Oh Canada .....

[Greypowerful]

Does anybody use Morse code any more? This post belongs in the "Things from your youth" thread.

It's like celestial navigation... Obsolete until the fucking GPS system fails.

 

[Hard_Rom]

I doubt it was getting much use back in 1980. Was still in use for maritime distress. Maybe spies still used it. Not sure. Probably just used as an aptitude test.

 

[Greypowerful]

They said Fort Nelson, so that would be right at Mile 0.

Negative. Mile Zero is Dawson Creek. Fort Nelson is about Mile 284

 

[thør]

Negative. Mile Zero is Dawson Creek. Fort Nelson is about Mile 284

Well, as I remember, the caption of the photo was at Ft Nelson and they said the start of the work. Forgot about milepost #s, but do recall that an advance group did start from Ft Nelson.

 

[Greypowerful]

Well, as I remember, the caption of the photo was at Ft Nelson and they said the start of the work. Forgot about milepost #s, but do recall that an advance group did start from Ft Nelson.

Sounds right. The road was already there from Dawson to Nelson by 1942.

 

[chillywilly2]

Holy crap you guys are old

 

[Greypowerful]

Holy crap you guys are old

No denying it.

What's yer point?

 

[thør]

https://68.media.tumblr.com/e78341c38f4c88e8e2322a26ae9775e2/tumblr_opcatvbTw91qewacoo2_r1_540.jpg

 

[Greypowerful]

https://68.media.tumblr.com/e78341c38f4c88e8e2322a26ae9775e2/tumblr_opcatvbTw91qewacoo2_r1_540.jpg

Gary Bettman's nightmare...

Love it!

 

[Hard_Rom]

Dude needs to get a bit of curvature on that stick. As the ultimate referee I doubt he will get penalized for it.

 

[thør]

Dude needs to get a bit of curvature on that stick. As the ultimate referee I doubt he will get penalized for it.

He's old-school.

 

[Greypowerful]

He's old-school.

Original Six.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Original Six.

A school chum of Lord Stanley.

 

[Greypowerful]

A school chum of Lord Stanley.

Indeed. Ice hockey upon the Rideau, eh?

 

[thør]

What good is a NHS when you can't get people to the doctor or meds to the people?

 

[Greypowerful]

It's far from perfect.

North of 60 has always been neglected. EVERYWHERE.

 

[chillywilly2]

I would hardly call it neglected.
Its not overly funded but there isn't a huge population either.
The whole of Northwest Territory is smaller than North Bay at a pop of 50,000 and 20,000 of that is in Yellowknife.

Then again, if we take some refugee funding and spend it on the north.....
Or just send them there and spend it on them there

 

[Greypowerful]

My point was that it's easy to point a finger about the "failure" of our health care system.... but pretty sure that Alaska ain't perfect, either, eh?

 

[chillywilly2]

My point was that it's easy to point a finger about the "failure" of our health care system.... but pretty sure that Alaska ain't perfect, either, eh?

Yup, my daughter and son in law are in the system up there...there's lots more to complain about..actually there's not, cept maybe the mail...takes 2 weeks to get a letter to her

 

[Hard_Rom]

I'm all for settling refugees in the north. We need more folk up there. In old days immigrants went to frontier and pioneer lands. Cash spent resettling refugees would indeed benefit northern communities. Considering conditions were they came from remote northern community might still be an improvement.

Yeah I'm betting American native far north communities have just as much to complain about.

Conditions on northern native lands are truly deplorable. Canada's shame.

 

[KingOrfeo]

What good is a NHS when you can't get people to the doctor or meds to the people?

Well, Canada's single-payer system is not a national health service like the UK's, is it? The government only pays the bills, it does not employ the doctors or run the hospitals.

 

[Lancecastor]

Thor is stupid.

 

[chillywilly2]

I'm all for settling refugees in the north. We need more folk up there. In old days immigrants went to frontier and pioneer lands. Cash spent resettling refugees would indeed benefit northern communities. Considering conditions were they came from remote northern community might still be an improvement.

Yeah I'm betting American native far north communities have just as much to complain about.

Conditions on northern native lands are truly deplorable. Canada's shame.

Now you're just being silly

They have nothing to complain about.
They get all the money they need. They just don't want it.
They are deplorable by our standards, not by theirs

 

[Lancecastor]

Conditions on northern native lands are truly deplorable. Canada's shame.

Natives are the kind of lazy drunks who get a free house from the government, then tear it apart to burn in the woodstove so they don't have to go anywhere for firewood.

 

[chillywilly2]

Natives are the kind of lazy drunks who get a free house from the government, then tear it apart to burn in the woodstove so they don't have to go anywhere for firewood.

Thats why we are building them with metal studs, concrete board instead of drywall and steel cupboards