy sprawl that pretty much swallowed up every city within a 90 minute radius, no? I'm always amazed by how massive it is when I drive in. But yeah, after Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and I guess Halifax, it's all open space and wilderness. I read somewhere like 90% of Canada lives within 90 KM of the US border.

 

I guess so. I just flew into Toronto and have never been to Hamilton, London, Ajax or anywhere like that so I can't say for certain what it's like but I'm sure there's not lots of wide open space there. Nothing like what you'd find in Manitoba anyway.

And that figure makes sense because pretty much all of the major cities (with the exception of Edmonton and perhaps Saskatoon) are all pretty close to the border. Cities up north like Yellowknife only have a population of just under 20,000. And most Canadians never make it up there either. I personally would love to go to the Yukon one day though.

 

Another Edmonton person. Being an Oilers fan is a fucking sad existence.

 

also check out my room mates band. Bunch of these guys used to be in Ten Second Epic

 

Am I allowed in this thread even though I'm an Australian living in Calgary? I have the flannel...

I've lived in Kelown, and Calgary so far. Looking at moving to Montreal or Vancouver at the end of the year.

 

Sup

 

Got my passes already, so I'll be there from Thursday evening until early Monday morning. We'll have to catch up this time. I'm staying at UQAM in the latin quarter I think. Lemme know next time you're playing Toronto too. I'll be in my place downtown starting next weekend.

 

I'd love to go to Yukon too, I've heard that Yellowknife has a surprisingly lively music scene and a really good restaurant scene too, so it would be interesting to check out somewhere so isolated. St John's, NL too. Ever since that one PTH song haha.

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Nice nice, I live on St. Denis a block above Sherbrooke, which is about a 5 minute walk from the latin quarter and the UQAM dorms. We're definitely gonna make it to Toronto this summer and fall, but yeah hit me up when you're in town because I'll be right in that area.

 

I dig that band and ten second epic.

 

Royal Tusk is pretty sick. TSE was a great band. Got to play with them in MTL on their final tour and they put on one hell of a great show.