Yes, Canadian doctors protested in 2018 to have $700 million dollars in pay raises be redirected to nurses and other health care professionals who are not being paid enough. This Street, That Street and The Other Street are roads in Nova Scotia.
That s what Billy Graham has predicted for the future of Canada ....Leader of the World...There is a video of Billy Graham saying that.....TRIBUTE TO CANADA BY BYLLY GRAHAM..... Have nice day !!!!!! God Bless Canada....
Yes this is true that Canadian doctors protested their pay raise. Also, when I first moved to Toronto my apartment was broken into and the robbers left me a note in the fridge apologizing and they left me a Corona beer.
My husband got pulled over in a speed trap near a school. He got pulled over. ( thinking I wasn't speeding) "Constable?" "Yes sir, I just wanted to say you are the only driver to come by doing the limit, here is a book of coupons"
I was at a thrift shop and a new immigrant was buying some stuff with a voucher. They had a little boy about 4 who had a few small toys in his hands. When they got to the cash, the voucher did not have enough left to cover the toys. The little boy refused to put them down and the mother told the cashier to put back a mug. They were buying 3. I looked the the lad and realized he had to have some toys. I told the cashier I would pay the difference. She looked at me as though I was a god.
Yes the streets are named like that in Porters Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada. The small town seems to have run out of ideas for street names, so they came up with names like “This Street,” “That Street” and “The Other Street.”
In the far north, people do not lock their door due to emergencies and the severe cold. This person was not a robber, he just needed a snack and a drink. Since the homeowners were out, he wrote a note letting them know what happened, while they were away. He probably left a few bucks to pay for the stuff he took.
From Quebec here... We had a summer camp in the Laurentians near Mont-Tremblant and come fall, late October or early November, my dad would bring me up to the camp to prepare the cottage for winter and would hang the key to the door on a nail when we left until next spring and always left some canned food, dry wool sheets and fire wood for the the wood stove... just in case! It happened 2 or 3 times that during summer, a gentleman would pass by to reimburse my dad because they either got lost in the woods during hunting season, or had an accident of sort that put them in danger so they elected to spend a night in the house. One year my dad forgot to hang the door key, come spring, we found a glass pane broken, but fixed with some cardboard to make sure that snow wouldn't get in during the winter. The following summer a gentleman came by and said he fell trough the ice in the lake and was very close to die due to hyperthermia and found our cottage, so he broke into and stayed 2 days to dry his clothes and was so thankful for the food and the heat, he wanted to reimburse my dad for the food, the wood and the very slight damage to the door, my dad refused and said that he was very happy the man survived... That was a life lesson for me at 7-8 years old! It was not uncommon in those days!
@@lucbelanger4951 Your father is a treasure and what a true caring generous Canadian spirit he had. I love that the man who benefited came by to thank your father. I know he didn't do what he did for a reward, but it's awfully nice to have that validation every once and a while.
Winter grilling became very popular in our area during the 1998 ice storm that took out the electricity for over a week, as not everybody had gas stoves. Propane was hard to get and people would grill whatever they had in their freezers. Grilling was typically done at the mouth of the garage, with the door open. Around supper time, you could look up and down the street and see 6-12 neighbours grilling in their garage.
@@nigelwitgunn3406 Thank-you, but at the time it mostly an inconvenience. It wasn't anything that the vast majority of us hadn't experienced in the past. It was just more severe and much longer lasting. I'd rather live through another ice storm than a flood, hurricane, tornado or many other natural disasters. You weren't going to die unless you did something stupid. Basically, your life was in your own hands, rather than mother nature's. I believe there were only about 50 deaths that were directly attributable to the ice storm. Also, outside of the electricity and telephone infrastructure, there was little damage to most property beyond that associated with broken tree limbs. The silver lining was that it brought a lot of families closer together. I have many fond memories of all the extra one-on-one time that I was able to spend with my five year old son.
My Dad would always put the BBQ over to the sliding glass doors the minuet fall ended, getting ready to grill in winter before the snow started. And he grilled anything and everything.
If everyone is nice and decent to each other, it makes everyone a little happier at minimal effort. If someone is nice to you, pay it forward and be nice to someone else :) Its more or less how we are here.
in some of the more remote places in Canada it is common practice to leave your house/cottage unlocked, with a small stash of provisions to accommodate hunters and fishermen who may have gotten temporarily pinned down by the weather. If you are a hunter or fisherman who makes use of such accommodation, the custom is to leave some cash to cover the owner's costs. Think of it as a "bed and breakfast" where payment is by the "honour system".
That barbecue picture reminded me of a time back in the early 80's. I was playing hockey on a men's industrial league team on Sunday afternoons. Many of the guys on the team were American football fans and the decision was made to have a team Super Bowl party. Everybody chipped in. One guy had a heated storage unit in an industrial complex, and we decided to host the party there so as not to inflict 15 drunken hockey players on anybody's wife. We brought everything in we needed. The barbecue, lawn chairs, cases and cases of beer, TV's to watch the game, and one of my teammate's mothers ran a restaurant so we got a few cases of frozen hamburger patties. When it came time later to 'fire up the barbie', two of us stepped outside to find a full-blown blizzard had descended on us. The wind was howling and the snow was blowing sideways. We huddled up against the wall for over an hour cooking for the team. And one point, my buddy dropped a patty on the ground when we were reloading the grill. He picked it up and tossed it on the grill saying "There is no way in hell there are any germs alive out here". By the end of the night, we found that the snow had drifted heavily in the laneway and the cars were buried halfway up the doors in snow. We made a team effort to dig everybody out and all left together so that nobody got stranded. The car radio on the way home said the windchill was minus 50C. It was an experience.
Years ago I was working at a ski resort in the restaurant. We set up a BBQ outside, selling hot dogs and burgers. It was great fun. I remember the snow was packed down creating an icy patch, so I was sliding back and forth serving the patrons who were mostly still wearing their skis.
The Beaver is a friendly sort of creature, shy even but can be coaxed to be friendly. BUT one thing you should know ---> the beaver has the most wicked bite of any creature. The bite of a beaver can fall a tree. So don't get too close to one, definitely don't try to pet one who's acting scared.
You wouldn't want to take slap from that tail they have either, its leathery hard, and they can put alot force behind one of their tail slaps!! I've seen some BIG beavers too, they had to be 30-40 lbs, i wouldn't be surprised if a direct hit from beaver tail slap COULD break bones!!! Ive heard them slap the surface of the water, it sounds like a damn gun shot when you're not expecting it!! 😂 Been spooked a few times by them, out fishing, they're such a cool animal!!
And also they can emit a spray somehow like skunks but their stench is even far worse.... Luckily they won't spray you, they use their spray to mark their territory! :)
@@Tigercats1976 Where I live (Rivière des Mille-îsles in the northern crown of Montreal) every spring we see beavers swimming around, I would say around 20 lbs, not the big ones you describe, but when they plunge, their tail makes the same sound as if someone threw a 50 lbs rock in the river! Quite amazing
Hahahaha I posted a picture to my Facebook BBQ'ing with about 3 feet of snow. My friend who lives in Perth was shocked. She just could not wrap her brain around it LOL. I live in Edmonton Alberta as long as it is above -20c with no windchill it's BBQ season LMAO
The rule of thum is that if the temperature in October gets to 0c then you wear Long Pants. If its 0c in May you wear Shorts and T-Shirt. Welcome to Canada Eh! :)
Living in rural Ontario, Canada. Have had no hydro for a few days in winter after a storm. You put your food in the snow outside, use the fireplace for interior heat and extra clothes and blankets, and BBQ about 2 meals a day to keep warm. Even opened up canned beans put in a pot, and cook on bbq.
I'm from Canada. When I lived in Banff years ago we had an elk stick its head into our living room through an open window. I also had elk on my doorstep a few times and couldn't go inside for a while. I regularly see moose on my way to work now and live near a big city. I regularly see coyotes using the local sidewalks... they are hunting cats. So we have our Canadian moments. But the most Canadian thing ever was ice skating on the roadway by my house when we had severe ice storms a few years ago.
I've stopped to let animals cross many times, deer, foxes, a bear and even a wolf one time. The strangest though was when I was coming home from a party at around 2 am and found a skunk on the road ahead of me. This was on the Trans-Canada Highway but I put the car in park and waited 10 or 15 minutes while it wandered around in front of me before it finally went off to one side and I could safely pass. No way was I going to hurry that guy.
Watching the geese crossing the street with the cars stopped made me laugh because it’s true & I’ve done it myself & been in a taxi when the driver did it as well😂
8:36 "There's three foot of snow" Look again. Not even 3 inches. Bet it's cold though. "What do you grill?" Oh, quite a variety. There's the usual hamburgers and sausages (maybe hot dogs for the kids... they love them and that leaves more of the expensive seasoned sausages for we grown ups!) Steaks. We also sometimes do chicken breasts, some folks have a setup to rotisserie the whole chicken. Cut vegetables and small meat bits on a skewer called Shish-kabob... My elderly neighbor's caretaker is taking advantage of the nice summer weather to BBQ him whole meals (steak, veggies, potatoes) wrapped together in aluminium foil with butter and slow-cooked (that might be pushing the concept of "BBQ" a bit, but that's where the heat is coming from). As for the stereotype on the whole, one of the big reasons we love BBQ so much is because it's summer, so being outside cooking and having big family get-togethers is a fun option we didn't HAVE in the middle of the -30C winter! (Actually BBQing in the winter is a joke. Dude's oven is probably broken.)
Here in Canada we get a lot of immigrants. I was living in Ottawa at the time, and it gets hella snow, and can get very cold. I was working in retail, and i had a customer from an African country experiencing her first winter, and the poor lady literally thought she was going to die. I made a list of things she would need to have to dress for the winter and told her about dressing in layers because you want to trap your body heat. I alao told her that just because you see us wandering around without a coat and wearing shorts doesn't mean you should! Poor lady was so grateful
I lost my debit card the other day. A couple hours later i get a call from my bank saying someone found it and returned it there. I had already cancelled it and got a new one, but it refreshed my faith in humanity 😁
Here in Vancouver you can easily BBQ all year, because it doesn’t get that cold. Maybe 0 C with a few days of snow here and there in Dec or Jan. Every few years we get a “big dump” of snow (which is minor in comparison to back east) but that melts pretty fast as the ground rarely gets cold enough and the rain wil wash ball away. So BBQ is common!
Sorry Tash, but it's not a Canadian goose, it's a Canada Goose (Branta Cadensis). It's a species, not a citizen. You can BBQ just about anything. Moose are pretty strange critters, eh! You never know where you might see one, they don't seem to fear humans so they pretty much go wherever they want, after all who's gonna stop them. To be serious, in the summer they get hot and seek out water to cool off, just like the rest of us. Many of those so nice things in the video are not seen everywhere, everyday. However I have on one or two occasions given a few cents to the person ahead of me in the checkout line when they came up a bit short, and once I put a coin in an expired parking meter cause I saw the Meter Maid coming down the block.
17:00 (bus accident, "Sorry") Heh! That's an amusingly timed photo. The busses actually cycle through a message that reads "Out of Service" & "Sorry" when they're not running a route, so people don't get upset when the bus drives past a bus stop and doesn't stop to pick people up (when they're on-duty, that sign shows the route number so folks can tell from a distance if it's the bus they're waiting for or a different one). (unpauses video) Ah! You already know about this. Nvm then.
Tash, if I remember the news story correctly, the "moose in the pool" was a young calf that had gotten separated from its mother, then tried to walk across the snow & ice on top of the pool. Of course a moose, even a calf, is not light, and as it was spring the ice broke and the calf had an unexpected cold bath. They got a guy out from Fish & Wildlife right smartly, because the mother Moose was going around the back lanes, bellowing and calling, "Come To Mum!" The concern for the homeowner and his neighbor was wanting to not be anywhere near the cow moose when she found the yard and came in. But the moose calf was really skittish - frightened and not at all happy about humans ('Who are these funny-looking weirdos?) trying to lift it out of the pool. Even with all 3 of them, it was a bit of a battle - the moose calf was about 110 kilos, and thrashing around. Fortunately, they got the calf's head and forequarters over the rim of the pool and onto an ice-free area beside the pool. ,After that, the calf was a little more eager to get its back legs over the pool wall. It was good timing, because right about then Mother Moose finally found the back gate. The 3 guys - soaking wet - backed away right quick when they heard Mum coming. Once she found her calf, she just wanted to get away from people. So they retreated indoors, & maybe had a beer to celebrate the "rescue." I can't recall where this happened - it wasn't near where I was living, but there was something on the news. It's not all that unusual for people who have swimming pools to look out and see a moose in their pool - an adult moose can jump out. My parents house was close to a large river valley. Having wildlife stop by didn't happen every day, and usually it wasn't a problem. One morning, my Mum looked out at the huge white Poplar tree in her front yard, and noticed what looked like a cat's tail hanging down - but bigger than a typical family pet. And it was a cat - a full size mountain lion stretched out on one of the large lower branches having a snooze . It stayed there for most of the morning, and then headed back down to the river valley. She called Fish & Wildlife, but they were not in a hurry to do anything drastic - it hadn't been snacking on anybody's pets, and Mum's house wasn't close to any school. So one Wildlife officer stopped by to have a look, then asked her to call if it began roaming around the yard. Around Noon a couple of F&W officers came back to have another look, but the cougar was gone, leaving tracks heading toward the river valley. Having a deer or a black bear come into the yard happened occasionally, but usually they didn't hang around - unlike the cougar. Cheers - love your hat!
The clips were OK but what I enjoyed immensely was your cackle, you laughed at just about every clip and that cackle just permeated, You made me laugh its beautiful don't change that, it's wonderful thank you so much for sharing it.
If I remember correctly the one with the police playing road hockey were responding to a complaint called in about the kids playing in the street and making noise. It was a dead end the kids were just having fun during the day so the police joined iin.
Canadians will smile, put you at ease, Yet like a quiet, soft lioness in the shadows ALWAYS watching you , making you comfortable. If you are a friend you will be fine but if you are not you will become our supper.
🇨🇦🇨🇦 I wish I was able to post a picture or video. My son (49) shovels snow to clear the basketball courts so he can shoot hoops! All this in his shorts, t-shirt and flip flops! 🇨🇦🇨🇦
As to the bus. It would say "Sorry, not in service' or 'Sorry, no longer in service' Any bus driver can display any kind of message on those electronic signs.
"You guys are a whole different sort...(etc)" We have our dirtbags and bastards also... but the best of us are absolutely wonderful in surprising ways!
I love your posts on Canada. I am Candian from Hamilton just 60km from Toronto. The last video I watched was so Candian. You have become my #1. My other 2 are a Scott who does the same and an American. We are so nice.
@Aussie Tash the only time of year that geese are aggressive is egg laying season (March/April). Once the goslings have hatched and for most of the year they would rather avoid people.
I remember the guy walking his sheep. This happened in my hometown. It was one of the most random things I've ever seen since he was walking his sheep in the middle of the city in a snowstorm.
4:30 "What are you leaving on the top there? [money] and..." and tickets. You can either buy tickets for transit systems (buses or trains/subway) or if you didn't find time to pick up a strip of them at the station (or if you only travel that way very rarely, like your car is getting repaired today) you can also pay cash. The tickets are the better deal, financially. You get more trips for your dollar buying the tickets.
Thank you for your enjoyable videos, Aussie Tash. Just to let you know, "geese" (gooses?) have no nationality assigned to them. "Canada goose" is the species' name. (Although, Canada is the typical birthplace of the species in spring, most winter in the USA.) 'Sorry' but the bottom line is, they are CANADA GEESE (period/full stop) and not now or ever Canadian geese.[EDIT] I should mention that I am born and bred in Canada, live Toronto and have visited all 10 provinces and 3 territories. Each is amazingly distinct and worthy of a visit or attention.]
The pictures you show are funny but I find your hilarious reaction to them makes me laugh as much as they do. Years ago I might have had some funny reactions to Australia but had to cancel that trip. The two friends I had planned to go with did spend a few years there but experienced somewhat of a tragedy - they both came back Mormons! Although I missed seeing Australia it looks like I might have dodged a bullet.
Admittedly, I've left money at the turnstile when there was no staff at a Toronto subway station. I put it in the box though so there was no chance someone could swipe it. It would have gnawed at me for 2-3 days if I didn't pay. I've also seen a Toronto subway station with no staff and no box. It did have money, subway tokens, and tickets piled high on the turnstile. I guess no thief dared take it as there was a constant stream of people going through.
The picture of the moose at the front door reminded me of a picture of my dad. It was before I was born but he was at his fathers place and he was feeding a deer inside. Apparently the deer had come inside and it was eating out of my dad's hand. It was in Saskatchewan in a really small village called Paddockwood.
@7:50 Spain has the running of the bulls! Canada has the running of the moose! I never seen that happen, but if it did, it would be in Canada! Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
There was one night going home after doing my job at a hockey as the broadcaster I was walking up the street right out front my mom's house all I can hear is click clat click clat so I 5hink to my self maybe it one of the omish family's down or back roads I look up to see a full growing moose walking down the middle of the road so I was like nope not today and slowly started backing away with my eyes locked on the thing to make sure I didn't spook it and of course I couldn't get to my mom's house cuz the moose was in the middle
We had a moose that regularly visited our house. I had to cancel a dr's appointment once because she was laying on the ground between our house and garage. Also have a pic of her looking in our front window and a video of her bringing by her twins for a visit.
I don't BBQ in the winter, it gets too cold and the BBQ doesn't get hot enough to cook stuff. I love homemade bread toasted on the BBQ, it tastes so good. And diced potatoes with some herbs and a bit of oil.
That fashion statement in a small town bar, is scary accurate. Of course there are regional differences in some parts plaid would give way to grey stanfield wool shirts. Canadians are polite and kind! Apparently the guy I encountered in traffic last week didn't get that memo. Bunny hug, use that term around here and your going to get some strange looks. We call them hoodies.
I'm American. Ive never been to our neighbor, Canada, but I'd really love to go sometime and experience all that small-town friendliness and decency for myself. Good for Canada! They are embracing the qualities that elevate mankind to the next level. 🍁
@@johnburns8660 OK. Thanks for the tip. As a former resident and native of southern CA, I'd say the same about LA. A lot of people love it, but I'm not one of them, and you need to know which parts to avoid.
18:20 (Beaver blocking the Timmy's drive-thru) "What do you do?" I put the car in park, walk to the window, collect my order (my legs ain't broken!) and ask for an extra plain Timbit to feed to the beaver (least unhealthy option for said beaver). Ask the girl at the window to use my phone to record my attempt to get him to take it from my hand. Best case scenario... I get a new clip or photo to add to this same video you're watching. ^_^ (And no, do NOT try to pet the beaver... or ANY wild animal, quite frankly.)
Aussie Tash, Love ya, I'm from the hockey centre of the universe.... Toronto. They're are no harder hits in any team sports than hockey. The players are skating faster than the faster runners on this planet. Shoulder on the shoulder is a clean hit. Hockey players are taught to keep their heads up and never target your opponents head.
We usually just grill whatever we happened to be in the middle of cooking when a storm put the power out. Then everything thats going to go bad in the fridge/freezer if (its a warm winter like this year, otherwise we can just put it in a snowbank).
5:23 Interesting thing you've missed here is that this is obviously NOT from any city or government-run parking authority, and the person checking cars it ISN'T a police officer working in traffic division. This is just a private business, having set up machines in their own lot, charging people for parking. Most people will pay out of habit, without reading the fine print on the machine too closely to see whom they're paying, but the legal authority to DEMAND money from anyone not voluntarily paying is... shaky at best. THAT is why all they're getting is a flyer encouraging to voluntarily give them money next time. I've been to a privately owned parking lot nearby a big musical show I was going to see. The meter was broken, and a lady was already on the phone complaining the thing had eaten her credit card. Nothing I could do, and I didn't want to miss the show, so I put a note on my windshield explaining the meter was broken and I couldn't pay even if I'd wanted to. I was given a fake "ticket" anyway. As soon as I read it I could see it wasn't a real ticket, so with a snort, I felt free to ignore it. They have a responsibility to maintain the machine in working order. Not my fault, is it? I did keep the ticket in case trouble came of it later. They found me too, or at least my mailing address. Sent me letters demanding ever escalating numbers of money (nothing as official as a civically enforced "fine", by the way, just greater amounts of money for no justifiable or even mentioned reason). After the third one (which was now over $100), I called the number on the bottom. As soon as I picked up and identified myself, it was "When will you pay this ticket?" "Uh... Never." I pointed out that, while it might be reasonable to demand the original amount, there was no justification at all to demand every higher amounts. They're not any valid authority, just a private business, and in addition to not maintaining the machine being their responsibility, not mine, a business can't just jack up the price of their service after the fact without just cause or prior notice. I was entirely willing to argue this in court. They very quickly decided to be "generous" and "waive your fine... just this once." Uhuh. Right. Damned grifters.
I had my wedding reception at the Airlane hotel! No bears tho 😂 Also meant to tell you, Tash, that I was born and raised in Canada, spent 16 years living in moose country, and never saw one. Moved to the GTA for work and now have retired at 61 and moved back to Northwestern Ontario. It was on the move back in early June that I saw my first moose in the wild. It was very exciting
As a Canuck, I've seen many animals fall into our pools. If they are alive, we get them out. I once need to take a massive turtle out of my pool. Found a stream, and sent him home.
@@leeneufeld4140 *laffs* okay to be fair I worded that poorly, let me re-phrase: If they are alive we rescue them, if they are dead, we chuck their little bodies into the forest behind the house to return them to nature. Actually I guess either way we are returning them to nature, we'd just prefer to get there before they expire(fishing out dead baby bunnies is not a fun process).
@@jaybea365 There's a thing called a Frog Log, a kind of float with a way to climb out you can get for your pool. Or you can google for it and make something similar yourself. If it's a little ornamental garden pool, you can put in some rocks as an escape route.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 Parents pool, long ago learned I can't teach them anything, except that as a child I *demanded* an actual pond(which has seasonal frog residents - no clue where they go in winter, but every spring they are back)
@@jaybea365 Many frogs survive winter in the mud at the bottom of ponds deep enough to be below the frost line. The woods frog, that ranges as far north as the tree line winters in leaf litter. It raises its blood sugar to an amazingly high level to act as antifreeze. This lets it become active early enough to raise the next generation before the next freeze up. Btw, this is the same sort of thing that makes kale sweeter after frost, and carrots and parsnip sweeter after overwintering. Sugar as antifreeze.
I don’t bbq in the winter very often as the cold takes a lot of the heat away and it takes much longer to heat up. Consequently using much more gas $$.
A friend had always gotten those type of tickets 7:25, he was a truck driver & Ontario Provincial Police had loved that my friend was the most considerate kind driver & those police was upset about a Labour Board decision because of a incident that involved the use of his truck which he was not physically responsible for because the police was actually with him at a truck stop & saw him eating his dinner at the exact moment the incident on Highway 401 occured.....my friend could NOT be in 2 places at once & his truck was taken without his knowledge & consent by a jerk & a known trouble-making brat at most times by the police, the Labour Board decision was the wrong type that caused my friend to have a shockingly bad reaction & the police was scared that he was having a stroke & rushed him to hospital with all sirens screaming. The police took it to court & had the Labour Board decision overturned. My friend never recovered from the shock & sold his truck to another after repairs was made.
I really enjoyed your videos and comments plus learning more about the world around me. They are leaving transit tickets to pay for the train/ bus. Hopefully you see the meme about someone that has move to Canada and shows first winter all bundle up and another picture a few years and is wearing light clothes and bbq in the winter and it says when you finally to the cold and now a full a Canadian citizen. That is really name of street and gets more interesting in certain provinces with more weird names. Yes beavers will bite and have very big teeth and can course death with their big teeth.
8:15 Yes, that's a Canadian Goose (their colourings are pretty distinctive. There's also a more... I'll use the word "generic" breed of goose that is mostly white. They're rarer though.) They do also migrate south into the USA during the winter, so I wonder if half the reason they got that name was Americans in the colder months freaking out going "where the hell did all these MILLION of weird-looking geese come from?" "From Canada, man." "Well damn! (Are we allowed to shoot them?)"
Those things in top of the money in the subway are student tickets. You can either pay by cash or by student tickets or adult ones. If you buy in bulk like 20 tickets it ends up costing less than if you just paid in cash. Or you can buy a month pass and use it as much as you want.
I got a speeding ticket just outside of Moose Jaw Saskatchewan. It was a construction zone, 60km hr. I was going 78km hr. They sent me a picture of our vehicle and licenses plate but no construction can be seen in the picture. ??? The fine was $150. We like pork ribs on the barbie.
Back in the day when I was in school one of the guys in my class looked out the window and yelled, "theirs a Moose on the field". The school board workers were chasing it off the playing field. Another time I didn't close my garage door and went to the bar. After having some I drove home to find a Black Bear trying to get into our deep freeze in the garage. My neighbour and I had to beat it with spades to get it out of the garage so I could park. Don't you have the same troubles but with Kangaroo?
I've found Canadians and Australians are more alike than Canadians and Americans. Don't get me wrong, I have many wonderful American friends. It's possibly because of the Commonwealth thing. I don't really know. I've had the good fortune to spend a few months in Australia travelling the Gold Coast, Sailing in Sydney, Melbourne visiting friends, Camping along the River-Murray. My family and I travelled the world with my work with the Canadian embassies and I once seriously considered retiring to Oz. Hope you come enjoy Canada someday and I'd like to return the hospitality I was shown.
I don't want to burst the bubble on how nice and polite Canadians are. Yes we are generally pretty decent people, but around here, too many people will steal anything that isn't nailed down. No one in my building can leave a mat in front of their door, it will disappear. My neighbour was expecting an Amazon delivery, and was at home. It didn't show up, so she called and was told that it had been delivered, but oops, next door. Now this woman's name and address was on the box, and yet when she knocked, the d¡ck was wearing the expensive sweater she'd bought for her brother's Christmas gift, and eating the expensive ham that was for the brother too. We have 🍑-holes too.
Had, so I was told, a moose on my driveway one Saturday morning, years ago . Wasn't home at the time, remarked later to someone about hearing that a moose had been wandering around in our area of the city. Yeah, she said, I drove by your house and it was on your driveway!😳
12:01 is a game warden. A mountie would have a yellow stripe on their trousers. And as for Bigfoot and his li buddy is , I dunno... 18:26 What's better then a timmies dognut...a Beaver Tail...come're lil beaver...
Yes, Canadian doctors protested in 2018 to have $700 million dollars in pay raises be redirected to nurses and other health care professionals who are not being paid enough. This Street, That Street and The Other Street are roads in Nova Scotia.
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Love your channel. We Canadians love you Aussies too! 😊
"Someday Canada will conquer the World and then you'll all be Sorry".
Sorry, but that's an improvement.🙂
@@ninemoonplanet See? It's starting. You're already Sorry. :-D
Shhhhh......don't let them know our real reasons....
That s what Billy Graham has predicted for the future of Canada ....Leader of the World...There is a video of Billy Graham saying that.....TRIBUTE TO CANADA BY BYLLY GRAHAM..... Have nice day !!!!!! God Bless Canada....
@@nicolem2982 Well, I knew I was quoting somebody...
Yes this is true that Canadian doctors protested their pay raise. Also, when I first moved to Toronto my apartment was broken into and the robbers left me a note in the fridge apologizing and they left me a Corona beer.
really, oh my
My husband got pulled over in a speed trap near a school. He got pulled over. ( thinking I wasn't speeding) "Constable?" "Yes sir, I just wanted to say you are the only driver to come by doing the limit, here is a book of coupons"
To be fair, we're not trying to trick Aussie Tash, we're trying to trick Americans. Tash is just collateral damage :P
I was at a thrift shop and a new immigrant was buying some stuff with a voucher. They had a little boy about 4 who had a few small toys in his hands. When they got to the cash, the voucher did not have enough left to cover the toys. The little boy refused to put them down and the mother told the cashier to put back a mug. They were buying 3. I looked the the lad and realized he had to have some toys. I told the cashier I would pay the difference. She looked at me as though I was a god.
I forgot to mention that the parents thanked me in French, English and what I assumed was their native language. I felt great.
I enjoy your channel. 75 years and never get tired of stories about my Canada. 🇨🇦 🍁
Yes the streets are named like that in Porters Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada. The small town seems to have run out of ideas for street names, so they came up with names like “This Street,” “That Street” and “The Other Street.”
In the far north, people do not lock their door due to emergencies and the severe cold. This person was not a robber, he just needed a snack and a drink. Since the homeowners were out, he wrote a note letting them know what happened, while they were away. He probably left a few bucks to pay for the stuff he took.
From Quebec here... We had a summer camp in the Laurentians near Mont-Tremblant and come fall, late October or early November, my dad would bring me up to the camp to prepare the cottage for winter and would hang the key to the door on a nail when we left until next spring and always left some canned food, dry wool sheets and fire wood for the the wood stove... just in case!
It happened 2 or 3 times that during summer, a gentleman would pass by to reimburse my dad because they either got lost in the woods during hunting season, or had an accident of sort that put them in danger so they elected to spend a night in the house.
One year my dad forgot to hang the door key, come spring, we found a glass pane broken, but fixed with some cardboard to make sure that snow wouldn't get in during the winter.
The following summer a gentleman came by and said he fell trough the ice in the lake and was very close to die due to hyperthermia and found our cottage, so he broke into and stayed 2 days to dry his clothes and was so thankful for the food and the heat, he wanted to reimburse my dad for the food, the wood and the very slight damage to the door, my dad refused and said that he was very happy the man survived...
That was a life lesson for me at 7-8 years old!
It was not uncommon in those days!
@@lucbelanger4951 Your father is a treasure and what a true caring generous Canadian spirit he had. I love that the man who benefited came by to thank your father. I know he didn't do what he did for a reward, but it's awfully nice to have that validation every once and a while.
Winter grilling became very popular in our area during the 1998 ice storm that took out the electricity for over a week, as not everybody had gas stoves. Propane was hard to get and people would grill whatever they had in their freezers. Grilling was typically done at the mouth of the garage, with the door open. Around supper time, you could look up and down the street and see 6-12 neighbours grilling in their garage.
We still do this in winter 😊
You guys got hit so bloody hard, over and over again, love and respect mate.
@@nigelwitgunn3406 Thank-you, but at the time it mostly an inconvenience. It wasn't anything that the vast majority of us hadn't experienced in the past. It was just more severe and much longer lasting.
I'd rather live through another ice storm than a flood, hurricane, tornado or many other natural disasters. You weren't going to die unless you did something stupid. Basically, your life was in your own hands, rather than mother nature's. I believe there were only about 50 deaths that were directly attributable to the ice storm. Also, outside of the electricity and telephone infrastructure, there was little damage to most property beyond that associated with broken tree limbs.
The silver lining was that it brought a lot of families closer together. I have many fond memories of all the extra one-on-one time that I was able to spend with my five year old son.
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My Dad would always put the BBQ over to the sliding glass doors the minuet fall ended, getting ready to grill in winter before the snow started. And he grilled anything and everything.
Lol, the "Sorry" bus... it flashes the next screen as "Not in Service".
If everyone is nice and decent to each other, it makes everyone a little happier at minimal effort.
If someone is nice to you, pay it forward and be nice to someone else :)
Its more or less how we are here.
I try to be nice.
in some of the more remote places in Canada it is common practice to leave your house/cottage unlocked, with a small stash of provisions to accommodate hunters and fishermen who may have gotten temporarily pinned down by the weather. If you are a hunter or fisherman who makes use of such accommodation, the custom is to leave some cash to cover the owner's costs. Think of it as a "bed and breakfast" where payment is by the "honour system".
That barbecue picture reminded me of a time back in the early 80's. I was playing hockey on a men's industrial league team on Sunday afternoons. Many of the guys on the team were American football fans and the decision was made to have a team Super Bowl party. Everybody chipped in. One guy had a heated storage unit in an industrial complex, and we decided to host the party there so as not to inflict 15 drunken hockey players on anybody's wife. We brought everything in we needed. The barbecue, lawn chairs, cases and cases of beer, TV's to watch the game, and one of my teammate's mothers ran a restaurant so we got a few cases of frozen hamburger patties. When it came time later to 'fire up the barbie', two of us stepped outside to find a full-blown blizzard had descended on us. The wind was howling and the snow was blowing sideways. We huddled up against the wall for over an hour cooking for the team. And one point, my buddy dropped a patty on the ground when we were reloading the grill. He picked it up and tossed it on the grill saying "There is no way in hell there are any germs alive out here". By the end of the night, we found that the snow had drifted heavily in the laneway and the cars were buried halfway up the doors in snow. We made a team effort to dig everybody out and all left together so that nobody got stranded. The car radio on the way home said the windchill was minus 50C. It was an experience.
love all these stories, cheers mate
Years ago I was working at a ski resort in the restaurant. We set up a BBQ outside, selling hot dogs and burgers. It was great fun. I remember the snow was packed down creating an icy patch, so I was sliding back and forth serving the patrons who were mostly still wearing their skis.
for a beaver in the Tim's drive through... you a) wait patiently - you're in Canada after all OR b) drive half a block to the next Tim's.
Why not go to the one across the street?
Or just get him a double double
The Beaver is a friendly sort of creature, shy even but can be coaxed to be friendly. BUT one thing you should know ---> the beaver has the most wicked bite of any creature. The bite of a beaver can fall a tree. So don't get too close to one, definitely don't try to pet one who's acting scared.
Beavers only chew down deciduous trees; no Xmas Trees.
You wouldn't want to take slap from that tail they have either, its leathery hard, and they can put alot force behind one of their tail slaps!! I've seen some BIG beavers too, they had to be 30-40 lbs, i wouldn't be surprised if a direct hit from beaver tail slap COULD break bones!!! Ive heard them slap the surface of the water, it sounds like a damn gun shot when you're not expecting it!! 😂 Been spooked a few times by them, out fishing, they're such a cool animal!!
And also they can emit a spray somehow like skunks but their stench is even far worse.... Luckily they won't spray you, they use their spray to mark their territory! :)
@@Tigercats1976 Where I live (Rivière des Mille-îsles in the northern crown of Montreal) every spring we see beavers swimming around, I would say around 20 lbs, not the big ones you describe, but when they plunge, their tail makes the same sound as if someone threw a 50 lbs rock in the river!
Quite amazing
@michaeldowson
We know the beaver did not chop down the Christmas tree because it was a stuffed-toy with felt-tip teeth.
Sorry, eh !?
Hahahaha I posted a picture to my Facebook BBQ'ing with about 3 feet of snow. My friend who lives in Perth was shocked. She just could not wrap her brain around it LOL. I live in Edmonton Alberta as long as it is above -20c with no windchill it's BBQ season LMAO
The rule of thum is that if the temperature in October gets to 0c then you wear Long Pants. If its 0c in May you wear Shorts and T-Shirt. Welcome to Canada Eh! :)
It's amazing how different the same temp can feel in spring and in the fall.
Living in rural Ontario, Canada. Have had no hydro for a few days in winter after a storm. You put your food in the snow outside, use the fireplace for interior heat and extra clothes and blankets, and BBQ about 2 meals a day to keep warm. Even opened up canned beans put in a pot, and cook on bbq.
I'm from Canada. When I lived in Banff years ago we had an elk stick its head into our living room through an open window. I also had elk on my doorstep a few times and couldn't go inside for a while. I regularly see moose on my way to work now and live near a big city. I regularly see coyotes using the local sidewalks... they are hunting cats. So we have our Canadian moments. But the most Canadian thing ever was ice skating on the roadway by my house when we had severe ice storms a few years ago.
I've stopped to let animals cross many times, deer, foxes, a bear and even a wolf one time. The strangest though was when I was coming home from a party at around 2 am and found a skunk on the road ahead of me. This was on the Trans-Canada Highway but I put the car in park and waited 10 or 15 minutes while it wandered around in front of me before it finally went off to one side and I could safely pass. No way was I going to hurry that guy.
Watching the geese crossing the street with the cars stopped made me laugh because it’s true & I’ve done it myself & been in a taxi when the driver did it as well😂
Same here in both situations. lol.
I remember city transit buses having to stop and wait for them to get off the road when I was going to university years ago. 😂
9:17 all the same things I cook in the summer, except I wear a sweater and a toque
Love you man I’m from Canada and we love Australian people too
It is so cool that someone from another country takes interest and loves Canada as much as Canadians love it. Keep up the great videos Aussie Tash
The Dr.s did protest because the nurses were not getting a decent raise
8:36 "There's three foot of snow" Look again. Not even 3 inches. Bet it's cold though.
"What do you grill?" Oh, quite a variety. There's the usual hamburgers and sausages (maybe hot dogs for the kids... they love them and that leaves more of the expensive seasoned sausages for we grown ups!) Steaks. We also sometimes do chicken breasts, some folks have a setup to rotisserie the whole chicken. Cut vegetables and small meat bits on a skewer called Shish-kabob... My elderly neighbor's caretaker is taking advantage of the nice summer weather to BBQ him whole meals (steak, veggies, potatoes) wrapped together in aluminium foil with butter and slow-cooked (that might be pushing the concept of "BBQ" a bit, but that's where the heat is coming from).
As for the stereotype on the whole, one of the big reasons we love BBQ so much is because it's summer, so being outside cooking and having big family get-togethers is a fun option we didn't HAVE in the middle of the -30C winter! (Actually BBQing in the winter is a joke. Dude's oven is probably broken.)
Here in Canada we get a lot of immigrants. I was living in Ottawa at the time, and it gets hella snow, and can get very cold. I was working in retail, and i had a customer from an African country experiencing her first winter, and the poor lady literally thought she was going to die. I made a list of things she would need to have to dress for the winter and told her about dressing in layers because you want to trap your body heat. I alao told her that just because you see us wandering around without a coat and wearing shorts doesn't mean you should! Poor lady was so grateful
12:20 "Canadiest". As an actual Canadian living in Canada, this is officially one of my newest FAVOURITE TERMS EVER!!! 🤣
lol
Morning Tash enjoyed watching this with you 🫶
I lost my debit card the other day. A couple hours later i get a call from my bank saying someone found it and returned it there. I had already cancelled it and got a new one, but it refreshed my faith in humanity 😁
Here in Vancouver you can easily BBQ all year, because it doesn’t get that cold. Maybe 0 C with a few days of snow here and there in Dec or Jan. Every few years we get a “big dump” of snow (which is minor in comparison to back east) but that melts pretty fast as the ground rarely gets cold enough and the rain wil wash ball away. So BBQ is common!
Sorry Tash, but it's not a Canadian goose, it's a Canada Goose (Branta Cadensis). It's a species, not a citizen. You can BBQ just about anything. Moose are pretty strange critters, eh! You never know where you might see one, they don't seem to fear humans so they pretty much go wherever they want, after all who's gonna stop them. To be serious, in the summer they get hot and seek out water to cool off, just like the rest of us. Many of those so nice things in the video are not seen everywhere, everyday. However I have on one or two occasions given a few cents to the person ahead of me in the checkout line when they came up a bit short, and once I put a coin in an expired parking meter cause I saw the Meter Maid coming down the block.
Want to make a Canadian apologize? Just bump into him/her/them, or step on our toes.
It’s so much fun hanging out with you! Love your laugh. Watching from Nova Scotia.
Cheers mate 😀😃
Beaver's our national animal... you wait. You don't honk and piss it off... you just wait.
Or park and go inside to get your coffee.
17:00 (bus accident, "Sorry") Heh! That's an amusingly timed photo. The busses actually cycle through a message that reads "Out of Service" & "Sorry" when they're not running a route, so people don't get upset when the bus drives past a bus stop and doesn't stop to pick people up (when they're on-duty, that sign shows the route number so folks can tell from a distance if it's the bus they're waiting for or a different one).
(unpauses video) Ah! You already know about this. Nvm then.
Tash, if I remember the news story correctly, the "moose in the pool" was a young calf that had gotten separated from its mother, then tried to walk across the snow & ice on top of the pool. Of course a moose, even a calf, is not light, and as it was spring the ice broke and the calf had an unexpected cold bath. They got a guy out from Fish & Wildlife right smartly, because the mother Moose was going around the back lanes, bellowing and calling, "Come To Mum!"
The concern for the homeowner and his neighbor was wanting to not be anywhere near the cow moose when she found the yard and came in. But the moose calf was really skittish - frightened and not at all happy about humans ('Who are these funny-looking weirdos?) trying to lift it out of the pool. Even with all 3 of them, it was a bit of a battle - the moose calf was about 110 kilos, and thrashing around. Fortunately, they got the calf's head and forequarters over the rim of the pool and onto an ice-free area beside the pool. ,After that, the calf was a little more eager to get its back legs over the pool wall. It was good timing, because right about then Mother Moose finally found the back gate. The 3 guys - soaking wet - backed away right quick when they heard Mum coming. Once she found her calf, she just wanted to get away from people. So they retreated indoors, & maybe had a beer to celebrate the "rescue." I can't recall where this happened - it wasn't near where I was living, but there was something on the news. It's not all that unusual for people who have swimming pools to look out and see a moose in their pool - an adult moose can jump out. My parents house was close to a large river valley. Having wildlife stop by didn't happen every day, and usually it wasn't a problem.
One morning, my Mum looked out at the huge white Poplar tree in her front yard, and noticed what looked like a cat's tail hanging down - but bigger than a typical family pet. And it was a cat - a full size mountain lion stretched out on one of the large lower branches having a snooze . It stayed there for most of the morning, and then headed back down to the river valley. She called Fish & Wildlife, but they were not in a hurry to do anything drastic - it hadn't been snacking on anybody's pets, and Mum's house wasn't close to any school. So one Wildlife officer stopped by to have a look, then asked her to call if it began roaming around the yard. Around Noon a couple of F&W officers came back to have another look, but the cougar was gone, leaving tracks heading toward the river valley. Having a deer or a black bear come into the yard happened occasionally, but usually they didn't hang around - unlike the cougar. Cheers - love your hat!
16:30 Yep...This/That/The Other Streets are real. Located in Porters Lake; just east of Halifax, NS.
That was a killer vid and reaction!
Thanks, Aussie Tash!
cheers
As for the beaver you grab your hockey stick out the car and kindly shew him away lol
The clips were OK but what I enjoyed immensely was your cackle,
you laughed at just about every clip and that cackle just permeated, You made me laugh
its beautiful
don't change that,
it's wonderful
thank you so much for sharing it.
Glad you enjoyed it
If I remember correctly the one with the police playing road hockey were responding to a complaint called in about the kids playing in the street and making noise. It was a dead end the kids were just having fun during the day so the police joined iin.
That was a good one. Thanks Aussie Tash from the Stampede City.😁🤠✌😸🍻🇨🇦
Canadians will smile, put you at ease, Yet like a quiet, soft lioness in the shadows ALWAYS watching you , making you comfortable. If you are a friend you will be fine but if you are not you will become our supper.
🇨🇦🇨🇦 I wish I was able to post a picture or video. My son (49) shovels snow to clear the basketball courts so he can shoot hoops! All this in his shorts, t-shirt and flip flops! 🇨🇦🇨🇦
As to the bus. It would say "Sorry, not in service' or 'Sorry, no longer in service' Any bus driver can display any kind of message on those electronic signs.
"You guys are a whole different sort...(etc)" We have our dirtbags and bastards also... but the best of us are absolutely wonderful in surprising ways!
Thanks for the video 😊
I love your posts on Canada. I am Candian from Hamilton just 60km from Toronto. The last video I watched was so Candian. You have become my #1. My other 2 are a Scott who does the same and an American. We are so nice.
@Aussie Tash the only time of year that geese are aggressive is egg laying season (March/April). Once the goslings have hatched and for most of the year they would rather avoid people.
busses say sorry if they are full as well as if they are not in service
I remember the guy walking his sheep. This happened in my hometown. It was one of the most random things I've ever seen since he was walking his sheep in the middle of the city in a snowstorm.
Where was that?
@@darcymartin7608 It happened at Queen's University in the middle of campus so Kingston Ontario.
4:30 "What are you leaving on the top there? [money] and..." and tickets. You can either buy tickets for transit systems (buses or trains/subway) or if you didn't find time to pick up a strip of them at the station (or if you only travel that way very rarely, like your car is getting repaired today) you can also pay cash. The tickets are the better deal, financially. You get more trips for your dollar buying the tickets.
Thank you for your enjoyable videos, Aussie Tash. Just to let you know, "geese" (gooses?) have no nationality assigned to them. "Canada goose" is the species' name. (Although, Canada is the typical birthplace of the species in spring, most winter in the USA.) 'Sorry' but the bottom line is, they are CANADA GEESE (period/full stop) and not now or ever Canadian geese.[EDIT] I should mention that I am born and bred in Canada, live Toronto and have visited all 10 provinces and 3 territories. Each is amazingly distinct and worthy of a visit or attention.]
🤣😅😂 Now why would you think the Winter barbecue menu would differ from the Summer menu ??? 🤣😅😂 😉 👍✌🖖🍁🌻🇨🇦🇦🇺💞
The pictures you show are funny but I find your hilarious reaction to them makes me laugh as much as they do. Years ago I might have had some funny reactions to Australia but had to cancel that trip. The two friends I had planned to go with did spend a few years there but experienced somewhat of a tragedy - they both came back Mormons! Although I missed seeing Australia it looks like I might have dodged a bullet.
Admittedly, I've left money at the turnstile when there was no staff at a Toronto subway station. I put it in the box though so there was no chance someone could swipe it. It would have gnawed at me for 2-3 days if I didn't pay. I've also seen a Toronto subway station with no staff and no box. It did have money, subway tokens, and tickets piled high on the turnstile. I guess no thief dared take it as there was a constant stream of people going through.
The picture of the moose at the front door reminded me of a picture of my dad. It was before I was born but he was at his fathers place and he was feeding a deer inside. Apparently the deer had come inside and it was eating out of my dad's hand. It was in Saskatchewan in a really small village called Paddockwood.
that second beaver is fleeing from the first..lol
@7:50 Spain has the running of the bulls!
Canada has the running of the moose!
I never seen that happen, but if it did, it would be in Canada!
Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
There was one night going home after doing my job at a hockey as the broadcaster I was walking up the street right out front my mom's house all I can hear is click clat click clat so I 5hink to my self maybe it one of the omish family's down or back roads I look up to see a full growing moose walking down the middle of the road so I was like nope not today and slowly started backing away with my eyes locked on the thing to make sure I didn't spook it and of course I couldn't get to my mom's house cuz the moose was in the middle
Deer season is around the end of November, so many of us grill venison on the bbq. Moose in the pool is common enough here in Ottawa.
Yes, the doctors being paid too much thing was real.
We had a moose that regularly visited our house. I had to cancel a dr's appointment once because she was laying on the ground between our house and garage. Also have a pic of her looking in our front window and a video of her bringing by her twins for a visit.
The doctors really did tell the government to keep their raise and give it to the nurses
I don't BBQ in the winter, it gets too cold and the BBQ doesn't get hot enough to cook stuff. I love homemade bread toasted on the BBQ, it tastes so good. And diced potatoes with some herbs and a bit of oil.
That fashion statement in a small town bar, is scary accurate. Of course there are regional differences in some parts plaid would give way to grey stanfield wool shirts. Canadians are polite and kind! Apparently the guy I encountered in traffic last week didn't get that memo. Bunny hug, use that term around here and your going to get some strange looks. We call them hoodies.
I'm American. Ive never been to our neighbor, Canada, but I'd really love to go sometime and experience all that small-town friendliness and decency for myself. Good for Canada! They are embracing the qualities that elevate mankind to the next level. 🍁
Stay away from Toronto.
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OK. Thanks for the tip. As a former resident and native of southern CA, I'd say the same about LA. A lot of people love it, but I'm not one of them, and you need to know which parts to avoid.
Beaver in the Timmie's drive through? You get him a maple doughnut of course! What else would you do?
If there is a beaver in the drive through, what you do, is go and park and go inside. :P
18:20 (Beaver blocking the Timmy's drive-thru) "What do you do?"
I put the car in park, walk to the window, collect my order (my legs ain't broken!) and ask for an extra plain Timbit to feed to the beaver (least unhealthy option for said beaver). Ask the girl at the window to use my phone to record my attempt to get him to take it from my hand. Best case scenario... I get a new clip or photo to add to this same video you're watching. ^_^
(And no, do NOT try to pet the beaver... or ANY wild animal, quite frankly.)
Aussie Tash, Love ya, I'm from the hockey centre of the universe.... Toronto. They're are no harder hits in any team sports than hockey. The players are skating faster than the faster runners on this planet.
Shoulder on the shoulder is a clean hit.
Hockey players are taught to keep their heads up and never target your opponents head.
6:50 (Lemonade stand) And in the US, they pull up and demand, "Do you have a permit for this business?"
Please keep in mind the reason people take pics of things like the parking ticket is because they are unusual, doesn’t happen everywhere else!
"Beavers" cute giant hamsters but with a nasty bite if touched or annoyed.
We usually just grill whatever we happened to be in the middle of cooking when a storm put the power out. Then everything thats going to go bad in the fridge/freezer if (its a warm winter like this year, otherwise we can just put it in a snowbank).
5:23 Interesting thing you've missed here is that this is obviously NOT from any city or government-run parking authority, and the person checking cars it ISN'T a police officer working in traffic division. This is just a private business, having set up machines in their own lot, charging people for parking. Most people will pay out of habit, without reading the fine print on the machine too closely to see whom they're paying, but the legal authority to DEMAND money from anyone not voluntarily paying is... shaky at best.
THAT is why all they're getting is a flyer encouraging to voluntarily give them money next time.
I've been to a privately owned parking lot nearby a big musical show I was going to see. The meter was broken, and a lady was already on the phone complaining the thing had eaten her credit card. Nothing I could do, and I didn't want to miss the show, so I put a note on my windshield explaining the meter was broken and I couldn't pay even if I'd wanted to. I was given a fake "ticket" anyway. As soon as I read it I could see it wasn't a real ticket, so with a snort, I felt free to ignore it. They have a responsibility to maintain the machine in working order. Not my fault, is it? I did keep the ticket in case trouble came of it later.
They found me too, or at least my mailing address. Sent me letters demanding ever escalating numbers of money (nothing as official as a civically enforced "fine", by the way, just greater amounts of money for no justifiable or even mentioned reason). After the third one (which was now over $100), I called the number on the bottom. As soon as I picked up and identified myself, it was "When will you pay this ticket?" "Uh... Never." I pointed out that, while it might be reasonable to demand the original amount, there was no justification at all to demand every higher amounts. They're not any valid authority, just a private business, and in addition to not maintaining the machine being their responsibility, not mine, a business can't just jack up the price of their service after the fact without just cause or prior notice. I was entirely willing to argue this in court.
They very quickly decided to be "generous" and "waive your fine... just this once."
Uhuh. Right. Damned grifters.
It's great that you know what a Bunny Hug is! Common term in Saskatchewan.
I had my wedding reception at the Airlane hotel! No bears tho 😂
Also meant to tell you, Tash, that I was born and raised in Canada, spent 16 years living in moose country, and never saw one. Moved to the GTA for work and now have retired at 61 and moved back to Northwestern Ontario.
It was on the move back in early June that I saw my first moose in the wild. It was very exciting
Thanks for sharing!!
I was posted to a radar station in central BC. We had moose in our reservoir or running around the residential site basically every day.
As a Canuck, I've seen many animals fall into our pools. If they are alive, we get them out. I once need to take a massive turtle out of my pool. Found a stream, and sent him home.
Just to clarify, if they're dead, you leave them there?
@@leeneufeld4140 *laffs* okay to be fair I worded that poorly, let me re-phrase:
If they are alive we rescue them, if they are dead, we chuck their little bodies into the forest behind the house to return them to nature. Actually I guess either way we are returning them to nature, we'd just prefer to get there before they expire(fishing out dead baby bunnies is not a fun process).
@@jaybea365 There's a thing called a Frog Log, a kind of float with a way to climb out you can get for your pool. Or you can google for it and make something similar yourself. If it's a little ornamental garden pool, you can put in some rocks as an escape route.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 Parents pool, long ago learned I can't teach them anything, except that as a child I *demanded* an actual pond(which has seasonal frog residents - no clue where they go in winter, but every spring they are back)
@@jaybea365 Many frogs survive winter in the mud at the bottom of ponds deep enough to be below the frost line. The woods frog, that ranges as far north as the tree line winters in leaf litter. It raises its blood sugar to an amazingly high level to act as antifreeze. This lets it become active early enough to raise the next generation before the next freeze up. Btw, this is the same sort of thing that makes kale sweeter after frost, and carrots and parsnip sweeter after overwintering. Sugar as antifreeze.
I don’t bbq in the winter very often as the cold takes a lot of the heat away and it takes much longer to heat up. Consequently using much more gas $$.
A friend had always gotten those type of tickets 7:25, he was a truck driver & Ontario Provincial Police had loved that my friend was the most considerate kind driver & those police was upset about a Labour Board decision because of a incident that involved the use of his truck which he was not physically responsible for because the police was actually with him at a truck stop & saw him eating his dinner at the exact moment the incident on Highway 401 occured.....my friend could NOT be in 2 places at once & his truck was taken without his knowledge & consent by a jerk & a known trouble-making brat at most times by the police, the Labour Board decision was the wrong type that caused my friend to have a shockingly bad reaction & the police was scared that he was having a stroke & rushed him to hospital with all sirens screaming. The police took it to court & had the Labour Board decision overturned. My friend never recovered from the shock & sold his truck to another after repairs was made.
Actually, that bus picture was real. It did put up "sorry'" for the crash. When they aren't running they say "sorry, out of service"
I really enjoyed your videos and comments plus learning more about the world around me. They are leaving transit tickets to pay for the train/ bus. Hopefully you see the meme about someone that has move to Canada and shows first winter all bundle up and another picture a few years and is wearing light clothes and bbq in the winter and it says when you finally to the cold and now a full a Canadian citizen. That is really name of street and gets more interesting in certain provinces with more weird names. Yes beavers will bite and have very big teeth and can course death with their big teeth.
In newfoundland it flashes up sorry then it changes to not in service and just flickers back and forth 17:37
8:15 Yes, that's a Canadian Goose (their colourings are pretty distinctive. There's also a more... I'll use the word "generic" breed of goose that is mostly white. They're rarer though.)
They do also migrate south into the USA during the winter, so I wonder if half the reason they got that name was Americans in the colder months freaking out going "where the hell did all these MILLION of weird-looking geese come from?" "From Canada, man." "Well damn! (Are we allowed to shoot them?)"
I took a picture of a duck "parked" in a parking spot at Tim Hortons in my town. It walked up and laid down in the parking spot. It was funny.
Those things in top of the money in the subway are student tickets. You can either pay by cash or by student tickets or adult ones. If you buy in bulk like 20 tickets it ends up costing less than if you just paid in cash. Or you can buy a month pass and use it as much as you want.
I got a speeding ticket just outside of Moose Jaw Saskatchewan. It was a construction zone, 60km hr. I was going 78km hr. They sent me a picture of our vehicle and licenses plate but no construction can be seen in the picture. ??? The fine was $150. We like pork ribs on the barbie.
Back in the day when I was in school one of the guys in my class looked out the window and yelled, "theirs a Moose on the field". The school board workers were chasing it off the playing field.
Another time I didn't close my garage door and went to the bar. After having some I drove home to find a Black Bear trying to get into our deep freeze in the garage. My neighbour and I had to beat it with spades to get it out of the garage so I could park.
Don't you have the same troubles but with Kangaroo?
My husband Bar B Ques in the winter all of the time...chicken, chops, whatever we want. It takes a bit longer to cook, but worth it.
I've found Canadians and Australians are more alike than Canadians and Americans. Don't get me wrong, I have many wonderful American friends. It's possibly because of the Commonwealth thing. I don't really know. I've had the good fortune to spend a few months in Australia travelling the Gold Coast, Sailing in Sydney, Melbourne visiting friends, Camping along the River-Murray. My family and I travelled the world with my work with the Canadian embassies and I once seriously considered retiring to Oz. Hope you come enjoy Canada someday and I'd like to return the hospitality I was shown.
I love your bubbly personality
cheers
I don't want to burst the bubble on how nice and polite Canadians are. Yes we are generally pretty decent people, but around here, too many people will steal anything that isn't nailed down. No one in my building can leave a mat in front of their door, it will disappear. My neighbour was expecting an Amazon delivery, and was at home. It didn't show up, so she called and was told that it had been delivered, but oops, next door. Now this woman's name and address was on the box, and yet when she knocked, the d¡ck was wearing the expensive sweater she'd bought for her brother's Christmas gift, and eating the expensive ham that was for the brother too. We have 🍑-holes too.
so do we all, a know a few a holes here
We BBQ the same things in the Winter as in the summer. At my house we do shrimp on the BBQ. Grilled Shrimp is Yummy.
Had, so I was told, a moose on my driveway one Saturday morning, years ago . Wasn't home at the time, remarked later to someone about hearing that a moose had been wandering around in our area of the city. Yeah, she said, I drove by your house and it was on your driveway!😳
12:01 is a game warden. A mountie would have a yellow stripe on their trousers.
And as for Bigfoot and his li buddy is , I dunno...
18:26 What's better then a timmies dognut...a Beaver Tail...come're lil beaver...
That Street and The Other Street , saw them in a town in Nova Scotia
I'm in Toronto and happily BBQ all winter. Often with no shirt. I AM CANADIAN.
lol