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Universe Master posted:President Trump is gonna conquer Canada, you'll have to go south and try to find a way around the Mexican Wall. It's kind of funny that trump, known for building things wants to build a giant thing on the federal coin. Wonder how many companies he is affiliated with will get those contracts.
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Jst0rm posted:It's kind of funny that trump, known for building things wants to build a giant thing on the federal coin. Wonder how many companies he is affiliated with will get those contracts. more like on the mexican peso
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Dec 12, 2015 19:43
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Universe Master posted:Good. You're supposed to be living off the land up there anyway. Those moose nachos are going to be mostly moose and only a tiny bit of cheese whiz. And I guess twigs and berries instead of tortilla chips.
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Dec 12, 2015 19:45
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i keep forgetting nanavut/iqaluit is a thing
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Dec 12, 2015 19:49
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Spinal Tap once played in Tuktoyaktuk
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Dec 12, 2015 19:55
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i was looking at jobs up in Nunavut once, you can make $100k a year teaching gradeschool math, plus a $20k a year "living in frozen hell welfare" money from the government: http://jobsearch.educationcanada.com/index.phtml?a=v&j=153670
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Dec 12, 2015 20:01
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Roger Craig posted:Those moose nachos are going to be mostly moose and only a tiny bit of cheese whiz. And I guess twigs and berries instead of tortilla chips. No you are above the tree line so more like walrus ribs and lichen than twigs and berries.
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Dec 12, 2015 20:05
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Dec 12, 2015 20:14
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Trump can buy northern Canada and send all the Syrian refugees there.
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Dec 12, 2015 20:14
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:Trump can buy northern Canada and send all the Syrian refugees there. canada will be Trumps Poland, lots of wilderness for death/slave camps
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Dec 12, 2015 20:20
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Constant Hamprince posted:Everything has to be flown in. Vegetables, fruits and other necessities are subsidized by the government so they don't cost much more than they do down south, but stuff like potato chips cost an astronomical amount of money because of how expensive shipping stuff up there is. poo poo's cheaper in loving afghanistan though
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Dec 12, 2015 20:35
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:poo poo's cheaper in loving afghanistan though thats because afganistan produces valuable opium. nothing is produced in the north of canada that anyone wants
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Dec 12, 2015 20:41
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Rutibex posted:thats because afganistan produces valuable opium. nothing is produced in the north of canada that anyone wants I think we store some oil and diamonds or other valuable resources up there. Not huge amounts, but enough for the government to pay people ungodly amounts of money to live there and extract them. It also has the additional benefit of establishing our sovereignty up there so we can continue to claim we're the 2nd largest nation in the world, which is vitally important to our national reputation.
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Dec 12, 2015 20:47
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Northern Canada is where the island of misfit toys is located.
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Rutibex posted:i was looking at jobs up in Nunavut once, you can make $100k a year teaching gradeschool math, plus a $20k a year "living in frozen hell welfare" money from the government: My friend who taught up there was the focus of all the angry drunk First Nations men's hatred of Whites and he left after he'd been threatened with a knife for the second time He liked the kids though
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Dec 12, 2015 21:04
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On the one hand, the Reserves up there are awful and filled with alcoholism, sexual assault and violence. One the other, any attempt to help is decried as Colonialism and the White Man's Burden. Personally, I'd like to figure out how to smuggle rum up there and make enough to buy a car for a case of Captain Morgans.
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Dec 12, 2015 21:53
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We should just settle all the syrian refugees in the canada no-man's land. Problem solved.
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Dec 12, 2015 22:26
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gannyGrabber posted:We should just settle all the syrian refugees in the canada no-man's land. Problem solved. Several are in fact going to Windsor
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Dec 12, 2015 22:27
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Noblesse Obliged posted:Several are in fact going to Windsor Haha owned
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Dec 12, 2015 22:38
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In many places all your water sits on the roof and is filled by a water truck. Sometimes the water truck doesn't come for awhile and then you have to melt ice. Ask me what happens when the fuel truck doesn't come for awhile. Instead of raccoons you have polar bears. In some places areas around Igloolik, Nunavut, there are no cars and you get around only by snowmobile and ATV. Most jobs are mining and conservation related.
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Dec 12, 2015 22:38
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driving in northern canada is like driving through the southwestern us in that its a massive stretch of nothing with not a single other human being in your sight for hours on end. occasionally another car will pass you and thats the highlight of the entire trip the main difference is instead of desert its forest
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also im pretty sure that the only reason there are any roads up there at all was because people were worried the japanese would invade in ww2
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Dec 12, 2015 22:42
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My aunt was the manager at a Burger King in Nunavut for a couple years. She said the money was good but getting people to work was awful. The workers just hosed off whenever or didn't show up if they didn't feel like it, and they couldn't fire them because there was nobody else to work.
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Dec 12, 2015 22:43
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Painful Dart Bomb posted:My aunt was the manager at a Burger King in Nunavut for a couple years. She said the money was good but getting people to work was awful. The workers just hosed off whenever or didn't show up if they didn't feel like it, and they couldn't fire them because there was nobody else to work. sounds like it owns what kind of latency would i get in world of warcraft
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Dec 12, 2015 22:44
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Professional jobs pay butt loads of money. Like, a nurse can make around 160k after allowances, teachers can make around 140k. GP physicians make around $1200/day. In comparison, the next most northern city that is an actual city is Edmonton, where teachers and nurses make about 70k. A doctor makes about 350k depending on duties, so you don't get many doctors up north. I've heard that it's quite a rewarding professional development experience to do dental and eye care in the north because you basically spend your days helicoptering and snowmobiling around putting out fires in the form of the most hideous eye and teeth related health problems imaginable, some that aren't described anywhere else according to my eye doctor.
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Fojar38 posted:sounds like it owns I agree. I very badly want to work up north, I taught in a small hamlet five hours north of Edmonton and it was loving awesome (which is still like 15 hours south of Yellowknife). I helped the principal and some people from the native community set up for an awesome ceremony once and ignored similar offers to go ice fishing and inspect trap lines because I'm a workaholic. They had like 3.5mbps internet in the teacher houses. Only 27% of Nunavut communities have internet though. Edit: I talked to another teacher who said that she traded her empty but new shed for an older shed full of moose meat in NWT. The guy jacked his shed up and put it on like a kids' sleigh and towed it over with his snowmobile and took hers away using the same technique. Inside it had like 400 pounds of moose meat. tuyop fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Dec 12, 2015 |
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Professor Shark posted:My friend who taught up there was the focus of all the angry drunk First Nations men's hatred of Whites and he left after he'd been threatened with a knife for the second time i feel like i could deal with this for $120k a year
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She worked there for five years and when she returned south she bought a house and truck in Edmonton in cash, haha. Which is a serious problem they have. Lots of young, underqualified professionals work for like 2-5 years to pay off their student loans and then gently caress off and leverage their experience for jobs in the city, just when they're starting to hit their stride and become effective. So the communities learn a pretty deep distrust for southerners and the whole thing is a loving mess. 
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tuyop posted:Professional jobs pay butt loads of money. Like, a nurse can make around 160k after allowances, teachers can make around 140k. GP physicians make around $1200/day. yeah but a box of cheerios costs  so.... (okay thats nunavut but ive heard its still bad everywhere up north)
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eSports Chaebol posted:yeah but a box of cheerios costs Yeah my understanding is that you're dumb if you buy that stuff. As an adult, you can safely eat all the fish and game (there is some evidence that the wildlife is heavily contaminated by pollution from Asia because the food chain is so tightly knit and this is causing terrible health problems in children) you want and it's often dirt cheap to get it from the locals. If you want some loving crackers you either have to HTFU or go full frontier and make them yourself from flour you stuffed your luggage full of on your last trip south. If you're in a place in NWT or YK with roads you can even make the drive a couple of times a year and carry back like 500 pounds of staples for barter. Like, I like ketchup or Cheerios as much as the next guy, but I can live comfortably for three or four years without working on 120k in Halifax so that's a pretty easy decision to make. If you put in ten years up there and are reasonably frugal, you could semi-retire with a nice nest egg of like 800k. In the meantime you also get to see the north which is a pretty wild place to live if you're outdoorsy and can get along with the locals.
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Rutibex posted:i was looking at jobs up in Nunavut once, you can make $100k a year teaching gradeschool math, plus a $20k a year "living in frozen hell welfare" money from the government: On the downside, frozen hellscapes have really high suicide rates. On the upside, looks like that job posting just opened up! I actually did a senior project about suicide rates in cold, dark places and how my home province of Newfoundland used to have the highest rate of suicide in Canada for a very long time. It kind of horrified my professor.
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Q: If I filled a mid-size SUV with Vodka and drove up from Ontario, what are the chances of being intercepted by the RCMP?
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Frosted Flake posted:Q: If I filled a mid-size SUV with Vodka and drove up from Ontario, what are the chances of being intercepted by the RCMP? Well, there are 394 officers/100 000 people posted to Nunavut, and it's a 2.09 million square kilometre chunk of land, so like, not very high? tuyop fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Dec 13, 2015 |
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Nuebot posted:On the downside, frozen hellscapes have really high suicide rates. what if i am an autismal goon looking for an excuse to be far away from other people and stay indoors all day
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Fojar38 posted:what if i am an autismal goon looking for an excuse to be far away from other people and stay indoors all day sure, but expect dial up speeds. so bring as many dvds as possible. Rambling Robot fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Dec 13, 2015 |
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When I was up there the only internet I got was wait nevermind when I was there was 2001 internet was lovely everywhere. The worst I saw in the north were the depressed, broken down drunk Danes around the US air base in Thule, Greenland. I kind of liked Iqaluit, but wasn't in Resolute long enough to form an impression. It looked like a mining encampment. Mind you I was there in August and September; I can't imagine overwintering there.
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Jesus Christ posted:What do people do up there? Like... do the towns basically consist of a couple diners, a few bars, a few dudes who know how to do basic HVAC, electrical, plumbing, a grocery store, a hardware store, a school, and that's about it? they get drunk and murder each other
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the national passtimes in nunavut are drinking and shooting yourself in the fuckin head
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So as a industrial sandblaster, could I make more money than Stan from accounting if I worked up there?
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Frosted Flake posted:Q: If I filled a mid-size SUV with Vodka and drove up from Ontario, what are the chances of being intercepted by the RCMP? You would hope to be caught by the rcmp because the dudes who run that racket right now would make you eat your own blackened and frostbitten toes and feet before you learn that a beaver will eat a living meal.
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