The 49 crossing structures (42 underpasses and 7 overpasses) reduced wildlife collisions by more than 80%, and by over 96% for elk and deer alone. Inspired by this success, wildlife crossings are now built and advocated for across the country to protect species and drivers.
Animals typically look for safe crossings instead of just the most direct route, so the majority find the bridge - but it does usually take a few years before they feel safe using a new crossing. Over time, they come to know it's there and it becomes part of migratory routes. And fun fact: different species of animals prefer different types of crossings.
It unfortunately reduced a large amount of BBQ’s too. If a large animal is hit in Ontario, there is a peaking order on who gets it. First choice, the person who hit it, then the local Indian tribe. They don’t want it, then it’s up to the OPP. I work out of the GTA, but travel often in Northern Ontario with local representatives. On one such trip, when coming upon such an accident, my representative asked the OPP if the moose was up for grabs. A month later, when I was back in the area, I was give a large amount of frozen moose meat to take home, and it was pretty good. My wife and kids had no idea the ground beef was not beef. Later though, the wife was a bit pissed I fed her road kill, but free is free. 🤷🏼♂️
@@brenturquhart7090 That should be, “local First Nations community” not, “local Indian tribe”. The latter is a racist term. Please be respectful and don’t use it anymore.
Not in British Columbia. I lived here all my adult life, and I have never seen that picture here, anywhere. The only thing we do is put a fence up so the animals can't access the highways.
What is additionally amazing about the great timber-roofed ice rink in Hazelton BC, is that this magnificent local resource is in a municipality of just 280 people.
I don’t care about any of the negatives here in Canada. I would rather live here than in our neighbour to the south. I love this country, warts and all.
Yes Canada is unique & extremely beautiful! We are not & will never be US wannabes (51st State). Most Americans have no idea how vast & beautiful Canada is or more importantly how proud we are to live here! We are Canadian!❤🇨🇦
You should thank Trump because many more people will visit your country now that they know it is there. Not kidding either; we might go a year without hearing a thing about Canada. /*\
@@TattooLover99 Trump is actually a lot better than Biden. I'm thinking that Trump will go after all his enemies with the new FBI man Kash Patel. and his new AG Pam Bondi. I bet the list has over 100 people on it. Do you think we will suspend the 22nd amendment and declare martial law and stay in power indefinitely? My friends at work think he will and are terrified because some people took pictures of Kamala Walz sings in their front yard.
I once bought a plant from Zellers, and when I got home I realized there was a salamander in the plant. I immediately called the store to tell them about the salamander. The woman on the phone said..." oh no worries, no extra charge for the salamander " 😂 love your videos ❤🇨🇦
Fun fact, Canada is known for cranberries and they have to "flood" the fields to harvest them. We also plant wolf spiders onto them as they grow so no pests get to them. The people that harvest the cranberries get COVERED in spiders because they go to the highest point (witch is us).
My Mom and I used to venture into squishy swampy roadsides in northern Ontario to pick wild, natural cranberries. That was over 40 years ago, Mom long gone, but I’d love to go picking them again. The flavour is astounding compared to regular store bought ones! But I buy commercial ones and make my own cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving and Christmas meals! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
There are northern isolated communities that the only way to get food in and clothing and other stuff is to be flown in by plane, which makes buying every day items extremely expensive.
Yeah, I've tried explaining to Americans that pretty much the entire northern coastline of Canada doesn't connect to our road network and they couldn't really grasp it it seemed. They thought the Russians might invade the north coast.
When living in the north as a child, I remember when the winter order of eggs would arrive. I’d be the one to wipe Vaseline on the shells before they were set in the cellar to keep them cool.
We lived in Cranbrook, BC for a few months. Groceries were SUPER expensive! Coming from Toronto, we were shocked. They explained that, due to the snow in the Rockies, the Crowsnest pass would occasionally have to close down as it was too dangerous to traverse, & it was the only way in or out.
There was actually a rental listing in Hamilton, Ontario for a bed share for $750.00 Ca for a half day. You could rent a mattress with a row of 3-4 partitions for another ridiculous price in 1 room… the situation is out of control!!!
It's the same here in Victoria, rent is so stupid that domestic students (& international ones) can't find a place to live & have to go home despite having a place at UVic or Camoson. One guy was living in his car. A one bedroom can be around $2000 a month. When I was at university (20 yrs) ago $750 was an expensive place.
This is just my opinion, but I don’t think this listing is the result of a housing shortage. I think it’s a result of greed and the fact that people cannot afford a normal rent. Opportunists see it, as a pot of gold and will rent out any space they can, for the almighty dollar. Thank you for your channel Tyler. Great content, and great delivery.
@MaureenMacD there is a demand. If people are desperate to find a place, you ow a home but can barely cover the mortgage, utilities, and property taxes. You do with what you have to do.
The ice houses are actually modern igloos. We've made great progress in igloo building technology over the years, but we're still trying to figure out how to prevent them from melting.
Winter when I was young would roll in in mid October and leave late March early April. It was normal to have 3-4 feet of snow on the ground all the time.
There's a picture of me back in '74 where I'm standing beside a snowbank that was twice as high as me. I was 3, so I would have been around 3 or so feet tall. Now the seasons (in Southwestern Ontario) are winter (Jan.- Feb), mud season (March and April), Spring for a couple of weeks in April, Summer (May - Sept), Fall (Oct - Nov), and slush season (Nov - Dec)
You’re absolutely right. When snow ploughs came down the street, they just increased the height of the snow banks. Snow wasn’t cleared away in trucks. It was there until it melted. Also I remember skating to the local outdoor rink, along icy sidewalks. The park would have a shack, with a little stove in it, where you could warm up, until you defrosted enough, to go back out and skate some more. We would be down there for hours after school, and for most of the day on the weekends. The time would be spent between the skating rink, and the tobogganing hill. I feel sorry for kids these days who do not know these simple pleasures. There was also road hockey, where all the kids on the street would choose up sides and play. That old warning of someone hollering “Car”, while the hockey net would be pushed to the side and all the kids would make room for the oncoming car to pass. Good times. Great memories. 💖🥅🏒🇨🇦❄️☃️❄️🥅🏒🇨🇦💖
The border was originally populated, specifically, to have people there to deter American invasion. Shouldn't be a problem by of virtue, & it is a virtue, the Treaty of Ghent.
Yea, and after a while some said lets go live further north and then they said SHIT its cold and we can't grow nuthin! We're heading back near the border, oh and maybe we should spend a couple weeks in Florida and then try to retire there someday.
There are also deer/wildlife fences along the highway that funnels the animals to the bridge. I've seen them in New Brunswick and possibly other provinces. Those houses coated in ice were probably from a blizzard in December 2022 at Crystal Beach on Lake Erie.
The strawberry packaging makes this locally grown strawberries for sure even though it was a large chain. Garter snakes are a natural part of healthy ecosystems so this is a great sign for a farm. The berries are picked directly into the package being sold here, not re-sorted. The pallets of containers are stacked in a field until put on a truck, easy for a little fella to hide. Taken directly for chilling, this guy would curl up and sleep in the cold. Now in warmth, he wakes up and says WHAAAAT?
Tyler! This ice covered house pic is in Chrystal Beach, just on the other side of Lake Erie, RIGHT across from Buffalo, New York. It was just a few days before Christmas 2022. My son was unable to come home for Christmas because so much snow fell. He ended up digging many seniors out of their homes. I know at least 3 people froze in their cars, stranded in the streets of Buffalo also. The winds were so high it whipped the Niagara River and Lake Erie waters that the spray gradually entombed the houses and waterside trees in inches of ice!
cold temperatures with driving wind over water will create the frozen house effect. Happens on the north shore of lake erie all the time, I expect huron and superior too.
walking anywhere in Halifax at certain times will give you the frozen human effect. I used to arrive at school with ice hair growing out the back of my head.. then there is the 'cover everything with ice all the time' Montreal area.. or the 'it's so cold it's an ice mist that sticks to everything.. oooo sparklie!' in Edmonton. Nature has a myriad of ways of delivering ice misery depending on where you live. :P
yes it is like that on the lakefront in winter almost every year in some areas. it's from a combination of waves and high wind that creates a spray of water that freezes to any surface it touches forming a sheet of ice layer by layer over time
When it comes to the animal bridges, it turns out to work a lot better than what used to be there before which are basically large culverts and pipes going under the highway. Animals did not naturally want to go thru them, when you give them an open air path that is basically an overpass they take it.
a culvert has nothing to do with an animal bridge!!!@!!!!!!!!! Culverts keep water from overflowing roads etc DAH!!!!!!!! & Animal bridges work From an Albertan :}
We have a show in the UK about Canadian truckers called Ice Truckers, do you have it there too? It’s so fascinating and scary, I have to watch from behind a cushion!! I think our weather in the UK is more similar to your weather (south Canada at least)…. though we’re not transporting heavy goods across frozen ice lakes. We have freezing fog today it’s about -4’C, it feels like Silent Hill!!
@@MymerlotI think my Dad watched every episode of Ice Road Truckers. He loved Canadian geography and the ingenuity it takes to navigate some of our landscapes. Frozen fog is a new one for me. Usually when it's that cold, there's not enough moisture in the air to condense into fog. But an 80 km/hr wind over a large lake in sub-zero temps will pick up moisture droplets, freeze it in the air, and can create blinding conditions in a hurry.
My hubby is a trucker and we've both used ice roads. There is just no other way to get to some places. The ice is really thick (4 feet or more) and everyone drives really slow going onto or off of the ice. Big rigs push a wave under the ice because of their weight. If you go too fast you force that wave onto the shore, into another on coming truck or just another wave and the ice breaks up. That's the end of the road and the end of the road for the truck following you. You will make it out but the next truck won't. The road is closely monitored for safety and the weather is usually really cold so it stays solid, although, it's pretty weird looking out the window at the ice beside your rig and watching a crack open up and stretch to 5 or 6 inches wide as your weight crosses it. 😅
Cranberries are either dry harvested or wet harvested. In British Columbia they are wet harvested within reach of the Fraser River. The bogs they are grown in are surrounded by earthen berms and have drainage pipes. Flooded only for harvest, a machine goes through disturbing the fruit enough to loosen and the fruit's pithy centre allows it to easily float. Workers in hip waders use pontoons to guide the fruit towards a harvesting conveyor and into a truck that takes them for processing.
That land is diked to keep seawater out already, so flooding the fields to harvest the berries is a no brainer. In Abbotsford there are some rice paddies now, supplying an artisan sake maker with an outlet on Granville Island.
a lot of small towns in the far north have community freezers where the hunters and fishermen drop off their catch to share with the people for free a nice way to live someting you don't see in the south i miss it😊
In the summertime Helmcken Falls is just a regular waterfall that falls into a pool at the bottom which flows as a creek to Clearwater River. In the winter with the cold temps the mist from the falling water becomes "snow" and builds up a cone around the base. Ski hills create artificial snow using same principal by spraying atomized water into freezing cold air to create snow when not enough is falling naturally.
@@personincognito3989 yes, it is easy to access, good paved toad all the way. If there is a major accumulation of snow, there may be limited access to the parking lot for a car.
@@personincognito3989 I have never been there in the winter but many times in the summer. There is a narrow paved road to the falls not sure how well maintained it is in winter. AWD Suv with snow tires should have no problems as long as no major blizzard is happening, lol.
Re: the large animal bridge, we have a different version in our area, for snakes. We live not far from the Narcisse snake dens, one of the largest hibernation dens for garter snakes. In the spring, usually mid May, they emerge by the thousands, mate and leave within days. In the fall, they return in their thousands and basically hang out until it gets cold and they enter the dens for the winter. There were so many snakes crossing the highway running past the dens, with so many being killed by cars, it made the highway dangerously slippery. There was just no way to avoid driving over them. So, they built tunnels under the highway. Now, you can see tiny fences in the ditches on either side, diverting the snakes into the tunnels so they can safely cross to the other side. edit: the snake with the strawberries is a garter snake. They are lovely, don't bite until you bother them, and are great for keeping pests out of your garden.
One of my favourite parks in Toronto has signs on the road to warn drivers and bicycle riders so they don't run over snakes. We have a lot of garter snakes, but I guess not enough to need special bridges for them. Somewhere in my stash I have a pic of a little snake peaking up between slats on the Cherry Beach boardwalk. It was pretty funny, and the little guy had a lot of fan attention.
Sometimes garter snakes bite when they're terrified. There was a baby garter snake in the house. While my husband got up on the table, I caught it. Its little fangs got me right in the knuckle. Knee jerk reaction was to fling it across the room and make my husband scream like a little girl. I did catch it again and took it over to Queen's Park in New Westminster. The snake was okay but hubby was still shaking when I got home. 🤣
@@KarstenJohansson It certainly didn't hurt, just startled me coming from a baby garter snake. Funny thing is I had little fang marks on my hand for months. I wanted to keep it but it was very happy to get home to the park and find its mommy.
The animal bridge: There is fencing on both sides of the highway which guides wildlife toward the bridge. (not visible in the photo and is not overly visible from the highway)
If I take a bite of my club sandwich I know in the first second if it's miracle whip, awful stuff, it ruins my whole day lollll!!! Real mayo for the win!
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But lots of people use it in place of mayo, and call it mayo. Many of them don't even know it isn't mayo because they never read the label which says salad dressing.
Since the animals are also after the salt on vehicles. My suggestion is putting cow salt licks deep in the forests to keep them away from the vehicles on the roads.
I was born in Northern Ontario until my early 30’s. From the Timmins area, my my home town is South Porcupine. Where, in the Great White North, are you? I still miss that biodiversity that Southeaster Ontario lacks. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
The prices of groceries has doubled-tripled since the outbreak of covid. It is disgusting to me. I went from being able to comfortably get by each month even able to put a little money away. Now I struggle from month to month and the money I had saved is gone. I just paid 10:99 for that exact orange juice and I live about an hour away from the US border. I often get really mad when I truly think about it. One hour of work for me( 21.00 an hour), allows me purchas orange juice , milk, and a loaf of bread. I am not overexageratting
Carbon tax on fuel increased the price of production and transportation. With the government printing so much money and running up the Federal deficit, the value of our dollar took a plunge, thus making it more expensive for us to import goods.
@@reneseguin1200 lets not forgot that the greed of corporations and their need to make huge profits had more to do with the high price of groceries than the government did and by the way which government?, what department?....cause if you're going lay blame, make sure you're pointing a finger at the right guys., and not just whining cause you hate liberals or trudeau.
@@deannicholls8715 It's easy to make double your profits when inflation has made your dollar have half the value. Blame is shared. In theory, were it just "greedy corpos", rival companies would quite easily move in and undercut the competition, and drive the out of business. But instead, the small new companies, the would-be rivals, have been put out of business. And yes, I use an active verb there, put. They were forced to close during the Rona while the mega-multinationals gave kickbacks to the polis and so were allowed to stay open, and then were forced by rapid land price inflation facilitated by a certain party's knowledge for a decade but refusal to address it, to be unable to enter the market as new entrants, either: Can't afford a storefront because it now costs triple what it did.
The reason the Confederation Bridge has to 'cut' the ice is so the ice doesn't push the bridge over. The piers have a conical shape that forces the ice to ride upward as it flows and break apart under its own weight; sort of the opposite of how an icebreaking ship works.
It doesn't come close to covering the increased costs. Not just food costs more. Housing, gas, vehicles, electricity, clothing, materials for building/repairs, Tim Hortons, etc. Everything is increased in price. Northern Living Allowance differs depending on where you live and is based on the size of the community and amenities available as well as remoteness. So Yellowknife, NT where I live, which has 1/2 the population of the NWT gets $3750/year for Northern Living Allowance. That amount has not changed for decades despite inflation and increased cost of living.
@@lisarayner1570we don't get anything from the government in northern BC for Northern living but my work does pay something like 94 cents an hour. Not all employers will do this
That ice cone in the falls would have been created by the spray of water; underneath is still liquid water that flows away, but it gets cold enough for the mist to freeze. The variety of cranberries you buy in the store are harvested by flooding the bushes and the berries float to the top. That is mostly in the south western corner of BC. Elsewhere, we have high bush cranberries, with have to be picked by hand.
The wildlife bridges were built in Banff National park nearly 20 years ago and it took a while for certain animals to learn to use them but once they did, it was successful.
I remember in Grade one, we had a Teacher's assistant who was from Africa, Brand new to Canada. I heard when she never came back, that she went back home...... the snow Scared the crap outta her..... and was just a big 'NOPE!"
The animals have realised the bridges are safe and have learned to use them. I've seen photos of entire herds crossing them. Some other areas of the country are following the example. It's preferable for the people too. No desire to hit Frank the moose. Fences help direct the animals to them. The picture of the ice on the homes is in Crystal Beach, Ontario just down the road from me and it is real. The same homes were used to depict a town in an episode of "The Handmaid.'s Tale. The storm fast froze everything. So much for lake front property. Some people had chunks of ice blown into their homes through their windows. People were chipping out Canada geese with hatchets that were fast frozen completely, even their heads, by waves that broke over them. I hope the cobra chickens were grateful. It was 2 years ago.
I lived in BC, not far from Helmkin Falls which is in Wells Grey Park in Clearwater. The cone of ice is built up from the waterfalls freezing. In the middle of winter many people do ice climbing on the cone. When I was a scout leader we used to camp in Wells Grey Park with the kids and built shelters and snowshoed for the kids to earn badges.
About the Confederation bridge: "We" don't cut the ice. The bridge's pillars do. We have many bridge with pointy pillars, kind of like a flipped boat hull to lift and split the ice instead of transfering all that weight on the pillars.
'I don't think [having a snake in your store bought strawberries] this is representative of canada'. Oh boy, it reminds me of when we had a warning to check our cherries imported from British Colombia since that year you could often find a couple live black widows inside.. You know, the black spider with an ominous red hourglass sign on their back? yep, those ones, at least snakes are sometimes not venimous. That cherry incident was in Québec. The incident with the black widows in a grapes bag was in ontario
You don't find too many black widows in the cherries. In all the years I lived there I never found any and I'm a cherry holic. Lol but I was bit by a black widow spider twice in the Okanagan. (Same time same spider)
I really appreciate your genuine reactions! I hear no judgment in your voice and it’s so cool to share differences between our countries. Keep up the great work!
That map is funny, showing only where 90% of the population is. It is also fairly typical for most Canadians to only view from BC to the Quebec border.... Fuck the Maritimes and Newfoundland.😂 We are always an afterthought, if we are thought of at all.😁
Population goes farther north on the prairies. It follows the CN main lines from Winnipeg to Yellowhead Pass, near Jasper. Saskatoon and Edmonton are quite a way from the boarder.
They need a significant bump on that kraft dinner coloured line where Alberta would be situated. The majority of the population (~75%) live north of that whole "90% of the population live within 200km of the U.S. border" assertion the joke is based on.
I work at an elementary school in Ottawa. We have a lot of Embassy and new Canadian children coming to our school. Most of the kids are beside themselves with excitement when it snows because they have been told a lot about it. They are usually the first kids to be dressed and the last ones to line up. But there are the odd ones who hang out by the door initially lol
11:30 "You'd expect things to be cheaper in northern Canada due to the sparse population." Sadly that's not how economics works. If you have a town of 15,000 people, Walmart will build a superstore there to serve them, because they can do enough business that it's profitable. The higher volume of business they can do, the lower they can keep prices (ideally). If it's a village of 250 people, Walmart isn't touching the place, and the much smaller grocery stores (who don't get the deep discounts on product cost that the mega-conglomerate of Walmart can negotiate for) have to keep prices high enough that they can afford to keep the lights on in the store, even though they have only a relatively small number of customers.
Canadian here, I lived near Hazelton, BC many years ago. The main industry in that region is logging, so no surprise that some of that lumber went towards that roof! Probably cost much less than steel. Pretty sure the Confederation Bridge could get taken out or badly damaged by a heavy ice dam thus the 'french fry' effect, I would guess special girders to *slice the ice*. have also flown a cat or two home with me; they were not impressed but survive and lived to a good old age. Yeah the border thing lol, 90% of us live within 100km of the southernmost border. Poor lil garter snake in the strawberries.Strawberries grow very close to the ground, and snakes live on the ground. Miracle Whip prob a resto went under and they are selling their products (while still good) at clearance outlets. Hope this helps!
When my son was about 7 he came into the front door with a box and left it in the hallway. After an hour I asked him what is in the box.....a number of garter snakes in there......I don't want snakes in the house so out they went! He in going to be 46 tomorrow and we can still laugh about it!
I’m from B.C. and as a kid I played constantly with garter snakes. They are very non- aggressive and I never got a bite from them. They’d just rest in my pocket or in my hand until I put them back down. They like the warmth of our bodies.
@@ritafoster4958 Yeah, me too! In Ontario we only have one species of venomous snake, and at that they are only around the shores of Georgian Bay and the Bruce Peninsula. I recently got some good photos of a garter snake at the B&B we rented to view the solar eclipse. Too bad we got clouded out, I'd been waiting since the 1970's for that event.
A friend of mine ended up with a pet tarantula from a bunch of bananas. He would ask me if I wanted him to take it out of its terrarium when I'd come over. And not being a fan of spiders I'd say only if you want it squished.
As for the houses in ice, Canada is cold from December to April. The end of November too, sometimes. June, July, August and September can be pretty hot, but not always. My favorite month is October because of the changing colour of the leaves. Red maples, etc. 80% of Canadians live within 300 miles of the Canada-USA border.
I don't doubt any of what you stated. The houses encased in ice however was a rare occurance in Crystal Beach, Ontario. We have winter storms and if the lake hasn't frozen, which it hasn't in the last quite a few years, then the storms and wind throw waves and mist the waterfront homes. This storm was two Christmas' ago. The lake was open but the temperature had dropped so the water froze on the homes. It was destructive but also quite beautiful at the same time.
@@Ivyskidi remember spending hours looking at all the different pics when it happened, some really amazing formations, including a few neat hollow car "sculptures".
in a collision between say, a moose and a family sedan it would be unsurprising that not only the moose but also at least some of the occupants of the car would be fatally injured. It makes sense to build these bridges along routes that are known to be used by the wildlife. It protects both the animals and humans.
My first week in Wildlife Branch. If you're driving and see a moose in the middle of the road, duck. Dont bother to brake or take evasive action. Why? The moose is tall enough for the vehicle to scoop it up, and it will come through your windshield and kill you upon impact. At worst, you'll be alive and waiting for EMS to get the moose off of you and extricate you from the wreck.
@@shannond.5916 not to mention the occasional stories you hear of some idiot in a compact car stopping and honking his horn to get the moose off the road...never piss off a moose.
The wildlife bridges were started somewhere in Europe first. They are in use in the US too in Yellowstone Park. Fences help guide the animals, but the also use know animal trails.
They're starting to fuss about it now but the first 50 times I heard it referred to as Brown Town was from brown people. Before that I knew it as a town of fields.
@@concernedcitizen3476 It may sound rude to you but they started it and embrace it and disseminated it. I think Russel Peters has used it in his act. It's now a colloquial term. That happens in Language all the time.
Everything in canada is more educated. Not just the ppl.. the animals have eyes and process information here jist as well. Its really quite fascinating
Eritrea was once annexed by Ethiopia but they gained independence in the 90s after an awful war. I was there with the UN volunteering with a reforestation project just before the war started.
The ice-covered homes happen in the States around the Great Lakes, too. It's called the Lake Effect during winter storms. It certainly isn't everywhere.
There are a few wildlife bridges in Canada. Also tunnels for critters who prefer that. And the wildlife has no problem figuring it out, fencing doesn’t give them many options, and have been a success for decades.
The ice storm pic reminded me of a similar pic from the same year, where *one* house had the space of one room clearly not frozen over on the outside. Needless to say, *everyone* suspected it as a grow op, because that specific room was generating a *lot* of heat.
The fine horizontal line in the picture is the bridge...the solid ice is on the north side, the sliced-and-diced ice is on the south side. the pilons on the bridge have Ice breaker points/beaks as part of the engineering design to ensure that the strong under current pushing the ice doesn't sweep the bridge away when the surface is frozen
The frozen houses do happen. I'm on lake Ontario and have seen it locally when the waves are high in the winter storms, but it doesn't happen regularly. I'd take a guess that these houses were more than likely on lake Erie, it happens during winter storms a lot more often there. It's not large waves hitting the houses or they would be definitly destroyed, it's the spray that's building up.
Crystal Beach Lakefront homes in Ontario were encased in a thick, spiky coat of ice after last weekend's blizzard whipped frigid waves on shore. Residents of the Fort Erie community, coincidentally named Crystal Beach, said the waves were crashing over their Lake Erie break wall during the storm.
The confederation bridge picture you can see the bridge horizontally near the bottom. The post they meant that the bridge itself cuts the ice because ice hits the pillars of the bridge and breaks the ice. The bridge’s pillars are made in a shape that will do that.
Hi Tyler!concerning the price of food in Northern Canada: there was a saying before that everything sent up North has a “plane ticket” glued to irs side. Even though groceries in winter come in viathe ice bridge.
The animal bridge. This is paired with 10ft wildlife fencing along the highway so the only way to get across is across the bridge. Some determined animals call still get through, so there are animal gates that only allow them in and not back out. It's really cool and there are a bunch of these bridges along this highway and others
Brampton Ontario is really bad for housing undocumented or foreign students. Just a room. Far too many illegally made basement apartments. Its bad. And sad...
We have animal bridges in BC Canada as well and it works, surprising enough. We still have large animal and people in car deaths on Hwy’s that don’t have this function.
Helmcken falls in Wells Gray Park, B.C. gorgeous well worth the trip. That is just ice from winter weather, it's quite different in summer. Lotsa salmon nearby. A very deep dark river flows through here, many steams, lakes, foerst, wildlife. Supernatural !
Tyler, I think you may have misread the heading for the picture of the kids experiencing snow for the first time. It reads 'overjoyed', not overwhelmed.
The picture of the Brampton Ad for a bedroom inside a bathroom is real, but it's also an illegal apartment. For fellow Canadian, contact the provincial Rental Housing Enforcement Unit when you see anything that doesn't follow normal housing rules outlined in the Residential Tenancies Act.
And then there will be an extra homeless person!! Only 80,000 homeless people in Ontario...some would be happy to live in the shitter!! But Doug Ford, our provincial genius will fix everything....and the enforcement people will get paid to do their jobs but nothing will be solved. In Muskoka there are hundreds of empty multi-million dollar cottages, there is a ton of empty space in public buildings, but the Rental Housing Enforcement will fix the problem of too little housing and the demand for places to live!! Funny!
The Miracle Whip is like a sweeter mayonnaise and used as a dressing. When they have big containers like these it is restaurants that buy them for salads and sandwiches and other things. You must have the same type of bulk items for restaurants in the States. 😉
Miracle Whip is a dressing. It was invented in the 1930s as a mayonnaise substitute. There is also Sandwich Spread, Miracle Whip with relish. Kraft does make a mayonnaise, but nobody seems to know it exists. At least it's never compared to other brands of mayo, it's always Miracle Whip. Helman's/Real Foods Mayonnaise is made by Unilever, a company that used to make margarine.
1:43 ignoring the very obvious fact that it’s fenced off, and you know Guard rails also exist wild animals are usually very timid humans, so loud cars and trucks would probably make them hesitant to cross the road in the 1st place. Only if they feel like they have no choice. 18:10 that sarcasm Tyler there isn’t supposed to be a garter snake in there 20:00 it’s probably close to its best before date
Same here, and I grew up on the other side of the country in B.C. At least their population seems to be going strong out in the boonies in Southern Ontario. Still, not a good sign for snake populations to be severely declining pretty much across Canada.
In the far north, especially in landlocked places, they're so far that roads are not functionnal all year round (they get impossible to cross in the winter because it would be to pricey to clear them of snow, sometimes there are simply no roads that get there) food, especially fruits and vegetables, get insanely pricey, becaus it has to be shipped by plane.
We actually have overland and under-land crossing for wildlife in areas like Banff, its pretty cool stuff. I think Canadians are able to celebrate and enjoy the nice weather due to all the cold weather we have to deal with. A snake in something like strawberries is no big deal really. Just imagine the number of small animals that get caught up in large agriculture such as grain farming. This is known as 'crop death'. A 2018 study estimated that over 7.3 billion animals die each year from harvested cropland in the US alone.
The highway runs through a forest. The bridge is made to resemble the surroundings . The animals will choose it because of that. Collisions with deer, elk and moose do a real number on vehicles and can be fatal
Animals use the animal overpasses (and animal underpasses too) because there are 8 foot high fences on both sides of the highway that funnel them there.
The key reasons why most Canadians live near the US border, is because the CPR, CNR and the TransCanada highway were all run along the southern border to defend against American Invasions. So that is where development happened.
What you are saying is that you are massing a militia on the US border and this and are a clear and Present threat to the United States When this get back to Trump he may have you move your border up to 54-40 parallel that about 340 mills or about 550 kilometers, You will have to lease all the area from the US or become a new territory up to 54-40 . There is no way we could give you statehood and representation in Congress.
At 17:00 - 18:00, I hope you realize that the strip of Canada shown for "I've lived in Canada my whole life." is missing the whole of Eastern and Atlantic Canada. It is an interesting narrow strip, but as you go further east, the population gets further from the border with the US. Mainly because of the path of the St. Lawrence river, and the shape of the coast of Atlantic Canada. Still the image shows why 'cross-boarder' shopping is a big thing in places.
8:20 the bridge is at the bottom of the pic (where the ice starts getting cut) and the ice is being cut by the parts of the bridge that are in the water (the supporting structure). as the ice flows through the bridge, it gets broken by those pillars.
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The 49 crossing structures (42 underpasses and 7 overpasses) reduced wildlife collisions by more than 80%, and by over 96% for elk and deer alone. Inspired by this success, wildlife crossings are now built and advocated for across the country to protect species and drivers.
Animals typically look for safe crossings instead of just the most direct route, so the majority find the bridge - but it does usually take a few years before they feel safe using a new crossing. Over time, they come to know it's there and it becomes part of migratory routes. And fun fact: different species of animals prefer different types of crossings.
@@dragonabsurda Canadian deer and moose are smart. They wear hunter vests too
It unfortunately reduced a large amount of BBQ’s too. If a large animal is hit in Ontario, there is a peaking order on who gets it. First choice, the person who hit it, then the local Indian tribe. They don’t want it, then it’s up to the OPP.
I work out of the GTA, but travel often in Northern Ontario with local representatives. On one such trip, when coming upon such an accident, my representative asked the OPP if the moose was up for grabs.
A month later, when I was back in the area, I was give a large amount of frozen moose meat to take home, and it was pretty good. My wife and kids had no idea the ground beef was not beef. Later though, the wife was a bit pissed I fed her road kill, but free is free. 🤷🏼♂️
@@brenturquhart7090
That should be, “local First Nations community” not, “local Indian tribe”. The latter is a racist term. Please be respectful and don’t use it anymore.
Not in British Columbia. I lived here all my adult life, and I have never seen that picture here, anywhere. The only thing we do is put a fence up so the animals can't access the highways.
When Tyler asked “what do you do?” About the frozen houses, my brain answered, “Use the back door” such a practical Canadian mind. 😂😂😂😂😂
😆 yep
Yes 😂😂😂
that is the back doors frozen so they'd use the front door 😏😏
These are our ‘igloos ‘ 😂
Yes same as the snow covered blizzard houses, back door😉
For the animal bridges, the highway is fenced off so the animals are channelled towards the bridge.
That, and very clear signage 😂
There are several bridges along the route with wildlife fencing in between.
@@Wayde-VA3NCA Though most animals can't read!! 😁🤣😂
This is why they use the land bridges in Banff and Jasper
I thought it was because Canadian wildlife is polite and follow even the unwritten rules (like lines, doors, and animal bridges).
What is additionally amazing about the great timber-roofed ice rink in Hazelton BC, is that this magnificent local resource is in a municipality of just 280 people.
Is there a community of Mennonites near by? Looks like something they could craft in their sleep. lol
@@Playingwith3DFirst Nations
When I lived near there 20 years ago there were a lot, more than 280 people, a lot more. It has two parts, one on each side of the river.
Gabriola Island has a fire station built like that, too. It was beautiful to see and to be part of its construction.
I love Hazelton! ❤ I was born not far from there.
I don’t care about any of the negatives here in Canada. I would rather live here than in our neighbour to the south. I love this country, warts and all.
Justine prorogue parliament. We may not have a choice, but to become the states.
The education system in Canada is head & shoulders bye 85% medical care if first class and FREE. So why would we want to be American?
@@Bewwho please, just think before you speak. Ain't a damn chance of us becoming a state, or like them.
@@Wowcrazy247 I did Trump isn’t kidding
@@Wowcrazy247and they don't want us.
Yes Canada is unique & extremely beautiful! We are not & will never be US wannabes (51st State). Most Americans have no idea how vast & beautiful Canada is or more importantly how proud we are to live here! We are Canadian!❤🇨🇦
I often wonder what kind of Education they teach in the U.S. -
You should thank Trump because many more people will visit your country now that they know it is there. Not kidding either; we might go a year without hearing a thing about Canada. /*\
@@kennance115 Trump is another reason I thank God I'm Canadian.
@@TattooLover99 Trump is actually a lot better than Biden. I'm thinking that Trump will go after all his enemies with the new FBI man Kash Patel. and his new AG Pam Bondi. I bet the list has over 100 people on it. Do you think we will suspend the 22nd amendment and declare martial law and stay in power indefinitely? My friends at work think he will and are terrified because some people took pictures of Kamala Walz sings in their front yard.
I once bought a plant from Zellers, and when I got home I realized there was a salamander in the plant. I immediately called the store to tell them about the salamander. The woman on the phone said..." oh no worries, no extra charge for the salamander " 😂 love your videos ❤🇨🇦
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As long as it didn't grow into a Komodo Dragon.
I'd love to have a free salamander for my terrarium
Zellers...ugh..my heart
LOL!
Fun fact, Canada is known for cranberries and they have to "flood" the fields to harvest them. We also plant wolf spiders onto them as they grow so no pests get to them. The people that harvest the cranberries get COVERED in spiders because they go to the highest point (witch is us).
My Mom and I used to venture into squishy swampy roadsides in northern Ontario to pick wild, natural cranberries. That was over 40 years ago, Mom long gone, but I’d love to go picking them again. The flavour is astounding compared to regular store bought ones! But I buy commercial ones and make my own cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving and Christmas meals! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
That sounds like the job from hell
Wolf spiders are not small, they like to jump too
@chrisconnors8513 ya I lived in BC for a bit and they are definitely prominent there. They are fast,big,and as you said jumpy. Luckily not venomous
Wolf spiders are also the most friendly of spiders, smart little buggers too.
There are northern isolated communities that the only way to get food in and clothing and other stuff is to be flown in by plane, which makes buying every day items extremely expensive.
Yeah, I've tried explaining to Americans that pretty much the entire northern coastline of Canada doesn't connect to our road network and they couldn't really grasp it it seemed. They thought the Russians might invade the north coast.
When living in the north as a child, I remember when the winter order of eggs would arrive. I’d be the one to wipe Vaseline on the shells before they were set in the cellar to keep them cool.
We lived in Cranbrook, BC for a few months. Groceries were SUPER expensive! Coming from Toronto, we were shocked. They explained that, due to the snow in the Rockies, the Crowsnest pass would occasionally have to close down as it was too dangerous to traverse, & it was the only way in or out.
In Brampton, it is not unusual to see 8-15 ''international students'' living in a house meant for a standard family of 4.
*The basement of a house
@@Ash_Wen-li I stand corrected - in the basement.
There was actually a rental listing in Hamilton, Ontario for a bed share for $750.00 Ca for a half day. You could rent a mattress with a row of 3-4 partitions for another ridiculous price in 1 room… the situation is out of control!!!
The Confederation Bridge forces ice to climb up an inverted cone shape then back out until the ice breaks instead of the bridge breaking
to make it clear, the bridge itself is doing the cutting...the ice is flowing under the bridge
if you look closely the bridge is in the picture. the ice is only broken on the other side.😊
I would think the snow is cut like French fries to represent potatoes grown in PEI and they also have a french fries factory called Cavendish Farms.
Eritrea is a country in East Africa. North of Ethiopia and East of Sudan.
The lake picture is typical around the Great Lakes.
The bathroom with the bed is the result of the housing crises you recently covered.
It's the same here in Victoria, rent is so stupid that domestic students (& international ones) can't find a place to live & have to go home despite having a place at UVic or Camoson. One guy was living in his car. A one bedroom can be around $2000 a month. When I was at university (20 yrs) ago $750 was an expensive place.
Normal?.It is these days.
This is just my opinion, but I don’t think this listing is the result of a housing shortage. I think it’s a result of greed and the fact that people cannot afford a normal rent. Opportunists see it, as a pot of gold and will rent out any space they can, for the almighty dollar. Thank you for your channel Tyler. Great content, and great delivery.
@MaureenMacD there is a demand. If people are desperate to find a place, you ow a home but can barely cover the mortgage, utilities, and property taxes. You do with what you have to do.
It’s in Brampton. Homes have been busted for having 21 ppl living in it
The ice houses are actually modern igloos. We've made great progress in igloo building technology over the years, but we're still trying to figure out how to prevent them from melting.
Omg!!! Lmafo!!!!
LOL
you could build the further north and cover the with aluminum foil in the summer.
LMFAO ❤
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Kraft Miracle Whip is NOT mayonnaise!!
My parents used miracle whip! One of the firs items I bought for myself grocery wise was Hellmans
It's better than mayo 😁
No bcs mayo is thick tasteless white grease that she only bd used for industrial purposes
I can't stand miracle whip it's too tangy, it's low-fat hellman's for me. It's creamy and smooth
Miracle Whip is salad dressing not mayonnaise
Winter when I was young would roll in in mid October and leave late March early April. It was normal to have 3-4 feet of snow on the ground all the time.
Halloween costumes need to be four times larger to fit over snowsuits!
I remember that too.Grew up in Winnipeg.
I remember kids doing Easter egg hunts in FULL snowsuits in snow covered parks! It made finding brightly coloured Easter eggs SUPER easy though!😄
There's a picture of me back in '74 where I'm standing beside a snowbank that was twice as high as me. I was 3, so I would have been around 3 or so feet tall.
Now the seasons (in Southwestern Ontario) are winter (Jan.- Feb), mud season (March and April), Spring for a couple of weeks in April, Summer (May - Sept), Fall (Oct - Nov), and slush season (Nov - Dec)
You’re absolutely right. When snow ploughs came down the street, they just increased the height of the snow banks. Snow wasn’t cleared away in trucks. It was there until it melted. Also I remember skating to the local outdoor rink, along icy sidewalks. The park would have a shack, with a little stove in it, where you could warm up, until you defrosted enough, to go back out and skate some more. We would be down there for hours after school, and for most of the day on the weekends. The time would be spent between the skating rink, and the tobogganing hill. I feel sorry for kids these days who do not know these simple pleasures. There was also road hockey, where all the kids on the street would choose up sides and play. That old warning of someone hollering “Car”, while the hockey net would be pushed to the side and all the kids would make room for the oncoming car to pass. Good times. Great memories. 💖🥅🏒🇨🇦❄️☃️❄️🥅🏒🇨🇦💖
The border was originally populated, specifically, to have people there to deter American invasion.
Shouldn't be a problem by of virtue, & it is a virtue, the Treaty of Ghent.
Oh yeah...
That's the one where America was supposed to return a bunch of lands to the...
Never mind that bit.
Yea, and after a while some said lets go live further north and then they said SHIT its cold and we can't grow nuthin! We're heading back near the border, oh and maybe we should spend a couple weeks in Florida and then try to retire there someday.
I seriously dobt threat are over one in 50 Americans no what the treaty of Ghent is even about; or that it was signed n Christmas eve in 1814.
@kennance115 Maybe people will look it up, or remind those who knew & forgot.
There are also deer/wildlife fences along the highway that funnels the animals to the bridge. I've seen them in New Brunswick and possibly other provinces.
Those houses coated in ice were probably from a blizzard in December 2022 at Crystal Beach on Lake Erie.
@@sheilakearney3434 Same in British Columbia.
Lake Erie is a good guess. The wind blows the water off the lake then it freezes.
The strawberry packaging makes this locally grown strawberries for sure even though it was a large chain. Garter snakes are a natural part of healthy ecosystems so this is a great sign for a farm. The berries are picked directly into the package being sold here, not re-sorted. The pallets of containers are stacked in a field until put on a truck, easy for a little fella to hide. Taken directly for chilling, this guy would curl up and sleep in the cold. Now in warmth, he wakes up and says WHAAAAT?
Our BC garter snakes are such little cuties too! Completely harmless to people 😊 (And it's hard to beat local berries!)
Poor little guy/girl!!!
When I was a child my Dad he would warn us if we saw a snake in his garden don't dare kill it. It eats the veggie parasites. (In Canada)
Tyler! This ice covered house pic is in Chrystal Beach, just on the other side of Lake Erie, RIGHT across from Buffalo, New York. It was just a few days before Christmas 2022. My son was unable to come home for Christmas because so much snow fell. He ended up digging many seniors out of their homes. I know at least 3 people froze in their cars, stranded in the streets of Buffalo also. The winds were so high it whipped the Niagara River and Lake Erie waters that the spray gradually entombed the houses and waterside trees in inches of ice!
I was going to let him know that. He should compare Minnesota with us.
cold temperatures with driving wind over water will create the frozen house effect. Happens on the north shore of lake erie all the time, I expect huron and superior too.
I'm guessing that footage is from the aptly named Crystal Beach back in 2022.
It happened in Gimli Manitoba too along Lake Winnipeg
Happens in up-state NY too. Lake Erie and Lake Ontario often have lake-effect snow & ice from the westerlies winds.
walking anywhere in Halifax at certain times will give you the frozen human effect. I used to arrive at school with ice hair growing out the back of my head.. then there is the 'cover everything with ice all the time' Montreal area.. or the 'it's so cold it's an ice mist that sticks to everything.. oooo sparklie!' in Edmonton. Nature has a myriad of ways of delivering ice misery depending on where you live. :P
@kontiuka Yes, that is Crystal Beach.
yes it is like that on the lakefront in winter almost every year in some areas. it's from a combination of waves and high wind that creates a spray of water that freezes to any surface it touches forming a sheet of ice layer by layer over time
When it comes to the animal bridges, it turns out to work a lot better than what used to be there before which are basically large culverts and pipes going under the highway. Animals did not naturally want to go thru them, when you give them an open air path that is basically an overpass they take it.
a culvert has nothing to do with an animal bridge!!!@!!!!!!!!! Culverts keep water from overflowing roads etc DAH!!!!!!!! & Animal bridges work From an Albertan :}
Check out some of the videos of truckers hauling north in winter on roads made over the ice of a lake. - hope your rig doesn’t fall though
It's an icky scary feeling
We have a show in the UK about Canadian truckers called Ice Truckers, do you have it there too? It’s so fascinating and scary, I have to watch from behind a cushion!! I think our weather in the UK is more similar to your weather (south Canada at least)…. though we’re not transporting heavy goods across frozen ice lakes. We have freezing fog today it’s about -4’C, it feels like Silent Hill!!
@@MymerlotI think my Dad watched every episode of Ice Road Truckers. He loved Canadian geography and the ingenuity it takes to navigate some of our landscapes. Frozen fog is a new one for me. Usually when it's that cold, there's not enough moisture in the air to condense into fog. But an 80 km/hr wind over a large lake in sub-zero temps will pick up moisture droplets, freeze it in the air, and can create blinding conditions in a hurry.
My hubby is a trucker and we've both used ice roads. There is just no other way to get to some places. The ice is really thick (4 feet or more) and everyone drives really slow going onto or off of the ice. Big rigs push a wave under the ice because of their weight. If you go too fast you force that wave onto the shore, into another on coming truck or just another wave and the ice breaks up. That's the end of the road and the end of the road for the truck following you. You will make it out but the next truck won't. The road is closely monitored for safety and the weather is usually really cold so it stays solid, although, it's pretty weird looking out the window at the ice beside your rig and watching a crack open up and stretch to 5 or 6 inches wide as your weight crosses it. 😅
@ omg you must have nerves of steel!! 😬
Cranberries are either dry harvested or wet harvested. In British Columbia they are wet harvested within reach of the Fraser River. The bogs they are grown in are surrounded by earthen berms and have drainage pipes. Flooded only for harvest, a machine goes through disturbing the fruit enough to loosen and the fruit's pithy centre allows it to easily float. Workers in hip waders use pontoons to guide the fruit towards a harvesting conveyor and into a truck that takes them for processing.
That land is diked to keep seawater out already, so flooding the fields to harvest the berries is a no brainer.
In Abbotsford there are some rice paddies now, supplying an artisan sake maker with an outlet on Granville Island.
@@Angelicus-p5p That was very interesting information. ✌️🌕🦜
Wet harvested in the US northeast as well, iirc.
@@michaeldowson6988 I've had that sake! It was nice.
Don't forget about the obscene amount of spiders floating in that cranberry water.
WIth the size of the animals around where that bridge is, it's not just the animal likely to meet an unfortunate end.
a lot of small towns in the far north have community freezers where the hunters and fishermen drop off their catch to share with the people for free a nice way to live someting you don't see in the south i miss it😊
idid not know about this. that's pretty cool. I knew hunters would share with others but didn't know there was a specific spot up north
In the summertime Helmcken Falls is just a regular waterfall that falls into a pool at the bottom which flows as a creek to Clearwater River. In the winter with the cold temps the mist from the falling water becomes "snow" and builds up a cone around the base. Ski hills create artificial snow using same principal by spraying atomized water into freezing cold air to create snow when not enough is falling naturally.
Have you been there in the winter? If so is it easy to access
@@personincognito3989 yes, it is easy to access, good paved toad all the way. If there is a major accumulation of snow, there may be limited access to the parking lot for a car.
@@personincognito3989 I have never been there in the winter but many times in the summer. There is a narrow paved road to the falls not sure how well maintained it is in winter. AWD Suv with snow tires should have no problems as long as no major blizzard is happening, lol.
Re: the large animal bridge, we have a different version in our area, for snakes. We live not far from the Narcisse snake dens, one of the largest hibernation dens for garter snakes. In the spring, usually mid May, they emerge by the thousands, mate and leave within days. In the fall, they return in their thousands and basically hang out until it gets cold and they enter the dens for the winter.
There were so many snakes crossing the highway running past the dens, with so many being killed by cars, it made the highway dangerously slippery. There was just no way to avoid driving over them. So, they built tunnels under the highway. Now, you can see tiny fences in the ditches on either side, diverting the snakes into the tunnels so they can safely cross to the other side.
edit: the snake with the strawberries is a garter snake. They are lovely, don't bite until you bother them, and are great for keeping pests out of your garden.
One of my favourite parks in Toronto has signs on the road to warn drivers and bicycle riders so they don't run over snakes. We have a lot of garter snakes, but I guess not enough to need special bridges for them. Somewhere in my stash I have a pic of a little snake peaking up between slats on the Cherry Beach boardwalk. It was pretty funny, and the little guy had a lot of fan attention.
Where do you live?
Sometimes garter snakes bite when they're terrified. There was a baby garter snake in the house. While my husband got up on the table, I caught it. Its little fangs got me right in the knuckle. Knee jerk reaction was to fling it across the room and make my husband scream like a little girl. I did catch it again and took it over to Queen's Park in New Westminster. The snake was okay but hubby was still shaking when I got home. 🤣
@curiouscanuck I've never been bitten by one, but I've always assumed if I was, I'd barely notice.
@@KarstenJohansson It certainly didn't hurt, just startled me coming from a baby garter snake. Funny thing is I had little fang marks on my hand for months. I wanted to keep it but it was very happy to get home to the park and find its mommy.
A garter snake in your strawberries means no insects in your strawberries...
The giant spider in of these packages must've eaten the snake 😂
The bed in the bathroom is so Brampton. Like, even before he mentioned the location, I guessed that’s where it was
My first thought was Vancouver - I saw a listing there were someone was renting out their couch for $600 a couple years back.
Completely makes sense.
Classic Brampton
In BC it's $1200+ a month for a small bedroom so it's not only in Brampton.
Same. I saw it coming
The animal bridge: There is fencing on both sides of the highway which guides wildlife toward the bridge. (not visible in the photo and is not overly visible from the highway)
Miracle Whip isn't Mayonaise, it's more like a thick salad dressing and tastes nothing like Mayo.
If I take a bite of my club sandwich I know in the first second if it's miracle whip, awful stuff, it ruins my whole day lollll!!! Real mayo for the win!
But lots of people use it in place of mayo, and call it mayo. Many of them don't even know it isn't mayo because they never read the label which says salad dressing.
It has a lot of sugar in it.
I live in Northern, Ontario, Canada, we also have one of these bridges for animals. It saves thousands of animals.
Since the animals are also after the salt on vehicles. My suggestion is putting cow salt licks deep in the forests to keep them away from the vehicles on the roads.
I was born in Northern Ontario until my early 30’s. From the Timmins area, my my home town is South Porcupine. Where, in the Great White North, are you? I still miss that biodiversity that Southeaster Ontario lacks. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
The prices of groceries has doubled-tripled since the outbreak of covid. It is disgusting to me. I went from being able to comfortably get by each month even able to put a little money away. Now I struggle from month to month and the money I had saved is gone. I just paid 10:99 for that exact orange juice and I live about an hour away from the US border.
I often get really mad when I truly think about it. One hour of work for me( 21.00 an hour), allows me purchas orange juice , milk, and a loaf of bread. I am not overexageratting
Carbon tax on fuel increased the price of production and transportation.
With the government printing so much money and running up the Federal deficit, the value of our dollar took a plunge, thus making it more expensive for us to import goods.
@@reneseguin1200 lets not forgot that the greed of corporations and their need to make huge profits had more to do with the high price of groceries than the government did and by the way which government?, what department?....cause if you're going lay blame, make sure you're pointing a finger at the right guys., and not just whining cause you hate liberals or trudeau.
@@deannicholls8715exactly 💯
@@deannicholls8715 It's easy to make double your profits when inflation has made your dollar have half the value. Blame is shared. In theory, were it just "greedy corpos", rival companies would quite easily move in and undercut the competition, and drive the out of business. But instead, the small new companies, the would-be rivals, have been put out of business. And yes, I use an active verb there, put. They were forced to close during the Rona while the mega-multinationals gave kickbacks to the polis and so were allowed to stay open, and then were forced by rapid land price inflation facilitated by a certain party's knowledge for a decade but refusal to address it, to be unable to enter the market as new entrants, either: Can't afford a storefront because it now costs triple what it did.
I live in Saskatchewan. I don’t pay that much for orange juice and I live in a small town. Shop at another store?
The reason the Confederation Bridge has to 'cut' the ice is so the ice doesn't push the bridge over. The piers have a conical shape that forces the ice to ride upward as it flows and break apart under its own weight; sort of the opposite of how an icebreaking ship works.
Note: people that live in northern provinces get northern allowance to help offset the price of food and utilities
It doesn't come close to covering the increased costs. Not just food costs more. Housing, gas, vehicles, electricity, clothing, materials for building/repairs, Tim Hortons, etc. Everything is increased in price. Northern Living Allowance differs depending on where you live and is based on the size of the community and amenities available as well as remoteness. So Yellowknife, NT where I live, which has 1/2 the population of the NWT gets $3750/year for Northern Living Allowance. That amount has not changed for decades despite inflation and increased cost of living.
@@lisarayner1570we don't get anything from the government in northern BC for Northern living but my work does pay something like 94 cents an hour. Not all employers will do this
subsidized by the people in South Canada is another way to look at it. Very unfair to the people in the south were all the action is,
@@kennance115 your ignorance is shining through.
That's a harmless Garter snake, very common around water, and strawberry patches. They eat bugs, small frogs, and tadpoles.
That ice cone in the falls would have been created by the spray of water; underneath is still liquid water that flows away, but it gets cold enough for the mist to freeze.
The variety of cranberries you buy in the store are harvested by flooding the bushes and the berries float to the top. That is mostly in the south western corner of BC. Elsewhere, we have high bush cranberries, with have to be picked by hand.
Hey Tyler, here in Nova Scotia after hurricane Juan , We had a blizzard "White Juan" 100cm plus of snow ! Drifting snow was insane!!!
The wildlife bridges were built in Banff National park nearly 20 years ago and it took a while for certain animals to learn to use them but once they did, it was successful.
I remember in Grade one, we had a Teacher's assistant who was from Africa, Brand new to Canada. I heard when she never came back, that she went back home...... the snow Scared the crap outta her..... and was just a big 'NOPE!"
The animals have realised the bridges are safe and have learned to use them. I've seen photos of entire herds crossing them. Some other areas of the country are following the example. It's preferable for the people too. No desire to hit Frank the moose. Fences help direct the animals to them.
The picture of the ice on the homes is in Crystal Beach, Ontario just down the road from me and it is real. The same homes were used to depict a town in an episode of "The Handmaid.'s Tale. The storm fast froze everything. So much for lake front property. Some people had chunks of ice blown into their homes through their windows. People were chipping out Canada geese with hatchets that were fast frozen completely, even their heads, by waves that broke over them. I hope the cobra chickens were grateful. It was 2 years ago.
I reread my comment and should make an edit....The Canada geese didn't have hatchets! LOL.
I lived in BC, not far from Helmkin Falls which is in Wells Grey Park in Clearwater. The cone of ice is built up from the waterfalls freezing. In the middle of winter many people do ice climbing on the cone. When I was a scout leader we used to camp in Wells Grey Park with the kids and built shelters and snowshoed for the kids to earn badges.
About the Confederation bridge: "We" don't cut the ice. The bridge's pillars do. We have many bridge with pointy pillars, kind of like a flipped boat hull to lift and split the ice instead of transfering all that weight on the pillars.
'I don't think [having a snake in your store bought strawberries] this is representative of canada'. Oh boy, it reminds me of when we had a warning to check our cherries imported from British Colombia since that year you could often find a couple live black widows inside.. You know, the black spider with an ominous red hourglass sign on their back? yep, those ones, at least snakes are sometimes not venimous. That cherry incident was in Québec. The incident with the black widows in a grapes bag was in ontario
You don't find too many black widows in the cherries. In all the years I lived there I never found any and I'm a cherry holic. Lol but I was bit by a black widow spider twice in the Okanagan. (Same time same spider)
I really appreciate your genuine reactions! I hear no judgment in your voice and it’s so cool to share differences between our countries. Keep up the great work!
We grow cranberries in suburban Vancouver. The metro is 22% agricultural land that can't be built on.
We don't "have" to cut the ice that way, the bridge is constructed is such a way it causes the ice to be cut that way.
Hello from the Georgian Bay Area of Ontario. I love your channel. I actually learn so much from your videos! 🇨🇦❤
Oh my gosh the lil garter snake in the strawberries is so cute 🥰
That map is funny, showing only where 90% of the population is.
It is also fairly typical for most Canadians to only view from BC to the Quebec border.... Fuck the Maritimes and Newfoundland.😂 We are always an afterthought, if we are thought of at all.😁
It’s the same here in Northwestern Ontario. There’s Winnipeg and then Toronto and nothing in between.
Population goes farther north on the prairies. It follows the CN main lines from Winnipeg to Yellowhead Pass, near Jasper. Saskatoon and Edmonton are quite a way from the boarder.
They need a significant bump on that kraft dinner coloured line where Alberta would be situated. The majority of the population (~75%) live north of that whole "90% of the population live within 200km of the U.S. border" assertion the joke is based on.
It is not a map that represents anything other than the worst population density map.
People do not live along the boarder like that.
I have reltve hat just got married ND he runs a store in Labrador and say is sucks but it is away from their parents and that's all they care about.
I work at an elementary school in Ottawa. We have a lot of Embassy and new Canadian children coming to our school. Most of the kids are beside themselves with excitement when it snows because they have been told a lot about it. They are usually the first kids to be dressed and the last ones to line up. But there are the odd ones who hang out by the door initially lol
Bala, Ontario is the Cranberry Capital of Canada
I've visited for the cranberry harvest before. It really is something cool to see!
11:30 "You'd expect things to be cheaper in northern Canada due to the sparse population." Sadly that's not how economics works. If you have a town of 15,000 people, Walmart will build a superstore there to serve them, because they can do enough business that it's profitable. The higher volume of business they can do, the lower they can keep prices (ideally). If it's a village of 250 people, Walmart isn't touching the place, and the much smaller grocery stores (who don't get the deep discounts on product cost that the mega-conglomerate of Walmart can negotiate for) have to keep prices high enough that they can afford to keep the lights on in the store, even though they have only a relatively small number of customers.
Most northern communities are either served by the Northwest Company or a co-op.
Canadian here, I lived near Hazelton, BC many years ago. The main industry in that region is logging, so no surprise that some of that lumber went towards that roof! Probably cost much less than steel. Pretty sure the Confederation Bridge could get taken out or badly damaged by a heavy ice dam thus the 'french fry' effect, I would guess special girders to *slice the ice*. have also flown a cat or two home with me; they were not impressed but survive and lived to a good old age. Yeah the border thing lol, 90% of us live within 100km of the southernmost border. Poor lil garter snake in the strawberries.Strawberries grow very close to the ground, and snakes live on the ground. Miracle Whip prob a resto went under and they are selling their products (while still good) at clearance outlets. Hope this helps!
My brother works at a major grocery chain. When he was unpacking grapes from California, he had a black widow spider jump at him.
Thats a harmless garter snake. bigger problem is spiders that are imported with your bananas
When my son was about 7 he came into the front door with a box and left it in the hallway. After an hour I asked him what is in the box.....a number of garter snakes in there......I don't want snakes in the house so out they went! He in going to be 46 tomorrow and we can still laugh about it!
I’m from B.C. and as a kid I played constantly with garter snakes. They are very non- aggressive and I never got a bite from them. They’d just rest in my pocket or in my hand until I put them back down. They like the warmth of our bodies.
@@ritafoster4958 Yeah, me too! In Ontario we only have one species of venomous snake, and at that they are only around the shores of Georgian Bay and the Bruce Peninsula. I recently got some good photos of a garter snake at the B&B we rented to view the solar eclipse. Too bad we got clouded out, I'd been waiting since the 1970's for that event.
A friend of mine ended up with a pet tarantula from a bunch of bananas. He would ask me if I wanted him to take it out of its terrarium when I'd come over. And not being a fan of spiders I'd say only if you want it squished.
As for the houses in ice, Canada is cold from December to April. The end of November too, sometimes. June, July, August and September can be pretty hot, but not always. My favorite month is October because of the changing colour of the leaves. Red maples, etc. 80% of Canadians live within 300 miles of the Canada-USA border.
I don't doubt any of what you stated. The houses encased in ice however was a rare occurance in Crystal Beach, Ontario. We have winter storms and if the lake hasn't frozen, which it hasn't in the last quite a few years, then the storms and wind throw waves and mist the waterfront homes. This storm was two Christmas' ago. The lake was open but the temperature had dropped so the water froze on the homes. It was destructive but also quite beautiful at the same time.
@@Ivyskidi remember spending hours looking at all the different pics when it happened, some really amazing formations, including a few neat hollow car "sculptures".
in a collision between say, a moose and a family sedan it would be unsurprising that not only the moose but also at least some of the occupants of the car would be fatally injured. It makes sense to build these bridges along routes that are known to be used by the wildlife. It protects both the animals and humans.
My first week in Wildlife Branch. If you're driving and see a moose in the middle of the road, duck. Dont bother to brake or take evasive action. Why? The moose is tall enough for the vehicle to scoop it up, and it will come through your windshield and kill you upon impact. At worst, you'll be alive and waiting for EMS to get the moose off of you and extricate you from the wreck.
@@shannond.5916 not to mention the occasional stories you hear of some idiot in a compact car stopping and honking his horn to get the moose off the road...never piss off a moose.
The wildlife bridges were started somewhere in Europe first. They are in use in the US too in Yellowstone Park. Fences help guide the animals, but the also use know animal trails.
We call Brampton, brown town. Yes, it’s social acceptable.😂🇨🇦
Yeah, racists do that.
They're starting to fuss about it now but the first 50 times I heard it referred to as Brown Town was from brown people. Before that I knew it as a town of fields.
Ive lived in the GTA for 63 years and yours is the first reference to brown town and NO it is not socially acceptable ...its rude
@@concernedcitizen3476 It may sound rude to you but they started it and embrace it and disseminated it. I think Russel Peters has used it in his act. It's now a colloquial term. That happens in Language all the time.
Better than Bramledesh
This is one of the best selections of pictures you've had. The frozen lakeside houses photo was probably taken after an ice storm.
I'm thinking a windstorm which whipped up a lot of spray flying off the lake. With an unfrozen lake but air temps < 0C
Crystal Beach Blizzard of '22!
Everything in canada is more educated. Not just the ppl.. the animals have eyes and process information here jist as well. Its really quite fascinating
Hi Tyler. Yes,
Canada is the second-largest producer of cranberries in the world, producing around 30% of the world's supply.
Eritrea was once annexed by Ethiopia but they gained independence in the 90s after an awful war. I was there with the UN volunteering with a reforestation project just before the war started.
Thank you for helping !!
The ice-covered homes happen in the States around the Great Lakes, too. It's called the Lake Effect during winter storms. It certainly isn't everywhere.
There are a few wildlife bridges in Canada. Also tunnels for critters who prefer that. And the wildlife has no problem figuring it out, fencing doesn’t give them many options, and have been a success for decades.
Animal bridge also protects drivers too, a deer is bad enough but a moose or a deer can be fatal for humans and animals.
Especially on a motorcycle. Low survival rate for both parties. Deer are bad but hit a moose - forget it.
large deer and moose are very dangerous ad cause many fatalities because the animal ends going trough the windshield.
The ice storm pic reminded me of a similar pic from the same year, where *one* house had the space of one room clearly not frozen over on the outside. Needless to say, *everyone* suspected it as a grow op, because that specific room was generating a *lot* of heat.
The fine horizontal line in the picture is the bridge...the solid ice is on the north side, the sliced-and-diced ice is on the south side. the pilons on the bridge have Ice breaker points/beaks as part of the engineering design to ensure that the strong under current pushing the ice doesn't sweep the bridge away when the surface is frozen
pylons
The frozen houses do happen. I'm on lake Ontario and have seen it locally when the waves are high in the winter storms, but it doesn't happen regularly. I'd take a guess that these houses were more than likely on lake Erie, it happens during winter storms a lot more often there. It's not large waves hitting the houses or they would be definitly destroyed, it's the spray that's building up.
Yup! Crystal Beach, Blizzard of '22!
Crystal Beach
Lakefront homes in Ontario were encased in a thick, spiky coat of ice after last weekend's blizzard whipped frigid waves on shore. Residents of the Fort Erie community, coincidentally named Crystal Beach, said the waves were crashing over their Lake Erie break wall during the storm.
The confederation bridge picture you can see the bridge horizontally near the bottom.
The post they meant that the bridge itself cuts the ice because ice hits the pillars of the bridge and breaks the ice. The bridge’s pillars are made in a shape that will do that.
Hi Tyler!concerning the price of food in Northern Canada: there was a saying before that everything sent up North has a “plane ticket” glued to irs side. Even though groceries in winter come in viathe ice bridge.
The ice bridge being trucked in over frozen lakes, when they are frozen thick enough.
The animal bridge. This is paired with 10ft wildlife fencing along the highway so the only way to get across is across the bridge. Some determined animals call still get through, so there are animal gates that only allow them in and not back out. It's really cool and there are a bunch of these bridges along this highway and others
Brampton Ontario is really bad for housing undocumented or foreign students. Just a room.
Far too many illegally made basement apartments. Its bad.
And sad...
We have animal bridges in BC Canada as well and it works, surprising enough. We still have large animal and people in car deaths on Hwy’s that don’t have this function.
Helmcken falls in Wells Gray Park, B.C. gorgeous well worth the trip. That is just ice from winter weather, it's quite different in summer. Lotsa salmon nearby. A very deep dark river flows through here, many steams, lakes, foerst, wildlife. Supernatural !
There are few-to-no roads that go to northern Canada. In many areas, supplies need to be flown in.
that Mt Assiniboine photo looks like Bob Ross painted it -- it is one of our truly beautiful landmarks
Tyler, I think you may have misread the heading for the picture of the kids experiencing snow for the first time. It reads 'overjoyed', not overwhelmed.
5:10 we've been calling Brampton Little India since like 2005... So there you have it.
I've heard it referred to as Brampladesh since I first moved to Ontario in 1994
The picture of the Brampton Ad for a bedroom inside a bathroom is real, but it's also an illegal apartment. For fellow Canadian, contact the provincial Rental Housing Enforcement Unit when you see anything that doesn't follow normal housing rules outlined in the Residential Tenancies Act.
And then there will be an extra homeless person!! Only 80,000 homeless people in Ontario...some would be happy to live in the shitter!! But Doug Ford, our provincial genius will fix everything....and the enforcement people will get paid to do their jobs but nothing will be solved. In Muskoka there are hundreds of empty multi-million dollar cottages, there is a ton of empty space in public buildings, but the Rental Housing Enforcement will fix the problem of too little housing and the demand for places to live!! Funny!
The Miracle Whip is like a sweeter mayonnaise and used as a dressing. When they have big containers like these it is restaurants that buy them for salads and sandwiches and other things. You must have the same type of bulk items for restaurants in the States. 😉
Miracle Whip is to Mayo, what margarine is to butter.
Miracle Whip has vinegar in it and mayonnaise doesn’t too. I never use mayo.💖🇨🇦
@@barbie7359 Mayo definitely contains vinegar. Miracle Whip is just sweeter and cheaper than mayo.
@ Our family likes the taste better bc mayonnaise tastes exactly what it’s made of : eggs and oil 💖🇨🇦
Miracle Whip is a dressing. It was invented in the 1930s as a mayonnaise substitute. There is also Sandwich Spread, Miracle Whip with relish. Kraft does make a mayonnaise, but nobody seems to know it exists. At least it's never compared to other brands of mayo, it's always Miracle Whip. Helman's/Real Foods Mayonnaise is made by Unilever, a company that used to make margarine.
1:43 ignoring the very obvious fact that it’s fenced off, and you know Guard rails also exist wild animals are usually very timid humans, so loud cars and trucks would probably make them hesitant to cross the road in the 1st place. Only if they feel like they have no choice. 18:10 that sarcasm Tyler there isn’t supposed to be a garter snake in there 20:00 it’s probably close to its best before date
2:35 see us Canadians do live in igloos we're not lying
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I've never found a garter in my strawberries lol but I do love them! They were very common in NS when I was younger, but I barely ever see any now. 😞
Same here, and I grew up on the other side of the country in B.C. At least their population seems to be going strong out in the boonies in Southern Ontario. Still, not a good sign for snake populations to be severely declining pretty much across Canada.
Brampton is my town, just north west of toronto. and given the housing crisis I can beleive it here.
Mississauga here
So glad I live on the southwest coast!
In the far north, especially in landlocked places, they're so far that roads are not functionnal all year round (they get impossible to cross in the winter because it would be to pricey to clear them of snow, sometimes there are simply no roads that get there) food, especially fruits and vegetables, get insanely pricey, becaus it has to be shipped by plane.
The picture at 17:43 is weirdly similar to the shape of Chile! It's a map of the "usable" part of Canada (minus some of the more easterly parts).
Second biggest country -- until the useless parts are removed.
"Usable" parts? LOL, where do you think most of our natural resources are? (Hint: the entire country).
No, that part is the buffer the rest of us in Canada use to keep the Americans busy.
@@rdjftw2531also fair
We actually have overland and under-land crossing for wildlife in areas like Banff, its pretty cool stuff. I think Canadians are able to celebrate and enjoy the nice weather due to all the cold weather we have to deal with. A snake in something like strawberries is no big deal really. Just imagine the number of small animals that get caught up in large agriculture such as grain farming. This is known as 'crop death'. A 2018 study estimated that over 7.3 billion animals die each year from harvested cropland in the US alone.
what away to go and how would you like to be a cow or horse and have a mouse or other rodent in your hay.
All kids love the snow & get excited at the first snowfall
The highway runs through a forest. The bridge is made to resemble the surroundings . The animals will choose it because of that. Collisions with deer, elk and moose do a real number on vehicles and can be fatal
Animals use the animal overpasses (and animal underpasses too) because there are 8 foot high fences on both sides of the highway that funnel them there.
we live 50 min drive from Helmcken waterfall! there are many beautiful waterfalls in Wells Gray Provincial Park
That same bottle of orange juice in southern Ontario is $11.98 … same difference… and will be higher when trump puts 25% tariffs on everything
I think the ice is being cut as it flows under the bridge.
The key reasons why most Canadians live near the US border, is because the CPR, CNR and the TransCanada highway were all run along the southern border to defend against American Invasions. So that is where development happened.
What you are saying is that you are massing a militia on the US border and this and are a clear and Present threat to the United States When this get back to Trump he may have you move your border up to 54-40 parallel that about 340 mills or about 550 kilometers, You will have to lease all the area from the US or become a new territory up to 54-40 . There is no way we could give you statehood and representation in Congress.
At 17:00 - 18:00, I hope you realize that the strip of Canada shown for "I've lived in Canada my whole life." is missing the whole of Eastern and Atlantic Canada. It is an interesting narrow strip, but as you go further east, the population gets further from the border with the US. Mainly because of the path of the St. Lawrence river, and the shape of the coast of Atlantic Canada. Still the image shows why 'cross-boarder' shopping is a big thing in places.
Also Albertans tend not to hug the border: Calgary is a 3-hr drive and Edmonton 6-hr drive from the US border.
8:20 the bridge is at the bottom of the pic (where the ice starts getting cut) and the ice is being cut by the parts of the bridge that are in the water (the supporting structure). as the ice flows through the bridge, it gets broken by those pillars.