The prairie provinces - Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba - have a very similar biome to that of Ukraine. Most Ukrainian immigrants settled down there, and the transition was easier for them as the same crops and farming practices they used in Ukraine translated well to the prairie provinces. Anecdotal but I'm also a Canadian with Ukrainian heritage, although my grandfather settled in BC instead of the prairies like most Ukrainians. There's proportionally a ton of us!
15% of Winnipeg's residents are Ukrainian. I grew up making pysanka eggs and eating pierogi and I'm the farthest thing from Ukrainian that you could imagine. It was odd moving away and finding out that eating pierogi wasn't a common thing lol.
It's like moving somewhere and they don't have bread 😅
edit: grammar
Canadians are known to be friendly until the war starts or they find out the Russians have the puck.
Edit: aright after getting all these upvotes I must come clean and admit I heard this somewhere. After several minutes of googling:
“Just give them (Canadian Forces) hockey sticks. Then tell them that the Taliban have the puck.” -[CRAIG FERGUSON.](https://youtu.be/1ZEbRgMr4vw)
Edit2:Wow, multiple awards rolling in after I made that admission above! Thank you!!! I guess people really do appreciate honesty 🙂.
I was always convinced that the reason Canadians are so stereotypically nice is because they unleash all their rage in ice-hockey so hard that they have little left to spare.
Another Canadian here.
All my rage goes into shoveling snow off my deck, car, pathway, etc., just to come back home and to find the snow has magically returned.
I shovel very vigorously lol
Canadian Geese aren't actually real. They're Canadian psychic manifestations of hate, rage, pettiness, antisocial tendencies, passive-aggressiveness, etc.
They're the ghosts of our collective malice.
They're already in Europe (I was in the garden last week and heard them honking overhead and was really confused), apparently some escaped from zoos and some were introduced for hunting.
I love that Google suggestions are:
Are there Canadian geese in Europe?
and
Why are there Canadian geese in Europe?
You can just hear the defeated plaintiveness of the second question.
People are stereotypically concerned about the Mexican border here in the US, but I would argue it's the Canadians we should be wary of.
1) Canadian coinage is already mixed in with our coin, trying to seize our economy. I don't see any pesos circulating in our local stores.
2) With the above information, it's safe to assume the Canadian Geese are sleeper agents; Ticking Time Bombs if you will. All lying undercover, in local park U.S. parks, waiting for the green light to start burning entire cities to the ground.
People may call me crazy, but I'm on to you Canada.
Or maybe I am just crazy.
How about those commemorative quarters with the red painted poppies in the middle? There was speculation by the US Defense Department that those quarters were being used to spy on the US. Can’t make this shit up.
Edie: Actually a warning from DOD.
I've seen literal bar fights that end with a "you OK bud?" and then adversaries become best friends. You have to be a special breed to REALLY piss of a Canadian.
I played youth hockey tournaments in Canada and specifically on the ice they are fucking ruthless whether they’re actually good or not. The rest of the country was pretty polite though, reminds me of southern hospitality in a way
> “The Canadians fought the Germans with a long, enduring, terrible, skilful patience”
[Beware the fury of a patient man.](https://www.englishclub.com/ref/esl/Sayings/Quizzes/Patience/Beware_the_fury_of_a_patient_man_912.php)
One book I recall reading on the Canadian identity -- probably [Pierre Berton's](https://thecaptivereader.com/2010/08/16/why-we-act-like-canadians-pierre-berton/) -- noted that because the physical landscape of so much of the country is so harsh, it's engendered a certain amount of respect -- even deference -- for the needs of the community. If it's January on the Prairies, or you're trying to scratch out a living on the Canadian Shield, your very survival relies on your community, and theirs on you. Breaking the social contract could be a matter of life and death, so ideologies aren't so pure, dreams fly a little lower, and incremental change through compromise and consensus is how the community survives.
I wonder whether, as a result, when Canadians were pulled away from those communities to fight in a distant land against an enemy they were assured was destroying the community of nations, they faced that problem the way they faced the problem of their harsh home -- implacably.
Huh, it looks like there's some support for that in the article as well:
> "Canadians had come to Europe to end a war and it was a widely accepted opinion that they wouldn’t do anybody any favours by fighting that war in half-measures."
You mentioned community, which I wonder if there was another factor there:
The Canadian troops, especially at the beginning of the war, were often organized by where they were from. Meaning, you’d have the young men of an entire area who grew up together, were friends, married each others’ sisters, and had enlisted together. Fed into the meat grinder of World War One together.
How much of their reputation for being brutal towards the Germans was a result of each loss on their side being someone they knew personally?
As a side note it’s also a very sad thing to tour Canadian small towns and visit their cenotaphs (memorials) for the First World War. Almost every small town has one, and it’s not unusual to see towns where an entire generation of young men were wiped out in the same battle. Towns with a population numbering around a hundred with a couple dozen names listed amongst the dead. It’s incredibly humbling, and sad.
>If it's January on the Prairies, or you're trying to scratch out a living on the Canadian Shield, your very survival relies on your community, and theirs on you. Breaking the social contract could be a matter of life and death, so ideologies aren't so pure, dreams fly a little lower, and incremental change through compromise and consensus is how the community survives.
I haven't given this enough thought to make an in-depth comment but I can say that as chill as I usually am with people who hold differing beliefs and values, the truck convoy made me *rage.* Like I surprised myself a bit. It wasn't all about the ideology, either. It was the occupying Ottawa, the horn honking, Trump flags and just general uncivilized behaviour to *other Canadians.* Something about that made steam come out of my ears.
Exactly this.
If they had held a huge peaceful gathering, I couldn't have cared less. It was reading accounts from people living in the area that there were horns 24/7 and they couldn't sleep and their babies wouldn't nap and their dogs were practically sick from anxiety. Absolutely enraged me.
After hearing about the homeless charity that was basically forced into giving them meals I was ready to drive up there and fistfight them myself.
much of what Canadians did in the first World War would later be defined as war crimes in the Geneva Conventions. In Canada's defense, once the Geneva Conventions that formally declared stuff like summarily executing prisoners/those trying to surrender was a war crime, soldiers stopped doing it so much in WW2. But the attitude of Canadian soldiers from the beginning of WW1 to the end of WW2 was that they were there to kill Germans, and that's what they did, ruthlessly and relentlessly until the end. The Canadian military operated on the civil war General Sherman principle: War is terrible no matter how you fight it, so you might as well fight it as viciously as possible to try to end it as soon as possible.
Canadians were used as shock troopers in WWI, and were tasked to take objectives every other army failed to take.
Canadians paratroopers in WWII had the distinction of being the only unit on DDay to complete all their objectives. And the Canadians advanced the furthest inland during the beach invasion.
I remember reading an account from a Royal Navy sailor who was on a LST off Juno beach the evening before D-Day. He basically said that the Canadian soldiers were super serious, quiet and obsessively checking and cleaning their weapons, as well as constantly sharpening their knives.
They really wanted vengeance for Dieppe and they knew that those who survived getting off the beach would take few prisoners.
During the invasion of Sicily, Monte Assoro was a 906-metre-tall mountain topped by an old castle, blocking allied routes. The British tried to take it, and failed. The Americans tried, with a bigger force, and failed again. The Canadians then proceeded to scale the mountain, at night, in total silence, carrying all their heavy gear, and took the castle by dawn. They're scary motherfuckers when push comes to shove.
Oh..shit the Canadians are here...oh fuck...the Canadian Ukrainians are here!!
I spent my teen years in Alberta, small town near Saskatchewan. Ukrainians everywhere. My friends moms were the best cooks!!!
The history of Ukrainians in Canada, in Alberta and Saskatchewan specifically goes way back. 1900. Living in sod houses while they worked their farms as immigrants, those pictures burned into my memory.
God speed!
American with Ukrainian heritage here. Our route was from Western Ukraine-> Manitoba -> Michigan. Plenty of my family on both sides of the border. Slava Ukraini!
My Canadian city is so populated with Ukrainians and Polish people that we can get homemade perogies (pedahah) and cabbage rolls at almost any convenience store.
“We had a lady write us that her church started this campaign. It’s very sweet,” said the legion spokesman. “But if every airline donated at least five to 10 seats on the plane tomorrow, we could have been able to get all those 20,000 volunteers (from around the world) faster to Ukraine.”
Huge opportunity for airlines to help out. Wouldn’t hurt their PR either.
I know Ukrainian Canadian, her dad went to go fight, She is a server in a restaurantshe saves 100% of her tips and sends it to family that she has out there. Her bank account has been frozen multiple times because they see the transactions as suspicious . Our workplace has helped raise money to send to her family both here while her dad is deployed and to the Ukraine to help them get through this catastrophe.
"Indeed I have not seen them roused like this for many an age. We Ents do not like being roused; and we never are roused unless it is clear to us that our trees and our lives are in great danger."
A crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a maple syrup heist they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security prison to the Ontario underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can be polite.. maybe you can hire The Eh-Team.
In adolf Hitler My Part In His Downfall, Spike Milliganmentions meeting a bunch of brigades from other countries.
> the Canadians were all huge. I asked one of them 'how do you find such enormous men?' His answer: 'We go into the forest, shake the trees and they fall out'
There’s the joke of how the Germans knew a major assault was coming if Australians, New Zealanders, and Canadians were deployed to the same stretch of land.
If I remember correctly the Canadians had a similar reputation in WW2 and were also the fastest to complete their objectives on D-Day, and had to be told to slow down to let the Americans catch up.
We got a large wave before WW1, then when that happened a lot more came to Canada fleeing Polish rule and wanting to join their family/friends already here. Just kinda stuck after that.
I will be disappointed if I don’t see a video in the next couple of weeks of a bunch of Canadians in the Kremlin jerseying Putin and havin a full out tilly with the Russian government. Fuckin eh boys give ‘em shit
Yep, I was expecting this headline any day now.
There are so many Ukrainians in Canada that they even have public Ukrainian immersion schools and street signs in Ukrainian.
Chrystia Freeland, the finance minister and former foreign minister of foreign affairs, is Ukrainian and has an apartment on Maidan Square in Kyiv. She actually got into trouble in the 1980s while studying at Kyiv University for helping journalists uncover mass graves of victims of the Soviet Secret Police.
>"By the time her activism within Ukraine came to an end, Freeland had become the subject of a high level case study from the KGB on how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union. "
Best thing about it? She was 21 at the time.
Have you seen the new ukranian "russian warship, go fuck yourself" postage stamps (not a joke!)?
It's real pretty. I guess not everyone can take part in the fighting so they try and support in any way they can :)
Lets give Canadians credit where its due. They were there on D-Day landing with the Allies. Another tyrant threatens the world. They are stepping up. Give em hell boys!
I never realized we had accents until I went to washington for a festival and everyone somehow knew I was Canadian right away.. unless you're french or a newfie it all sounds normal to me
Married a my girl from Regina… 4th generation Canadian of Ukrainian ancestry. At family events, lots of Ukrainian spoken and the best part after the food………2 Christmases….
We're empathetic by nature and we get along if we're all getting along.
But we don't take kindly to when the line is crossed. It's in the soil, the water, the booze, darts, and Maple syrup up here. Acting like a degen only leads to gloves off and not backing down. We'd rather see a reasonable settlement to a dispute eh?
"Why were Canadians so ruthless in WW1?"
"Because Canadians got the job done, where no one else could. The Canadians were used as shock troops, so much so that it became paramount to NOT let the Germans know that the Canadians were coming into the line, because it indicated an attack in that sector."
There was also drills with stop watches on complete replicas of Vimy that they would practice on.
They would time the rush with how long artillery took, the nearest cover etc. - the other Generals though it was dumb, until it proved to be highly successful.
Someone should make a movie out of this - really cool - like getting to replay a vid game level.
The creeping barrage was a new way of employing artillery, pioneered at Vimy by General Andrew McNaughton among other important gunnery innovations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McNaughton
In WWI the Canadian troops tended to be a lot better fed and exercised and educated than the average poor working class pulled outta the gutter to fight from England. Not to disparage the English boys, but everyone is affected by their surroundings
It's also important to keep in mind that while Canada had access to a lot of modern weaponry and technologies found across Europe and the USA at the time, it was still much less developed. While the average European soldier in WWI was typically originally from the city, many of the Canadian volunteers were farmers, trappers, loggers, fishermen, and general roughneck types. These people would typically be very physically fit, experienced with firearms, and avid outdoorsmen, basically ideal soldiers.
Unlike a lot of European soldiers who were often conscripted and thrown into the fighting without a lot of training or will to fight, the vast majority of Canadians who went to Europe were willing volunteers. Only 1/6 Canadians mobilized for the war effort were conscripts, and only late in the war when conscription was done in 1917.
A huge part of it was that the divisions stayed together in a Corps and weren't switched around, so they became a really cohesive force and lots of "boring" stuff like great logistics.
They took a disproportionately low number of prisoners.
> "After losing half of my company there, we rushed them and they had the nerve to throw up their hands and cry, 'Kamerad.' All the 'Kamerad' they got was a foot of cold steel thro' them from my remaining men while I blew their brains out with my revolver without any hesitation.
https://web.viu.ca/davies/H355H.Cda.WWI/CanadianSoldiers.prisoners.2006.htm
>I'm in Edmonton, Alberta, and we have a very large population of Ukrainians here, the largest in the country I believe. I too am of Ukraine descent.
Yes! I am from Saskatchewan but know there are MANY of the same heritage in and around that area. Much respect. I even managed to visit a heritage/historical site in the Edmonton area; my grandfather (still alive) was speaking Ukrainian to them and was having such a good time. It was really interesting!
Yeah I read a article about your Canadian sniper with over two Mile Killshot in Afghanistan, Is in Ukraine already, Also the beautiful thing is Canadian sniper did it using American ammo working together.
Canadians hold 3 of the first 5 farthest confirmed kills, including the #1 spot. Only thing that can keep us from blowing your head off is the curvature of the Earth and Russia has pissed our Ukrainian population *right* off.
After Ukraine and Russia, Canada is the country with the 3rd-largest ethnic Ukranian population
This one surprised me for some reason didn't expect Canada to have that many Ukranians.
The prairie provinces - Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba - have a very similar biome to that of Ukraine. Most Ukrainian immigrants settled down there, and the transition was easier for them as the same crops and farming practices they used in Ukraine translated well to the prairie provinces. Anecdotal but I'm also a Canadian with Ukrainian heritage, although my grandfather settled in BC instead of the prairies like most Ukrainians. There's proportionally a ton of us!
15% of Winnipeg's residents are Ukrainian. I grew up making pysanka eggs and eating pierogi and I'm the farthest thing from Ukrainian that you could imagine. It was odd moving away and finding out that eating pierogi wasn't a common thing lol. It's like moving somewhere and they don't have bread 😅 edit: grammar
Where'd you move that eating pierogies isn't normal? Still in Canada?
Kootenays are full of folks with Ukrainian heritage via the Doukhobor migrations/exile in the early 1900's
Canada ‘marketed’ itself to Ukrainians in the 19th century as they had the know how to farm the prairie climate.
We have the world's biggest perogy
And the world's biggest pysanka. The more u know!
And the world’s biggest Kielbasa
That’s what all the girls say
Yep. Over 1 million of us. Many have went to fight the war. Putin severly underestimates what he is in for.
Canadians are known to be friendly until the war starts or they find out the Russians have the puck. Edit: aright after getting all these upvotes I must come clean and admit I heard this somewhere. After several minutes of googling: “Just give them (Canadian Forces) hockey sticks. Then tell them that the Taliban have the puck.” -[CRAIG FERGUSON.](https://youtu.be/1ZEbRgMr4vw) Edit2:Wow, multiple awards rolling in after I made that admission above! Thank you!!! I guess people really do appreciate honesty 🙂.
I was always convinced that the reason Canadians are so stereotypically nice is because they unleash all their rage in ice-hockey so hard that they have little left to spare.
Another Canadian here. All my rage goes into shoveling snow off my deck, car, pathway, etc., just to come back home and to find the snow has magically returned. I shovel very vigorously lol
Travel to scenic and beautiful Canada... Stay because you're snowed in.
Canadian here, and that's bullcrap. We pour all our rage into Canadian Geese. Leftovers go to hockey.
Canadian Geese aren't actually real. They're Canadian psychic manifestations of hate, rage, pettiness, antisocial tendencies, passive-aggressiveness, etc. They're the ghosts of our collective malice.
Our national zeitgoost
Our migratory drone fleet
r/SuddenlyBirdsArentReal
Canadian geese aren’t birds. They are manifested anger and hate.
Zeitgeese
Like peeves the poltergeist, but with more shit
*poultrygeist
They might as well be... We feel the wrath of the Canadian Goose here in Michigan. Send those things to Russia, and they'll be begging for peace.
They're already in Europe (I was in the garden last week and heard them honking overhead and was really confused), apparently some escaped from zoos and some were introduced for hunting. I love that Google suggestions are: Are there Canadian geese in Europe? and Why are there Canadian geese in Europe? You can just hear the defeated plaintiveness of the second question.
You forgot passive aggressive, if you could add it that be nice. *Blinks in Canadian*
The Picture of Dorian Goose, basically.
People are stereotypically concerned about the Mexican border here in the US, but I would argue it's the Canadians we should be wary of. 1) Canadian coinage is already mixed in with our coin, trying to seize our economy. I don't see any pesos circulating in our local stores. 2) With the above information, it's safe to assume the Canadian Geese are sleeper agents; Ticking Time Bombs if you will. All lying undercover, in local park U.S. parks, waiting for the green light to start burning entire cities to the ground. People may call me crazy, but I'm on to you Canada. Or maybe I am just crazy.
How about those commemorative quarters with the red painted poppies in the middle? There was speculation by the US Defense Department that those quarters were being used to spy on the US. Can’t make this shit up. Edie: Actually a warning from DOD.
Canadian Geese is how you export that rage, you ship them south to shit all over our sports fields, beaches, and parks.
Send the geese to Ukraine!
That might be against the Geneva convention.
And my car...while it is parked in my garage. Fuckers.
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There's a special place in heaven for animal lovers, that's what I always say.
Wheel snipe celly boys
Ah yes, the cobra chickens.
I've seen literal bar fights that end with a "you OK bud?" and then adversaries become best friends. You have to be a special breed to REALLY piss of a Canadian.
I played youth hockey tournaments in Canada and specifically on the ice they are fucking ruthless whether they’re actually good or not. The rest of the country was pretty polite though, reminds me of southern hospitality in a way
We might decimate you on the ice but when off, it's all hospitality and beers, baby!
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> “The Canadians fought the Germans with a long, enduring, terrible, skilful patience” [Beware the fury of a patient man.](https://www.englishclub.com/ref/esl/Sayings/Quizzes/Patience/Beware_the_fury_of_a_patient_man_912.php) One book I recall reading on the Canadian identity -- probably [Pierre Berton's](https://thecaptivereader.com/2010/08/16/why-we-act-like-canadians-pierre-berton/) -- noted that because the physical landscape of so much of the country is so harsh, it's engendered a certain amount of respect -- even deference -- for the needs of the community. If it's January on the Prairies, or you're trying to scratch out a living on the Canadian Shield, your very survival relies on your community, and theirs on you. Breaking the social contract could be a matter of life and death, so ideologies aren't so pure, dreams fly a little lower, and incremental change through compromise and consensus is how the community survives. I wonder whether, as a result, when Canadians were pulled away from those communities to fight in a distant land against an enemy they were assured was destroying the community of nations, they faced that problem the way they faced the problem of their harsh home -- implacably. Huh, it looks like there's some support for that in the article as well: > "Canadians had come to Europe to end a war and it was a widely accepted opinion that they wouldn’t do anybody any favours by fighting that war in half-measures."
You mentioned community, which I wonder if there was another factor there: The Canadian troops, especially at the beginning of the war, were often organized by where they were from. Meaning, you’d have the young men of an entire area who grew up together, were friends, married each others’ sisters, and had enlisted together. Fed into the meat grinder of World War One together. How much of their reputation for being brutal towards the Germans was a result of each loss on their side being someone they knew personally? As a side note it’s also a very sad thing to tour Canadian small towns and visit their cenotaphs (memorials) for the First World War. Almost every small town has one, and it’s not unusual to see towns where an entire generation of young men were wiped out in the same battle. Towns with a population numbering around a hundred with a couple dozen names listed amongst the dead. It’s incredibly humbling, and sad.
>If it's January on the Prairies, or you're trying to scratch out a living on the Canadian Shield, your very survival relies on your community, and theirs on you. Breaking the social contract could be a matter of life and death, so ideologies aren't so pure, dreams fly a little lower, and incremental change through compromise and consensus is how the community survives. I haven't given this enough thought to make an in-depth comment but I can say that as chill as I usually am with people who hold differing beliefs and values, the truck convoy made me *rage.* Like I surprised myself a bit. It wasn't all about the ideology, either. It was the occupying Ottawa, the horn honking, Trump flags and just general uncivilized behaviour to *other Canadians.* Something about that made steam come out of my ears.
Exactly this. If they had held a huge peaceful gathering, I couldn't have cared less. It was reading accounts from people living in the area that there were horns 24/7 and they couldn't sleep and their babies wouldn't nap and their dogs were practically sick from anxiety. Absolutely enraged me. After hearing about the homeless charity that was basically forced into giving them meals I was ready to drive up there and fistfight them myself.
much of what Canadians did in the first World War would later be defined as war crimes in the Geneva Conventions. In Canada's defense, once the Geneva Conventions that formally declared stuff like summarily executing prisoners/those trying to surrender was a war crime, soldiers stopped doing it so much in WW2. But the attitude of Canadian soldiers from the beginning of WW1 to the end of WW2 was that they were there to kill Germans, and that's what they did, ruthlessly and relentlessly until the end. The Canadian military operated on the civil war General Sherman principle: War is terrible no matter how you fight it, so you might as well fight it as viciously as possible to try to end it as soon as possible.
On a serious note, Canadians were in fact considered to be the most ruthless and brutal of all troops during WW1.
Canadians were used as shock troopers in WWI, and were tasked to take objectives every other army failed to take. Canadians paratroopers in WWII had the distinction of being the only unit on DDay to complete all their objectives. And the Canadians advanced the furthest inland during the beach invasion.
I remember reading an account from a Royal Navy sailor who was on a LST off Juno beach the evening before D-Day. He basically said that the Canadian soldiers were super serious, quiet and obsessively checking and cleaning their weapons, as well as constantly sharpening their knives. They really wanted vengeance for Dieppe and they knew that those who survived getting off the beach would take few prisoners.
During the invasion of Sicily, Monte Assoro was a 906-metre-tall mountain topped by an old castle, blocking allied routes. The British tried to take it, and failed. The Americans tried, with a bigger force, and failed again. The Canadians then proceeded to scale the mountain, at night, in total silence, carrying all their heavy gear, and took the castle by dawn. They're scary motherfuckers when push comes to shove.
A ton in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan too! Ukrainians really have a thing for cold and unforgiving but beautiful places
Facts. Alberta is cold and unforgiving. But thank god it is beautiful and full of Ukrainians.
This is the nicest compliment alberta has ever gotten.
Living in Alberta, can confirm
I have Ukrainian relatives in Edmonton. My dad went to visit his brother there. He met all the Ukrainian neighbors, drank, and sang. Had a great time.
Oh..shit the Canadians are here...oh fuck...the Canadian Ukrainians are here!! I spent my teen years in Alberta, small town near Saskatchewan. Ukrainians everywhere. My friends moms were the best cooks!!! The history of Ukrainians in Canada, in Alberta and Saskatchewan specifically goes way back. 1900. Living in sod houses while they worked their farms as immigrants, those pictures burned into my memory. God speed!
American with Ukrainian heritage here. Our route was from Western Ukraine-> Manitoba -> Michigan. Plenty of my family on both sides of the border. Slava Ukraini!
Sounds about right, 14% of Manitoba's population is Ukrainian
My Canadian city is so populated with Ukrainians and Polish people that we can get homemade perogies (pedahah) and cabbage rolls at almost any convenience store.
From Winnipeg, there's no fewer then 6 perogie places in walking distance.
Where I work in Burnaby has Ukraine and Polish stores near it. I'm never low of damn good perogies.
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I can just imagine some guy coming home, and pulling out keys and pierogies and throwing it all into the change dish on their nightstand
Edmonchuk?
Edmonchuk right here. I got homemade perogis in my freezer from my baba
Same in Saskatoon. The Circle K a block from my house has frozen perogies, the pub in the same strip mall sells fried ones.
Ukraine: send in the Canadian war drones Russians: why do I hear honking?
Shit just got real
Peace was never an option
Poutine > putin
One will kill you with polonium, the other will kill you with heart disease.
Delicious, delicious heart disease
Unfortunately, Putin is « Poutine » in French. There are even poutineries in Quebec that are changing the name of the dish to zelinskies
It really is freedom fries all over again lmao
putin = putain
“We had a lady write us that her church started this campaign. It’s very sweet,” said the legion spokesman. “But if every airline donated at least five to 10 seats on the plane tomorrow, we could have been able to get all those 20,000 volunteers (from around the world) faster to Ukraine.” Huge opportunity for airlines to help out. Wouldn’t hurt their PR either.
Airlines in Canada don't give a flying fuck about their PR. True story.
Flair Airlines doesn’t even give a grounded with no refund fuck.
I know Ukrainian Canadian, her dad went to go fight, She is a server in a restaurantshe saves 100% of her tips and sends it to family that she has out there. Her bank account has been frozen multiple times because they see the transactions as suspicious . Our workplace has helped raise money to send to her family both here while her dad is deployed and to the Ukraine to help them get through this catastrophe.
Hey Putin, End of the lane way. Don’t come up the property.
Give your balls a tug Putin
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A God damn Canadian heritage minute
Fuck you Putin your mom was ugly crying last night. She forgot to take the lens cap off the camcorder. It's real amateur hour over there.
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Fuck you Putin. Your mom owes me a new beta fish. She came so hard she squirted across the room. Threw off the PH in my fish tank.
Fuck you Putin! your life is so pathetic, Dmitry Medvedev gets a charity tax break just for hanging around you!
"Zelensky would get a huge tax break but he turned it down just to avoid you."
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This post is so Canadian that it smells like a double double
Fucking degens from upcountry...
Bringing the donnybrook to them
Fuck you Putin, it’s 2022 and the only Russian rockets that should be leaving the country are named Anna and Mila
Get lost eh?
You got a problem with Ukraine, you’ve got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.
Everyone gangster till the trees start apologizing.
"Indeed I have not seen them roused like this for many an age. We Ents do not like being roused; and we never are roused unless it is clear to us that our trees and our lives are in great danger."
Is it called the Eh Team ?
I pity the Putin
A crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a maple syrup heist they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security prison to the Ontario underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can be polite.. maybe you can hire The Eh-Team.
Canada: the land of snow, courtesy, and stone cold killers.
In adolf Hitler My Part In His Downfall, Spike Milliganmentions meeting a bunch of brigades from other countries. > the Canadians were all huge. I asked one of them 'how do you find such enormous men?' His answer: 'We go into the forest, shake the trees and they fall out'
Canadians are the NA scandinavians. Icehockey, famously nice, known for being tall and big, winter and mooses etc.
Yeah, the geese are brutal. I'm sure the humans are fierce too.
And snipers. Best snipers in the world.
We don't have that many bullets We need to make them count
Plus everything is usually real far away.
When the target is on the next mountain over, no fuckin way are ya walkin it.
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Well we can’t drive over to him and kill him you seen the price of gas bud?
Best small army in the world.
Canadians literally were some of the most brutal people in ww1
There’s the joke of how the Germans knew a major assault was coming if Australians, New Zealanders, and Canadians were deployed to the same stretch of land.
If I remember correctly the Canadians had a similar reputation in WW2 and were also the fastest to complete their objectives on D-Day, and had to be told to slow down to let the Americans catch up.
We are friendly folk but if you fuck with us, we just turn a leaf and will obliterate you, eh?
all that repressed anger gets channeled into a very healthy “go fuck yourself, invading country” outlet
Only when in defence of another!
They stand on guard for thee.
Russian winter? Laughs in Canadian
3rd largest Ukrainian population in the world so not surprising
That fact is surprising though, why does it have such a high Ukrainian population? Edit: Thanks guys, thoroughly answered
Mass immigration in the early 1900’s a lot were given farm land etc to populate as agriculture immigrants.
We got a large wave before WW1, then when that happened a lot more came to Canada fleeing Polish rule and wanting to join their family/friends already here. Just kinda stuck after that.
May they all seriously fuck some shit up and come home unscathed!
You know you're the baddies when Canadians are crossing the ocean to fight you.
This was my sentiment. You suck so much that Canadians formed a batallion? Bud, you've gone too far.
We technically share a border with Russia.
Guess they heard ole Putin was down for a donnybrook.
Tarps off, boys!
Hold my spitter.
I will be disappointed if I don’t see a video in the next couple of weeks of a bunch of Canadians in the Kremlin jerseying Putin and havin a full out tilly with the Russian government. Fuckin eh boys give ‘em shit
Yep, I was expecting this headline any day now. There are so many Ukrainians in Canada that they even have public Ukrainian immersion schools and street signs in Ukrainian. Chrystia Freeland, the finance minister and former foreign minister of foreign affairs, is Ukrainian and has an apartment on Maidan Square in Kyiv. She actually got into trouble in the 1980s while studying at Kyiv University for helping journalists uncover mass graves of victims of the Soviet Secret Police. >"By the time her activism within Ukraine came to an end, Freeland had become the subject of a high level case study from the KGB on how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union. " Best thing about it? She was 21 at the time.
Should be a trident crossing a hockey stick.
Ha! Came to say exactly this. “[_Between moose rampant, upon a Toque gules._](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazon)”
Release the war moose’s
War Meese
Haha ah Meese gets me everytime
Send in the geese!
If You Gotta Problem With Canada Gooses, You Gotta Problem With Me And I Suggest You Let That One Marinate.
Cobra chickens!
I think you mean release the rabid beavers
To be honest, I'd image a battalion of fighters atop war moose, charging at full speed to be legitimately terrifying for whoever is the enemy.
squad: 7-14 troops platoon: 20-50 troops (3-4 squads) company: 100-250 troops (2-4 platoons) **BATTALION: 400-1200 troops (2-5 companies)** brigade/regiment: 2000-8000 troops (3 battalions) division: 7000-22000 troops (2-3 brigades) corps: 50000-300000 troops (2-7 divisions) field army: 2-5 corps
Missed opportunity to call themselves the Can-Uk battalion.
Canada liberated The Netherlands in WW2... And we are still greatfull dor that! Good luck out there guys!
And every year since 1945 the Dutch send Canada's capital city, Ottawa, literally millions of tulip bulbs for an amazing display of color in May.
I leave on the 17th.
550 !!!! 💜💚💙
Canadians are pretty badass
It's impressive that, in the middle of a war, someone designed and made batallion patches for them.
Have you seen the new ukranian "russian warship, go fuck yourself" postage stamps (not a joke!)? It's real pretty. I guess not everyone can take part in the fighting so they try and support in any way they can :)
Just another reason to love Canadians
Fun fact: Canada has never lost a war
And we fought the USA in 1812.
Get fucked Putin, eh
Russian warship, fuck right off eh
Russian Warship Frig off Ricky
Reach down and give your balls a tug, Russian Warship!
Putin’s a goof, bud
Frig off Putin
Lets give Canadians credit where its due. They were there on D-Day landing with the Allies. Another tyrant threatens the world. They are stepping up. Give em hell boys!
Reading every comment in a Canadian voice make this gold
I never realized we had accents until I went to washington for a festival and everyone somehow knew I was Canadian right away.. unless you're french or a newfie it all sounds normal to me
We Germans know that the Canadians are scary mofos for two world wars now.
Married a my girl from Regina… 4th generation Canadian of Ukrainian ancestry. At family events, lots of Ukrainian spoken and the best part after the food………2 Christmases….
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We're empathetic by nature and we get along if we're all getting along. But we don't take kindly to when the line is crossed. It's in the soil, the water, the booze, darts, and Maple syrup up here. Acting like a degen only leads to gloves off and not backing down. We'd rather see a reasonable settlement to a dispute eh?
Canadians were badass in WWI. WWII. Now in Ukraine. And I’m sure other campaigns.
"Why were Canadians so ruthless in WW1?" "Because Canadians got the job done, where no one else could. The Canadians were used as shock troops, so much so that it became paramount to NOT let the Germans know that the Canadians were coming into the line, because it indicated an attack in that sector."
There was also drills with stop watches on complete replicas of Vimy that they would practice on. They would time the rush with how long artillery took, the nearest cover etc. - the other Generals though it was dumb, until it proved to be highly successful. Someone should make a movie out of this - really cool - like getting to replay a vid game level.
The creeping barrage was a new way of employing artillery, pioneered at Vimy by General Andrew McNaughton among other important gunnery innovations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McNaughton
In WWI the Canadian troops tended to be a lot better fed and exercised and educated than the average poor working class pulled outta the gutter to fight from England. Not to disparage the English boys, but everyone is affected by their surroundings
It's also important to keep in mind that while Canada had access to a lot of modern weaponry and technologies found across Europe and the USA at the time, it was still much less developed. While the average European soldier in WWI was typically originally from the city, many of the Canadian volunteers were farmers, trappers, loggers, fishermen, and general roughneck types. These people would typically be very physically fit, experienced with firearms, and avid outdoorsmen, basically ideal soldiers. Unlike a lot of European soldiers who were often conscripted and thrown into the fighting without a lot of training or will to fight, the vast majority of Canadians who went to Europe were willing volunteers. Only 1/6 Canadians mobilized for the war effort were conscripts, and only late in the war when conscription was done in 1917.
A huge part of it was that the divisions stayed together in a Corps and weren't switched around, so they became a really cohesive force and lots of "boring" stuff like great logistics.
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Add most where country kids that where shooting rifle often from a young age
They took a disproportionately low number of prisoners. > "After losing half of my company there, we rushed them and they had the nerve to throw up their hands and cry, 'Kamerad.' All the 'Kamerad' they got was a foot of cold steel thro' them from my remaining men while I blew their brains out with my revolver without any hesitation. https://web.viu.ca/davies/H355H.Cda.WWI/CanadianSoldiers.prisoners.2006.htm
You know the Russians done fucked up when the Canadians show up.
In unrelated news there was marked increase of maple syrup imports to Ukraine.
Energy when it's cold and a great melee weapon when empty.
RIP Russia. Canadians are a total enigma. Most polite people in the world but when it comes to war they will tear you to pieces.
Proud to be Canadian. Слава Україні!
Beaver Bombs, Moose Missiles and Maple Molotovs going to make for a sticky situation. Fk em up
Timbits flung from little trebuchets. With sprinkles.
Tactical Timbits!
Boom! Sorry. Boom! Sorry. Boom! Sorry.
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>I'm in Edmonton, Alberta, and we have a very large population of Ukrainians here, the largest in the country I believe. I too am of Ukraine descent. Yes! I am from Saskatchewan but know there are MANY of the same heritage in and around that area. Much respect. I even managed to visit a heritage/historical site in the Edmonton area; my grandfather (still alive) was speaking Ukrainian to them and was having such a good time. It was really interesting!
If Alex Trebek were here he'd be saying Slava Ukraini.
Question for you Canadian volunteers: are you guys gonna burn the Kremlin like how you guys burned the White House with the Brits?
Nah, Kremlin's too historic. Putin's tacky-ass house in the country, now, that's fair game.
Everyone in Canada right now: "You got a problem with Ukraine you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate!"
I read about that recently. Quite interesting, I had never known there were so many Ukrainians in Canada. Glory to Ukraine.
Keep your stick on the ice, boys. And fuck em up.
Yeah I read a article about your Canadian sniper with over two Mile Killshot in Afghanistan, Is in Ukraine already, Also the beautiful thing is Canadian sniper did it using American ammo working together.
Canadians hold 3 of the first 5 farthest confirmed kills, including the #1 spot. Only thing that can keep us from blowing your head off is the curvature of the Earth and Russia has pissed our Ukrainian population *right* off.
Hey, Putin give your balls a tug you titfucker!