Canada! The Great White North! As the United States' neighbor to the immediate north full of people who mostly speak English, Canada is frequently the first (or only) foreign country many Americans visit. If you're from the U.S. (or elsewhere) and are planning a trip to the proud and mighty land where maple syrup grows on trees, there are a handful of things you should not do while there if you want to avoid annoying, offending, or even angering a stranger. While Canada is renowned as a...
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Canada! The Great White North! As the United States' neighbor to the immediate north full of people who mostly speak English, Canada is frequently the first (or only) foreign country many Americans visit. If you're from the U.S. (or elsewhere) and are planning a trip to the proud and mighty land where maple syrup grows on trees, there are a handful of things you should not do while there if you want to avoid annoying, offending, or even angering a stranger. While Canada is renowned as a...
O Canada, how the world loves you! For decades, the U.S.'s northern neighbor has been lauded for its kindness and lovably quirky manners. Just recently, in an international U.S. News & World Report survey of the best countries, Canada came in first, receiving perfect scores for quality of life and social purpose. Yet even nice countries like Canada have their dark spots. And to remind us of that fact, Canada's premier business publication, Maclean's, compiles a yearly list of the country's most dangerous places.
Although police abuses in Canada are sometimes referred to as starlight tours when they involve being driven in a police cruiser, the starlight tours of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan present a horror all their own. Tragically, there's no way of knowing exactly how many people have been victims of starlight tours in Saskatoon or elsewhere. Those who survive often don't speak out because, according to a CBC report, "it's police investigating police." This is the messed up truth of Canada's starlight tours.
Even though the U.S.-Canada border is within a couple hours' drive of tens of millions of Americans, our neighbor to the north remains a mystery to a lot of U.S. citizens. There isn't much of a mystery, however, according to The Travel: By and large, the two countries are so culturally indistinguishable as to effectively be the same place. What differences there are (the Canadian preference for hockey over football, for example, or the way milk is packaged in Canadian grocery stores vs. American ones) are borderline trivial.
The list of potential enemies of the United States is so long that some entries on it will probably surprise you. According to Mental Floss, U.S. military leaders have drawn up invasion plans for New Zealand, Mexico, Portugal, and even our exceptionally friendly neighbor to the north, Canada. That's right. Canada. But what did the nation of inveterate apologizers do to irk its pugnacious southern neighbor? Let's take a look into the plan the U.S. had to invade Canada and see.
