I'm always a little bit offended by people saying that friendly customer service must be fake. I spent 10 years in the service industry and I genuinely cared about most of my customers. If I wished them a good day, I meant it. There was nothing fake or disingenuous about it. I feel a little sad for people who's customer service experience has been so bad that they think good friendly service must be fake.
I agree, I work in retail and I am genuinely happy to chat with my customers. It’s not the least bit fake. I really hope they don’t think I’m only friendly because I’m paid to be. Truth is, retail workers aren’t paid enough to ACT. We’re either happy or we aren’t!
I hope that when people invite someone else into their home for a visit or a meal that your doing so without a fake or disingenuous agenda and your pleased to have your guests there. Restaurant staff should be no different because the customer chose that restaurant for a reason and could have taken their business to any other of dozens of restaurants. A pleasant dining experience enhances both the life of the customer and the server. The server should find their workplace environment to be a happier place and the customer should be happy enough to want to return another day.
As someone who has worked in the service industry all my life, and am now transitioning into owning my own B&B, I LOVE interacting with guests. Sure, I’ve had my share of customer service nightmare stories, but I’ve met infinitely more people who are genuinely kind and deserving of a spark that makes their day. That’s what customer service should be about. Barring any abusive behaviour, you’re there to make a person’s day just a little bit brighter in any way you can.
I’m a lot offended by the assumption that nice service is fake, which I suppose is a stereotypical Canadian response. I’m sorry if being nice is not the norm elsewhere, but I do think that Canada continues to be less jaded than other parts of the world. We need to preserve and appreciate this here in Canada. As for visitors, it is incredibly sad that they believe things like kindness can only be faked. That is a sinister indicator. Negative ideology, whether it is true or not, is at the heart of social decline.
As a Canadian, I’ve worked in customer service and I found I enjoyed my day a lot more when I engaged with the customers I served. What other industry can you get a 100 thank you’s for what you’re doing through out your work day? When you treat people with respect and kindness, 99 % of the time it’s reciprocated in Canada.
I had a friend from Prince Edward Island whose father came to visit her here in Manitoba. He just couldn’t get over the vastness of our beautiful prairie skies!
West Coast of British Columbia here. In my backyard in the last year there have been Cougar, Lynx, Bear, Raccoons, Deer, Mink, Ravens, Hawks, Turkey Vultures, Owls and all the scurrying food sources for many of them.
You said Cougar, Lynx, Bear, Raccoons, Deer, Mink, Ravens, Hawks, Turkey Vultures, Owls But what about the Rabbits, Beavers, River Otters, Elk, Moose, Caribou, Coyote, Eagles, and for me in north Manitoba Ive especially see lots of Brown/Black Bears, Timber Wolves, Polar Bears depending on the location and access to the Hudson Bay. Much more Lynx, Moose, Elk, Deer, Heards of Caribou, Geese, and so many rodents from mice to Ground Hogs etc... (Anything else?) There is still, Raccoons, Skunk, Wild Hogs, Only Raised Buffalo. Especially since there is no more Wild Buffalo left in Manitoba, getting to see the Raised Buffalo is something to behold so a wild one would be amazing to see it there are any left.
@@peterwolf4157 That's cool having seen them on your own Land. Most of what Ive seen was on my Friends Countryside Property and the larger of the animals on Federal Land as well as Indigenous Territory back when I use to work up north on our Winter/Ice Roads here in Manitoba. (Moose, Timber wolves, Polar Bears, River Otters) all from Northern Manitoba where there is no human life. Lol, the ravens and other winter birds would land on our arms and let us feed them in the winter, as far as "Tadoule Lake", "Lac Brochet", "Brochet" and "Lynn Lake" in the Northwest ish side on M. While just short of "Churchill" up to "Gillam" off the "Nelson River" and the reservation of "Shamattawa" on the Northeast ish side of MB. I thought Id include these names if you wanted to check it out on Google maps to see how remote the top of Manitoba is, these are the furthest communities in Manitoba only accessible by plane 3/4 of the year.
Prove you're Canadian then.😂 Good luck self-identified identity. Transnational is the same as transgender you are something because you say you are not because you actually are. Real nationalities come with immutable identifiable characteristics. Country and Nation are not the same thing.
@@NotLeftarded1 Oh I'm sorry but you seem to have me seriously mistaken for someone who actually gives a shit what you believe or don't believe. As for being a transnational or transgender I can't comment on neither because I am neither a transnational or a transgender and therefore not qualified to speak on those points. Cheers!
@@kosys5338 If you identify as Canadian you are transnational because your nationality is not really Canadian because real nationalities come with immutable identifiable characteristics. No one is Canadian you are a name changing liar and member of the synagogue of Satan. Hello from the French part of Canada we're still French we're not liars.
Yes, i laughed at this when i saw it. And yeah, I've been dissing this woman in this video in a few comments. When I look at the ginormous home and land she lives on in Canada, i find her shallowness may come from being a rare family that lives "enclosed" from a lot of realities of Canada
I'm in Southern Ontario. Billboards are on some highways more than others. I usually ignore them completely when driving. In my yard, I have squirrels, birds, rabbits, racoons, and occasionally deer and opossums. Three bags of milk ... open one, keep one in the fridge and one in the freezer. When the one from the fridge is opened, the one from the freezer gets moved to the fridge.
We only had a flag pole at our cottage. The reason for the flag pole was to signal to my Aunt, Uncle and cousins on the other side of the lake that we had arrived. What I noticed was that some people visiting from Scotland couldn’t believe we would actually sit outside in front of a campfire at night. The bugs in Ontario frightened many of them, including my Scottish Mum. Never a dull moment when the June bugs were out.
I'm in southern Ontario, and while we might not get a lot of the bigger animals here, we have a huge variety of birds (sitting bang in the middle of their migratory path) and smaller mammals. One of my favourite sights is seeing a family of possums walking my fence in order of size from large to small. So much fun to see. I'm originally from New Brunswick though, and there I saw it all, from bears to moose to foxes and everything in between
Toronto native, transplanted to the Canadian Rockies. I miss bagged milk. On my current property, I have seen (excluding smaller critters for brevity): cougars, grizzlies, black bears, wolves, coyotes, lynx, bobcat, deer, elk, and moose. We also have mountain goats and sheep nearby, as well as the elusive wolverines. I also worked in record stores between 1987 and 1999. I liked making customers happy! I wasn't fake nice.
I’m an old Canadian and my first job was working for a plastic company in quality control. In mid 60’s we developed the plastic milk bag and had lots of fun trying to break them. We would toss them around the lab or take them outside for an impromptu football game. They were pretty tough and seldom broke. Not sure why they didn’t ‘take off’ in the rest of Canada since it was the “plastic” era. In our backyard in Southern Ontario we have 3 kinds of squirrels, chipmunks,rabbits, possums,raccoons, skunks, wild turkeys, foxes, coyotes, deer and lots of song birds as well as Canada geese and turkey vultures. I think we take it for granted that we have such a diversity of wildlife. Also I don’t know where this girl lived but I live in a town of 30,000 and haven’t seen any flag poles
Ostrich escaped from a local farmer who raised it for feathers, Peacock Hen same. Shoebill stork in local Lake. Bear with cubs up my tree. Deer eating apples from flowering crab tree in the winter...
First off the plural to moose is moose, not mooses. When someone drops something at a bar I usually go for the line from Groundhog Day. “Yeah just put that anywhere pal. Good save.” A patio at a restaurant or bar is just an outside seating area.
Southern Ontario contains innumerable numbers of critters😊😁😎; Multitudes of various flying and crawling insects and arachnids. Various rodents, (such as different types of mice and moles, rats, etc), skunks, raccoons, rabbits, possums, coyotes, foxes, groundhogs, ferrets. Multitudes of snakes *(up to and including the Massassauga Rattlesnake).* Deer, black bears (some folk claim to have seen Bobcats). And a huge numberof varying species of birds... from hummingbirds, up to Turkey Vultures, Wild Turkeys, Partridge, Falcons, Hawks, Eagles (Golden, and Bald), and waterfowl galore. 😊 And speaking of water..there are MANY different types of fish as well😊 Southern Ontarios wildlife is highly worthwhile doing a little research on.😎 **edit** I grew up on *The Bruce Peninsula.* And was not uncommon to see almost all of the aforementioned animals ..except for the Bobcats...lol
The sky difference is an optical illusion that has to do with the local geography. I live in Nova Scotia, with steeper hills and not really a clear view of the horizon, unless you are well out sailing. The clouds do seem closer to the ground. When I first visited my sister, when she was working out in Winnipeg, the sky absolutely stunned me. It seemed so vast. This was mainly because you could see 100Km to the horizon, with nothing to block your view. The same type of cumulonimbus clouds seemed to be much higher up in the sky, even though I knew they were the same distance above the ground, as in the Maritimes. Britain has rolling hills and mountains, without a long site line to the horizon, so the clouds/sky would appear to be closer to the ground. The same type of illusion is why the moon appears small and far away, when high in the sky , but larger and closer, when it is near the horizon with trees or hills for reference. Cheers Mert!😊
The friendly, happy and courteous of sales clerks, etc., reflects the Canadian people as a whole. How sad that a visitor would think our standard behaviour is phony. Chimo
I’m 73, from southern Ontario. Can’t say I’ve ever seen a flagpole in anyone’s yard except maybe temporarily on Canada’s birthday. I live in Victoria B.C. and haven’t noticed any here.
It's more common in Ontario, but it's still like maybe 5% of houses. In the USA, it's much more like 20-25% (for people who own property, not people in high density cities)
I see lots here in Manitoba especially Lakefront Properties, Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba. Places like Gimli, Winnipeg Beach, Selkirk, small towns with larger yards, etc. Like 15% rural and yeah about 5% urban, but lots of flags without flagpoles on balconies in the Cities.
I'm in Toronto and have never seen an actual pole on the lawn but do see flags in windows or even a small pole attached to the house. I wouldn't call it common though.
We drove from Ontario to Alberta this summer and on the way back the first time we saw bagged milk again was in White River, Ontario. It’s really only a regional thing.
I live in Alfred, Ontario. We had a flock of turkeys last week come and clean out my fall raspberries. See deer and foxes often, the occasional moose, and we hear the coyotes all the time. Bears rarely. They don't really come into the villages.
I live in Eastern Ontario near Ottawa -- moose occasionally appear, as do black bears. I find Canadian servers are appropriately friendly - not phony or "overdo it" friendly as if they are only thinking of you as a consumer. Doggie bags defo a thing here. Many restaurants have outdoor patios as well as indoor seating - popular esp. in summer. We have milk in bags, sure, but most people buy it in cartons.
Omg! Get over the bagged milk already! Ontario, Canada used to have milk in the jugs! The metric system has nothing to do with bagged milk, if it did every Province in Canada would have milk in the bag.
I live in St. John's, capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador. It's not unusual to see young moose strolling the streets in the city, usually in the spring of the year, when the cows have given birth to new young and drive off the yearlings. They're alone for the first time, so may be lost and confused on where to go. Visitors to the island are often surprised to learn that we do not have many animals that are quite common in most of Canada, such as snakes, deer, skunks, raccoons, opossums, wolves, cougars/mountain lions, grizzly bears or brown bears (though we do have a small population of black bears). Polar bears are spotted almost every spring, as they arrive with the pack ice from the arctic, hunting the seals which are calving on the ice. They don't stay, however, and return to their northern territory as the pack ice melts. We have a large population of moose, but they are not native to the island. In 1904, there were four moose brought to the island from New Brunswick as an experiment to see if they would survive and perhaps become a source of food for locals. Because of a lack of predators and ample forage for them, today, there are tens of thousands of moose on the island and their numbers are kept in check by a regulated annual hunt. Other non-native species introduced to the island are mink, red squirrel (there are no other varieties of squirrel here), chipmunk and snowshoe hare. Coyotes were spotted crossing the ice from Quebec to the west coast of island in the 1960s and their populations have now spread across the island.
As a note, Alanna from Adventures and Naps, is a little off on her date when Canada changed over to the metric system. Canada made its first formal switch from imperial to metric units on April 1, 1975. It definitely was not in the 60's. It was not a welcome switch by most Canadians at the time, but it didn't take long for us to realize it is the much better system......lol
Officially Canada went metric in1975, but they announced they were going to do it in the late 60s. I remember taking the metric system in grade school in the late 60s.
@@mikedelay8373 Strange. I'm old enough to remember as well. I also remember quite clearly still learning the imperial system in school into the mid 70's. The change-over to learning the metric system didn't take place in the schools until they had too. Your school must have been incredibly pro-active, and way a head of everyone else...lol
1975 was the year my science high school teacher said the USA would be fully on the metric system! (he said that in 1967)!! he was correct about most of the other things.
Wildlife varies greatly by location. In Labrador we don’t have raccoons, and at least in my part of Labrador, no rats. I’ve also never seen a white-tailed deer here, though caribou used to be plentiful, and you always have to be on the lookout for moose, especially at dusk and dawn. Foxes, wolves, and bears often wander into our community. We’ve actually had a bear on our back step during the night, something we only realized when we saw the teeth and claw marks in our plastic garbage bin in the morning. My husband was lucky to be uninjured when our car was totalled in a collision with a moose. Seeing the beast at the last second he swerved to avoid what turned out to be a cow moose followed by her calf. Avoided the mom but calf was badly injured and had to be put down.
I live near a ravine that connects to the river valley and get lots of wildlife; squirrels, porcupines, skunks, coyotes, jackrabbits... Downtown overlooks the river and there have been sightings of moose, deer and even cougars.
I live in Calgary, and I've never seen a racoon. I've seen bears, deer, gophers, rabbits, hares, foxes, coyotes, skunks, hawks, crows, magpies, jays, kestrels, ducks, geese, and amazingly, a bobcat. All within the Calgary area.
I've lived in Canada for all of my 57 years. I have NEVER seen a personal flag pole. Government institutions like government offices and schools will have them, but I've never seen one on private (homeowners) property.
My parents have one, but it’s less to do with Patriotism, it’s practical because it shows wind strength and direction. They live in very windy PEI, right on the water. The flag is replaced 1-2 times a year due to wind damage. It gets ripped off completely in a good ole fashion nor-easter! 😊
When you take your extra food home, the container should come to the table. According to my daughter, a trained cook, your food should not leave your sight. You paid for the meal, so you should get the whole meal. Re: Hospitality. Canadians are naturally friendly. It is in our nature. We don;t have bagged milk in British Columbia.
I don't entirely agree with the glass dropping at a bar/restaurant with no cheering. I'd say at a Canadian bar/pub where things are lively you will absolutely get cheers when a glass breaks; when I lived in Kingston it was like this. I do agree, however, that in a quieter place, a lounge, or restaurant where it's just more sedate and conversational, less boisterous, then in that case you will get no reaction.
It always depends on the crowd your with & if you know the waitress or you know the bar owner & he is kind of a jerk. Then there is a cheer. Moreso at the bar. At a restaurant, they may tell you your plate will take another 20 minutes to cook as that was your meal that was not quite dead yet and it tried to get away.(fish was still flopping or cow wanted to leave early when it saw an open door.
Good morning from Southern Ontario, normally where I live we get racoons, squirrels, rabbits, deer and lots of song birds. My parents live 2 hours North of us and get bears, coyotes, beavers and skunks. I have seen moose, but that's normally more north, I've also seen elk and caribou, so pretty. I have had my plastic milk pitcher for decades, works great.
New Brunswicker here, we too have bagged milk, I believe Nova Scotia do as well, may have to do with the supplier, Baxter, who I believe are an east coast company. My parents have a flag pole and receive regular visits from the local cats, bobcats, dogs, fox, raccoons, moose, deer, wild turkey, ducks, and bad eagles. I always say hello to cashiers or people on the street who I may make eye contact with.
Haven't lived in New Brunswick in 40 years, so I wondered if bagged milk was still a thing. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity in that regard. And living in a prairie city, I do miss the variety of wildlife I used to encounter tramping through the woods in New Brunswick. Never saw a bobcat, but did see a couple of black bears (both awesome and terrifying for a young teen).
A couple of things: I am amazed that fully grown adults in the UK would cheer and laugh when somebody drops a glass. I don't go to bars and pubs much (well, at all to be honest), but I suspect someone who did that here would get a lot of puzzled stares. About doggy bags: many, many decades ago I went to a Spanish restaurant here in Montreal, where all the staff was from the old country. I wasn't that hungry and there was a lot of food left on my plate. I asked to take the leftovers home. Well. The shock and disgust on the server's face was something to behold. He went into the kitchen, re-emerged with a roll of aluminium foil, noisily ripped a piece from it, laid it on the table, took my plate, dumped its contents onto the piece of foil, and wrapped the food into it. His aim was to make a spectacle of having to accede to what he considered a singularly uncouth request. This would never happen nowadays and in fact never, ever happened to me in any other establishment. Of course I never went back to that restaurant. I couldn't even if I wanted to: it closed ages ago. So, different cultures, different views of how to behave in society I suppose
I rinse out my milk bags, once I have used the milk. The bags are very durable, and can be repurposed for storing lunch sandwiches, or vegetable, in the fridge.
LOL! All 3 bags of milk have the same expiry date opened or not. People might be getting the impression that they're vacuum sealed bags! If you want to extend the expiry date, you have the option of freezing the individual bags to use them at a diff't pace. Milk is also sold in cartons of various sizes.
My husband is the wild animal whisperer. We also live in Ontario, and he likes to sit on the patio in the early mornings and evenings. He has had a baby skunk rub its little nose into his bare toes. Possums treat him like furniture, but the best has to be the raccoon that stood and put its paws on his back during a heatwave. He was crouched on the patio stones and felt this happen. It was shocking, but he thought it might be thirsty and gave it a drink from the water barrel. It drank a lot of water and then had to be shooed away, they can be destructive. We have had deer, rabbits, of course squirrels, muskrats, foxes and coyotes in our garden. It's hard to grow veggies without protection.
This is a story that happened to a school friend when he went to pick up his mother in law from the Ottawa Airport and drive the 100 klicks back home to Renfrew. She was flabbergasted the length of time it took to get there and that they hadn't passed through any towns or villages the whole way. The size of Canada totally floored them.
Canada went Metric in 1974, not the 1960s. We didn't get milk bags in Southern Ontario until sometime in the 1970s. Milk used to be sold in 3 quart plastic jugs with a round card board tab the size of a loonie. The view of the sky is interesting.
The skies in the UK are cloudy and there's a lot of pollution. The skies in Canada are clearer. In the west, the skies are even clearer than in Ontario.
A friend moved out to Windsor, ON and couldn't place her finger on what was wrong until she realized the air was so polluted you could actually directly look at the sun. So very different from AB and SK.
Maritimer here (Southern New Brunswick). I've had various denizens of the forest in my front yard and backyard. Whether it be deer, raccoons, grey squirrels...no rabbits, though (my daughter would have tried to abduct every single one of them). I don't see flagpoles on private property here often but my parents have one on theirs. As for bagged milk, that is a very common thing here. Would I be stereotyping by asking if British people still get milk delivered in glass bottles?
Midtown Toronto we had in our neighborhood a huge variety of wild animals: foxes, coyotes, skunks, raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, all kinds of birds. There are also snapping turtles and deer in the Don Valley. Peregrine falcons and Coopers Hawks and Red-Tailed Hawks live in the city too.
In my backyard in British Columbia (I live in a cityby Vancouver), there have regularly been hummingbirds, hawks, eagles, blue jays, sparrows, robbins, crows, ravens, all bugs especially dragon flies, ladybugs, flies, beatles, ants, bees and wasps. Also skunks, racoons, squirrels, rats, mice, coyotes and the odd cat. Going to a local park/forest (we have so many here), you can see deer and bears (black or brown commonly) it's not unusual and there are posted signs about bear encounters. While there is plenty of wildlife in Canada, some animals do not exist everywhere and obviously more population equals less wildlife. BC has so much unspoiled nature so we have a lot of wildlife.
Having been born and raised in the Toronto area, and moved to Alberta in my twenties, where I lived for over 40 years, I can comment with experience about the skies in those areas. Like your guest, I never thought much about the sky until I moved to Alberta. The sky in the west seems so much "higher" and deeper in its blue colour than that of Ontario which seems a little washed out in comparison. My wife, who was born and raised in the west, didn't understand how the sky could be any different from one area of the country to another until I took her back east for Christmas with my family. The skies in winter are particularly gloomy and faded in Southern Ontario while the Prairie skies are even more deeply blue and often cloud free. When there are clouds in the West, they usually appear as huge, fluffy white mountains in the sky - think of an amateur artist's version. I believe (without any scientific evidence to base this on) that the difference is the humidity in each location. Southern Ontario, being much more humid than the Prairies, gives the sky a more faded appearance. Also, I think the clouds are much lower in Southern Ontario which gives the sky the appearance of being smaller and more constricting. I live in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia now and, although the sky is beautiful here, I still miss the giant vibrant blue sky of Alberta - especially in the winter when the deep blue contrasts so vividly with the white snow and evergreen trees. Bright sunshine is a regular occurrence in the Prairies, year round.
I think for her, Canada means Southern Ontario. Flagpoles for example. I live in British Columbia and also frequent Alberta. I can only remember seeing one flagpole at a home once in my 58 years. It was the home of an ex-American, now a proud Canadian. When the home was sold, the new owners removed the pole almost immediately. Flag waving here is considered kinda "gauche". It may even be considered to be looked down upon. Unless it is Canada Day. Then flags are everywhere!
The cheering of the dropped/broken glass DOES happen in Southern Ontario. It Happens Often. And has been happening fir as long as i can remember (in my 60 years on this planet)😁 And it isn't just in so-called, dive, bars. It happens in many types of restaurant bars/pubs...it just usually depends on what time it is. Because normally, an establishment, stops, being family oriented, and becomes a, 'drinking', one. Especially if you have a college or university in your town. I was a cook for years in several of these kinds of places, and after 8pm, most places didn't allow minors in. And not a single one, was, *'Dive'.* In fact, almost half were what is considered, family dining. The usual response to a dropped glass..or dish.. in the majority, was the yell of *"Opah"!* (sometimes, just a generic cheer)😊
The metric system was adopted in the 70s not the 60s and bagged milk can't be resealed and it takes on the fridge taste it was also bagged at the same time so it doesn't matter if it is open it still spoils at the same time
When I was still living in southern Ontario (born and raised and lived there until I retired), I often had raccoons and opossums, as well as smaller animals such as squirrels, chipmunks etc in my back garden. Now in BC, Vancouver Island, we often see top tier predators (cougars, bears), a lot of deer (on front lawns eating plants etc.), as well as chipmunks, squirrels, voles, marmots, a lot of rabbits; marine life (whales - orcas, humpbacks and dolphins; also salmon, etc, otters, seals, sea lions) and birds (bald eagles, golden eagles, turkey vultures, species of hawks, smaller bird species). In BC, residents are more “up close and personal” with some of the wildlife here. 🇨🇦👍🏻
Deer in your yard nightly are the bane of gardeners! They eat your roses, leaves and all, and most flowers. In southwestern BC slugs are huge and eat delphiniums, lupins, your vegetables, ugh! Frustrating. Banana slugs are 5 or 6 inches long and eat a lot. But if you see a bear from a safe spot? You feel blessed.
We used to have bagged milk in Manitoba years ago but not anymore. We also get a lot of wild life in our yards and streets in Winnipeg- deer, rabbits, raccoons, coyotes for example.
I took a video of moose running through my garden. I have also seen lynx, foxes, , rabbits, squirrels, eagles, and other hunting birds, as well as cranes, and Canada geese. Ravens galore . There was a grizzly bear around, although I did not actually see it. There were tracks though. I have not seen a black bear on my property, but they have been around, and I've seen them just down the road. Wolves as well. Of course, I do live way up in Canada's North! Sometimes it seems like there's more wildlife up here than people. It is one of the many reasons why I like living up here. I subscribe to the Adventures, and Naps podcasts, as she is very interesting and does lots of cool videos. She is good at saying that she lives in Kent, and comes from southern Ontario, as Canada is huge and is very different in different places. She even points out the differences with places in England, let alone the entire United Kingdom.
Yeah you guys have the same personality as Quebec these days. Both of you want to separate the country now. I hate Québec I'm not from there but they make me embarrassed to be French .
The Moose are in many peoples back gardens and cabins in the woods.along with foxes, squirrels, and many many other little critters that scare the crap out of me !
I am in Orillia Ontario, a small city an hour and a half north of Toronto, and we have the odd moose come through the area. We see all the animals the girl mentioned and we also see porcupine, snakes and skunks (a lot) and also many different birds, geese and swans.
Hey Mert, to answer your question about how far south do moose go in Canada, the answer is: pretty much everywhere in wider Canada there are moose. The only exceptions are, the very far north and areas of high population. The Maritime provinces even have moose, although not as much as say, northwestern Ontario.
I'm in North Western Canada, and we see, foxes, deer, coyotes, wolves, bears, moose, squirals, and on a rare occasion, a lynx. Not many flags on this side of Canada, that I've noticed. I'm originally from Vancouver, BC, and I really didn't see them there either. As for bagged milk, I remember having it when I was younger up until the late 80's early 90's, perhaps. Back then our milk was delivered.
Good video Mert! I live in Southern Ontario, so completely identify with everything she said! With the bagged milk - even though it wasn't an issue when introduced, but it's also more environmentally friendly. There is less plastic involved in it's use than with plastic jugs, and doesn't use paper fiber like cartons do! I was surprised to learn when I got older that there's only a few areas in Canada that use bagged milk! I wonder if some of the sky difference has to do with space? We have so much vast, open areas - there's a panoramic view of the sky. I had a laugh at her saying 'mooses' - we say that as a joke, but the plural of moose is moose! Cheers from Canada, eh!
I live in Calgary, Alberta. I have moose in the yard occasionally. among other wildlife. I live in the city near the river. I don't have a flag pole but my neighbor down the street does. There are a couple of flags in our neighborhood. Its not very common. I expect friendly staff in retail shops. I think its a good idea. I normally finish my meal but do expect take away containers if I want. My wife often does not finish.
Milk is sold in bags as a less expensive alternative to cartons. However, it seems that only Ontario and Quebec do this. I remember the bags being introduced in the mid-1970s and they were a pain. The scissors would be missing or the bag would slip out of the plastic holder and spill everywhere. In BC, the bags were abandoned because no one liked them. It's true about the animals. Every place will have different wildlife but the yard is filled with songbirds and squirrels, hawks, eagles and owls, raccoons and skunks come through, sometimes a bear will come down from the mountain, deer can be seen as well as coyotes. Not far out of the city we've got seals, otters, whales, moose, bears, deer, cougar, elk, and so much more. I remember being in the UK and feeling shocked at how cold, and often rude, the service can be in restaurants. It was more friendly in the pubs as I would always ask to try the local brew instead of the normal touristy beers. It's a good icebreaker and a show of respect. I also worked in the restaurant industry for years and being friendly is just the way it's done.
A patio in that context is like an outside space where you can sit and relax or talk. Just a little chill space so restaurants can have, or bars. And baristas is another word of saying waitress or waiter pretty much but I’m sure the definition is deeper lol . And I remember my friends birthday party was at his place like 20km out of town and we seen a moose in his yard. Was trippy to see 😂. I also remember two of my friends ran into barbed wire😂.
Big skies for sure here. And in my nieghbourhood, there is the nicest people in customer service. I live in Toronto and we have a family coyotes to watch out the window and huge hawks.
I witnessed this when I was 16 in Costa Rica. The stars at night have the same effect. We see more stars but they seem further away. It has something to do with the sphere shape and how it plays on atmosphere.
Basically everything she said in 100% on point. As for moose, they stop around ~500km north of where she is talking about (and 2500 km for Polar bears)
Well, maybe not the glasses dropping, I've lived around the country, and while it's mainly an east coast thing, it definitely does happen in Canada, but never in a family restaurant, only in a pub or bar.
@@tchaikca it's not an "invisible line, but I'd challenge you to google how much further north New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maine and (northern) Vermont are from southern Ontario. Since she did not give a city, I'm going to assume she was not a torontonian, so the most central southern ontario city is London, Ontario. I did the math for you, Fredericton, one of the most southern of these options is at 46 degrees north, London is 42.7 degrees north, that translates to 111 km/ degree or about 370 km. I apologize if I made a wild guess without conducting a study and was a little bit off. from 500 km, but my main point was in Ontario, you won't see moose south of Sudbury/North Bay.
@@tchaikca amusingly, my estimate on the ploar bears was far worse off, I was going off Churchill MB, which is known as the polar bear capital of the world, and that is at 58.7 degrees north, so only ~1800 km instead of 2500km
Sorry, …mooses?…plural is moose She obviously never worked in a store in Canada…she’s generalizing on Canadian store/bar employees Outdoor eating area is called “patio” in most of Canada, in Quebec it’s “terrace”
We have a flag pole with 2 flags. The Canada flag is on top with the provincial flag below that. Sometimes I fly the Acadian flag (because I'm Acadian) The provincial law disallows billboards in PEI (love that!!) The reason has nothing to do with safety, it is so we can enjoy the scenery. PEI used to have bagged milk. For a time I was a lab tech where we test the products we made. I found that milk in bags had a longer shelf life than milk in cartons or jugs.
I've very rarely ever seen a full blown vertical flag pole at a residence in Toronto, but you might see it on rural homes and farms set back from the highway. A bigger flag to be seen needs a bigger flag pole. A small staff, usually mounted at 45 degrees off a front porch is more common in the city.
In Vancouver, people may have a flag flying on July 1, Canada Day or during some huge win a sporting event, but hardly any private homes have a flag pole.
In the Southern Interior of B.C. I had deer, bears, coyotes, wolves, cougars, raccoons, eagles, ravens, every kind of rodent and small mammals and snakes and lizards.
I live right downtown in a place that’s just a 40 minute drive from Toronto and I’ve had squirrels, chipmunks, mice, a rat, a groundhog, skunks, raccoons, possums, foxes, coyotes, a deer, moles, cats, dogs, rabbits, and every kind of bird in my backyard. I even had an eagle this summer, a huge bugger that had ripped the head off a possum.
In North America it is almost like a compliment to the dinning establishment if you ask for a doggy bag. Reason for this is because the food was that good you want to take it home
I had a black bear in my backyard once. Glad my dog wasn't outside at the time. It moved on to the neighbours yard, climbing a 6ft high fence but not before defecating on my lawn.
I'm always a little bit offended by people saying that friendly customer service must be fake. I spent 10 years in the service industry and I genuinely cared about most of my customers. If I wished them a good day, I meant it. There was nothing fake or disingenuous about it. I feel a little sad for people who's customer service experience has been so bad that they think good friendly service must be fake.
True. It's not fake. It's true polite customer service. I enjoy such treatment. 😊
I agree, I work in retail and I am genuinely happy to chat with my customers. It’s not the least bit fake. I really hope they don’t think I’m only friendly because I’m paid to be. Truth is, retail workers aren’t paid enough to ACT. We’re either happy or we aren’t!
I hope that when people invite someone else into their home for a visit or a meal that your doing so without a fake or disingenuous agenda and your pleased to have your guests there. Restaurant staff should be no different because the customer chose that restaurant for a reason and could have taken their business to any other of dozens of restaurants. A pleasant dining experience enhances both the life of the customer and the server. The server should find their workplace environment to be a happier place and the customer should be happy enough to want to return another day.
As someone who has worked in the service industry all my life, and am now transitioning into owning my own B&B, I LOVE interacting with guests. Sure, I’ve had my share of customer service nightmare stories, but I’ve met infinitely more people who are genuinely kind and deserving of a spark that makes their day. That’s what customer service should be about. Barring any abusive behaviour, you’re there to make a person’s day just a little bit brighter in any way you can.
I’m a lot offended by the assumption that nice service is fake, which I suppose is a stereotypical Canadian response. I’m sorry if being nice is not the norm elsewhere, but I do think that Canada continues to be less jaded than other parts of the world. We need to preserve and appreciate this here in Canada. As for visitors, it is incredibly sad that they believe things like kindness can only be faked. That is a sinister indicator. Negative ideology, whether it is true or not, is at the heart of social decline.
As a Canadian, I’ve worked in customer service and I found I enjoyed my day a lot more when I engaged with the customers I served. What other industry can you get a 100 thank you’s for what you’re doing through out your work day? When you treat people with respect and kindness, 99 % of the time it’s reciprocated in Canada.
The skies on the Canadian prairies are breathtakingly vast.
Yup, that's why our official motto here in Saskatchewan is Land Of Living Skies. It's on our license plates
Alberta’s is Wild Rose Country. I don’t think the average Albertan could point out a wild rose bush is they got pricked by it.
I had a friend from Prince Edward Island whose father came to visit her here in Manitoba. He just couldn’t get over the vastness of our beautiful prairie skies!
I've never heard cheer when a dish is broken in a restaurant. However, we always cheered and banged the tables in my high-school cafeteria.
she lives so close to America she thinks we are all really similar. It's silly thinking. LOL
She was a very annoying person and the least Canadian person I’ve heard talk.
West Coast of British Columbia here. In my backyard in the last year there have been Cougar, Lynx, Bear, Raccoons, Deer, Mink, Ravens, Hawks, Turkey Vultures, Owls and all the scurrying food sources for many of them.
You said Cougar, Lynx, Bear, Raccoons, Deer, Mink, Ravens, Hawks, Turkey Vultures, Owls But what about the Rabbits, Beavers, River Otters, Elk, Moose, Caribou, Coyote, Eagles, and for me in north Manitoba Ive especially see lots of Brown/Black Bears, Timber Wolves, Polar Bears depending on the location and access to the Hudson Bay. Much more Lynx, Moose, Elk, Deer, Heards of Caribou, Geese, and so many rodents from mice to Ground Hogs etc... (Anything else?) There is still, Raccoons, Skunk, Wild Hogs, Only Raised Buffalo. Especially since there is no more Wild Buffalo left in Manitoba, getting to see the Raised Buffalo is something to behold so a wild one would be amazing to see it there are any left.
@@Chad.Friesen This is what I have seen on my security cam set up back 500 ft (ca. 152 metres) on my property.
@@peterwolf4157 That's cool having seen them on your own Land. Most of what Ive seen was on my Friends Countryside Property and the larger of the animals on Federal Land as well as Indigenous Territory back when I use to work up north on our Winter/Ice Roads here in Manitoba. (Moose, Timber wolves, Polar Bears, River Otters) all from Northern Manitoba where there is no human life. Lol, the ravens and other winter birds would land on our arms and let us feed them in the winter, as far as "Tadoule Lake", "Lac Brochet", "Brochet" and "Lynn Lake" in the Northwest ish side on M. While just short of "Churchill" up to "Gillam" off the "Nelson River" and the reservation of "Shamattawa" on the Northeast ish side of MB. I thought Id include these names if you wanted to check it out on Google maps to see how remote the top of Manitoba is, these are the furthest communities in Manitoba only accessible by plane 3/4 of the year.
I just saw an opposum in my back yard last night. I think he got into the composter!😅😢😊
@@marieross6231 Nice, but did the Opossum cause you a big mess to deal with now? Hopefully not compost is nasty stuff. Lol
As a Canadian I too find it cheesy to have a flag pole in your front yard. I don't need a flag pole on my lawn to prove I'm a proud Canadian.
Prove you're Canadian then.😂 Good luck self-identified identity. Transnational is the same as transgender you are something because you say you are not because you actually are. Real nationalities come with immutable identifiable characteristics. Country and Nation are not the same thing.
@@NotLeftarded1
Oh I'm sorry but you seem to have me seriously mistaken for someone who actually gives a shit what you believe or don't believe. As for being a transnational or transgender I can't comment on neither because I am neither a transnational or a transgender and therefore not qualified to speak on those points. Cheers!
@@kosys5338 If you identify as Canadian you are transnational because your nationality is not really Canadian because real nationalities come with immutable identifiable characteristics. No one is Canadian you are a name changing liar and member of the synagogue of Satan. Hello from the French part of Canada we're still French we're not liars.
Yes, i laughed at this when i saw it. And yeah, I've been dissing this woman in this video in a few comments. When I look at the ginormous home and land she lives on in Canada, i find her shallowness may come from being a rare family that lives "enclosed" from a lot of realities of Canada
@@NotLeftarded1 Now you're a doozie of a person now, aren't ya? No follows for you.
I'm in Southern Ontario. Billboards are on some highways more than others. I usually ignore them completely when driving.
In my yard, I have squirrels, birds, rabbits, racoons, and occasionally deer and opossums.
Three bags of milk ... open one, keep one in the fridge and one in the freezer. When the one from the fridge is opened, the one from the freezer gets moved to the fridge.
We only had a flag pole at our cottage. The reason for the flag pole was to signal to my Aunt, Uncle and cousins on the other side of the lake that we had arrived. What I noticed was that some people visiting from Scotland couldn’t believe we would actually sit outside in front of a campfire at night. The bugs in Ontario frightened many of them, including my Scottish Mum. Never a dull moment when the June bugs were out.
I'm in southern Ontario, and while we might not get a lot of the bigger animals here, we have a huge variety of birds (sitting bang in the middle of their migratory path) and smaller mammals. One of my favourite sights is seeing a family of possums walking my fence in order of size from large to small. So much fun to see. I'm originally from New Brunswick though, and there I saw it all, from bears to moose to foxes and everything in between
Lol such a Canadian response, "if youve been to canada, i hope you enjoyed it. If not, no biggie."
Toronto native, transplanted to the Canadian Rockies. I miss bagged milk. On my current property, I have seen (excluding smaller critters for brevity): cougars, grizzlies, black bears, wolves, coyotes, lynx, bobcat, deer, elk, and moose. We also have mountain goats and sheep nearby, as well as the elusive wolverines. I also worked in record stores between 1987 and 1999. I liked making customers happy! I wasn't fake nice.
I’m an old Canadian and my first job was working for a plastic company in quality control. In mid 60’s we developed the plastic milk bag and had lots of fun trying to break them. We would toss them around the lab or take them outside for an impromptu football game. They were pretty tough and seldom broke. Not sure why they didn’t ‘take off’ in the rest of Canada since it was the “plastic” era.
In our backyard in Southern Ontario we have 3 kinds of squirrels, chipmunks,rabbits, possums,raccoons, skunks, wild turkeys, foxes, coyotes, deer and lots of song birds as well as Canada geese and turkey vultures. I think we take it for granted that we have such a diversity of wildlife.
Also I don’t know where this girl lived but I live in a town of 30,000 and haven’t seen any flag poles
Moose is the plural of moose, not mooses, definitely not meese! 😂
Both moose and squirrel thank you, but they're also from Minnesota. then again, there is no border for moose and squirrel.
Didnt even skip the ad, real gangsta
Ostrich escaped from a local farmer who raised it for feathers, Peacock Hen same. Shoebill stork in local Lake. Bear with cubs up my tree. Deer eating apples from flowering crab tree in the winter...
First off the plural to moose is moose, not mooses.
When someone drops something at a bar I usually go for the line from Groundhog Day. “Yeah just put that anywhere pal. Good save.”
A patio at a restaurant or bar is just an outside seating area.
LOL! You caught that also about the mooses! LOL! I found it funny and wondered if she was really from Canada.
She was just being cute.
Southern Ontario contains innumerable numbers of critters😊😁😎;
Multitudes of various flying and crawling insects and arachnids.
Various rodents, (such as different types of mice and moles, rats, etc), skunks, raccoons, rabbits, possums, coyotes, foxes, groundhogs, ferrets.
Multitudes of snakes *(up to and including the Massassauga Rattlesnake).*
Deer, black bears (some folk claim to have seen Bobcats).
And a huge numberof varying species of birds... from hummingbirds, up to Turkey Vultures, Wild Turkeys, Partridge, Falcons, Hawks, Eagles (Golden, and Bald), and waterfowl galore. 😊
And speaking of water..there are MANY different types of fish as well😊
Southern Ontarios wildlife is highly worthwhile doing a little research on.😎
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I grew up on *The Bruce Peninsula.* And was not uncommon to see almost all of the aforementioned animals ..except for the Bobcats...lol
The sky difference is an optical illusion that has to do with the local geography. I live in Nova Scotia, with steeper hills and not really a clear view of the horizon, unless you are well out sailing. The clouds do seem closer to the ground. When I first visited my sister, when she was working out in Winnipeg, the sky absolutely stunned me. It seemed so vast. This was mainly because you could see 100Km to the horizon, with nothing to block your view. The same type of cumulonimbus clouds seemed to be much higher up in the sky, even though I knew they were the same distance above the ground, as in the Maritimes.
Britain has rolling hills and mountains, without a long site line to the horizon, so the clouds/sky would appear to be closer to the ground. The same type of illusion is why the moon appears small and far away, when high in the sky , but larger and closer, when it is near the horizon with trees or hills for reference. Cheers Mert!😊
The friendly, happy and courteous of sales clerks, etc., reflects the Canadian people as a whole. How sad that a visitor would think our standard behaviour is phony. Chimo
I’m 73, from southern Ontario. Can’t say I’ve ever seen a flagpole in anyone’s yard except maybe temporarily on Canada’s birthday. I live in Victoria B.C. and haven’t noticed any here.
I'm a middle-aged Canadian...I've lived in Alberta and BC my whole life...I've never seen a flag pole on someone's front lawn.
It's more common in Ontario, but it's still like maybe 5% of houses. In the USA, it's much more like 20-25% (for people who own property, not people in high density cities)
I see lots here in Manitoba especially Lakefront Properties, Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba. Places like Gimli, Winnipeg Beach, Selkirk, small towns with larger yards, etc. Like 15% rural and yeah about 5% urban, but lots of flags without flagpoles on balconies in the Cities.
I'm in Toronto and have never seen an actual pole on the lawn but do see flags in windows or even a small pole attached to the house. I wouldn't call it common though.
@@RatKindler like I said, maybe 5%. Much more common in rural areas. But go to the states and it's easily 20%
We drove from Ontario to Alberta this summer and on the way back the first time we saw bagged milk again was in White River, Ontario. It’s really only a regional thing.
I’ve had more leaky milk cartons than bags.
I remember bagged milk about 40 years ago in Alberta, but sometime later after I moved east, it went away.
We have bagged milk here in Nova Scotia also.
I'm in Mandeville Quebec, I've had a black bear walk down my driveway and go into the woods in my back yard.....dear, moose, raccoons, ect.....
I'm on Vancouver Island and black bears come by frequently. Last year I saw a cougar stalk and kill a deer on the hill close by my house😊
I live in Alfred, Ontario. We had a flock of turkeys last week come and clean out my fall raspberries. See deer and foxes often, the occasional moose, and we hear the coyotes all the time. Bears rarely. They don't really come into the villages.
Condo in midtown Toronto, here. We have pigeons, pigeons, the occasional sparrow, pigeons and pigeons. Did I mention the pigeons? Ah, nature...
I live in Eastern Ontario near Ottawa -- moose occasionally appear, as do black bears. I find Canadian servers are appropriately friendly - not phony or "overdo it" friendly as if they are only thinking of you as a consumer. Doggie bags defo a thing here. Many restaurants have outdoor patios as well as indoor seating - popular esp. in summer. We have milk in bags, sure, but most people buy it in cartons.
Omg! Get over the bagged milk already! Ontario, Canada used to have milk in the jugs! The metric system has nothing to do with bagged milk, if it did every Province in Canada would have milk in the bag.
I live in St. John's, capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador. It's not unusual to see young moose strolling the streets in the city, usually in the spring of the year, when the cows have given birth to new young and drive off the yearlings. They're alone for the first time, so may be lost and confused on where to go. Visitors to the island are often surprised to learn that we do not have many animals that are quite common in most of Canada, such as snakes, deer, skunks, raccoons, opossums, wolves, cougars/mountain lions, grizzly bears or brown bears (though we do have a small population of black bears). Polar bears are spotted almost every spring, as they arrive with the pack ice from the arctic, hunting the seals which are calving on the ice. They don't stay, however, and return to their northern territory as the pack ice melts. We have a large population of moose, but they are not native to the island. In 1904, there were four moose brought to the island from New Brunswick as an experiment to see if they would survive and perhaps become a source of food for locals. Because of a lack of predators and ample forage for them, today, there are tens of thousands of moose on the island and their numbers are kept in check by a regulated annual hunt. Other non-native species introduced to the island are mink, red squirrel (there are no other varieties of squirrel here), chipmunk and snowshoe hare. Coyotes were spotted crossing the ice from Quebec to the west coast of island in the 1960s and their populations have now spread across the island.
"Jiffy Lube" always got a chuckle from visiting British relatives. Just don't tell them about the fannypack.
As a note, Alanna from Adventures and Naps, is a little off on her date when Canada changed over to the metric system. Canada made its first formal switch from imperial to metric units on April 1, 1975. It definitely was not in the 60's. It was not a welcome switch by most Canadians at the time, but it didn't take long for us to realize it is the much better system......lol
Yes, it was definitely in the mid 70’s
Officially Canada went metric in1975, but they announced they were going to do it in the late 60s. I remember taking the metric system in grade school in the late 60s.
@@mikedelay8373 Strange. I'm old enough to remember as well. I also remember quite clearly still learning the imperial system in school into the mid 70's. The change-over to learning the metric system didn't take place in the schools until they had too. Your school must have been incredibly pro-active, and way a head of everyone else...lol
@@RodRuth I never thought of my school as being progressive, but it must have been.
1975 was the year my science high school teacher said the USA would be fully on the metric system! (he said that in 1967)!! he was correct about most of the other things.
Wildlife varies greatly by location. In Labrador we don’t have raccoons, and at least in my part of Labrador, no rats. I’ve also never seen a white-tailed deer here, though caribou used to be plentiful, and you always have to be on the lookout for moose, especially at dusk and dawn. Foxes, wolves, and bears often wander into our community. We’ve actually had a bear on our back step during the night, something we only realized when we saw the teeth and claw marks in our plastic garbage bin in the morning.
My husband was lucky to be uninjured when our car was totalled in a collision with a moose. Seeing the beast at the last second he swerved to avoid what turned out to be a cow moose followed by her calf. Avoided the mom but calf was badly injured and had to be put down.
I live near a ravine that connects to the river valley and get lots of wildlife; squirrels, porcupines, skunks, coyotes, jackrabbits... Downtown overlooks the river and there have been sightings of moose, deer and even cougars.
I live in Calgary, and I've never seen a racoon. I've seen bears, deer, gophers, rabbits, hares, foxes, coyotes, skunks, hawks, crows, magpies, jays, kestrels, ducks, geese, and amazingly, a bobcat. All within the Calgary area.
I've lived in Canada for all of my 57 years. I have NEVER seen a personal flag pole. Government institutions like government offices and schools will have them, but I've never seen one on private (homeowners) property.
Maybe it's more of an close to the border thing? Unless you live in there. In which case, it also not really a thing in my part of Alberta.
I am from Montreal and my dad had one that had both the Canadian flag and the Quebec flag side by side. 😊
My parents have one, but it’s less to do with Patriotism, it’s practical because it shows wind strength and direction. They live in very windy PEI, right on the water. The flag is replaced 1-2 times a year due to wind damage. It gets ripped off completely in a good ole fashion nor-easter! 😊
@@jessicazaytsoff1494 I grew up (18 yrs) in Niagara Falls. Never saw one.
I'm 54 (whole life) in So. ON. There are none where I live. I was surprised to hear of this being a common thing for her. Wonder where she is?
When you take your extra food home, the container should come to the table. According to my daughter, a trained cook, your food should not leave your sight. You paid for the meal, so you should get the whole meal. Re: Hospitality. Canadians are naturally friendly. It is in our nature. We don;t have bagged milk in British Columbia.
I live in Toronto, a lot of people yell "opa!" (sp?) when someone drops a glass.
Very Greek.
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Don't have a flag pole. But i do have a Canadian flag hanging on my apartments balcony door.😄😎🙂
I don't entirely agree with the glass dropping at a bar/restaurant with no cheering. I'd say at a Canadian bar/pub where things are lively you will absolutely get cheers when a glass breaks; when I lived in Kingston it was like this. I do agree, however, that in a quieter place, a lounge, or restaurant where it's just more sedate and conversational, less boisterous, then in that case you will get no reaction.
as a server I hated that anyone made a spectacle of my misfortune. It's rude, also hate milk bags
It always depends on the crowd your with & if you know the waitress or you know the bar owner & he is kind of a jerk. Then there is a cheer. Moreso at the bar. At a restaurant, they may tell you your plate will take another 20 minutes to cook as that was your meal that was not quite dead yet and it tried to get away.(fish was still flopping or cow wanted to leave early when it saw an open door.
Good morning from Southern Ontario, normally where I live we get racoons, squirrels, rabbits, deer and lots of song birds. My parents live 2 hours North of us and get bears, coyotes, beavers and skunks. I have seen moose, but that's normally more north, I've also seen elk and caribou, so pretty. I have had my plastic milk pitcher for decades, works great.
New Brunswicker here, we too have bagged milk, I believe Nova Scotia do as well, may have to do with the supplier, Baxter, who I believe are an east coast company. My parents have a flag pole and receive regular visits from the local cats, bobcats, dogs, fox, raccoons, moose, deer, wild turkey, ducks, and bad eagles. I always say hello to cashiers or people on the street who I may make eye contact with.
Haven't lived in New Brunswick in 40 years, so I wondered if bagged milk was still a thing. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity in that regard.
And living in a prairie city, I do miss the variety of wildlife I used to encounter tramping through the woods in New Brunswick. Never saw a bobcat, but did see a couple of black bears (both awesome and terrifying for a young teen).
Yes we have had bagged milk here in NS for years also.
A couple of things: I am amazed that fully grown adults in the UK would cheer and laugh when somebody drops a glass. I don't go to bars and pubs much (well, at all to be honest), but I suspect someone who did that here would get a lot of puzzled stares.
About doggy bags: many, many decades ago I went to a Spanish restaurant here in Montreal, where all the staff was from the old country. I wasn't that hungry and there was a lot of food left on my plate. I asked to take the leftovers home.
Well. The shock and disgust on the server's face was something to behold. He went into the kitchen, re-emerged with a roll of aluminium foil, noisily ripped a piece from it, laid it on the table, took my plate, dumped its contents onto the piece of foil, and wrapped the food into it. His aim was to make a spectacle of having to accede to what he considered a singularly uncouth request.
This would never happen nowadays and in fact never, ever happened to me in any other establishment. Of course I never went back to that restaurant. I couldn't even if I wanted to: it closed ages ago.
So, different cultures, different views of how to behave in society I suppose
I rinse out my milk bags, once I have used the milk. The bags are very durable, and can be repurposed for storing lunch sandwiches, or vegetable, in the fridge.
LOL! All 3 bags of milk have the same expiry date opened or not. People might be getting the impression that they're vacuum sealed bags! If you want to extend the expiry date, you have the option of freezing the individual bags to use them at a diff't pace. Milk is also sold in cartons of various sizes.
Ontario has about 100,000 moose and 100,000 bears that are found basically everywhere except the far south of the province ...
Please watch Corner gas!!!! Love from Canada 🇨🇦 ❤️
Agree 💯
My husband is the wild animal whisperer. We also live in Ontario, and he likes to sit on the patio in the early mornings and evenings. He has had a baby skunk rub its little nose into his bare toes. Possums treat him like furniture, but the best has to be the raccoon that stood and put its paws on his back during a heatwave. He was crouched on the patio stones and felt this happen. It was shocking, but he thought it might be thirsty and gave it a drink from the water barrel. It drank a lot of water and then had to be shooed away, they can be destructive. We have had deer, rabbits, of course squirrels, muskrats, foxes and coyotes in our garden. It's hard to grow veggies without protection.
That woman didn’t stop talking for one second. Please don’t think all of us Canadians talk non stop. We tend to be more on the quiet side.
This is a story that happened to a school friend when he went to pick up his mother in law from the Ottawa Airport and drive the 100 klicks back home to Renfrew. She was flabbergasted the length of time it took to get there and that they hadn't passed through any towns or villages the whole way. The size of Canada totally floored them.
Canada went Metric in 1974, not the 1960s. We didn't get milk bags in Southern Ontario until sometime in the 1970s. Milk used to be sold in 3 quart plastic jugs with a round card board tab the size of a loonie.
The view of the sky is interesting.
Lived in Quebec. My first ceramics project was a milk bag jug.
Patio is the outside sitting and eating area for a pub restaurant for example
The skies in the UK are cloudy and there's a lot of pollution. The skies in Canada are clearer. In the west, the skies are even clearer than in Ontario.
A friend moved out to Windsor, ON and couldn't place her finger on what was wrong until she realized the air was so polluted you could actually directly look at the sun. So very different from AB and SK.
No MOOSES !!!!! LOL LOL
A bit ironic of her complaining about billboard advertising right after her doing sponsorship ads on her video.
Maritimer here (Southern New Brunswick). I've had various denizens of the forest in my front yard and backyard. Whether it be deer, raccoons, grey squirrels...no rabbits, though (my daughter would have tried to abduct every single one of them). I don't see flagpoles on private property here often but my parents have one on theirs. As for bagged milk, that is a very common thing here. Would I be stereotyping by asking if British people still get milk delivered in glass bottles?
Recycle the bags to use as freezer bags. They are thicker and tougher and guard against freezer burn longer than average zip lock bags.
The "Patio" in this context is the outside table seating part of a pub or restaurant. People love to eat outside in summers.
Midtown Toronto we had in our neighborhood a huge variety of wild animals: foxes, coyotes, skunks, raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, all kinds of birds. There are also snapping turtles and deer in the Don Valley. Peregrine falcons and Coopers Hawks and Red-Tailed Hawks live in the city too.
Come to Canada. It's beautiful, safe and the people are friendly and love to laugh.
In my backyard in British Columbia (I live in a cityby Vancouver), there have regularly been hummingbirds, hawks, eagles, blue jays, sparrows, robbins, crows, ravens, all bugs especially dragon flies, ladybugs, flies, beatles, ants, bees and wasps. Also skunks, racoons, squirrels, rats, mice, coyotes and the odd cat. Going to a local park/forest (we have so many here), you can see deer and bears (black or brown commonly) it's not unusual and there are posted signs about bear encounters. While there is plenty of wildlife in Canada, some animals do not exist everywhere and obviously more population equals less wildlife. BC has so much unspoiled nature so we have a lot of wildlife.
Having been born and raised in the Toronto area, and moved to Alberta in my twenties, where I lived for over 40 years, I can comment with experience about the skies in those areas. Like your guest, I never thought much about the sky until I moved to Alberta. The sky in the west seems so much "higher" and deeper in its blue colour than that of Ontario which seems a little washed out in comparison. My wife, who was born and raised in the west, didn't understand how the sky could be any different from one area of the country to another until I took her back east for Christmas with my family. The skies in winter are particularly gloomy and faded in Southern Ontario while the Prairie skies are even more deeply blue and often cloud free. When there are clouds in the West, they usually appear as huge, fluffy white mountains in the sky - think of an amateur artist's version. I believe (without any scientific evidence to base this on) that the difference is the humidity in each location. Southern Ontario, being much more humid than the Prairies, gives the sky a more faded appearance. Also, I think the clouds are much lower in Southern Ontario which gives the sky the appearance of being smaller and more constricting. I live in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia now and, although the sky is beautiful here, I still miss the giant vibrant blue sky of Alberta - especially in the winter when the deep blue contrasts so vividly with the white snow and evergreen trees. Bright sunshine is a regular occurrence in the Prairies, year round.
I think for her, Canada means Southern Ontario.
Flagpoles for example. I live in British Columbia and also frequent Alberta. I can only remember seeing one flagpole at a home once in my 58 years. It was the home of an ex-American, now a proud Canadian. When the home was sold, the new owners removed the pole almost immediately.
Flag waving here is considered kinda "gauche". It may even be considered to be looked down upon. Unless it is Canada Day. Then flags are everywhere!
Love the video and your reaction.
Just for the record the plural of moose is moose, not mooses.
Southern Ontario is set into a valley, England is raised up on a cliffside... this dip in altitude is what she and her partner are sensing.
They're about the same elevation actually.
@@Sid-gu5qk okay well maybe not altitude but topography.
The cheering of the dropped/broken glass DOES happen in Southern Ontario.
It Happens Often.
And has been happening fir as long as i can remember (in my 60 years on this planet)😁
And it isn't just in so-called, dive, bars.
It happens in many types of restaurant bars/pubs...it just usually depends on what time it is. Because normally, an establishment, stops, being family oriented, and becomes a, 'drinking', one. Especially if you have a college or university in your town.
I was a cook for years in several of these kinds of places, and after 8pm, most places didn't allow minors in.
And not a single one, was, *'Dive'.* In fact, almost half were what is considered, family dining.
The usual response to a dropped glass..or dish.. in the majority, was the yell of *"Opah"!* (sometimes, just a generic cheer)😊
great video! keep up the amazing work, also I looked away for a second and at the corner of my eye I thought she touched your shoulder hahaha 4:00
The metric system was adopted in the 70s not the 60s and bagged milk can't be resealed and it takes on the fridge taste it was also bagged at the same time so it doesn't matter if it is open it still spoils at the same time
Not if you freeze it.
In BC you can have a lot of wildlife in the back garden/yard. I have seen deer, quail, ravens, eagles, bears, and even a cougar.
When I was still living in southern Ontario (born and raised and lived there until I retired), I often had raccoons and opossums, as well as smaller animals such as squirrels, chipmunks etc in my back garden. Now in BC, Vancouver Island, we often see top tier predators (cougars, bears), a lot of deer (on front lawns eating plants etc.), as well as chipmunks, squirrels, voles, marmots, a lot of rabbits; marine life (whales - orcas, humpbacks and dolphins; also salmon, etc, otters, seals, sea lions) and birds (bald eagles, golden eagles, turkey vultures, species of hawks, smaller bird species). In BC, residents are more “up close and personal” with some of the wildlife here. 🇨🇦👍🏻
Deer in your yard nightly are the bane of gardeners! They eat your roses, leaves and all, and most flowers. In southwestern BC slugs are huge and eat delphiniums, lupins, your vegetables, ugh! Frustrating. Banana slugs are 5 or 6 inches long and eat a lot. But if you see a bear from a safe spot? You feel blessed.
We had them in Nova Scotia when I was younger and my mom had that plastic milk container my whole life
We used to have bagged milk in Manitoba years ago but not anymore.
We also get a lot of wild life in our yards and streets in Winnipeg- deer, rabbits, raccoons, coyotes for example.
Can still get bagged milk at some supermarts on wpg
@@cpaton1284 oh really? Cool, I didn’t know that. 😊
Thanks for doing these
Moose are usually a little farther north but from time to time you get one wandering South and walking around town. I live in Cobourg, ON.
I don't see many flag poles BC. I think they have more because they're close to the US
I took a video of moose running through my garden. I have also seen lynx, foxes, , rabbits, squirrels, eagles, and other hunting birds, as well as cranes, and Canada geese. Ravens galore . There was a grizzly bear around, although I did not actually see it. There were tracks though. I have not seen a black bear on my property, but they have been around, and I've seen them just down the road. Wolves as well. Of course, I do live way up in Canada's North! Sometimes it seems like there's more wildlife up here than people. It is one of the many reasons why I like living up here. I subscribe to the Adventures, and Naps podcasts, as she is very interesting and does lots of cool videos. She is good at saying that she lives in Kent, and comes from southern Ontario, as Canada is huge and is very different in different places. She even points out the differences with places in England, let alone the entire United Kingdom.
In Canada, people usually cheer when a glass breaks, at least in west of Canada. But we have more personality out here anyway ;)
Agreed, I suppose this may be the type of restaurant the person frequents.
Yeah you guys have the same personality as Quebec these days. Both of you want to separate the country now. I hate Québec I'm not from there but they make me embarrassed to be French .
Alberta does.. not BC
The Moose are in many peoples back gardens and cabins in the woods.along with foxes, squirrels, and many many other little critters that scare the crap out of me !
I am in Orillia Ontario, a small city an hour and a half north of Toronto, and we have the odd moose come through the area. We see all the animals the girl mentioned and we also see porcupine, snakes and skunks (a lot) and also many different birds, geese and swans.
Hey Mert, to answer your question about how far south do moose go in Canada, the answer is: pretty much everywhere in wider Canada there are moose. The only exceptions are, the very far north and areas of high population. The Maritime provinces even have moose, although not as much as say, northwestern Ontario.
I'm in North Western Canada, and we see, foxes, deer, coyotes, wolves, bears, moose, squirals, and on a rare occasion, a lynx. Not many flags on this side of Canada, that I've noticed. I'm originally from Vancouver, BC, and I really didn't see them there either. As for bagged milk, I remember having it when I was younger up until the late 80's early 90's, perhaps. Back then our milk was delivered.
Good video Mert! I live in Southern Ontario, so completely identify with everything she said!
With the bagged milk - even though it wasn't an issue when introduced, but it's also more environmentally friendly. There is less plastic involved in it's use than with plastic jugs, and doesn't use paper fiber like cartons do! I was surprised to learn when I got older that there's only a few areas in Canada that use bagged milk!
I wonder if some of the sky difference has to do with space? We have so much vast, open areas - there's a panoramic view of the sky.
I had a laugh at her saying 'mooses' - we say that as a joke, but the plural of moose is moose!
Cheers from Canada, eh!
I live in Calgary, Alberta.
I have moose in the yard occasionally. among other wildlife. I live in the city near the river.
I don't have a flag pole but my neighbor down the street does. There are a couple of flags in our neighborhood. Its not very common.
I expect friendly staff in retail shops. I think its a good idea.
I normally finish my meal but do expect take away containers if I want. My wife often does not finish.
Milk is sold in bags as a less expensive alternative to cartons. However, it seems that only Ontario and Quebec do this. I remember the bags being introduced in the mid-1970s and they were a pain. The scissors would be missing or the bag would slip out of the plastic holder and spill everywhere. In BC, the bags were abandoned because no one liked them.
It's true about the animals. Every place will have different wildlife but the yard is filled with songbirds and squirrels, hawks, eagles and owls, raccoons and skunks come through, sometimes a bear will come down from the mountain, deer can be seen as well as coyotes. Not far out of the city we've got seals, otters, whales, moose, bears, deer, cougar, elk, and so much more.
I remember being in the UK and feeling shocked at how cold, and often rude, the service can be in restaurants. It was more friendly in the pubs as I would always ask to try the local brew instead of the normal touristy beers. It's a good icebreaker and a show of respect. I also worked in the restaurant industry for years and being friendly is just the way it's done.
A patio in that context is like an outside space where you can sit and relax or talk. Just a little chill space so restaurants can have, or bars. And baristas is another word of saying waitress or waiter pretty much but I’m sure the definition is deeper lol . And I remember my friends birthday party was at his place like 20km out of town and we seen a moose in his yard. Was trippy to see 😂. I also remember two of my friends ran into barbed wire😂.
Big skies for sure here. And in my nieghbourhood, there is the nicest people in customer service. I live in Toronto and we have a family coyotes to watch out the window and huge hawks.
Of course we cheer when someone breaks a glass 🥃
…but I live in BC, we are NOT Ontario
CORNER GAS!!!!!!if you like SCTV humour,Corner Gas is another great Canadian comedy.Life of a gasbar attendant on the praries of Saskatchewan
I witnessed this when I was 16 in Costa Rica. The stars at night have the same effect. We see more stars but they seem further away. It has something to do with the sphere shape and how it plays on atmosphere.
Bagged milk also saves you more money because you can freeze two bags of milk when using the first bag and so on
Basically everything she said in 100% on point. As for moose, they stop around ~500km north of where she is talking about (and 2500 km for Polar bears)
Well, maybe not the glasses dropping, I've lived around the country, and while it's mainly an east coast thing, it definitely does happen in Canada, but never in a family restaurant, only in a pub or bar.
Huh??? There’s moose in Mew Brunswick , Nova Scotia , and all over Maine, Vermont in the US-- There isn’t an invisible line that moose stay north of.
@@tchaikca it's not an "invisible line, but I'd challenge you to google how much further north New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maine and (northern) Vermont are from southern Ontario. Since she did not give a city, I'm going to assume she was not a torontonian, so the most central southern ontario city is London, Ontario.
I did the math for you, Fredericton, one of the most southern of these options is at 46 degrees north, London is 42.7 degrees north, that translates to 111 km/ degree or about 370 km.
I apologize if I made a wild guess without conducting a study and was a little bit off. from 500 km, but my main point was in Ontario, you won't see moose south of Sudbury/North Bay.
@@tchaikca amusingly, my estimate on the ploar bears was far worse off, I was going off Churchill MB, which is known as the polar bear capital of the world, and that is at 58.7 degrees north, so only ~1800 km instead of 2500km
@@fellknight point taken -but Ottawa is 45 latitude (south of Sudbury at 46).. and I’ve seen moose in Ottawa area on many hiking trips.
Most towns have a few homes with flag poles, but almost every cottage on a lake has one.
Sorry, …mooses?…plural is moose
She obviously never worked in a store in Canada…she’s generalizing on Canadian store/bar employees
Outdoor eating area is called “patio” in most of Canada, in Quebec it’s “terrace”
We have a flag pole with 2 flags. The Canada flag is on top with the provincial flag below that. Sometimes I fly the Acadian flag (because I'm Acadian) The provincial law disallows billboards in PEI (love that!!) The reason has nothing to do with safety, it is so we can enjoy the scenery.
PEI used to have bagged milk. For a time I was a lab tech where we test the products we made. I found that milk in bags had a longer shelf life than milk in cartons or jugs.
I've very rarely ever seen a full blown vertical flag pole at a residence in Toronto, but you might see it on rural homes and farms set back from the highway. A bigger flag to be seen needs a bigger flag pole. A small staff, usually mounted at 45 degrees off a front porch is more common in the city.
In Vancouver, people may have a flag flying on July 1, Canada Day or during some huge win a sporting event, but hardly any private homes have a flag pole.
Don’t forget coyotes, lots of those wild dogs in southern Ontario, we can hear them howling off in the distance in the early morning hours.
In the Southern Interior of B.C. I had deer, bears, coyotes, wolves, cougars, raccoons, eagles, ravens, every kind of rodent and small mammals and snakes and lizards.
I live right downtown in a place that’s just a 40 minute drive from Toronto and I’ve had squirrels, chipmunks, mice, a rat, a groundhog, skunks, raccoons, possums, foxes, coyotes, a deer, moles, cats, dogs, rabbits, and every kind of bird in my backyard. I even had an eagle this summer, a huge bugger that had ripped the head off a possum.
The title should be ONTARIO, not CANADA.
In North America it is almost like a compliment to the dinning establishment if you ask for a doggy bag. Reason for this is because the food was that good you want to take it home
I had a black bear in my backyard once. Glad my dog wasn't outside at the time. It moved on to the neighbours yard, climbing a 6ft high fence but not before defecating on my lawn.