The cost of igloos has skyrocketed
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One property that I quickly found on Zillow just now: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/49-Pembroke-Cres-Fredericton-NB-E3B-2V1/440540411_zpid/
I don’t know anything about that neighborhood, but at first glance that seems quite a bit more reasonable than the insane housing prices in the GTA.
This is the property that caught my eye in my last round of surfing: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/348-Lighthouse-Rd-East-Parish-PE-C0A-2B0/351527527_zpid/ … although I suspect the downsides of that location would become apparent in winter.
Yeah, a friend had posted this the other day and it feels about right: “It depresses the hell out of me that the people I grew up with or I am related to have turned into people that I wouldn’t tell where Anne Frank was hiding.”
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“fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me”
We universally acknowledge our historical poor treatment of Indigenous people and are trying to make amends.
Fredericton is a pleasant provincial capital.
You Americans have such high expectations.
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New Brunswick is very cheap for a reason.
Its in the boonies. And has dreadful winters.
I remember when studying the Roman Empire that there was the theory that the lead piping may have made the Romans crazier than normal. Apparently handling firearms is a strong lead poisoning risk. The lead poisoning from a firing range has been shown to be the equivalent of being next to a lead smelter. With the increasing use of firearms, could this be making Americans crazier? -
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Are you trying to escape the FBI?
As a government yes, but there are plenty of Canadians who do not acknowledge that.
That’s not quite what I’m referencing.
The Jay Treaty of 1794 includes a provision for indigenous people to freely move across the border. That’s the reason why today Canadians who carry credentials of being First Nations people are free to enter and work in the US with those credentials (although WHTI may have introduced the need for a passport as an identity document), and they are entitled to certain services/benefits offered by the US government to American indigenous peoples.
However, Canada’s view is that the War of 1812 terminated the Jay Treaty. Americans who are on tribal rolls are subject to the same constraints/requirements of other American citizens seeking to enter and/or work in Canada (although the Akwesasne might be at least a de facto exception…or maybe not given relations between Ottawa and the Canadian Akwesasne are pretty horrible).
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I did not know that about the First Nations people (being able to travel and work in the US).
The Metis and the Inuit would probably not have such a mechanism (in their case for obvious reasons: they shun outsiders)
Actually, the Inuit probably wouldn’t have been covered by the Jay Treaty because it excluded the territory of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
I’m not certain whether Métis or Inuit are treated differently than First Nations people under current US policy. I wouldn’t be surprised if border guards and the like don’t make the distinction, and if administrators are inconsistent.
Was this the sister that was bitten by a moose?
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During the civil war, many soldiers from both sides ended up with considerable lead-poisoning because many would chew a bit of their (lead) bullets to make them “more effective” in injuring the recipient of the discharge.
As for more recent times, I handled bullets on a very regular basis for around 12 years (from about age 10 to 23)–including casting my own muzzleloading bullets (from smelted lead)–and never had any concerns with this from blood tests (this was a big thing through my early teens).
I think a far greater danger is going to be lead-based paint that is still a thing in many rural areas of the country. Not that they’re using it now; but the underlying coats will still have this.
I think there are also pockets where you might find lead piping in older homes that never got “updated” to modern day codes because . . . that’s expensive.
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