Meanwhile in Canada: Photos That Capture the Essence of Canadian Life
Canadian Cops Are Bred Different
Lately cops, especially in the USA have not had the best press, and so there has been the call for systemic change in this field. Fortunately, Canadian coppers appear to be cut from different cloth. As the proud owner went to take a photo of his pooch driving the officer on 2 wheels, the cop stepped infront of the camera. But rather the officer seemed to stop and help the owner get the best photo op.
To make the captured imagery realistic, the officer even placed his helmet on the canine. Unfortunately for the officer, however, we do not believe that dog breath was taken into account.
Medical Bills Be Like
Some countries cannot understand that you think that healthcare is a right, not a privilege. But some countries have been successful with this philosophy, and would you look at that. One of them is Canada. Look this man holding up an invoice from some Canadian hospital where his daughter was born. Correct, nothing in the man’s hands because hauling it cost them a big fat zero Canadian dollars.
This man seems to know better, and is not fleeing south or anywhere else for any health care. This is one reason to leave your home country all for Canada.
Moose Are Just Really Big Dogs
The moose, by contrast, is a much more common creature in the Canadian wild, but one that is rather more overlooked. They have a softer demeanor, no terrifying growl, it can lead people to expect them to be gentle giants. In fact, there are these beasts that could exterminate many humans with an absolute snap of a finger or drive your car just on the verge of destruction. But this still of a kitty and a Canadian moose nuzzle-bumping is not at all the clashing spirit that they embody.
Except, to be perfectly frank, cats are sometimes the most terrifying thing in the house, too, so I guess it makes sense that this moose would be dubious of its feline nemesis.
Even the Moose Celebrate Pride
You know, Canada is a pretty big country and we don’t have that many people to make things like Pride happen on a nationwide scale the way you could do in a country with more human bodies, so clearly Canada is just now starting to enlist wildlife in the Pride festival every June. Like this little moose bestowing a pride flag on the side of the road.
It’s nice for the LGBTQ+ community to know they will be accepted by the Canadians and wildlife in Canada. What a great image to have you capture!
How Canadians Protest
This Canadian protest or march wanted to make sure that everyone out there saw their message. These warmhearted people even made up a helpful triple Venn diagram to demonstrate their points. They then went on to compare those who are against vaccinations to Canadian Geese and Toddlers and found some interesting similarities. Their subjects ranged from that one “can’t reason with them” to Toddlers and Anti-Vaxxers both practice “incoherent ramblings.”
But if we’re going to be honest, the most spot-on comparison is between Anti-Vaxxers and Canada Geese, who according to this chart, both “want everyone dead.”
Apologizing for Internet Arguments
For some inexplicable reason, otherwise known as the human condition, we are unable to talk about politics in a peaceful fashion. Normally, in the rest of the world, an argument about politics ends in tears and a sore throat. This is not the way it works in Canada. This image depicts two individuals fighting about the politics of Justin Trudeau, the current Prime Minister of Canada, which results in both of them apologizing to one another over the fight.
Given that this argument happened over the internet, this is even more impressive. We want to claim this. We think this is the first documented apology ever to take place on the internet.
Mother Nature Lives in Canada
The world is too full of wonders and fascinations for the mind to process just how magnificent and beautiful it all is. Anything from the Eiffel Towers to the Great Wall of China have managed to astound us from afar. Who knew such wonders abound in Canada the beautiful sculpture made entirely of flowers and plants. They merge to form one stunning woman offering water to everyone.
The woman is made of flowers, like she is Mother Nature in the flesh. And the citizens of Canada have been sitting on it the whole time.
Graffiti Is Done Differently
Graffiti is an issue in every city in the world. Graffiti is often employed by gangs to mark their territory. These writings often include expletives and unkind comments about the mothers of people and about what they do. In Canada, this is not true. Here someone tagged their name on the side of the bridge, only instead of a nasty message, theirs is very sweet. “Have a nice day,” reads the graffiti.
As graffiti turned out to be an art form for some, it’s improved slowly but the Top notch of graffiti made in history is still in Canada not that they spray painted as graffiti but may they spray painted to people well wishes.
Dogs Get Their Own Bathrooms
Every dog owner knows the struggle of taking their dogs out for a bathroom break. This is especially important when on the road, as having your pet unexpectedly eliminate in a public area is embarrassing for both of you! They know of this issue in Canada and therefore they have available such bathrooms to the owners of our furry friends. This bathroom includes a grass mat and fire hydrant for the puppies.
Such a cute bathroom, so I can’t help but cutely think about taking my dog out and it going to the bathroom here.
The Hottest Hair Styles Are Frozen
Indeed one of Canada’s most famous things is its weather– cold as hell. While many around the globe can say they’ve felt the cold, nothing compares to the biting cold in Canada. Don’t believe us? So check out the way these people emerge from the pool. As they emerge from the water their hair freezes, the waterlogged locks rapidly frozen as the water-logged hair meets the sub-zero temperatures that characterize Canada’s winters.
There are, this is some creative hairstyles happening up in here. In truth, this looks like an excellent, timely method of styling your hair. No one’s done more than product type require.
Free Scarfs
We have all heard that “there are no free lunches.” So what this means at the most basic level is that nothing is free. For most everywhere else in the world, this may be true, but over in Canada, that is far from the reality. Someone has knitted scarfs and tied little tags that say they are indeed free for anybody in need to have their neck warmed. Leave it to Canada to foster a culture where you can actually get stuff for free.
These beautiful scarfs won’t just be warming our necks up, they’ll be warming our hearts so much. Canada needs to be more of the world’s free love.
Hockey Sticks Make for Great Social Distanced Checkouts
Scammers and hackers are one of the major popular issues in our today common man with the use of credit as well as debit cards. Anyone can get ahold of our card numbers and then shop. For example, in Canada, to gain our confidence in the use of the card, let us pay by handing over to the customer to check out the machine. And even more Canadian to devise this socially distanced, secured method of paying while using a hockey stick.
Honestly, this is something only a Canadian would do with a hockey stick. Seems hockey sticks also work great at giving those passing through the drive-thru line an unobtrusive look around.
Such a Festive Dog Outfit
In Canada, celebrations are as much fun and meaningful as anywhere else. They have a sourdough festival in Canada in winter where they have a contest for the best-dressed dog. This person put dog is wearing a First Nations beaded blanket. It has a dual purpose, it not only keeps their doggies warm but also turns them into quite the outfit competition. If the first place, they are coming, hopefully.
The one with the dog wearing the outfit and looking up into the sky, however, is also a two-meaning sentence. The only message: this dog is regal, and cute, as hell.
Store Is Left Opened and Unattended and Nothing Is Stolen
It isn’t a simple task to find who wants to work during the holidays. There are financial incentives like extra pay, and other bonuses to working but this store was obviously not one of those. They left the store unlocked with no one working over the holiday. They returned to find nothing was stolen, only a bag of cherry tomatoes was taken, but someone left money for it on the counter.
Canada apparently is one of those places, where people leave the doors open and unlocked, and you can trust that nothing will be taken.
Canadian Northern Lights Make for a Good View
Apart from the landscape, the snow, mountains, forests, and other landmarks covering the surface of Canada, it is the sky of Canada that is beautiful, if not even more. This image captures the view pilots get while airborne in Canadian airspace and represents zoomed in shots of the Nothern Lights. So if you aren’t visiting Canada for its stunning countryside, you’ll have more than enough beauty to see right in its breathtaking night sky.
This image serves not just as more reason to travel to Canada, but also as a great reason to be a commercial pilot so you can see your serviced area from high up.
Minister of Defense Is Just Like Everyone Else
In much of the world, politicians are their own celebrity brands. Wherever you go, you have movie stars, singers, and artists, but you also have star politicians who became household names not so much in Canada. The photograph shows one of the Minister of Defense, Harjit Sajjan, standing in line getting groceries like everyone else. The politicians in most other countries are better off than this, though, and have people to do such things for them.
The reality that the country’s Ministers will need to queue like everyone else at the end of the day even the most powerful inhabits the same world as the people they represent.
It Is Not Always Winter
If you have never been to the Great White North, one of the most comforting myths that you may have about Canada is that it is a frozen wasteland. Always snowing, wild beasts running amok, and dang cold. However, this is the least of the case. Canada is a beautiful country who might see more snow than average but also get beautiful seasons and stunning scenery. Just look at Algonquin in the fall time.
The colors of Fall are blooming across the lake, while this person paddles their way across it in a canoe. To summarize, you experience a little of every season in Canada.
Even the Parking Tickets Are Nice
One of the things that is said about Canadians is how some of the nicest people will apologize or will compliment at the first opportunity. Even the Canucks get this, as noted here. When this person arrived to their car, they noticed a slip of paper on their window, and instantly thought they had gotten a ticket. But then opened the little note, and adapted that they lived in Canada.
It was not a parking ticket but a note saying ”Nice Car.” Once again, only in Canada do they leave compliments instead of fines on people’s cars. Only in Canada.
Satellite Dishes Are Communal Cat Heaters
Sure Canada has all of the seasons, but it is also famous for the fact that it has a tendency to get really dang cold for months at a time. However, with Canada being so far north, it really should not be surprising that it gets so cold. Unfortunately, this also entails many of Canada’s animals having to live with the cold, but that is where these cats come in. The satellite dish of this person generates a little warmth and the cats are using it.
Camera footage documents these cats finding the dish radiating heat as four felines squeeze together to share the warmth of the dish. Looks nice and cozy.
Don’t Leave Your Children Unattended
Every nation has a sign like this one. This sign posted outside of a place of business in Ontario reads, “Unattended children will be given an energy drink and taught to swear.” In America, this sign often warns that they will provide any unattended children with a shot of espresso and a free puppy. The message is different, but the sentiment is unchanged. Get out of the way of your children or they will get a sugar buzz and learn a new skill.
Canadian children must not know swear words, if it’s a sufficiently worrying idea that parents can be scared into doing something about it. Better than many of the world’s children, who already know all the four-letter words.
Nightly Light Shows
Typically, a light show will cost you money and you will need to plan ahead to get yourself there to enjoy the experience. Alternatively, Canadians are getting free light shows all the time, no added cost. The Light Pillars in Saskatchewan were fully manifested in the Canadian night sky, as someone took a picture. Maybe it would be worth while to move up north for(no charge) entertainment as offered by Canadian nature.
Frankly, with the scenes, the nature and the breathtaking landscapes, it’s something of a marvel that not all of the world’s artists aren’t beating a path to the nation’s Canadian border.
That Is Not a House Cat
Every nation has its own wild animals. In America, for instance, there are certain parts of the country where deer can be seen lounging in people’s backyards. But in Canada, they are getting something even more primal than a gentle deer. Canadians must contend with bears and moose and, apparently, big cats. Take this individual’s photo of a cougar perched by a door awaiting to be allowed inside their home.
Even big cat breeds are friendly in Canada. Just look how polite this cat is waiting outside somebody’s home waiting for somebody to let them inside.
Basic Survival Necessities Include Beer
It’s an ordinary thing for people to stock extra water and food and supplies if someone is ill outfit for natural storms extreme natural storms or weather events, so they can not leave their home for a few minutes. In Canada, it’s citizens are prepared for some perspective-getting snow storms which can cause people, otherwise known as Ontarians, to be locked up in their homes for weeks at a time. Take this person: They have pushed a sign out the window asking for help.
But instead of requiring assistance in escaping from their house, which is snowed in, this one begs someone to go out there and get them more beeIndeeduly, this is a cry for help.
“Please Do Not Be Offended”
In the land of politeness, Canada, the expectation is that the citizens of the country will be extra nice and polite no matter the circumstance. This is true plus some beyond the social motivator that people will open the door for you. But the advice to hold the door open is not always the best when it comes to secured buildings. So what do you do? This apartment complex put up a sign to apologize to people for its residents not holding the door.
“Please do not be offended (and yes, we know it’s rude),” the sign reads, explaining that this is a secure building that requires someone to be buzzed in. A view you can only see in Canada.
Always Open-Minded
In terms of governance and social standards, Canada and Mr. Justin Trudeau are known to be liberally more than conservatively inclined. Here, via Whatsapp[2], someone describes a conversation they overheard where a group of Canadians tells a British national about how progressive and accepting they are of everyone. But their ideal of being accepting all people falters a bit when talking about how their friend David is “marrying a french speaker.”
Maybe Canadians don’t care if you’re bisexual, or gay, or lesbian, or whatever. But their smile may falter slightly if anything involving the French is involved.
Tidal Pools at Botanical Beach
In Canada, there is something for everyone to love. Whether your pleasure lies with winter sports, Canada’s unique wildlife or something else, there is surely something for everyone to experience in this northern nation! And for marine biologists and microbiologists too, Canada has these interesting and beautiful tidal pools that can be found all over the Botanical Beach in Canada. Come to think of it, these will be loved by biologists, also, this view would inspire photographers and all other artistic types.
These puddles of water are so cholesterol-like, and beautiful, they can easily awaken the fiber of the artist inside anyone, of course, in those who are in contact with their creative side.
Lidless and Compostable Coffee
Canada has often been one of the more progressive countries when it comes to the work they do to lessen the impact their population has done upon the environment. Among those endeavors is that of covered coffee cups that the public may purchase in Toronto. Even better, these cups are lidless, and compostable! Now the tree hugger inside you can relax, knowing that you can get your daily java without being eco-unfriendly.
That small design change is also unbelievably reassuring to all those coffee drinkers who have been terrified every morning that their coffee lid won’t be tight enough to prevent some spillage.
Animal Bridges
When it comes to the impact humans have on wildlife, most are familiar with the effects of roads and other human infrastructure on the wildlife in an area. Warning signs regarding the threat of hitting critters abound in back country roads across the world. This is because of the streets separating animals from their natural migratory paths. Fortunately, in countries like Canada they have built those land bridges so animals cross the roads safely.
This means that animals can keep going along their usual migratory paths without getting hurt, and it saves human lives as animals won’t be to cause car accidents.
See Across the World
Mount Rainier is a short airplane ride away in Washington state, about 60 miles from Seattle. This mountain is almost 15,000 feet high and is a favorite location for both vacations and hiking. This mountain is in the USA and is visible from Canada, but because of the curvature of the earth, we can only see the tip of this mountain. Regardless, it is still an impressive sight and another site to see in Canada.
A view spanning hundreds, if not thousands of miles, confirms there is no shortage of beautiful scenery to behold in Canada. No matter how far away or where the good in the world is.
Accessible Traffic Lights
There is a type of traffic lights you’ve never seen before on Prince Edwards Island. There are four lights instead of the standard three stacked lights. If you ask what those symbols mean, two are squares, and then in the middle are a circle and a triangle. Why these oddly shaped traffic lights, you ask? So the color blind can see which light is on. The squares are stop, the triangle is slow to down and the circle is go.
Either Prince Edward’s Island has a lot of colorblind people or Canadians are just kind folk who consider all types of people.
Changing Rooms in the Post Office
This is inside a Canadian Post Office in Vancouver; to the side of it is a tiny space to change. A changing room in your local post office isn’t something you necessarily come across every day, so it’s interesting. This is where people can try on their online shopping clothes on the spot. If something doesn’t feel quite right, you can take it back right then and there.
This has to be one of the best concepts of the online retail shopping history. How many times we unpack a garment only to find out it is a size too small? Wouldn’t this be helpful?
Defacing Canadian Bills With Spock’s Face
The Bank of Canada even had to ask Canadians to stop defacing their bills. The reason? The most popular wave was a massive one amongst the public, drawing Spock from Star Trek, face all over their five-pound bills. It makes it a fact that, if enough people of doing this that it requires the official Bank of Canada to step in, Canada is filled with many Trekkies, Star Trek fans.
Star Trek fans will feel at home in Canada. However, bigger aficionados of the Star Wars universe might struggle.
Ottawa Pedestrian Walking Sign Promotes Silly Walks
It seems the Canadian People, or at least the Canadian city of Ottawa, are Monty Python fans. On one of their pedestrian walking street sign, they show a person that looks like they’re silly-walking through the cross-walk. The hilarious Ministry of Funny Walks skit must be so big in Canada that the official pedestrian crossing signs in the country’s capitol feature it prominently.
We do have to question how practical this is. We have to presume that it takes longer to silly walk across the street than to walk normally. Fortunately, Canadians aren’t the kind to rush.
Polar Bear Shaped License Plates
One of the great things about being rich is that you can now get customized license plates. However, such customizability only applies to a license plate’s symbols, letters, and numbers Alas, you can’t change the actual shape of the license plate. In the Northwest Territories of Canada, though, you can personalize letters and numbers, and even get a polar bear-shaped license plate to make your car the hippest one on the block.
This one is going to send all the polar bear enthusiasts rushing to this part of Canada. Canadians: Don’t be shocked if your DMVs are suddenly super busy.
Their Vending Machines Hit Different
With the opening of dispensaries across America, marijuana has become mainstream for people in the United States of America and in other parts of the world. Cannabis is legal in Canada, but there’s a separate kind of dispensary that goes great with munchies. That is this cake dispensary. It is a vending machine, although you can order a slice of cake out of it.
Not only is this a brilliant concept for those experiencing the munchies, but those who may want just one slice of cake doesn’t have to buy an entire thing.
“The Cold? Never Heard of It”
Native Canadian might also mean someone who cannot feel the cold. These nobles of the north are simply unfit to feel the cold. Here’s the evidence as pupils trudge to school, and one of the boys is clad in shorts as he marches in the snow. At least he accepted that fact that it was snowing with a hat, but apparently his legs just don’t get cold.
The logic here seems flawed. If someone is wearing a coat and a hat they would also wear pants. That’s not the reality in Canada, though.
Snow Fortress
Everyone has made a sand castle or a snow fort, but no one can even fathom building something bigger than a small-scale version of those. In Canada, however, all that changes, with the world’s biggest snowfalls giving them plenty of material to play around with and fulfil our childhood fantasies by building a giant snow fort. We are sure also that the possibility of this kind of project was made possible by the kindness, which for MacKinnon is the centrepiece of Canadian culture.
Our hope is that we can make it possible to rent a snow fortress every winter rent. So far it doesn’t exist, so we believe that Canada is missing out of a potential market.
