ReAffirmed.....

....that the USA has WAAAAY more wifi coverage than The Great White North does.

And more cellular coverage too....

And that USA people are more likely to be asshats.

I only get to a wifi realm when I hit a metro area up here.

And since much of my deal coming North was to be AWAY from the Metro, it stands to reason that I haven't really done much time in a wifi bubble.

I know, I know; much to the disappointment of my followers, The DogMeatHeads.

And then there are stretches and stretches of interior where there is no cellular signal to be had.

That's a good thing, you know.

IMAGINE:

Thousands of miles of forested,wildlife-friendly land that isn't being blasted by microwaves on a constant basis!

The bees might actually survive if they hang out up here.....

But part of my travel has been to see Hockey.

In THE LAND OF HOCKEY.

Hockey, only as it is done in Canada.

Which has put me within reach of wifi and metropolitan humanity.

I gotta say.

Every time I come up home, get into a city....I see the massive contrast between the Northers and the Americanskis.

The mindset that allows the Southern Neighbours to trash the snot out of the land and the cities.

Yes.

When Canada trashes an area,(say, with mining or with killing a water supply), it's done really really well and thoroughly. Some of the surface mines in Canada are amazingly ugly and really really difficult to clean up. And there are several First Nation,(NDN,Native,Aboriginal), Reserves that are stuck with tanking in water because the nice Euros next door have poured toxins into the aquifer from their industry.

BUT.

You can walk down a city street in the MAJOR cities, (Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa,Edmonton, Vancouver), and, if you've lived in the States for any length of time, be amazed at how clean the joint is.

No trash out in the streets.

No litter.

People don't hurl their leftover McD's bags or Tim Horton wrappers out the car window as they are driving home from work.

They don't toss cigarette butts out the window into the oncoming face of the next freeway driver, either.

More use of public transportation, an Underground that makes US Subway look very much like something that is more sewer than rail.

And WAAAAY less texting at the wheel.

Perhaps that lack of cellular coverage has its upside.....

Okay.

If you want to see Canadians at their very MOST asswholeness.....go to a Hockey game.

Preferably, one where there is an intense rivalry between the two teams.

There will be rude remarks made and some bad behaviour.

There will be some fistfights.

MOSTLY on the ice.

And the participants will be drinking together later on at the Hockey Bar, talking about how powerfully they punch each other.

But the worst of that I have seen was from some Americans who had come North for a game, who threw trash onto the ice,(A Sacred Surface, Blessed Ritually by the God Zamboni), puked in the bleachers*, and started a fight in the parking lot.

I rest my case.

Eh?

* A Good Canadian NEVER EVER EVER pukes in the bleachers of a Hockey rink.

That would be like vomiting in the pew at a Southern Baptist church.