Here ya’ go. When I visit back ‘home’ (eastern ontario) I often drive over this crosswalk when I’m returning. https://maps.app.goo.gl/6MFAvCACtWQKo72S7 . I drove over it yesterday morning :).
Swing the streetview around, you get a good view of the St. Lawrence river and the United States of America on the other side.
Oh and if you swing the view around some more you’ll see a steep embankment. That’s actually a historical fort (Fort Wellington in Prescott ON) that was built to keep the American on their side of the river: Culture and history - Fort Wellington National Historic Site . The fort is one of those school trips that we all had to do when growing up.
I get so annoyed at comments like the one I have cut and pasted below from the article. The village theatre in the farming community I grew up in has Christmas drag shows and they are very popular. No one tries to stop the shows. And this is rural Ontario!
In any event, no one is forced to attend the Pensacola show. C’mon folks. Live and let live, eh!
“In September, local church members flooded a Pensacola city council meeting to decry the drag event as offensive to Christianity, arguing that the show’s contents aligned with the venue’s cancellation policy over content that is “injurious to public health or to the general welfare of the community”.”
I will mention, for those who might be interested or know folks who might be interested, the “Canadian citizenship by descent” bit that’s been in the news recently does have implications for trans people.
A trans person who has a Canadian in their family tree, and who needs a passport that matches their gender rather than what’s printed on an original birth certificate, qualifies for “urgent processing” with the IRCC.
I was just thinking similiarly that the govt should implement a temporary increase in the ability for US trans folks to be able to immigrate here. We’ve already increased the count actuaries=actuaries+1.
Its a sneaky plan, see. They come here, work hard, make mone’ and pay taxes. Which pays for my healthcare! (actually in Ontario healthcare taxes come from mid to large sized businesses, but right idea).
Caitlyn Jenner says she cannot travel abroad after her passport was reissued with a male gender marker, a problem she has taken directly to President Donald Trump[…] Jenner has long positioned herself as a Republican voice on transgender issues, publicly backing Trump in both 2016 and 2024.
Jenner did not retreat from her support for Trump during the interview. She spoke warmly of her relationship with him and Melania Trump, emphasising past personal contact. Yet her account carried a note of unease. ‘Now we’re going too far to the right, you know, with gender markers,’ she said, suggesting a line has been crossed.
She also raised concerns about bathroom restrictions, describing them as unsafe. ‘I have so many of my friends are just, you know, just gorgeous women,’ she said. ‘Trying to force these people into the men’s room. And it’s just not right. And it’s not safe.’
Jenner acknowledged that her high-profile transition in 2015 may not have had the positive impact she once hoped for. ‘Unfortunately, I don’t think I helped it at all,’ she said, adding that while she intended to bring visibility to a marginalised group, the issue was later shaped by political forces she disagrees with. ‘The left kind of took my issue.’
When the court ruling and law change came through last year, I thought based on media reports that it was limited to “your parent or grandparent is Canadian”.
A couple of weeks ago, the Reddit algorithm introduced me to the fact that it’s actually “any ancestor had citizenship in what is today Canada…or would have had citizenship but-for the concept of distinct Canadian citizenship not having existed before the late 1940’s”
Barring USPS losing one document that’s supposed to be delivered today, and assuming I can find someone to take photos that meet IRCC specs, in the next few days I’m sending in my paperwork.
My great-grandfather was born in Ontario in 1881.
My application actually hinges on my great-great grandparents, who were born in Ontario in 1857 and 1862, as there is no Canadian record of my great-grandfather having been in Ontario.
There are many people getting their Canadian citizenship certificates based great- and great-great grandparents.
There is even a report of one person being successful with an application that went back nine generations (Roman Catholics keep good baptismal records), and another application that’s in queue going back ten generations.
(Another interesting bit of nitpicky trivia – it’s not actually an application for “citizenship by descent”. Eligible folks are already Canadian citizens; they’re just applying to get a citizenship certificate.)
The simplest way to get GOP support for gun control measures has always been to run a bunch of media stories about [minority group] enthusiastically acquiring AR’s.