(Part 3) Top products from r/canada

Don't buy a knife set. You don't need those knives. All you need is the following;

One chef's knife: Victorinox Fibrox 8-Inch Chef's Knife 40520, 47520, 45520, 5.2063.20 https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000638D32/

One pairing knife: Victorinox Cutlery 3.25-Inch Paring Knife, Small Black Polypropylene Handle https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0019WXPQY/

The basics of a chefs knife and pairing knife is $50. Those are good knives. I have two of the chef's knives and three of the pairing knives. The chefs knives hold their edge very well and are sharpened to 15 degrees.

These two knives are all a basic home cook needs. The rest of the kit is filler to get the piece count up. You won't use the carving fork. You don't know how to use the carbon steel honing rod. You don't filet your own fish. You are likely eatting wonder bread so you don't need a bread knife. Unless you plan murder a roommate you don't need a clever. You ain't eatting steak so you don't need steak knives. Heck I eat steak quite a bit and I don't think I need steak knives You need a knife for delicate work and work horse. That is your pairing knife and chefs knife respectively.

After that I would add the following (mind you I am not happy with the price on the sharpener, but it's a fairly good one, just make sure you get one to sharpen asian knives or 15 degrees);

One pair of kitchen shears: Messermeister DN-2070 8-Inch Take-Apart Kitchen Scissors https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000VS6CAS/

One knife sharpener: Chef's Choice 463 Pronto Santoku/Asian Manual Knife Sharpener https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B002JIMVS0/

One bread knife: Mercer Culinary 10-Inch Wide Bread Knife https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000PS1HS6/

I consider these the next purchases because eventually you need some scissors dedicated to kitchen use, and maybe ones that will cut small bone and are easy to clean after use on raw meat. The shears are amazing. Blew me away.

The sharpener because you need to maintain your knives. Keeping your knives sharp is safer and makes them a joy to work with. The above knives come razor sharp and will last you a while before needing a proper sharpening. I don't own that particular sharpener but it ranks high in reviews. I have a more expensive automatic sharpener from chef's choice which I used to regrind my sister's knives to a 15 degree edge. I can't recommend it to everyone because it's $200. It was a splurge on my part and not needed. A manual sharpener is all the average person needs. It takes the guess work out of getting the angle right. Again if you have the knives on this list make sure you get a sharpener for 15 degrees or it might be labelled as Asian style.

Eventually you will be off the wonder bread and maybe baking your own. You need a bread knife then to slice in nicely. A bread knife is also handy for cutting cake and other delicate things you don't want to smoosh. That bread knife is solid. You want a knife that will glide through bread without crushing it or tearing it. The key to that is tooth spacing. I think this one is just about perfect.

Other knives are useful in the kitchen. I would get your specialized knives next, such as a carving knife or fillet knife. The above five things I consider core before you get other stuff. You can carve and fillet with a chefs knife. I cook way more than the average person and get away with the above five items. In fact before I would buy specialized knives I would get another chefs knife and another pairing knife. The only other type of knife I own is a santoku style chefs knife which I prefer for chopping vegetables because in school I owned a keep shitty one and got used to the style.

As always do your own research, check the prices on Amazon with camelcamelcamel and check the reviews with a tool like review meta.

I'm surprised there are analog channels still around. I love OTA TV and cut the cord a long time ago, but I thought we'd completely switched over to digital in 2011 (two years after the US killed analog TV).

I don't know what reception is like in deep rural areas, but if you live within 100km of a major urban centre you can probably pick up its digital transmissions. You just need a TV with an ATSC tuner—any TV manufactured after 2007 will have one built in—and a sufficiently sensitive antenna. If you have the land to put up an antenna mast you're even better off.

If you live near an urban centre you can get by with "rabbit ear" antennas. Even in Toronto I only got about three stations on my rabbit ears until I upgraded. I own a Terk HDTV-A now. I got about twenty stations in Toronto, and in the US I get lots more. Most of those Toronto stations came from Grand Island New York, about 90km away, but you can do a lot better than an indoor antenna if it's important to you.

I love digital OTA TV so if you have any questions I'd be happy to try to help.

Just to make it easier to find - it's spelled "Pierre Berton", not "Burton". Also, "Hostages to Fortune" was written by Peter C. Newman, not Pierre Berton (more about Newman below).

Here's Berton's list of books.

Some great foundational stuff about Canada is as /u/MonotheistThrowaway describes, in the 1812 things. There's also other stuff by him that's excellent:

"The National Dream" and "The Last Spike", about the construction of the railroad across Canada.

"The Great Depression", which of course is about the Great Depression.

"Vimy", which is about the Canadians at Vimy Ridge in 1917. It's not especially "scholarly", but it's incredibly accessible and a riveting read.

"The Arctic Grail", which is about the many attempts to find the North-West Passage. See also the Stan Rogers song about this. It's a pretty key piece of Canadian history.

There is lots and lots more in his bibliography. If you go out of your mind and decide to read all of his work, you'll probably know more about Canadian history and identity that 95% of those born here.

Peter Newman wrote similarly great Canadian history. He did a three-volume piece about the Hudson Bay Company, in the books Company of Adventurers, Caesars of the Wilderness and Merchant Princes. There's a sort of a "condensed" version called "Empire of the Bay" that might be a quicker read.

If you ever get bored of reading but you still want to learn Canada's history, check out "Canada: A People's History", an incredible series done by CBC back in 2001. That's a link to a playlist with all episodes. I can't possibly recommend it enough.

Edit to add: Welcome to Canada, friend!

I'm not a fan of knife blocks, as 99% of my or anyone elses cooking is just with 3 knives

8 inch chefs knife. I love my Shun, but $160 is a bit much when your roommates will treat it like shit. For a university student a great gift is a Victorianox Fibrox. Great value. If it's destroyed after your 4 years and you've got some disposable income again than invest in one you'll treat right and use for the rest of your life.

Cheap paring knife or 2. I saw them for sale for $1.50 at Real Canadian Superstore the other day.

Cheap but effective bread knife. I got mine when a restaurant was selling off their stuff.

Really, that's all you need. Not 7 knives you'll only use when your chef's knife is dirty.

> I have a huge issue with saputo being one of Canada's richest men in an Industry protected by government that screws over the public daily. If you want government regulated profits expect the government to regulate your pay


Then you should start learning about how the world has always worked.

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-democracies-Trilateral/dp/0814713653/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117

> You can't even understand or make the simplest of syllogistic expressions.

This is demonstrably false, but we'll ignore that for the moment.

> I never said it would! lol @ bunk.

> > I would feel a lot safer knowing there was constant documentation attesting to the fact that I am innocent of whatever crazy shit someone dreams up to accuse me of.

The problem here is that you're presupposing that documentation is honest. Which it can't be in a systematically compromised infrastructure with sufficient mass surveillance. Let's see if we can break this apart.

1. There was constant documentation (we agree here)
   
   
2. That the documentation attests to the facts (we disagree here)
   
   
3. That the documentation facts include that you are innocent (though in fact, they can create crimes to charge you with especially post C-51 but that's neither here nor there and not particularly relevant)
   
   
4. That if someone accuses you of something (as something we probably agree has some chance of happening)
   
   
5. that the facts will be accessible by you (doubtful on my part, but we may as well agree)
   
   
6. and that the truth contained within them will therefor be accessible by you (probably agree contingent upon 5)
   
   
   
7. and that your innocence as ascertained by the truth contained within them will be accessible by you (agreed contingent upon 6)
   
   So what we are really disagreeing about is whether or not the constant documentation will actually, in fact, 'attest' "to the fact".
   
   There is no syllogism here even worth considering because we disagree on the premises of your argument. The reason that the documentation is not honest is the kinds of things that mass surveillance allows: control of the infrastructure that is used to secure said documents.
   
   By the way it is not up to me to offer a syllogism/argument. It's up to you to justify yours.

Thanks so much for the reply! I'll definitely look into all of that.

One of the best times I've had discussing/learning about Vimy was a couple years ago at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. I was visiting at the time, and have since moved here so I'm planning on going back. Anyway, that's beside the point. We were wandering around the museum, and came upon the Vimy Ridge area and an older man who was a volunteer came and asked if we wanted to have him guide us through. I felt like I knew a fair bit about the battle already, having read books like Vimy and spending time in libraries etc, but we decided why not eh! Wow, best decision BY FAR. Not only the way he was able to tell the story, but all the info he had along with private letters and stories that have never been published. We ended up spending over an hour and a half JUST in the Vimy area talking about it, and learning and hearing many new stories. To this day I hope I could go back and find this particular volunteer to go through again. He had a wealth of knowledge on Passchendaele as well. He had photos from a trip he'd taken out there to show what it all looked like now, most interesting being looking at the area where Passchendaele took place from the same vantage point as the giant photo on the wall in the museum.

Anyway, I ramble, but thanks so much for the reply and info. Also if you've never been I highly recommend the War Museum. Hopefully I'll get back there and find that particular volunteer.

I believe the majority of people saw prices continuing to rise due to supply shortages and continuing volatility internationally.

I think this book summed it up best, basically based on the assumption that oil would go above $200/barrel and anyone living in a rural area or away from major cities would have a hard time surviving.

I don't think it was a far out assumption at the time before the US was working towards energy independence and the Saudis were bottoming out the market.

http://www.amazon.ca/Your-World-About-Whole-Smaller/dp/030735752X

I always chuckle when people like OP jump for joy at their cheap gas prices...

Say what you will about Ezra Levant, he is a dedicated fighter for the freedom of speech in the country. He potentially is risking his life for it. And it's cost him a ton of money. He wrote a book about that Human Rights Tribunal called Shake Down ( check it out from [amazon] (http://www.amazon.ca/Shakedown-Government-Undermining-Democracy-Rights/dp/0771046197/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1420732318&sr=8-2&keywords=ezra+levant).

I might not agree with everything he says, but he is smart and entertaining.

I don't believe I can answer this question without rancour at the moment or appearing to be partisan. It is an interesting question that in some respects I've answered for myself due to not only living in an urban environment but also having family in the rural milieu. In your case I would recommend researching social conservatism versus progressiveness and also having a look at some Canadian authors who might add some insight into this subject: In particular I recommend Pierre Burton's The Great Depression 1929-1939 and John Ralston Saul's Voltaire's Bastards to give a starters overview of this complex issue and how it relates to our country.

> I'm hoping a more left leaning red liberal like Trudeau would say something about this in his platform. Was it under Paul Martin's watch when this program was expanded?

You need to figure out what has been really going on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkNKipiiiM

Free markets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

America in the Technetronic Age 1968

Page 21 "At the same time, the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. As I have already noted, it will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behaviour of the citizen, in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

"Moreover, the rapid pace of change will put a premium on anticipating events and planning for them. Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control the information, and can correlate it most rapidly."

Reason doesn't work the way we thought it does, someone can tell you the truth and you won't believe them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew

Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY

The real news:

http://therealnews.com/t2/

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

IMGUR link - http://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkNKipiiiM

Free markets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Free trade?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju06F3Os64

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

http://williamblum.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcA1v2n7WW4#t=2551

I haven't read this, but I have read other Wil Ferguson books, and they were excellent. I'm therefore assuming this is too: http://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-History-Dummies-Will-Ferguson/dp/0470836563/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268672449&sr=1-4

Note: I am not trying to imply you are a dummie.

I bought this one. It is very popular and easy to find on Amazon or in many stores. The full non-surplus price seems to be about $40

> get a fucking job and work hard for their own things like the rest of us have to.

I don't really know where to start. So I'll suggest you start here:

http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=890

or here:

https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100014597/1100100014637

or if you would prefer a more entertaining version, here:

https://www.amazon.ca/Inconvenient-Indian-Curious-Account-America/dp/0385664214

I have not read it, but Greg Malone's book is supposed to be good ...

https://www.amazon.ca/Dont-Tell-Newfoundlanders-Newfoundlands-Confederation/dp/0307401332

This is an excellent read.

https://www.amazon.ca/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897

https://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-History-Dummies-Will-Ferguson/dp/0470836563

Don't let the format throw you off, Will Ferguson is a fantastic writer.

Read Coddling of the American Mind and get back to me. The universities have been historically left leaning but recently they have become echo chambers. Intentionally or not, they are taught to further their cause rather than try to find the truth. This is not your grandpa's civil rights movement, it is a trojan horse.

Get the book "Dont Tell the Newfoundlanders". It discusses how Newfoundland was treated like a playing chip by the Brits and the crooked politics that took place in her joining Canada. It is extremely thorough. If you are a newfoundlander, your blood may boil while reading it.

https://www.amazon.ca/Dont-Tell-Newfoundlanders-Newfoundlands-Confederation/dp/0307401332

I read this and it was very good.

http://www.amazon.ca/Great-Depression-1929-1939-Pierre-Berton/dp/0385658435

The lack of a go-getter spirit and international outlook that makes it difficult for us to create internationally-recognized brands that reach outside North America.

European nations smaller than us (Sweden, The Netherlands, etc.) have recognizable global brands, while we're happy having companies like GM Canada, IBM Canada, etc. and a bunch of resource companies that no one's heard of. Our only global brands are Blackberry, Nortel (defunct), Scotiabank, and a few others. Canada punches way below its weight in global entrepreneurship.

This issue was explored in the book, "Why Mexicans don't drink Molson" [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Why-Mexicans-Don-Drink-Molson/dp/1553652258

This is the book he is referencing if anyone cares.

> Unions are a way for workers to collectively bargain against an organization that has an unreasonable degree of bargaining power when suited against individual workers. That being said certain employees have the same type of disproportionate power.

Uhh you don't know much history... we have no representation in government if you go by the science.
Our politics is fake. The vast majority of the electorate is not living in reality because of mass indoctrination. First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. AKA we can be manipulated to believe things against our interest. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Overthrowing other peoples governments

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-Democracies-Trilateral/dp/0814713653/

Democracy Inc.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

https://www.amazon.ca/Soft-Target-behind-disaster-Second/dp/1550289047

I suggest giving that a read.

If you want the short synopsis. Indian intelligence (RAW) was behind the attack to defame Sikhs.

I used to do this for the something awful secret santa that we used to do every year.. stuff id send.
Wierd chips.
CAN of maple syrup from Quebec, and maple sugar.
small bottle of ice wine.
Can or packet of poutine sauce. St Hubert or the like.
Wunderbars, Aero, smarties, rockets, those sort of Canadian snacks.
Canada flag toque and Canada flag patch for your backpack, to camoflage the fact that you are american at international airports.
How to be a Canadian even if you already are one
and a Fuckin Eh' Wifebeater

No, you don't have it at all.

I dislike Jean Chretien very much. He is the most corrupt politician and the biggest liar in the history of Canada. (See Paul Tuns "Jean Chretien: Legacy Of Scandals" for an eye-opening read.)

But he was an author of Charter Of Rights and his 2012 clarification of the purpose of the notwithstanding clause is clear and logical. That it ensures the people are supreme over appointed judges.

What's also clear is that Chretien is now taking a hypocritical stance in saying the Ford shouldn't be using the tool that the Charter equipped him with despite already telling us in 2012 that this is exactly what the notwithstanding clause was intended for.

Chretien is first and foremost a good Liberal solider and will always side with the Liberal Party, and against the conservative, on any cause regardless if it contradicts his long-held logical clarifications.

Yes. It's a real disaster. Pick up a copy of Ezra Levant's Shakedown. This otherwise pompous right-wing blowhard looks like a saint when he runs up against the Human Rights Tribunals' thought police.

Sounds like he should start by reading The Inconvenient Indian if he really knows that little about the issues with scrapping the Indian Act.

Mandatory reading.

People to actually read some economics books before they form their own opinion.

https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465060730

Here's a start.

As much as I loathe his politics, Ezra Levant's Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights is well worth the read. Most of the cases he references have their records available online so you can wade through the mud yourself, but the book does a good job of collecting a lot of troubling material in one place, if you can stomach a little bit of self-aggrandizement.

Heres an explanation why Trudeau’s economic policy is destroying the economy: https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465060730/ref=la_B000APQ7EI_1_2/141-0036348-7831353?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1526004973&sr=1-2

> I have nothing to hide.

That doesn't end well. Have a look at "Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent". Whether you know it or not, you do have something to hide.

You should read Jeff Simpson's The Friendly Dictatorship for a perspective of Canadian politics under Chretien.

From Amazon...

"what he[Jeff Simpson] sees as the central problem with Canadian democracy: that, due to a combination of voter apathy, media manipulation, a faulty political system, and internal wrangling within opposition parties, the Chretien government has been allowed uncontested access to the leadership of the country. The checks and balances that might hold the government accountable are useless. Question Period in the House of Commons, for instance, "is political theatre" in a manner that, as presented by nightly newscasts, "suggests that otherwise normal people, upon becoming politicians, shout and holler and otherwise make such fools of themselves." While the Conservatives fight amongst themselves, thereby effectively eliminating any chance at consolidating the country's right, the labour-minded NDP has been completely at a loss"

Sound familiar?

http://www.amazon.ca/Friendly-Dictatorship-Jeffrey-Simpson/dp/0771080786

I appreciate the nationalism (?) and it's food for thought, but companies brand themselves the way they do for all sorts of reasons, none of which should concern the average citizen.

I'm not going to stop eating at Swiss Chalet because they're not Swiss.

The bigger issue is not naming but the Canadian entrepreneurial culture. There's a book called "Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson" that goes into detail as why Canadian companies have a hard to developing global brands, and a lot of it has to do with complacency, risk aversion to developing foreign markets and lack of an ecosystem for scale-up.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Mexicans-Dont-Drink-Molson/dp/1553652258

Many older (and some younger) Canadians have this mindset that we're a country descended from "hewers of wood and drawers of water", and don't really think to venture abroad -- past the United States and Western Europe, and to emerging economies -- and take risks there. It's really a mindset thing. Fortunately one of the biggest sources of complacency disruptors are immigrants, so we'll see if the risk appetite of the Canadian population changes.

A - What does that have to do with Indian media?

B - Soft Target written by Brian McAndrew (of the Globe and Mail),

http://www.amazon.ca/Soft-Target-behind-disaster-Edition/dp/1550289047

"On March 16, 2005, almost twenty years after one of the biggest mass murders in Canadian Aviation history, the Air-India Case concluded with a verdict that authors Zuhair Kashmeri and Brian McAndrew predicted sixteen years ago when Soft Target was first published: not guilty. In this second edition, the two offer a detailed foreword that brings readers up-to-date with some startling new information surrounding the twin bombings on June 23, 1985 in the air over the Atlantic, and on the ground in Japan, which left 331 people dead. They offer key details from the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri that took place in a specially-built Vancouver courtroom, leads that were not followed up, and more details of India's intelligence service's clandestine interference in Canada."

tl;dr Canadian intelligence concluded that India bombed Air India, being it the mid 80's and not wanting to put themselves smack into the middle of the cold war (India at the time having close ties with USSR, Canada of course having close ties with the US) CSIS "accidentally" deleted all the surveillance tapes (official record, look it up) and nope'd the hell out of the investigation.