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u/Crushnaut · 3 pointsr/canada

Don't buy a knife set. You don't need those knives. All you need is the following;

One chef's knife: Victorinox Fibrox 8-Inch Chef's Knife 40520, 47520, 45520, 5.2063.20 https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000638D32/

One pairing knife: Victorinox Cutlery 3.25-Inch Paring Knife, Small Black Polypropylene Handle https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0019WXPQY/

The basics of a chefs knife and pairing knife is $50. Those are good knives. I have two of the chef's knives and three of the pairing knives. The chefs knives hold their edge very well and are sharpened to 15 degrees.

These two knives are all a basic home cook needs. The rest of the kit is filler to get the piece count up. You won't use the carving fork. You don't know how to use the carbon steel honing rod. You don't filet your own fish. You are likely eatting wonder bread so you don't need a bread knife. Unless you plan murder a roommate you don't need a clever. You ain't eatting steak so you don't need steak knives. Heck I eat steak quite a bit and I don't think I need steak knives You need a knife for delicate work and work horse. That is your pairing knife and chefs knife respectively.

After that I would add the following (mind you I am not happy with the price on the sharpener, but it's a fairly good one, just make sure you get one to sharpen asian knives or 15 degrees);

One pair of kitchen shears: Messermeister DN-2070 8-Inch Take-Apart Kitchen Scissors https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000VS6CAS/

One knife sharpener: Chef's Choice 463 Pronto Santoku/Asian Manual Knife Sharpener https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B002JIMVS0/

One bread knife: Mercer Culinary 10-Inch Wide Bread Knife https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000PS1HS6/

I consider these the next purchases because eventually you need some scissors dedicated to kitchen use, and maybe ones that will cut small bone and are easy to clean after use on raw meat. The shears are amazing. Blew me away.

The sharpener because you need to maintain your knives. Keeping your knives sharp is safer and makes them a joy to work with. The above knives come razor sharp and will last you a while before needing a proper sharpening. I don't own that particular sharpener but it ranks high in reviews. I have a more expensive automatic sharpener from chef's choice which I used to regrind my sister's knives to a 15 degree edge. I can't recommend it to everyone because it's $200. It was a splurge on my part and not needed. A manual sharpener is all the average person needs. It takes the guess work out of getting the angle right. Again if you have the knives on this list make sure you get a sharpener for 15 degrees or it might be labelled as Asian style.

Eventually you will be off the wonder bread and maybe baking your own. You need a bread knife then to slice in nicely. A bread knife is also handy for cutting cake and other delicate things you don't want to smoosh. That bread knife is solid. You want a knife that will glide through bread without crushing it or tearing it. The key to that is tooth spacing. I think this one is just about perfect.

Other knives are useful in the kitchen. I would get your specialized knives next, such as a carving knife or fillet knife. The above five things I consider core before you get other stuff. You can carve and fillet with a chefs knife. I cook way more than the average person and get away with the above five items. In fact before I would buy specialized knives I would get another chefs knife and another pairing knife. The only other type of knife I own is a santoku style chefs knife which I prefer for chopping vegetables because in school I owned a keep shitty one and got used to the style.

As always do your own research, check the prices on Amazon with camelcamelcamel and check the reviews with a tool like review meta.

u/SunRaAndHisArkestra · 3 pointsr/canada

>Get rid of the charter or rights or create a charter of rights and responsibilities.

>Get rid of hyphenated Canadians. In or your out, choose.

>Solve the native problem, either return canada to them and leave, or they become the same as everyone else, no special rights.

>Canadian and Canadian Citizenship should be synonymous but isn't right now.

>Get rid of multi-culturalism as a vision, no nation has ever been successful like that, instead teach tolerance and to value different perspectives.

While I see your point here, I would disagree with you. In my mind and the minds of some of our greatest thinkers this fact has been our greatest strength. You mentioned "Become a truly bilingual country", but perhaps the fact that we hold bilinugalism so dear is that we realize that we are a State made of many Nations. Quebec and the Quebequois are one.

As to your hyphenation point, I'd argue we are all hyphenated, except for the Natives and it is a shame we don't give two shits about them. The fact that you can be a hypenated Canadian is the top reason (in my limited experience) why immigrates appreciate coming here. They understand that in Canada you can be Canadian and you can be Indian, Chinese etc. My partner is Vietnamese, born in Paris, and calls herself Canadian, French, and Vietnamese depending on the context. Infuriating when having an argument with her, yes, but that doesn't mean it's invalid.

As a final point, your idea that we should be a melting pot and not a mosaic is premised on flawed ideas of nationhood based on the European and US models. John Ralson Saul's recent book on this topic, A Fair Country clarified greatly my thoughts in this area. If you don't want to read it his lecture is online both from CBC Ideas and TVO Big Ideas and highly recommended.

Canada, since before first contact and after, has always been (in its ideals, granted) a conversation between parties. And I think that the fact that Europe and the US are having problems with their immigrant populations while we accept more immigrates that any other nation in the world speaks to the success we have made of our model.

The above does not white-wash the negative aspects. It is admittedly a normative claim.

u/mushcloths · 46 pointsr/canada

This is United Front in action - China's self-described "magic weapon", a special unit of it's government working to influence Western perception.
The Financial Times had a great article on it, here.


>This has given a boost to United Front efforts to woo overseas Chinese. Even though more than 80 per cent of around 60m overseas Chinese have taken on the citizenship of more than 180 host countries, they are still regarded as fertile ground by Beijing. “The unity of Chinese at home requires the unity of the sons and daughters of Chinese abroad,” says the teaching manual.

>It recommends a number of ways in which United Front operatives should win support from overseas Chinese. Some are emotional, stressing “flesh and blood” ties to the motherland. Others are ideological, focusing on a common participation in the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese people”. But mainly they are material, providing funding or other resources to selected overseas Chinese groups and individuals deemed valuable to Beijing’s cause.


There's also a new book all about China's attempts to influence Canada, called Claws of the Panda.

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u/GuiMontague · 9 pointsr/canada

I'm surprised there are analog channels still around. I love OTA TV and cut the cord a long time ago, but I thought we'd completely switched over to digital in 2011 (two years after the US killed analog TV).

I don't know what reception is like in deep rural areas, but if you live within 100km of a major urban centre you can probably pick up its digital transmissions. You just need a TV with an ATSC tuner—any TV manufactured after 2007 will have one built in—and a sufficiently sensitive antenna. If you have the land to put up an antenna mast you're even better off.

If you live near an urban centre you can get by with "rabbit ear" antennas. Even in Toronto I only got about three stations on my rabbit ears until I upgraded. I own a Terk HDTV-A now. I got about twenty stations in Toronto, and in the US I get lots more. Most of those Toronto stations came from Grand Island New York, about 90km away, but you can do a lot better than an indoor antenna if it's important to you.

I love digital OTA TV so if you have any questions I'd be happy to try to help.

u/QNIA42Gf7zUwLD6yEaVd · 2 pointsr/canada

Just to make it easier to find - it's spelled "Pierre Berton", not "Burton". Also, "Hostages to Fortune" was written by Peter C. Newman, not Pierre Berton (more about Newman below).

Here's Berton's list of books.

Some great foundational stuff about Canada is as /u/MonotheistThrowaway describes, in the 1812 things. There's also other stuff by him that's excellent:

"The National Dream" and "The Last Spike", about the construction of the railroad across Canada.

"The Great Depression", which of course is about the Great Depression.

"Vimy", which is about the Canadians at Vimy Ridge in 1917. It's not especially "scholarly", but it's incredibly accessible and a riveting read.

"The Arctic Grail", which is about the many attempts to find the North-West Passage. See also the Stan Rogers song about this. It's a pretty key piece of Canadian history.

There is lots and lots more in his bibliography. If you go out of your mind and decide to read all of his work, you'll probably know more about Canadian history and identity that 95% of those born here.

Peter Newman wrote similarly great Canadian history. He did a three-volume piece about the Hudson Bay Company, in the books Company of Adventurers, Caesars of the Wilderness and Merchant Princes. There's a sort of a "condensed" version called "Empire of the Bay" that might be a quicker read.

If you ever get bored of reading but you still want to learn Canada's history, check out "Canada: A People's History", an incredible series done by CBC back in 2001. That's a link to a playlist with all episodes. I can't possibly recommend it enough.

Edit to add: Welcome to Canada, friend!

u/Chartis · 1 pointr/canada

We sure do disagree that Canadian healthcare isn't considered universal.

Also:

The LUP is listed as socialist, not communist. Also Bernie left in 1977.

And though you may not be open here's Bernie describing his opinion on the topic from his new book, a primer on civic engagement:

>...democracy is not a spectator sport. We can no longer sit back and allow ourselves to have one of the lowest voter turnouts of an major country on earth. We can no longer allow the wealthy and their campaign contributions to determine the future of our government. We must move boldly forward to revitalize American democracy...

>Today the Central Intelligence Agency describes thirty-one different forms of government around the globe in its World Factbook...

>COMMUNISM - everyone is considered equal, and private ownership of property or wealth is forbidden. Communism's aim is a classless society.

>DEMOCCRACY - power is retained by the people, but exercised by representatives to whom the people have delegated authority. In a democracy, the people choose and review their representatives regularly in cyclical elections...

>OLIGARCHY - decisions are made by a small group of people considered elite based on intelligence, race, or wealth and serve the group's self-interest.

>SOCIALISM - a central government controls the production and distribution of goods to establish an equitable distribution of labor and property...

>TOTALITARIANISM - the state holds all the power in both political and economic matters and also seeks to control people's attitudes, Values, and beliefs...

>     All in all, the key purpose of the Constitution and Bill of Rights is to ensure that the voice of the individual citizen is both heard and counted...

So whether he's a social democrat or a democratic socialist may be open to debate but what I do know is that he's the will of the American people and a personal hero.

u/danachos · 1 pointr/canada

I mean, to them, it is their defining trait that does not make their experience of the world better or worse. It just is their experience. The reason deafness is a "disability" is because society is set up for hearing, but that does not need to be the case. Read this.

Manual languages = oral languages in their abilities, they are just different. Can you communicate with your friends from the outside of a glass building and them up on the 7th floor? Can you communicate with your friends underwater? Can you communicate with your friends when you are on a bus and they are on the sidewalk? It is just differences, but our society is built by and for hearing, so it is obvious not being able to hear would be a massive disability, but many societies are built by and for deaf&hearing like Ka'apor in Brazil or Adamarode in Ghana or Martha's Vineyard in the States. :)

u/LR5 · 1 pointr/canada

I'm not a fan of knife blocks, as 99% of my or anyone elses cooking is just with 3 knives

8 inch chefs knife. I love my Shun, but $160 is a bit much when your roommates will treat it like shit. For a university student a great gift is a Victorianox Fibrox. Great value. If it's destroyed after your 4 years and you've got some disposable income again than invest in one you'll treat right and use for the rest of your life.

Cheap paring knife or 2. I saw them for sale for $1.50 at Real Canadian Superstore the other day.

Cheap but effective bread knife. I got mine when a restaurant was selling off their stuff.

Really, that's all you need. Not 7 knives you'll only use when your chef's knife is dirty.

u/somewhathungry333 · 249 pointsr/canada

> I have a huge issue with saputo being one of Canada's richest men in an Industry protected by government that screws over the public daily. If you want government regulated profits expect the government to regulate your pay


Then you should start learning about how the world has always worked.

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-democracies-Trilateral/dp/0814713653/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

u/ayatollah77 · 2 pointsr/canada

Thanks so much for the reply! I'll definitely look into all of that.

One of the best times I've had discussing/learning about Vimy was a couple years ago at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. I was visiting at the time, and have since moved here so I'm planning on going back. Anyway, that's beside the point. We were wandering around the museum, and came upon the Vimy Ridge area and an older man who was a volunteer came and asked if we wanted to have him guide us through. I felt like I knew a fair bit about the battle already, having read books like Vimy and spending time in libraries etc, but we decided why not eh! Wow, best decision BY FAR. Not only the way he was able to tell the story, but all the info he had along with private letters and stories that have never been published. We ended up spending over an hour and a half JUST in the Vimy area talking about it, and learning and hearing many new stories. To this day I hope I could go back and find this particular volunteer to go through again. He had a wealth of knowledge on Passchendaele as well. He had photos from a trip he'd taken out there to show what it all looked like now, most interesting being looking at the area where Passchendaele took place from the same vantage point as the giant photo on the wall in the museum.

Anyway, I ramble, but thanks so much for the reply and info. Also if you've never been I highly recommend the War Museum. Hopefully I'll get back there and find that particular volunteer.

u/cyborganism · 2 pointsr/canada

This is the one I got. It's barely noticeable and looks like a simple receiver.

https://www.amazon.ca/VIOFO-2K-FHD-Camera-Logger-Latest/dp/B07CKD92VM/ref=sr_1_3/136-3321605-2506768?ie=UTF8&qid=1539901631&sr=8-3&keywords=dashcam%2Ba119&dpID=51UPd4U5xlL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch&th=1

Get the circular polarized filter (CPL) to reduce glare too. It helps a lot! I also got the fuse box hookup to enable parking mode.
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B073P8ZVZT/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This dashcam is the most recommended, especially for the price. A big-brand name cam will cost you twice as much and not have as good an image quality as this one.

And for the videos I use https://dashcamviewer.com/ which displays your velocity, acceleration and position on a map as the video plays, but you can't view videos that are 2K on some systems.

Have fun! :)

u/mrcandyman · 1 pointr/canada

Go to the Rocky Mountains. This book is pretty good about letting you know about good hiking spots, though a lot of the good ones became more popular because of the book.

u/klf0 · 17 pointsr/canada

Not many, but here's a start:

http://www.amazon.ca/Prairie-Natural-History-Candace-Savage/dp/1553655885

This is a great book about the great plains of North America. It discusses the impacts of dams east of the Rockies (especially in the US) and how they impact everything downstream all the way to the Mississippi and the Gulf.

http://damnationfilm.com/

Here's a documentary that should still be on Netflix that discusses primarily dams in the PNW and northern New England, with reference in the former case especially to salmon populations.

u/The1stCitizenOfTheIn · 2 pointsr/canada

You asked about Harper, I gave you the answers and your reply only relates to 8 of the 23 things I mentioned, you have anything to say about the 15 other things?

> This is literally something I have only heard on reddit. I believed it back then, but now I am a lot smarter to just trust random redditors and get my opinions from them

There was a book about it as well

https://www.amazon.ca/War-Science-Muzzled-Scientists-Blindness/dp/1771004312

u/Dilettante · 1 pointr/canada

If you don't mind a textbook, the Origins and Destinies pair of books is very readable, reasonably concise, and covers a lot of history your teachers never had the time to mention in class.

Since it's history, and a textbook, you can probably find a very cheap earlier edition without sacrificing quality.

Unfortunately, I've never found much in the way of good books covering Canadian history that weren't textbooks of some variety. There is, however, a good graphic novel called Louis Riel which tells the story of the Metis rebel leader in good detail and is available in many libraries. Worth reading.

u/PoppinKREAM · 11 pointsr/canada

Thank you for your service. My mum's side of the family was a military family and served under the British army during WWII. I try to visit my great, great uncle every year around Remembrance Day. Last year I managed to get him a poppy pin with a Khanda on it.^[1]

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  1. Sikh Khanda Poppy Pin
u/mirror_cube · 1 pointr/canada

John Ralston Saul is a good place to start: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0670068047/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

He is very good about pre-Canadian history. Realizes and strengthens the roles that First Nations played in early Canada while addressing the realities/atrocities of some of things we have done

u/lostmykeysonbroadway · 1 pointr/canada

I'm an American who moved to Canada 5 years ago for grad school and never looked back. Read this book... it will tell you everything you need to know and it's a hilarious and captivating read!

And if you're looking into Economics, look at Carleton University in Ottawa... it's a beautiful city and an excellent scene for attending school. I miss living there.

u/jtbc · 2 pointsr/canada

How about this one, then:

https://www.amazon.ca/1491-Second-Revelations-Americas-Columbus/dp/1400032059

Excellent book full of actual history.

I am not peddling an opinion. I have studied some of this history formally, and some of it because I enjoy reading about history. I am telling you what actual historians believe to be true.

u/bike_trail · 1 pointr/canada

> Seems like there’s a western agenda going on here.

...as if the Communist Party of China doesn't have its own agenda vis-a-vis "the west"..??

Just watched this insightful interview with foreign correspondent and author Jonathan Manthorpe, who authored “Claws of the Panda”.

Amazon review:
> Claws of the Panda tells the story of Canada’s failure to construct a workable policy towards the People’s Republic of China. In particular the book tells of Ottawa’s failure to recognize and confront the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate and influence Canadian politics, academia, and media, and to exert control over Canadians of Chinese heritage.

> Claws of the Panda gives a detailed description of the CCP’s campaign to embed agents of influence in Canadian business, politics, media and academia. The party’s aims are to be able to turn Canadian public policy to China’s advantage, to acquire useful technology and intellectual property, to influence Canada’s international diplomacy, and, most important, to be able to monitor and intimidate Chinese Canadians and others it considers dissidents. The book traces the evolution of the Canada-China relationship over nearly 150 years.

> It shows how Canadian leaders have constantly misjudged the reality and potential of the relationship while the CCP and its agents have benefited from Canadian naivete.

u/BRBaraka · 2 pointsr/canada

thank you

let me watch that

this was my gateway:

http://www.amazon.com/Louis-Riel-A-Comic-Strip-Biography/dp/1894937899

one of the most amazing men who ever lived. truly a tragedy on many levels. shakespearean, mythic stuff. he needs a hollywood blockbuster treatment. more should know his name and his story

u/MrG · 1 pointr/canada

All of these are good suggestions, but they are very popular and likely to be busy. (By Canadian standards anyways). Visit Moraine Lake or Lake Louise for a taste of the Classics.
However, if you want out of the way, do the 3 and 4 star hikes in Don't Waste Your Time in the Canadian Rockies.
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Waste-Your-Canadian-Rockies/dp/0968941974

u/supa999 · 1 pointr/canada

> Unfortunately we don't really know what is being shared.

""The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. "
― Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era -- Zbigniew Brzezinski, formerly served as United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

http://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Ages-Americas-Technetronic/dp/0313234981/

u/cjbest · 2 pointsr/canada

I would suggest renting a car while you are in the Rockies. You won't see much on the train, plus it's really expensive. And there are bus tours but they cater to the elderly and those less interested in lacing up boots. You really need to get off transport and hit some trails. If you are the hiking type, the guide book you want is this one:

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/0968941974

You don't need a car in Vancouver and you can bus it from Banff to Vancouver, so look into flying into Calgary and renting a car there for a week.

Also, make camping or hotel arrangements ASAP. They fill up fast. There are campgrounds you can drive into, they do tend to be a bit noisy, though. Smaller cabins or B and Bs are probably the nicest option. Expect up to $200 CA plus per night.



u/coldnever · 1 pointr/canada

The problem is reason doesn't work the way we thought it does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew

Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

IMGUR link - http://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkNKipiiiM

Free markets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Free trade?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju06F3Os64

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

http://williamblum.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcA1v2n7WW4#t=2551


America in the Technetronic Age 1968

search document for 'control' to help find.

Page 21 "At the same time, the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. As I have already noted, it will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behaviour of the citizen, in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
"Moreover, the rapid pace of change will put a premium on anticipating events and planning for them. Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control the information, and can correlate it most rapidly."

http://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Ages-Americas-Technetronic/dp/0313234981

They want to try and maintain social and political control during this period of increasing global change.

*insert pic of Zbigniew Brzezinski [Global Change Intensifies]

u/Superschill · 2 pointsr/canada

I haven't read this, but I have read other Wil Ferguson books, and they were excellent. I'm therefore assuming this is too: http://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-History-Dummies-Will-Ferguson/dp/0470836563/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268672449&sr=1-4

Note: I am not trying to imply you are a dummie.

u/wazzel2u · 1 pointr/canada

I bought this one. It is very popular and easy to find on Amazon or in many stores. The full non-surplus price seems to be about $40

u/TVpresspass · 17 pointsr/canada

Actually archaeologists are now moving past the Bering land bridge theory, and tracking 5 distinct immigration events into the pre-Columbian Americas.

I wish I had more to back it up, but I just started reading this book this week. I'm hoping I'll have more to say about that when I'm finished.

u/omgsoironic · 2 pointsr/canada

If you're interested in Riel, I recommend this incredible "comic strip biography" of him.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/canada

> Canada is very diverse; it's really a conglomerate of several smaller nations

Kinda like thousands of years with very different native cultures living next to each other?

I think most people have forgotten that Canada is a Metis nation; a merging of European and Native values.

The early Canadian settlers said to the natives "Let our sons marry your daughters, and together we will build a country"

u/Kerguidou · 10 pointsr/canada

The book 1491 https://www.amazon.ca/1491-Second-Revelations-Americas-Columbus/dp/1400032059
should give you a basic answer to your questions. And you are welcome to dig more.

u/ricebake333 · -1 pointsr/canada

> Unions are a way for workers to collectively bargain against an organization that has an unreasonable degree of bargaining power when suited against individual workers. That being said certain employees have the same type of disproportionate power.

Uhh you don't know much history... we have no representation in government if you go by the science.
Our politics is fake. The vast majority of the electorate is not living in reality because of mass indoctrination. First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. AKA we can be manipulated to believe things against our interest. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Overthrowing other peoples governments

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-Democracies-Trilateral/dp/0814713653/

Democracy Inc.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

u/FrostyTheSasquatch · 2 pointsr/canada

This! So much this!

Edit: You're not Will Ferguson, are you?