Something i've heard from some people who move to Canada is we say "thank you" to our bus drivers and cab drivers, cashiers.They say things like "why are you thanking someone for doing their job?". Still polite to thank for the ride, or transacting your stuff, i guess. Habit. Sorry.
I think it's because we know they actually don't have to stop, so thanking them for stopping where it's easier to get on, doing a job that's frequently dealing with obnoxious people, it's worth recognizing. Thank you. 🙏
@@ninemoonplanetI just say it to be nice and thank them for being there to drive so I can commute. It's nice, they appreciate it and after a while you recognize the drivers and they you
I thank everyone. I do not think it is a bad thing. It is not something that I even thought about before. Ther are a bunch of assholes though as well. It is not like everyone is nice.
As a Canadian in Ontario like the example said you do need to be polite because you never know who the next person coming down the road is and we do rely on each other to survive
Check out Stompin Tom Connors. He was one of our best Canadian folk and country singers. He wrote over 300 songs and sold over 4 million albums. A few of his best-known songs are "Sudbury Saturday Night", "Bud the Spud" and "The Hockey Song".
Some of this is simple. We constantly apologize to avoid killing each other. "Eh" is a chance for the other person to agree with you and show he's friendly, so you don't kill him. Canadians are polite wolverines at heart.
The wolverine part is the hidden gem of being Canadian. We have our own way of dealing with conflict, "you might start but we WILL finish the fight" attitude. During international conflicts, Canadians are known to "just get it done, finish what you started".
@@ninemoonplanet - There's a video from Afghanistan of a unit from Winnepeg getting ambushed and then counterattacking. The sergeant yells "Get 'em, boys". Like giving them permission, not orders.
‘WE GOT STRONGER BEER!’ Is the song he referenced, you really should check it out! SORRY: There’s actually a law in Canada to protect Canadians from liability for saying ‘Sorry’… in America, saying ‘Sorry’ is considered an admission of guilt (unless you’re a doctor), but Canadians are protected from that because it is such an integral part of our society that it is not considered an admission to anything, according to the law.
And our Cannabis is worldwide known, I’ve troubled to Europe a few times lots of people there have heard of BC Bud. These stereotypes and shallow representations of Canada and Canadian lives gets to me after while . I live in British Columbia we do not have maple trees in British Columbia. I live in a city called Vancouver. We do not have moose in the city, I don’t know anybody that lives in a igloo.
@@patsow4797 I'm from Hamilton but I have family on the island out there. You always have to watch like 10 different videos to get any sort of idea of what "Canadian Culture" is like haha
@@TheDylls You can often tell which region the creator is from based on the examples. I’d never even heard of bagged milk before I saw a thing calling it “quintessentially Canadian.”
@@ms-literary6320 Too funny! I was born and raised with bagged milk until I Moved to Alberta for two years when I was 17. Milk in jugs was WILD to me haha
Actually, I’m from Atlantic Canada and I get pretty sick of hearing about ‘Eastern Canada’, as though Canada ends at Ontario and Quebec. If it weren’t for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, there wouldn’t even be a Canada as we know it, yet the rest of the Country acts as though we don’t even exist… 🇨🇦
You cannot speak ill of The Hip, I heard it said that Rush is the Canadian band we gave to the world, The Hip is the band we kept for ourselves…..still miss not seeing The Hip concerts anymore….RIP Gord
@@robertsmith4681 they can’t control that lol, I was a teenager in NS in the 90’s….The Hip was the band who would actually come to Halifax for concerts….after seeing them live I was hooked
The Stanley Cup, the NHL trophy, was created in Canada by Lord Stanley for the Canadian Amateur Hockey Champions in 1892. The Montreal Canadians, The Toronto Maple Leafs, The Ottawa Senators, The Winnipeg Jets, The Calgary Flames, The Edmonton Oilers, and The Vancouver Canucks are all part of the NHL. We do have professional hockey teams.
All dressed chips are amazing! It's hard to describe the flavour. So many flavours mixed together, with none of them being overpowering and just making them taste great.
@@davidburke2453 dill pickle is amazing….Ive been told by an Irish friend that he’s never seen dill pickles till he came to Canada…and notices Canadians really like them lol
As a Canadian who loves curling, it is interesting that the granite from all curling stones comes from 2 quarries, one in Scotland, the other in Wales. Every small town in Canada has a hockey rink (usually more than one) and a curling rink. Most international curlers spend a good part of their year in Canada as they can't access good rinks anywhere else.
A small town in northern Ontario tried to quarry granite and make curling stones in the 70’s I think. They had a few break and it never took off from what I heard. River Valley, ON
@@Stevesoutdoorcooking Ya one would have to do a lot of research into the properties of the granite you want to use so it matches the quality and performance of the UK stones.
This is true, as a Canadian from a small town, skating rink and curling rink were present, and actually, some of our clubs curling stones are regularly used in international competition
I'm totally here for Mert's Tragically Hip arc! There are so many great songs, but I'd start with Wheat Kings, Hundredth Meridian, Courage, Fifty Mission Cap, and Bobcaygeon in some order
Years ago, I was at wit's end, broke, and had just got a job that would save my bacon. The job required me to buy a monthly transit pass. This used up the last of my cash. On the first day on the job, I lost the pass, not being used to the habits necessary to protect it. I was devastated, and returned home, wondering from whom I could borrow a hefty sum to replace it. Anyone who found the pass could easily use it themselves ---- a month's worth of free transit for them. But before the evening was done, I received a phone call. Someone had found the pass and phoned up everyone with my name in the phone book (about a dozen people) to find the owner. I had only to show up at their door and pick up the pass. Many Canadians grow up assuming this is normal, and I, always reminded by that incident, try my best to live up to the stereotype.
Breaking down on the road in the Yukon can literally be a matter of life and death. If we see someone parked on the side of the road, we virtually always stop to make sure they are okay It is usually just someone going for a pee, but once in a while, it isn't. As for sport, curling is hugely popular in Canada. Something over two million people curl here. And my niece is on the world championship team! I am not a fan of hockey, but I do like curling. :) Where the teams are often introduced with bagpipes, as we have more bagpipers here than in Scotland.
Ms Vicki's salt and vinegar. I ship them to my daughter who lives in Northern Queensland. It's funny the things you get used to. I send peppermint tums because they can't get them.
I really do think we are more polite. We say please and thank you more then in the USA. A common response to when I say “Thank you”, they respond umhum instead of “your welcome”. We talk to strangers more, well I do 🤪 Love your videos!
The Hip's "Courage - For Hugh MacLennn" is an emotional favourite. This man referenced here wrote the book 'Barometer Rising' which centres around the Halifax explosion of 1917. There's also a clip on YT of when Gord was in hospital and his medical team went out to the parking lot to sing him "Courage".
I enjoy watching your videos. The Tragically Hip released the song "New Orleans is Sinking," and oddly enough, Hurricane Katrina rolled over New Orleans and that song was banned in the U.S . Weird fact, check it out. Most Hip songs are based on true stories about Canadian culture.
You fail to mention that that song was over 10 years old when Katrina hit. Or were you being deliberately misleading in your wording to make it appear that the hurricane hit soon after the song was out?
At -40 ° and your neighbour needs your help, you do what you can and bring hot coffee, mitts and toque then get whatever needs doing done. Annoy or infuriate your neighbours, when you need some help, you may not get it, or get the help grudgingly. Like Gander after 9/11 doing and getting what needs to be done is just being a decent human being. It does take immigrants quite a bit of time to understand the quirks, but one ugly situational experience will help.
2013 alberta floods my parents stayed behind and manned the pumps for the whole culdesac. When my dad was out on the rigs and my mom was pregnant with my siblings, the neighbours always helped. Everyone was very kind, except 1 woman - but we all ignored her.
I wish he mentioned the Governor General / Lieutenant Governor positions in the section about the British monarch. To say that the reigning monarch has *no* power is...a little misleading. Or at least feels like it lacks a lot of context. Canada has **11** representatives of the reigning monarch pretty much at all times. It has a federal (country-wide) representative called the Governor General and each of the 10 provinces have a Lieutenant Governor. While they technically *are* ceremonial positions, ceremony counts for a lot. The Gov General can: - Summon, prorogue and dissolve parliament. - swears-in the Prime Minister and his cabinet (Ministers) - Must give royal assent to turn a bill into a law. - is appointed at the approval of the monarch with help/nomination by the Prime Minister. Usually someone from their political party. - appoints members of the Privy Council, lieutenant governors and certain judges, on the advice of the prime minister. So it's not nothing is it? Could Canada skip all of those legally and pretend the Gov General / Lt Govs didn't exist? Or not appoint any? Yeah probably but it feels very strange to think about doing so. Technically Charles could dissolve Canada's parliament via the Gov General. Would he ever? No but it's legally a power he has through the Gov General so again, to say that the reigning monarch has *no* power whatsoever simply isn't true. It's just that there's sort of a silent understanding that they'd never actually use it. If anyone cares, here's a few recent examples of the Gov Gen or Lt Govs being used in Canada... * In 2015 the Gov General was asked to clarify a 150 year old definition of the word "resident" as a requirement for being part of Canada's [unelected] Senate. * In 2021, Jagmeet Singh, leader of the federal NDP party (one of the Big 3 main parties) wrote to the Gov General and asked her to deny going to a snap election if Prime Minister Trudeau asked for one...because the NDP are broke and unpopular and not ready for an election. * In 2022 when the "convoy" protests were going on in Ottawa protesting Trudeau and various COVID mandates, there was a lot of [incorrect] furor from protesters trying to reach out to the Gov General to basically demand she dissolve parliament. This was never going to happen but it was a pretty big narrative thing going on during the protests. * If you saw what just happened in the French election....in 2017 that happened on the provincial level in British Columbia when the incumbent BC Liberal party looked to have won the election but fell short of having a majority. The BC NDP and BC Green Party quickly formed an agreement and together they had enough seats to overtake the Liberals but it was contentious. The incumbent Liberal Premier actually asked the Lt Gov to form government anyway and then to dissolve parliament (and potentially kick off ANOTHER election days after having one). Lt Gov refused and gave assent to the NDP-Greens to form the new provincial gov. Like I say...basically what France just did but it was the Lt Gov who had to mediate and give assent and sort out the entire mess as two different people pretty much declared that THEY had won the election and would/should form the gov. * A virtually identical situation to the above happened in New Brunswick in 2018 and again, it was the Lt Gov who had to sort it out and declare a winner. So again, not exactly "nothing" or "no power" or a position that never does or says anything. These were important political events that the monarch's representative had final say in.
Curling looks boring, but is fun to play, really is. Ya gotta wear a slider on one foot to kick and slide on, but that alone is a lot of fun to do actually.
Curling may look slow, often odd, but it does take serious skill, eye-hand coordination and a basic understanding of physics. Not really as simple as it appears.
The reason we don't have a Canadian professional adult hockey league is because we participate in the NHL with several teams (montreal, vancouver, calgary, toronto, etc) and we prefer to watch our teams battle it out with the Americans.
Edmonton just defeated Vancouver for won the right to go on . People in Glasgow were amused by my accent and astonished by my Scottish vocabulary. My home was settled by the Scots and my mom a stern teacher. The town on the other side of the river was settled by the Irish. Maybe that had something to do with the “sorry” in the air. Canadians spell such words like neighbour while the US leave the “u” from theirs. The pronunciation of many words is different from the US as well.
There is a senior league that some of the retired NHL players play. Theo Fleury won a while back. I remember someone gooned Ryan Smyth a few years ago too.
Also I’m pretty sure the NHL started out being all Canadian, then American teams joined and gradually become far more numerous than the Canadian ones. And now it’s just such a big business that the Canadian market only has enough room for so many teams. So nobody is interested in the economics of making another league smaller than the NHL for the sole purpose of excluding Americans. The best players coaches etc. are going to compete for the highest bidders and there’s no way some new CHL would have the dough.
I went to high school with the guys from the Hip (KCVI here in KIngston). Gord Downie was in my drama class...read a poem that I'd chosen for a class project. A really nice guy. Their final concert took place at the same time as the Olympics that summer, and the CBC actually interupted the Olympic coverage to show the whole concert, commercial-free. That's a bit of what the Hip meant to Canada.
Jumping onto the Tragically Hip bandwagon with Bobcaygeon, Wheat Kings, and Courage. For a hockey themed one check out the energetic Fireworks! Keep up the great work!
There's that bag milk thing again. Mainly east of Manitoba, was tried here but didn't catch on. The plastic bags aren't recyclable like the jugs and cartons.
As a Canadian (born and raised here) who has relatives in the United States, I can say that I don't necessarily buy into the absolute of "Canadians polite vs Americans rude". Nor do I really agree about the superiority thing. I'm sure some Canadians do feel that way but I don't see that perspective myself. I look at it this way. Both countries are full of both extremes of people. As in you will find polite wonderful folks willing to go the extra mile for you in both countries. AND you will also find that both countries contain their share of ignorant egotistical jerks who will rudely tell you off at the drop of a hat. Neither country is perfect and both contain all manner of folks. Anyhoo, that's just my two cents. Great video! Have an awesome day! :)
Ok I’m Canadian and I’m so polite that I never even admitted it to myself that I do indeed look down on Americans. I just realized that watching this video.
A few Tragically Hip songs with Canadian content are 50 mission cap, Bobcageon, but my favourite video is with Don Cherry delivering chicken and also the Trailer park boys are in the video called "The Darkest One-In Violet Light. love the song and the video is really funny
A great bit of Canadian history with the Hip is "Fifty-Mission Cap" (about a hockey player who disappeared, Bill Barilko). Also "Wheat Kings", about David Milgaard, a man who spent 20+ years in prison for a murder he did not commit..
The NHL although in the U.S now is majority Canadian league by the fact majority of the players on every team is Canadian, most of the coaching staff are Canadian, referees Canadian. There use to be a rule that each team needed to be 70% Canadian, The Stanley Cup was first awarded in Quebec by Lord Stanley, The original 6 teams of the NHL were the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings all close in proximity, Into the 70s the NHL expanded and swallowed up the WHA. The hockey Hall of Fame is in Toronto Ontario Canada and holds Hall of Fame inductions every year. The richest NHL team with the most loyal fanbase without winning a Stanley Cup Championship in over 50 years is the Toronto Maple Leafs. So I say all of that to say this, Canada could support its own league or leagues easily. Stay blessed 👊🏼
Another’s thing about the Canadians and hockey. He mentioned that perhaps it is because there are not enough people to sustain our own hockey league but if I may be so bold, 65% of the NHL are Canadian players meaning that the NHL has more Canadian players than any other nationality
There is a nuance when it comes to "eh" sometimes we will pronounce it more like "huh" and that's more or less the Canadian answer to ""bless your heart", not a nice thing at all even though it looks lovely at a glance..
There are so many good Tragically Hip songs, my top picks are "I'll Believe in You (Or I'll Be Leaving You Tonight)", "Blow at High Dough" (which is about a movie being filmed in a small town), "New Orleans is Sinking", "Trickle Down" & "Little Bones". No where near all their good songs, but those are my top 5. As for the Loonie-Twoonie thing, I was disappointed when it didn't end up being called a "Double-Loon" as a pun on the old pirate coin of Doubloon, to which name it probably would have been shortened to after a year or so. Oh, we don't have a Queen anymore as sadly She passed away in September of 2022 and has been succeeded by her son King Charles the III, she will be missed by all Canadians. As for Canada having it's own hockey league ... well ... we do kind of. It's the NHL and while the majority of the teams are BASED in the US, over 80% of the PLAYERS and over 60% of the owners are Canadian, so technically it's our league, the Americans just pay for it. There is a brand of chips called "Old Dutch" and they have a chip called "Au Gratin" which is a kind of garlic-chedder mix and It's rare to find even in Canada! I had to blackmail the distributor to bring it into my town, where it now sells out before any other flavour. As for Canadians being polite ... well ... it wasn't THAT long ago in our history when everyone still wore pistols out just because. Especially in Western Canada it was quite untamed and a pistol could literally save Your life. When there is a chance that a stranger could shoot you dead over a slight insult, Your country tends to develop a strong sense of politeness (think Texas in the USA). Now it hasn't been like that for quite some time, but the tendency of Canadians to seek immediate retribution over insults & grievances rather than going through a court system still to this day promotes a kind of "Let's all just get along shall we?" attitude. And Canadians ARE better than Americans though we are sadly slowly catching up (Slowing down?) to their level.
I remember several years ago meeting a couple from Edmonton and I mentioned that my ancestors settled there. They exclaimed that I should move "back", and I said that I'm rather afraid of living somewhere that the elements can kill me, a good portion of the year. They said it's a completely different kind of mindset there: since everybody knows how dangerous it is, everybody looks out for each other, and offers help. It's a given.❤
I had a political science prof, an American, who related progressive social programs to harshness of climate. In harsh societies some sense of community is necessary for survival.
@@kimmykimak3737 We need immigrants. Unfortunately we get some bad eggs coming in. There has to be a better way of vetting. The birth rate in Canada is low. We have a huge number of seniors, more than ever before. We need young blood to take over jobs for one thing. Our population is small comparatively speaking. We don’t have a big enough infrastructure to keep things going. We need skilled individuals. When it comes to immigration, priority is first given to skilled professions, ie. doctors, scientists, professors, etc. The next group of immigrants given precedence are individuals who want to immigrate and already have family living here. Getting a visa to work in Canada is no easy task. You have to be pretty fluent in English and have to pass a standardized test. You also as l have already mentioned, need to have a marketable skill! Without immigrants, Canada would be sunk. We’d have a country full of seniors and no one to pay for their care or to replace their jobs, particularly when it comes to plumbers, electricians, doctors, farmers, builders. Trades people are dying off. Just recently it was announced that the trades experience will be offered in high school, an excellent idea. We also need internships! The vast majority who immigrate, choose Canada as their first pick. The vast majority of immigrants work their asses off to get ahead, something that a lot of Canadians aren’t willing to do. That’s why we have migrant workers to pick our crops. We’re too damned lazy to do this kind of labour. These migrant workers aren’t very well treated. They are poorly payed for long hours, and live in shacks. They send the money they make home to their families who live in places like Mexico where the vast majority are dirt poor! You know the ones l mean. The ones who actually risk their lives to make it to Canada.
Hi from Kingston Ontario! Growing up here I think the hip are extremely overrated. That being said they are loved and held in extremely high regard for most. Cheers!!! 🍻
As a first generation Canadian of Scottish ancestry, my Da, I love your reactions to videos of our country. I'm so looking forward to my first trip to Scotland in the near future now that I'm retired. Keep up the good work laddie.👍🤠🇨🇦
Gordon Lightfoot's "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" was commissioned by the CBC to celebrate Canada's Centennial in 1967. That's the reason it is so uniquely "Canadian." It truly tells about part of the history, and (IMHO) is the best song he ever wrote. Canadian use of the word, "eh" could DEFINITELY come from Scotland since the majority of the population from Newfoundland to British Columbia shared Scottish ancestry from the explorers in the West to the Engineers who designed the cross continental railroad to immigrants who settled across the country on their way west. (This excluded the french population in Quebec of course, but even here there was a large military presence of Scots since the War between the French and the English from 1752 to 1759. The civilian presence became fairly large after that time.) Just an aside-- when I was a child, every small town or city in our (large) region had a pipe band, and every parade featured theirs prominently.
Taking care of each other is a thing. Several years ago, my car wouldn't start. I had stopped at a Tim Hortons. Within minutes of popping the hood, 2 separate vehicles stopped as they were going into the restaurant. The battery was boosted. The younger guy was driving a pickup and had tools in the back. He was almost dissapointed that the jumper cables were all that was needed. This was in a smaller town, 2 hours north of Toronto.
I remember the first album I bought of The Hip, I could see it was to introduce themselves to Americans, some of it was written while they were there. One of my favourite songs was "Fiddler's Green", but they had so many hits here in Canada.
Seriously the chip flavors here get pretty crazy. Ketchup probably is my favourite but some of the flavours that are amazing>> Korean BBQ, Filipino Adobo, Taco, Blue Cheese Buffalo Wings, Turkey Stuffing, Sea Salt Malt Vinegar, Pizza, jalapeno Popper, Butter Chicken, KFC Chicken, Sriracha, Garlic Parmesan, Honey Butter, Pickle and Cool Ranch Doritos are my fave right now. 😋 Then there are more options from imports from India, Philippines, China, Japan, Vietnam, etc... which add to the previous Canadian store flavours. Not sure but I think our pop/soda/sparkling water flavours are starting to get out there with the chips lately.
Well, this video now has me listening to "Fiddler's green" by The Hip. Buddy in the video didn't put across how extreme Sorry is in Canada. If we bump into a doorframe we say Sorry to it. It's hilarious. Hockey is life here. We had Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spotted here shopping in a mall. We shrugged at it. But if there is a Hockey Player doing an autograph signing? Absolute insanity erupts. Our Hockey Players are the only famous people that matter. We are not nice, we can get downright evil if you mess with us. We are a polite society that wants others to treat each other better. It just sucks that we live above a Meth Lab. lol
I was thinking about this video the other day and was hoping you would watch this. Also the hockey section is somewhat wrong. The AHL has numerous teams in Canada, and there is also the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) that is the farm teams for the AHL which has a couple of teams in Canada. There isn't a stand alone professional hockey league in Canada but the junior hockey leagues in Canada are extensive and well supported, similar to how college football in the US can sometimes seem more supported then even the NFL. True Canadian hockey fans are always glued to the TV on Boxing Day (Dec 26th) for puck drop on the World Junior Hockey Championships
Canada is a rather large place I was born and raised on the lower left coast and therefore don't say "eh". I find it cute how Americans will often say "You say eh all the time, don't you huh?" It seems that the American "huh" is similar to the Canadian "eh". You made a great observation about the use of eh and it's relation to your use in Scotland. The regional pronunciation of "about" is also Scottish related. On the west coast away from the parts of the country where there was a historically large amount of Scottish immigration you wont hear the "aboot". Unless of course the speaker was from the east, or raised in a Scottish family. Now, the "nice" vs "polite". I think they are quite different. I was a Mountie, yes that other stereotype, if all Canadians were "nice," I would have been out of work. You don't have to be nice to be polite, therefore creating a wonderful base for all types of sarcasm.
Great video! You should do some more trailer park boys reactions! It gets so much better than what you've seen so far. Lahey is a mess lmao he's the best character alongside J-Roc
I was born and spent my first 30 years in a small town called South Porcupine. It’s on the southern shore of Porcupine Lake. It’s too cold for porcupines there. Winter can be snowy from late October until mid April. The Hip are from Kingston, Ontario, just 30k from my current home, the name being an aboriginal Canadian one. Gord Lightfoot wrote the Canadian Railroad Trilogy for our centennial in 1967. Our Canadian hockey organization is the NHL, national hockey league. And Simon, it’s not gallons, it’s litres of milk in those unbreakable bags. I reuse them to freeze my home made soup etc. in the bags to decrease plastic waste. A lot of us do this. (Poutine is disgusting … lactose intolerant.) We invented the zipper, insulin, Wonder Bras, Kraft peanut butter … I’d die without that stuff. (Only other country where you can get it is Australia!) Our health care is superlative and essentially free because $300 or so is hidden in our taxes. In the USA you have to mortgage your home to get care after an accident or illness. I had several major surgeries after an accident … I’d be destitute otherwise! We’re a bilingual country, two official languages, and the only one I believe. We don’t mind gun control, and you have to sell your soul to get a hand gun. Long guns, for hunting, require a gun safety course and an FAC, fire arms certificate, to but one. I had a 4/10 shotgun when I lived in the bush … bought it at 16( to kill partridge) from a catalogue store called Sears, now defunct, with my Mom, Dad, and eldest sister. Fired it once, felt bad for killing the bird and now my son has it. He’s never fired it. We invented the water bomber airplanes too. There is a bomber plane airport on the aforementioned lake. Google it … you’ll be impressed! Our educational and health care systems are amongst the world’s best! We’re definitely a unique people and country. We tell people, when travelling, that we’re NOT American! Our Canadian accent, eh? Spectacular! Enjoy this essay, my Scottish friend. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
I always thought the two dollar coin should be called a doublooney, as in doubloon. I agree with the idea of codependency because during blizzards and in remote areas someone could easily be caught in a bind.
I’m an abuser of the word “eh”. I play online games and every single time I say “eh” over comms, I get the “ArE YoU CaNAdIaN?!? LULZ” All Dressed chips are good, Ketchup is pretty good too. Poutine is FUCKING AMAZING!! I’m surprised we aren’t recognized as a fat country because of it.
If you are going to get into The Hip,the album Live Between us,the concert videos, That Night in Toronto and/or The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration are a good start..A National Celebration really shows the character of the band. Gordy starts out rough,but he is a his peak by the end..
Love your channel Bro! One thing though, Salt & Vinegar Chips are VERY popular here in Canada 🇨🇦. One thing that is absolutely, 100% correct, is that, although we ARE technically American, due to the fact that we, along with Mexico, are part of North America (Something people in the US fail to realize),…. WE ARE NOT “AMERICANS”!!!
I carry booster cables in my vehicles. They are a must when someone needs a battery boost. I have used them many times. You never know when someone's battery is dead in the middle of winter.
Another band who gets very little press " The Crash Test Dummies" Give them a listen. I'm pretty sure you'll like their stuff. Start with a song called "mmmm, mmmm.mmmm, mmmm" The lead singer has the most unique voice in whatever song they sing, all their own compositions.
One "weird" and amazing thing about Newfoundland Canada is that it is the MOST IRISH place outside of Ireland! Immigrants from Ireland settled there in the 1700s and because of their isolation, kept up their Irish accent and culture. Their last names can be traced back to Counties in Ireland. You should react to Newfoundland accent videos and see for yourself.
11:30 so we actually have 3 AHL teams in Canada now, the video is quite out of date(Belleville Senators, laval rocket, and toronto marlies [go sens go]). I think the reason youd have a hard time with another hockey league in Canada is just how big Canada is, and how spread out the major population centers are. For example, if you had a team in Halifax, Nova Scotia needing to travel to Victoria, British Columbia for one game, it would probably cost in the 10s of thousands to fly everyone there and back, plus housing and food, and to drive it would take the better part of a week, so that wouldnt be viable, either. The CHL found an interesting way to deal with the size of the country, by splitting up into 3 separate leagues that dont compete in the regular season, and only meet for the Calder cup after the post season, so a model like that may be possible, but at that point youd have to question how much these players will be paid, and whether salaries would be competitive enough with the other lower leagues to draw in talent. The European leagues tend to pay better than the AHL and ECHL do, but some players will choose ECHL rather than Europe for their professional careers because of the slim chance of being scouted and recruited. The most viable way to get more hockey might honestly be to get more NHL teams, but I dont think that's likely to happen any time soon(condolences to Quebec city, Halifax, and Hamilton)
ok wait a fricken second... 9:40 is that 10-ply discount Babish inferring that the NHL is an American league? And this list was written by a Canadian? I call bullshit. The NHL is a North American hockey league. The league was founded in Canada. Most of the players in the NHL are Canadian. Canadian players hold the most NHL records. The greatest player to ever lace up a pair for the NHL was Canadian. The Stanley Cup is Canadian. The team with the most Stanley Cup wins is the Montreal Canadiens.
Canada did have its own hockey league, the NHL, but it moved its headquarters from Montreal to New York in 1989. Basketball (CEBL) and football (CFL) are the only professional sports where there's a national champion crowned every year.
Thanks Mert for another great video, I'm in Ontario Canada and yes we do have bagged milk here which some people think is weird, but hey, we don't mind. It's funny some people do think that poutine is a greasy, cheesy mess, but than they try it and love it!!! Also the poutine restaurant that they show is Smoke's Poutinerie, btw I love that restaurant it's great, we love the pulled pork poutine, it's sooo good.
And the bagged milk is just on ON and QC. I was totally surprised about it when I first moved to ON. I had lived in NL and AB for years and never seen or even heard of bagged milk. Who knew!😊
The thing about all or most of the musical bands or singers mentioned in this video is that they’re either anglophones or sing in English. That leaves out all the Québécois singers or groups. I have vaguely heard of The Tragically Hip, but I don’t know their music.
Milk is only in bags in QC and ON. It is in cartons and jugs everywhere else. But because it's in ON, it's assumed it's everywhere in the country (per another video I watched on bagged milk).
I think there is some merit to the idea that this country was founded on the intermingling of French, British, Indigenous etc. and we had to get along and also the idea that, due to the harsh elements, we have had to get along to survive. My favourite Hip songs are "Courage" dedicated to Canadian writer Hugh MacLennnan (who wrote an excellent book about the relationship between the English and French in Canada called "The Two Solitudes") and "Bobcaygeon".
Sorry! in Canada is "An apology is inadmissible in any judicial or quasi-judicial court proceeding as evidence of fault or liability." we have a law on the use of Sorry!
1:50 I lived in Ontario a while. That way of talking just wasn't a part of the dialect. I'm guessing that's more of a regional thing. Canada is such a massive country that there are quite a few regional differences in the way that the English language is spoken. Canada is far from being anywhere near as united as peoples might think and in many cases, communities have interactions with the US state nearest to them than they do with the province next to them. 19:05 That last part is definitely true. There's quite a few stories out there of peoples huddling together, sharing food and water during a harsh winter storm. They can be absolutely unforgiving. Even places just a few kilometers from a major city like Montreal can turn into a white hell rather quickly. Just a few years ago, rescue services took hours to get to everyone who was stuck on a major highway not too far from Montreal.
🇨🇦 If somebody (doing a job or not) does something that makes my life a little bit easier, or run a bit more smoothly, they deserve to be thanked.😍 And let's face it, no matter where we lived live, the little niceties can brighten somebody's day if only for a moment. A few years ago I was in LA, and when I came to the counter with my groceries the cashier automatically said, "how are you today?" I said, "fine, thank you, how are you?" She was visibly taken aback, and stammered for a moment. It kind of made me sad that such an interaction was unexpected in her line of work, but it made me glad that I'm from a place where good manners and civil niceties matter.
Its a good video really accurate really, also the NHL is Canadian still we let American teams play. It's a unifying thing why we sing both anthems, it was founded in Montreal. Who holds the most Stanley Cups and it's home is in Montreal. Created as an award for the CHL that was awarded to Montreal in 1892.
We don’t have a national hockey league. But we do have a very active junior league as mentioned which is typically a provincial based league. For example, the city I’m from in Canada is in Ontario and our junior hockey league which is 16-21 is the OHL and our city of 400,000 has a hockey area that hold just under 10,000 people. And while it isn’t packed for every single game it’s certainly fairly full for almost every game and there are lots of games per season and especially the playoffs where it is completely sold out. These teams are big farm teams for the NHL. A Canadian league wouldn’t be able to compete salary wise with the NHL to be able to attract the best over 21 players at this point, and we do have 7 teams in the NHL. But the reason we can win the Olympic so often despite not having our own national league is that a lot of the best players in the NHL in the US are Canadian. 😂 Side note: unlike other places where the football (American or British football 😂)stadium might become the stadium for concerts etc. the ice in my hometown hockey rink can be covered and becomes our stadium for concerts and other such events.
We say eh ('a'), you say aye (i) in Scotland unless I am wrong, but we probably use them both in similar situations and with similar meanings. What wasn't mentioned in the video and is difficult to explain is that the way eh is vocalized or emphasized will also affect the meaning of the word and possibly the entire sentence. Have a great day.
You are one of the best reactors. You listen, don't constantly interrupt and don't ask stupid questions.
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Agree 100%
Yah, I also agree!
Is that directed to Tyler Bucket? 😂
@@avenged7peep958 lol His brother is even worse! 🙂
Yes. I meant Tyler. I like Tyler. Very personable but I think he's a lot smarter than he let's on. 😏
Something i've heard from some people who move to Canada is we say "thank you" to our bus drivers and cab drivers, cashiers.They say things like "why are you thanking someone for doing their job?". Still polite to thank for the ride, or transacting your stuff, i guess. Habit. Sorry.
I think it's because we know they actually don't have to stop, so thanking them for stopping where it's easier to get on, doing a job that's frequently dealing with obnoxious people, it's worth recognizing. Thank you. 🙏
Thanks for not missing my stop, or lurching to a stop knocking us all over, or any of the other things that the bus drivers do every day ;)
@@ninemoonplanetI just say it to be nice and thank them for being there to drive so I can commute. It's nice, they appreciate it and after a while you recognize the drivers and they you
I think that we thank them to let them know that they're not just a faceless automaton...they're a real person doing a real job.
I thank everyone. I do not think it is a bad thing. It is not something that I even thought about before. Ther are a bunch of assholes though as well. It is not like everyone is nice.
As a Canadian in Ontario like the example said you do need to be polite because you never know who the next person coming down the road is and we do rely on each other to survive
This is it. This is what we at least strive to achieve.
Check out Stompin Tom Connors. He was one of our best Canadian folk and country singers. He wrote over 300 songs and sold over 4 million albums. A few of his best-known songs are "Sudbury Saturday Night", "Bud the Spud" and "The Hockey Song".
The Hockey Song just started playing in my head. Stompin Tom was one interesting dude with a likeable smile.
He was a national treasure, greatly missed but fondly remembered!
You forgot, 'If The Man On The Moon Was A Newfie', love that song.
Tillsonburg is another great one
Some of this is simple. We constantly apologize to avoid killing each other. "Eh" is a chance for the other person to agree with you and show he's friendly, so you don't kill him. Canadians are polite wolverines at heart.
The wolverine part is the hidden gem of being Canadian. We have our own way of dealing with conflict, "you might start but we WILL finish the fight" attitude.
During international conflicts, Canadians are known to "just get it done, finish what you started".
@@ninemoonplanet - I've been to bars in St. John's and Halifax. They're more polite in Halifax. They just throw dicks off the dock.
@@ninemoonplanet - There's a video from Afghanistan of a unit from Winnepeg getting ambushed and then counterattacking. The sergeant yells "Get 'em, boys". Like giving them permission, not orders.
@@GWNorth-db8vnlol awesome.
Don't mess with mustelids!
Canada knows it's weird... we like it that way.
‘WE GOT STRONGER BEER!’ Is the song he referenced, you really should check it out! SORRY: There’s actually a law in Canada to protect Canadians from liability for saying ‘Sorry’… in America, saying ‘Sorry’ is considered an admission of guilt (unless you’re a doctor), but Canadians are protected from that because it is such an integral part of our society that it is not considered an admission to anything, according to the law.
And our Cannabis is worldwide known, I’ve troubled to Europe a few times lots of people there have heard of BC Bud.
These stereotypes and shallow representations of Canada and Canadian lives gets to me after while .
I live in British Columbia we do not have maple trees in British Columbia. I live in a city called Vancouver. We do not have moose in the city, I don’t know anybody that lives in a igloo.
@@patsow4797 I'm from Hamilton but I have family on the island out there. You always have to watch like 10 different videos to get any sort of idea of what "Canadian Culture" is like haha
@@TheDylls You can often tell which region the creator is from based on the examples. I’d never even heard of bagged milk before I saw a thing calling it “quintessentially Canadian.”
@@ms-literary6320 Too funny! I was born and raised with bagged milk until I Moved to Alberta for two years when I was 17. Milk in jugs was WILD to me haha
Actually, I’m from Atlantic Canada and I get pretty sick of hearing about ‘Eastern Canada’, as though Canada ends at Ontario and Quebec. If it weren’t for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, there wouldn’t even be a Canada as we know it, yet the rest of the Country acts as though we don’t even exist… 🇨🇦
You cannot speak ill of The Hip, I heard it said that Rush is the Canadian band we gave to the world, The Hip is the band we kept for ourselves…..still miss not seeing The Hip concerts anymore….RIP Gord
Finished before I heard your question…I have a few favourite Hip songs….Courage, Fiddlers Green, Little Bones and few of my favs
Always found them overrated myself and when I saw our dear leader cry about them on tv that made me like them even less.
@@robertsmith4681 they can’t control that lol, I was a teenager in NS in the 90’s….The Hip was the band who would actually come to Halifax for concerts….after seeing them live I was hooked
Never understood the love for the hip,not my type of music
Never liked Rush but could appreciate the music. Loved the Hip
The Stanley Cup, the NHL trophy, was created in Canada by Lord Stanley for the Canadian Amateur Hockey Champions in 1892. The Montreal Canadians, The Toronto Maple Leafs, The Ottawa Senators, The Winnipeg Jets, The Calgary Flames, The Edmonton Oilers, and The Vancouver Canucks are all part of the NHL. We do have professional hockey teams.
All dressed chips are amazing! It's hard to describe the flavour. So many flavours mixed together, with none of them being overpowering and just making them taste great.
We got the best flavoured chips around
Best description yet
I don't know if I can mail you a bag to taste them??
Dill pickle is my favourite. It is also a Canadian chip like ketchup.
@@davidburke2453 dill pickle is amazing….Ive been told by an Irish friend that he’s never seen dill pickles till he came to Canada…and notices Canadians really like them lol
Two days ago, I saw one of city buses with the sign “ Sorry. Out of service”.
I see them weekly, if not daily
We even say Thank You to the Bus drivers when we exit the bus
Yeah :)
As a Canadian who loves curling, it is interesting that the granite from all curling stones comes from 2 quarries, one in Scotland, the other in Wales. Every small town in Canada has a hockey rink (usually more than one) and a curling rink. Most international curlers spend a good part of their year in Canada as they can't access good rinks anywhere else.
A small town in northern Ontario tried to quarry granite and make curling stones in the 70’s I think. They had a few break and it never took off from what I heard. River Valley, ON
@@Stevesoutdoorcooking Ya one would have to do a lot of research into the properties of the granite you want to use so it matches the quality and performance of the UK stones.
This is true, as a Canadian from a small town, skating rink and curling rink were present, and actually, some of our clubs curling stones are regularly used in international competition
Thanks for the curling rocks' natural granite originates from two overseas quarries: Scotland and Wales
Lol, yup, our small city had a curling rink and a hockey rink before we had an indoor swimming pool. Priorities...
I'm totally here for Mert's Tragically Hip arc!
There are so many great songs, but I'd start with Wheat Kings, Hundredth Meridian, Courage, Fifty Mission Cap, and Bobcaygeon in some order
Came to say all those up above. I would also say 38 Years Old - the first Hip song I absolutely fell in love with.
Also Little Bones, New Orleans is Sinking, Nautical Disaster, Poets, Grace Too
Fiddler's Green kills me every time
Bobcaygeon is my favourite by far.
Add Nautical Disaster, Lionized, and Fireworks.
Years ago, I was at wit's end, broke, and had just got a job that would save my bacon. The job required me to buy a monthly transit pass. This used up the last of my cash. On the first day on the job, I lost the pass, not being used to the habits necessary to protect it. I was devastated, and returned home, wondering from whom I could borrow a hefty sum to replace it. Anyone who found the pass could easily use it themselves ---- a month's worth of free transit for them. But before the evening was done, I received a phone call. Someone had found the pass and phoned up everyone with my name in the phone book (about a dozen people) to find the owner. I had only to show up at their door and pick up the pass. Many Canadians grow up assuming this is normal, and I, always reminded by that incident, try my best to live up to the stereotype.
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Breaking down on the road in the Yukon can literally be a matter of life and death. If we see someone parked on the side of the road, we virtually always stop to make sure they are okay It is usually just someone going for a pee, but once in a while, it isn't. As for sport, curling is hugely popular in Canada. Something over two million people curl here. And my niece is on the world championship team! I am not a fan of hockey, but I do like curling. :) Where the teams are often introduced with bagpipes, as we have more bagpipers here than in Scotland.
Salt and vinegar chips are one of the most common flavoured chips in Canada.
My favourite ones lol
These and ketchup are my 3 main flavours
Ms Vicki's salt and vinegar. I ship them to my daughter who lives in Northern Queensland. It's funny the things you get used to. I send peppermint tums because they can't get them.
@@denisegreene8441 My personal favorite. Not just vinegar, but malt vinegar.
@@denisegreene8441she has good taste
I really do think we are more polite. We say please and thank you more then in the USA. A common response to when I say “Thank you”, they respond umhum instead of “your welcome”. We talk to strangers more, well I do 🤪 Love your videos!
The Hip's "Courage - For Hugh MacLennn" is an emotional favourite. This man referenced here wrote the book 'Barometer Rising' which centres around the Halifax explosion of 1917. There's also a clip on YT of when Gord was in hospital and his medical team went out to the parking lot to sing him "Courage".
I enjoy watching your videos. The Tragically Hip released the song "New Orleans is Sinking," and oddly enough, Hurricane Katrina rolled over New Orleans and that song was banned in the U.S .
Weird fact, check it out. Most Hip songs are based on true stories about Canadian culture.
You fail to mention that that song was over 10 years old when Katrina hit.
Or were you being deliberately misleading in your wording to make it appear that the hurricane hit soon after the song was out?
At -40 ° and your neighbour needs your help, you do what you can and bring hot coffee, mitts and toque then get whatever needs doing done.
Annoy or infuriate your neighbours, when you need some help, you may not get it, or get the help grudgingly.
Like Gander after 9/11 doing and getting what needs to be done is just being a decent human being.
It does take immigrants quite a bit of time to understand the quirks, but one ugly situational experience will help.
2013 alberta floods my parents stayed behind and manned the pumps for the whole culdesac. When my dad was out on the rigs and my mom was pregnant with my siblings, the neighbours always helped. Everyone was very kind, except 1 woman - but we all ignored her.
He said 53% like NHL Hockey. It’s to the point people don’t like the NHL politics, but love a simple old fashion game of hockey
I'm really the only hockey person in my family, but they would all go to a live game no problem, pro or not. They just don't watch on TV.
Get rid of Bettman. He has degraded hockey in Canada.
I wish he mentioned the Governor General / Lieutenant Governor positions in the section about the British monarch. To say that the reigning monarch has *no* power is...a little misleading. Or at least feels like it lacks a lot of context. Canada has **11** representatives of the reigning monarch pretty much at all times. It has a federal (country-wide) representative called the Governor General and each of the 10 provinces have a Lieutenant Governor. While they technically *are* ceremonial positions, ceremony counts for a lot.
The Gov General can:
- Summon, prorogue and dissolve parliament.
- swears-in the Prime Minister and his cabinet (Ministers)
- Must give royal assent to turn a bill into a law.
- is appointed at the approval of the monarch with help/nomination by the Prime Minister. Usually someone from their political party.
- appoints members of the Privy Council, lieutenant governors and certain judges, on the advice of the prime minister.
So it's not nothing is it? Could Canada skip all of those legally and pretend the Gov General / Lt Govs didn't exist? Or not appoint any? Yeah probably but it feels very strange to think about doing so.
Technically Charles could dissolve Canada's parliament via the Gov General. Would he ever? No but it's legally a power he has through the Gov General so again, to say that the reigning monarch has *no* power whatsoever simply isn't true. It's just that there's sort of a silent understanding that they'd never actually use it.
If anyone cares, here's a few recent examples of the Gov Gen or Lt Govs being used in Canada...
* In 2015 the Gov General was asked to clarify a 150 year old definition of the word "resident" as a requirement for being part of Canada's [unelected] Senate.
* In 2021, Jagmeet Singh, leader of the federal NDP party (one of the Big 3 main parties) wrote to the Gov General and asked her to deny going to a snap election if Prime Minister Trudeau asked for one...because the NDP are broke and unpopular and not ready for an election.
* In 2022 when the "convoy" protests were going on in Ottawa protesting Trudeau and various COVID mandates, there was a lot of [incorrect] furor from protesters trying to reach out to the Gov General to basically demand she dissolve parliament. This was never going to happen but it was a pretty big narrative thing going on during the protests.
* If you saw what just happened in the French election....in 2017 that happened on the provincial level in British Columbia when the incumbent BC Liberal party looked to have won the election but fell short of having a majority. The BC NDP and BC Green Party quickly formed an agreement and together they had enough seats to overtake the Liberals but it was contentious. The incumbent Liberal Premier actually asked the Lt Gov to form government anyway and then to dissolve parliament (and potentially kick off ANOTHER election days after having one). Lt Gov refused and gave assent to the NDP-Greens to form the new provincial gov. Like I say...basically what France just did but it was the Lt Gov who had to mediate and give assent and sort out the entire mess as two different people pretty much declared that THEY had won the election and would/should form the gov.
* A virtually identical situation to the above happened in New Brunswick in 2018 and again, it was the Lt Gov who had to sort it out and declare a winner.
So again, not exactly "nothing" or "no power" or a position that never does or says anything. These were important political events that the monarch's representative had final say in.
Curling looks boring, but is fun to play, really is. Ya gotta wear a slider on one foot to kick and slide on, but that alone is a lot of fun to do actually.
I enjoy watching curling. Don't find it boring at all!!
Curling may look slow, often odd, but it does take serious skill, eye-hand coordination and a basic understanding of physics.
Not really as simple as it appears.
The reason we don't have a Canadian professional adult hockey league is because we participate in the NHL with several teams (montreal, vancouver, calgary, toronto, etc) and we prefer to watch our teams battle it out with the Americans.
Edmonton just defeated Vancouver for won the right to go on .
People in Glasgow were amused by my accent and astonished by my Scottish vocabulary. My home was settled by the Scots and my mom a stern teacher. The town on the other side of the river was settled by the Irish. Maybe that had something to do with the “sorry” in the air. Canadians spell such words like neighbour while the US leave the “u” from theirs. The pronunciation of many words is different from the US as well.
There is a senior league that some of the retired NHL players play. Theo Fleury won a while back. I remember someone gooned Ryan Smyth a few years ago too.
Also I’m pretty sure the NHL started out being all Canadian, then American teams joined and gradually become far more numerous than the Canadian ones. And now it’s just such a big business that the Canadian market only has enough room for so many teams. So nobody is interested in the economics of making another league smaller than the NHL for the sole purpose of excluding Americans. The best players coaches etc. are going to compete for the highest bidders and there’s no way some new CHL would have the dough.
Another great Canadian musical treasure we kept to yourselves is Stompin' Tom Connors.
I went to high school with the guys from the Hip (KCVI here in KIngston). Gord Downie was in my drama class...read a poem that I'd chosen for a class project. A really nice guy. Their final concert took place at the same time as the Olympics that summer, and the CBC actually interupted the Olympic coverage to show the whole concert, commercial-free. That's a bit of what the Hip meant to Canada.
Nice! That is cool to hear!
Jumping onto the Tragically Hip bandwagon with Bobcaygeon, Wheat Kings, and Courage. For a hockey themed one check out the energetic Fireworks! Keep up the great work!
There's that bag milk thing again. Mainly east of Manitoba, was tried here but didn't catch on. The plastic bags aren't recyclable like the jugs and cartons.
I recycle the bags. You have to rinse them out first.
Yes, the plastic bags are recyclable. And when rinsed out, take a lot less room in your recycle bin.
No plastic bag milk where I am on Vancouver Island BC
I buy exclusively bagged milk, because my kids drink as much milk as calves 😂 plus, they take up less space in the recycle bin 🤷♀️
As a Canadian (born and raised here) who has relatives in the United States, I can say that I don't necessarily buy into the absolute of "Canadians polite vs Americans rude". Nor do I really agree about the superiority thing. I'm sure some Canadians do feel that way but I don't see that perspective myself. I look at it this way. Both countries are full of both extremes of people. As in you will find polite wonderful folks willing to go the extra mile for you in both countries. AND you will also find that both countries contain their share of ignorant egotistical jerks who will rudely tell you off at the drop of a hat. Neither country is perfect and both contain all manner of folks. Anyhoo, that's just my two cents. Great video! Have an awesome day! :)
Ok I’m Canadian and I’m so polite that I never even admitted it to myself that I do indeed look down on Americans. I just realized that watching this video.
If it makes you feel better, most of us do. 🤗
A few Tragically Hip songs with Canadian content are 50 mission cap, Bobcageon, but my favourite video is with Don Cherry delivering chicken and also the Trailer park boys are in the video called "The Darkest One-In Violet Light. love the song and the video is really funny
A great bit of Canadian history with the Hip is "Fifty-Mission Cap" (about a hockey player who disappeared, Bill Barilko). Also "Wheat Kings", about David Milgaard, a man who spent 20+ years in prison for a murder he did not commit..
Salt & vinegar chips are quite popular in Canada. Personally, I prefer them over ketchup and all dressed.
Same, all dressed is "good" sometimes but salt and vinegar is may main "go to".
I'd think that salt and vinegar chips are probably the second most popular flavour, with "plain" or "regular" being the best seller.
The NHL although in the U.S now is majority Canadian league by the fact majority of the players on every team is Canadian, most of the coaching staff are Canadian, referees Canadian. There use to be a rule that each team needed to be 70% Canadian, The Stanley Cup was first awarded in Quebec by Lord Stanley, The original 6 teams of the NHL were the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings all close in proximity, Into the 70s the NHL expanded and swallowed up the WHA. The hockey Hall of Fame is in Toronto Ontario Canada and holds Hall of Fame inductions every year. The richest NHL team with the most loyal fanbase without winning a Stanley Cup Championship in over 50 years is the Toronto Maple Leafs. So I say all of that to say this, Canada could support its own league or leagues easily. Stay blessed 👊🏼
Canadian here! Salt and vinegar chips are to die for! By far my favourite.
Another’s thing about the Canadians and hockey. He mentioned that perhaps it is because there are not enough people to sustain our own hockey league but if I may be so bold, 65% of the NHL are Canadian players meaning that the NHL has more Canadian players than any other nationality
The Hip have such a deep catalog. I suggest a full album look at Live Between Us. Canada's best poutine is from a chain called New York Fries.
Yea, I agree. A good close curling match is awesome. Some of the throws are amazing.
There is a nuance when it comes to "eh" sometimes we will pronounce it more like "huh" and that's more or less the Canadian answer to ""bless your heart", not a nice thing at all even though it looks lovely at a glance..
Lovin it from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦
There are so many good Tragically Hip songs, my top picks are "I'll Believe in You (Or I'll Be Leaving You Tonight)", "Blow at High Dough" (which is about a movie being filmed in a small town), "New Orleans is Sinking", "Trickle Down" & "Little Bones". No where near all their good songs, but those are my top 5. As for the Loonie-Twoonie thing, I was disappointed when it didn't end up being called a "Double-Loon" as a pun on the old pirate coin of Doubloon, to which name it probably would have been shortened to after a year or so. Oh, we don't have a Queen anymore as sadly She passed away in September of 2022 and has been succeeded by her son King Charles the III, she will be missed by all Canadians. As for Canada having it's own hockey league ... well ... we do kind of. It's the NHL and while the majority of the teams are BASED in the US, over 80% of the PLAYERS and over 60% of the owners are Canadian, so technically it's our league, the Americans just pay for it. There is a brand of chips called "Old Dutch" and they have a chip called "Au Gratin" which is a kind of garlic-chedder mix and It's rare to find even in Canada! I had to blackmail the distributor to bring it into my town, where it now sells out before any other flavour. As for Canadians being polite ... well ... it wasn't THAT long ago in our history when everyone still wore pistols out just because. Especially in Western Canada it was quite untamed and a pistol could literally save Your life. When there is a chance that a stranger could shoot you dead over a slight insult, Your country tends to develop a strong sense of politeness (think Texas in the USA). Now it hasn't been like that for quite some time, but the tendency of Canadians to seek immediate retribution over insults & grievances rather than going through a court system still to this day promotes a kind of "Let's all just get along shall we?" attitude. And Canadians ARE better than Americans though we are sadly slowly catching up (Slowing down?) to their level.
I remember several years ago meeting a couple from Edmonton and I mentioned that my ancestors settled there. They exclaimed that I should move "back", and I said that I'm rather afraid of living somewhere that the elements can kill me, a good portion of the year. They said it's a completely different kind of mindset there: since everybody knows how dangerous it is, everybody looks out for each other, and offers help. It's a given.❤
I had a political science prof, an American, who related progressive social programs to harshness of climate. In harsh societies some sense of community is necessary for survival.
The Hip is my hometown band, and Gord Downie is an incredible poet.
hi, canadian here, and yes, canadian railroad trilogy IS canada in music
This is so old. Our population is now over 41,000,000 with 1 million added in just 10 months! Cheers from🇨🇦.
Yes, the globalist mass immigration disaster and all the crises that it has caused is absolutely horrible eh.
And if Trudeau keeps going probably another million within a month
@@kimmykimak3737 We need immigrants. Unfortunately we get some bad eggs coming in. There has to be a better way of vetting. The birth rate in Canada is low. We have a huge number of seniors, more than ever before. We need young blood to take over jobs for one thing. Our population is small comparatively speaking. We don’t have a big enough infrastructure to keep things going. We need skilled individuals. When it comes to immigration, priority is first given to skilled professions, ie. doctors, scientists, professors, etc. The next group of immigrants given precedence are individuals who want to immigrate and already have family living here. Getting a visa to work in Canada is no easy task. You have to be pretty fluent in English and have to pass a standardized test. You also as l have already mentioned, need to have a marketable skill! Without immigrants, Canada would be sunk. We’d have a country full of seniors and no one to pay for their care or to replace their jobs, particularly when it comes to plumbers, electricians, doctors, farmers, builders. Trades people are dying off. Just recently it was announced that the trades experience will be offered in high school, an excellent idea. We also need internships! The vast majority who immigrate, choose Canada as their first pick. The vast majority of immigrants work their asses off to get ahead, something that a lot of Canadians aren’t willing to do. That’s why we have migrant workers to pick our crops. We’re too damned lazy to do this kind of labour. These migrant workers aren’t very well treated. They are poorly payed for long hours, and live in shacks. They send the money they make home to their families who live in places like Mexico where the vast majority are dirt poor! You know the ones l mean. The ones who actually risk their lives to make it to Canada.
Hey Mert, i am like salt&vinager chips too! Its galic month here in Nova Scotia!
For Canadian content, and lovely music, start with Wheat Kings.
Hi from Kingston Ontario! Growing up here I think the hip are extremely overrated. That being said they are loved and held in extremely high regard for most. Cheers!!! 🍻
As a first generation Canadian of Scottish ancestry, my Da, I love your reactions to videos of our country. I'm so looking forward to my first trip to Scotland in the near future now that I'm retired. Keep up the good work laddie.👍🤠🇨🇦
Gordon Lightfoot's "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" was commissioned by the CBC to celebrate Canada's Centennial in 1967. That's the reason it is so uniquely "Canadian." It truly tells about part of the history, and (IMHO) is the best song he ever wrote.
Canadian use of the word, "eh" could DEFINITELY come from Scotland since the majority of the population from Newfoundland to British Columbia shared Scottish ancestry from the explorers in the West to the Engineers who designed the cross continental railroad to immigrants who settled across the country on their way west. (This excluded the french population in Quebec of course, but even here there was a large military presence of Scots since the War between the French and the English from 1752 to 1759. The civilian presence became fairly large after that time.)
Just an aside-- when I was a child, every small town or city in our (large) region had a pipe band, and every parade featured theirs prominently.
Bro you’ve gotta react to some Canadian music, specifically Hedley & Marianna’s Trench. Both of them were super popular when I was growing up
I can’t speak for all Canadians, but my willingness to stop for a car broken down increases relative to my distance from civilization
Taking care of each other is a thing. Several years ago, my car wouldn't start. I had stopped at a Tim Hortons. Within minutes of popping the hood, 2 separate vehicles stopped as they were going into the restaurant. The battery was boosted. The younger guy was driving a pickup and had tools in the back. He was almost dissapointed that the jumper cables were all that was needed. This was in a smaller town, 2 hours north of Toronto.
I remember the first album I bought of The Hip, I could see it was to introduce themselves to Americans, some of it was written while they were there. One of my favourite songs was "Fiddler's Green", but they had so many hits here in Canada.
Seriously the chip flavors here get pretty crazy. Ketchup probably is my favourite but some of the flavours that are amazing>> Korean BBQ, Filipino Adobo, Taco, Blue Cheese Buffalo Wings, Turkey Stuffing, Sea Salt Malt Vinegar, Pizza, jalapeno Popper, Butter Chicken, KFC Chicken, Sriracha, Garlic Parmesan, Honey Butter, Pickle and Cool Ranch Doritos are my fave right now. 😋 Then there are more options from imports from India, Philippines, China, Japan, Vietnam, etc... which add to the previous Canadian store flavours. Not sure but I think our pop/soda/sparkling water flavours are starting to get out there with the chips lately.
For the poutine piece - brilliant, and very subtle, because Homer Simpson is from Winnipeg
Well, this video now has me listening to "Fiddler's green" by The Hip. Buddy in the video didn't put across how extreme Sorry is in Canada. If we bump into a doorframe we say Sorry to it. It's hilarious. Hockey is life here. We had Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spotted here shopping in a mall. We shrugged at it. But if there is a Hockey Player doing an autograph signing? Absolute insanity erupts. Our Hockey Players are the only famous people that matter. We are not nice, we can get downright evil if you mess with us. We are a polite society that wants others to treat each other better. It just sucks that we live above a Meth Lab. lol
I was thinking about this video the other day and was hoping you would watch this. Also the hockey section is somewhat wrong. The AHL has numerous teams in Canada, and there is also the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) that is the farm teams for the AHL which has a couple of teams in Canada. There isn't a stand alone professional hockey league in Canada but the junior hockey leagues in Canada are extensive and well supported, similar to how college football in the US can sometimes seem more supported then even the NFL. True Canadian hockey fans are always glued to the TV on Boxing Day (Dec 26th) for puck drop on the World Junior Hockey Championships
Canada is a rather large place I was born and raised on the lower left coast and therefore don't say "eh". I find it cute how Americans will often say "You say eh all the time, don't you huh?" It seems that the American "huh" is similar to the Canadian "eh". You made a great observation about the use of eh and it's relation to your use in Scotland. The regional pronunciation of "about" is also Scottish related. On the west coast away from the parts of the country where there was a historically large amount of Scottish immigration you wont hear the "aboot". Unless of course the speaker was from the east, or raised in a Scottish family. Now, the "nice" vs "polite". I think they are quite different. I was a Mountie, yes that other stereotype, if all Canadians were "nice," I would have been out of work. You don't have to be nice to be polite, therefore creating a wonderful base for all types of sarcasm.
Nobody in Canada says, "aboot".
@K.C-2049 In some places; in others, it's more "abaowt". If you know what I mean ....... "Aboot" nowhere ... !
I'm was born and raised in Nova Scotia. I don't say aboot and I never heard it growing up.
@@denisegreene8441 And you never will hear it - in Canada, anyway.
Great video! You should do some more trailer park boys reactions! It gets so much better than what you've seen so far. Lahey is a mess lmao he's the best character alongside J-Roc
The Tragically Hip is definitely loved here. My favourite song by them is Bobcaygeon, though New Orleans is Sinking is also really good imo
I was born and spent my first 30 years in a small town called South Porcupine. It’s on the southern shore of Porcupine Lake. It’s too cold for porcupines there. Winter can be snowy from late October until mid April. The Hip are from Kingston, Ontario, just 30k from my current home, the name being an aboriginal Canadian one. Gord Lightfoot wrote the Canadian Railroad Trilogy for our centennial in 1967. Our Canadian hockey organization is the NHL, national hockey league. And Simon, it’s not gallons, it’s litres of milk in those unbreakable bags. I reuse them to freeze my home made soup etc. in the bags to decrease plastic waste. A lot of us do this. (Poutine is disgusting … lactose intolerant.) We invented the zipper, insulin, Wonder Bras, Kraft peanut butter … I’d die without that stuff. (Only other country where you can get it is Australia!) Our health care is superlative and essentially free because $300 or so is hidden in our taxes. In the USA you have to mortgage your home to get care after an accident or illness. I had several major surgeries after an accident … I’d be destitute otherwise! We’re a bilingual country, two official languages, and the only one I believe. We don’t mind gun control, and you have to sell your soul to get a hand gun. Long guns, for hunting, require a gun safety course and an FAC, fire arms certificate, to but one. I had a 4/10 shotgun when I lived in the bush … bought it at 16( to kill partridge) from a catalogue store called Sears, now defunct, with my Mom, Dad, and eldest sister. Fired it once, felt bad for killing the bird and now my son has it. He’s never fired it. We invented the water bomber airplanes too. There is a bomber plane airport on the aforementioned lake. Google it … you’ll be impressed! Our educational and health care systems are amongst the world’s best! We’re definitely a unique people and country. We tell people, when travelling, that we’re NOT American! Our Canadian accent, eh? Spectacular! Enjoy this essay, my Scottish friend.
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I always thought the two dollar coin should be called a doublooney, as in doubloon. I agree with the idea of codependency because during blizzards and in remote areas someone could easily be caught in a bind.
I agree! We should have called it a doubloon!
I thought it should be called a Bearie! Lol
I’m an abuser of the word “eh”. I play online games and every single time I say “eh” over comms, I get the “ArE YoU CaNAdIaN?!? LULZ”
All Dressed chips are good, Ketchup is pretty good too. Poutine is FUCKING AMAZING!! I’m surprised we aren’t recognized as a fat country because of it.
If you are going to get into The Hip,the album Live Between us,the concert videos, That Night in Toronto and/or The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration are a good start..A National Celebration really shows the character of the band. Gordy starts out rough,but he is a his peak by the end..
I still cry when I listen to Ahead by a Centry. That last 'Hip show still makes me cry.
Love your channel Bro! One thing though, Salt & Vinegar Chips are VERY popular here in Canada 🇨🇦.
One thing that is absolutely, 100% correct, is that, although we ARE technically American, due to the fact that we, along with Mexico, are part of North America (Something people in the US fail to realize),…. WE ARE NOT “AMERICANS”!!!
I carry booster cables in my vehicles. They are a must when someone needs a battery boost. I have used them many times. You never know when someone's battery is dead in the middle of winter.
Ha 😂 I love ❤️ watching curling even though I have never tried playing it 😊
PS ...I also like watching the Masters 😂 ...hmmm
Another band who gets very little press " The Crash Test Dummies" Give them a listen. I'm pretty sure you'll like their stuff. Start with a song called "mmmm, mmmm.mmmm, mmmm" The lead singer has the most unique voice in whatever song they sing, all their own compositions.
I love the Superman song! Ya Brads voice just makes me……..lol
The NHL is the Canadian hockey league.
Ahead by a Century
Trouble at the Henhouse · 1996 thats my favourite tragically hip song
One "weird" and amazing thing about Newfoundland Canada is that it is the MOST IRISH place outside of Ireland! Immigrants from Ireland settled there in the 1700s and because of their isolation, kept up their Irish accent and culture. Their last names can be traced back to Counties in Ireland. You should react to Newfoundland accent videos and see for yourself.
11:30 so we actually have 3 AHL teams in Canada now, the video is quite out of date(Belleville Senators, laval rocket, and toronto marlies [go sens go]). I think the reason youd have a hard time with another hockey league in Canada is just how big Canada is, and how spread out the major population centers are. For example, if you had a team in Halifax, Nova Scotia needing to travel to Victoria, British Columbia for one game, it would probably cost in the 10s of thousands to fly everyone there and back, plus housing and food, and to drive it would take the better part of a week, so that wouldnt be viable, either. The CHL found an interesting way to deal with the size of the country, by splitting up into 3 separate leagues that dont compete in the regular season, and only meet for the Calder cup after the post season, so a model like that may be possible, but at that point youd have to question how much these players will be paid, and whether salaries would be competitive enough with the other lower leagues to draw in talent. The European leagues tend to pay better than the AHL and ECHL do, but some players will choose ECHL rather than Europe for their professional careers because of the slim chance of being scouted and recruited. The most viable way to get more hockey might honestly be to get more NHL teams, but I dont think that's likely to happen any time soon(condolences to Quebec city, Halifax, and Hamilton)
The Laval Rocket from the province of Quebec also play in the American Hockey League along with the Toronto Marlies.
All good 😊 from Canada
There are places in Northern Canada where it's illegal to lock your vehicle so people have somewhere to escape in case of polar bears
Btw, LOVE your love of Canada 🇨🇦 🎉🎉🎉
2 of my favorite Hip Canadiana songs are Wheat Kings and Pretty Things as well as 38 Years Old. Would love to hear your take on them
Curling is fun.
We used to skate outside. I'm too old to know what skating indoors is like.
I stopped saying sorry a long time ago.
ok wait a fricken second... 9:40 is that 10-ply discount Babish inferring that the NHL is an American league? And this list was written by a Canadian? I call bullshit.
The NHL is a North American hockey league.
The league was founded in Canada.
Most of the players in the NHL are Canadian.
Canadian players hold the most NHL records.
The greatest player to ever lace up a pair for the NHL was Canadian.
The Stanley Cup is Canadian.
The team with the most Stanley Cup wins is the Montreal Canadiens.
Canada did have its own hockey league, the NHL, but it moved its headquarters from Montreal to New York in 1989. Basketball (CEBL) and football (CFL) are the only professional sports where there's a national champion crowned every year.
Thanks Mert for another great video, I'm in Ontario Canada and yes we do have bagged milk here which some people think is weird, but hey, we don't mind. It's funny some people do think that poutine is a greasy, cheesy mess, but than they try it and love it!!! Also the poutine restaurant that they show is Smoke's Poutinerie, btw I love that restaurant it's great, we love the pulled pork poutine, it's sooo good.
And the bagged milk is just on ON and QC. I was totally surprised about it when I first moved to ON. I had lived in NL and AB for years and never seen or even heard of bagged milk. Who knew!😊
The thing about all or most of the musical bands or singers mentioned in this video is that they’re either anglophones or sing in English. That leaves out all the Québécois singers or groups. I have vaguely heard of The Tragically Hip, but I don’t know their music.
Canada is known for being cold, but I live in Vancouver and we have palm trees lining our beaches, our average snowfall is usually 1-2 inches.
Milk is only in bags in QC and ON. It is in cartons and jugs everywhere else. But because it's in ON, it's assumed it's everywhere in the country (per another video I watched on bagged milk).
I think all curling stones are sourced from a single quarry in Scotland if I am not mistaken.
I've seen the pictures that the video posted of poutine - & yep, I'm drooling right now. (I'm Canadian 😄.)
I'm from the east coast ( Nova Scotia) and I would say yes, we say EH because of our historical background being largely from the UK
I think there is some merit to the idea that this country was founded on the intermingling of French, British, Indigenous etc. and we had to get along and also the idea that, due to the harsh elements, we have had to get along to survive. My favourite Hip songs are "Courage" dedicated to Canadian writer Hugh MacLennnan (who wrote an excellent book about the relationship between the English and French in Canada called "The Two Solitudes") and "Bobcaygeon".
Sorry! in Canada is "An apology is inadmissible in any judicial or quasi-judicial court proceeding as evidence of fault or liability." we have a law on the use of Sorry!
1:50 I lived in Ontario a while. That way of talking just wasn't a part of the dialect. I'm guessing that's more of a regional thing. Canada is such a massive country that there are quite a few regional differences in the way that the English language is spoken. Canada is far from being anywhere near as united as peoples might think and in many cases, communities have interactions with the US state nearest to them than they do with the province next to them.
19:05 That last part is definitely true. There's quite a few stories out there of peoples huddling together, sharing food and water during a harsh winter storm. They can be absolutely unforgiving. Even places just a few kilometers from a major city like Montreal can turn into a white hell rather quickly. Just a few years ago, rescue services took hours to get to everyone who was stuck on a major highway not too far from Montreal.
My favourite Hip songs are “ locked in the trunk of my car” “ New Orleans is sinking “(recorded before Katrina)
🇨🇦 If somebody (doing a job or not) does something that makes my life a little bit easier, or run a bit more smoothly, they deserve to be thanked.😍
And let's face it, no matter where we lived live, the little niceties can brighten somebody's day if only for a moment.
A few years ago I was in LA, and when I came to the counter with my groceries the cashier automatically said, "how are you today?" I said, "fine, thank you, how are you?" She was visibly taken aback, and stammered for a moment. It kind of made me sad that such an interaction was unexpected in her line of work, but it made me glad that I'm from a place where good manners and civil niceties matter.
Canada doesn’t have its own professional league? Then what nation is the National Hockey League referring to?
It's mostly American.
@@GWNorth-db8vn well yeah that’s the natural progression if you want to make money. Still started as a Canada only league.
Ownership has been American since like the 90s, the NHL as a "business" basically went bankrupt at one point.
@@coledevlin3984 - Toronto. Montreal, Detroit, Pittsburgh, New York, Boston.
@@GWNorth-db8vn You almost had the original six correct. Change Pittsburgh to Chicago and you would be correct.
Its a good video really accurate really, also the NHL is Canadian still we let American teams play. It's a unifying thing why we sing both anthems, it was founded in Montreal. Who holds the most Stanley Cups and it's home is in Montreal. Created as an award for the CHL that was awarded to Montreal in 1892.
We don’t have a national hockey league. But we do have a very active junior league as mentioned which is typically a provincial based league. For example, the city I’m from in Canada is in Ontario and our junior hockey league which is 16-21 is the OHL and our city of 400,000 has a hockey area that hold just under 10,000 people. And while it isn’t packed for every single game it’s certainly fairly full for almost every game and there are lots of games per season and especially the playoffs where it is completely sold out.
These teams are big farm teams for the NHL. A Canadian league wouldn’t be able to compete salary wise with the NHL to be able to attract the best over 21 players at this point, and we do have 7 teams in the NHL. But the reason we can win the Olympic so often despite not having our own national league is that a lot of the best players in the NHL in the US are Canadian. 😂
Side note: unlike other places where the football (American or British football 😂)stadium might become the stadium for concerts etc. the ice in my hometown hockey rink can be covered and becomes our stadium for concerts and other such events.
We say eh ('a'), you say aye (i) in Scotland unless I am wrong, but we probably use them both in similar situations and with similar meanings. What wasn't mentioned in the video and is difficult to explain is that the way eh is vocalized or emphasized will also affect the meaning of the word and possibly the entire sentence. Have a great day.