@amazingmap Until 1979, the electoral district of Northwest Territories comprised all of what is now Nunavut plus all of what is now the Northwest Territories. 1.4 million square miles, covered by one Member of Parliament.
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Andrew Cunningham
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Andrew Cunningham
@AS_Cunningham
Philosophe en tweetant
Canada Katılım Nisan 2009
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Nunavut is the largest electoral district on Earth and it is roughly four times the size of France
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@zamishka Invalid for circularity: the problem the expert class is solving is how to extract the payment.
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Managerial democracy would be more effective if the expert class was paid only after the problem has actually been fixed.
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. The Platters' version.
Luce@lucyshow11
What song do you think was playing in the background? 🎶
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@CraigBaird There is a big renovation going on at the moment, to make the front entrance more obvious and inviting.
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*sources*
Canadian Encyclopedia: buff.ly/EjF2rOS
Royal Ontario Museum: buff.ly/3s088Be
McMaster University: buff.ly/eh13yct
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It is the largest museum in Canada, and the most visited museum in the country. Inside are over 18 million artifacts from history.
Over one million people visit it each year, but what is the history of the Royal Ontario Museum.
This is the story.
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@parallaxma @Globalstats11 Or that C-sections aren't done on holidays if they can avoid it.
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@Globalstats11 Dec.25th is Least, This shows that doctors who don't want to work for Christmas are speeding up childbirth with medicine for a week.
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@colbycosh @TomStringham I’m not saying there wouldn’t be a fight over it, especially on X, but taking Sask’s 4 extra seats and moving them across the line to give Alberta its rightful 41, instead of 37, isn’t going to create a tectonic shift in the national power structure.
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@AS_Cunningham @TomStringham Oh, is that all, he asked, taking a break from the bayonets-and-teeth battle over two or three Commons seats
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Alberta wasn't underrepresented in 1905. At that time the fixed seat allocation was more than proportionate, not less.
Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker@Martyupnorth
Would they have a headline like this if they though Alberta separatism was just a fringe movement. And by the way.... "Recent data show Alberta, B.C. remain underrepresented in House of Commons and Senate on a per capita basis". Who's the moron who wrote that? Alberta has been underrepresented, by design, since 1905.
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@TomStringham Provincial interests are poorly represented in the nearly powerless Senate, so the H of C has evolved to ensure smaller provinces can have at least a little impact in the federation. I agree that the patchwork of arbitrary rules that has evolved to achieve this needs an overhaul.
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The compromise of Confederation was that there would be two houses of Parliament, where the Senate would have regional representation and the HoC would have representation by population.
Now, however, the three big Anglo provinces are just underrepresented in both.
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Successive rule changes have eaten away at the principle of rep. by pop. on which the House of Commons was established in 1867.
Alberta, BC and Ontario have their votes discounted by 20% relative to the other provinces. With 2024 pop. figures it would be even worse.
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@ver_qui_raille Kentucky Fried Chicken at that time was a product sold through locally-owned restaurant chains, as that one probably was. In Toronto it was “Scott’s Chicken Villa” and in Winnipeg it was “Champ’s”. There weren’t “KFC”-branded stores until a little later, from what I recall.
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En voyant cette image d'archive
Étonnant de voir qu'une entreprise américaine a francisé son nom à une époque que ce n'était pas obligatoire
Aujourd'hui ça hurle comme des putois quand on l'exige
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@TomStringham @colbycosh Which is not to say that the rules that they’re applying aren’t a little wonky.
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@TomStringham @colbycosh The number of seats applied to the various top-ups for the smaller provinces is pretty small, in the grand scheme of things. Alberta is about 3 short (maybe 4) and Saskatchewan has 3 too many. If you had exact rep-by-pop it might shift, what, 15-18 seats out of 343?
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I find it so perplexing how English speakers will call French-speakers "French" even when they aren't from France. Are Americans English because they speak English? Are Mexicans Spanish because they speak Spanish?
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Knowing this, you may be encouraged to smell-test the story that Sam was inspired by Chinese cuisine to create and name a "Hawaiian pizza." What, after all, could be more Chinese than Hawaii.
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That statement's probably true as far as it goes, but if you check a newspaper database, it looks like "Hawaiian pizza" with pineapple as an ingredient originally flourishes on the west coast of the U.S. in tiki-themed places. It doesn't spread outward from Ontario at all.
Jaime Cooke (Old Greenone) Space Pirate.@GreenoneOld
@colbycosh ❌ "Sam Panopoulos, a Greek-born Canadian restaurateur, invented Hawaiian pizza in 1962 at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario. He experimented by adding canned pineapple and ham to pizza, blending savory and sweet flavors inspired by Chinese-American cuisine."
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@GreenhalghNeil @theiaincameron There is nothing on the Manitoba side for many miles. Just a long, lonely road leading to the Angle.
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@theiaincameron Fascinating. My brain always wonders about the practicalities of these types of situation - fire service calls, ambulances, schools etc. you would hope some logic applies here and services are provided by neighbouring Manitoba
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The northernmost point of the contiguous United States, and also the only place in that landmass north of the 49th parallel, is a small Minnesotan chimney called 'Northwest Angle'. Its creation is another historical cartographic balls-up.
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@CraigBaird They recalculate it once per year and the changes can be huge. So enjoy being Irish while you still are!
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Based on my DNA results, my ancestry is 57% Irish.
As a result, I qualify to be kissed on St. Patrick's Day.
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@Age_of_Greed @1800ghostman @anotherglassbox I think there’s a zoo in there somewhere, and most of the rest is autobody shops? Someone told me that anyway.
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@1800ghostman @anotherglassbox I don't even know anything East of that line until you reach Gander, NL.
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@theiaincameron I’ve never (until now) heard anyone refer to Hudson Bay as part of the Arctic Ocean - always as an arm of the Atlantic. It has one small connection with the Arctic Ocean but it’s nowhere near the actual Arctic. The southern part of it is at the latitude of the UK.
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There is only one point on Earth from which when it rains water can flow into three different oceans (Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic). However, Canada and the USA both lay claim to the disputed title.
The answer to which country wins, oddly, lies in the Hudson Bay.
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@TheViscount8 @theiaincameron “The Hudson’s Bay” is where you buy (bought) your back-to-school clothes or a new toaster.
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@Claude6Landry Interesting … they seem to have given the “best” numbers to the best players: Hull 1, Gordie 100 and also 10, 20, 30, etc. are mostly the big stars.
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