Allo bonjour!

I'm living in Quebec City for the summer and felt like bragging!
cause in Alberta, we make fun of eastern Canada, but it's just cause we're jealous.

Congrats!

Yay! Why?

Jen wrote:Yay! Why?

Why he's living there? Or why we make fun of eastern Canada?

I've never heard anyone make fun of eastern canada. Or consider Quebec eastern, its central, I think.

Looks pretty eastern to me...

*shrug* I've always just referred to the provinces beyond that as Eastern Canada but it doesn't really matter. Mocking anyone from those areas usually just involves poking fun at accents or whining about the whole separation thing. That and not being Ontario. We tend to do that a lot, silly as it may be. (not me specifically, I can't really say anything because I've never been to any of those places)

Funnily enough, my province is in "Eastern" Canada and my school recently changed its name from "The University of Western Ontario" to "Western University." I am so proud.


Have fun in QC Didier! How's the political whiplash?

Sentynel wrote:
Looks pretty eastern to me...

As Fuzzy said, sometimes the provinces beyond Quebec are referred to as Eastern provinces. But more often we just call them Maritime provinces. The reason that they are called eastern, and Quebec and Ontario are usually not is because most of the attention, domestically and internationally, is on Quebec and Ontario. Thus, "central" Canada, politically, if not geographically.

Which is also the reason why these two provinces are poked at. A lot of people in the West resent Quebec and Ontario. More political power, most of the economy and urban culture, population, etc. Not to mention a lot of events that seemed to isolate the West from the East (see the Salmon Salute, some of the agreements made within provinces with the federal government).

The only thing people make fun of in the Maritime provinces is Newfoundland. Cause they have a weird accent and from what I've heard is becoming more impoverished.

^ In Alberta, we think of everything east of Manitoba as "Eastern Canada"

FuzzyLobster wrote:*shrug* I've always just referred to the provinces beyond that as Eastern Canada but it doesn't really matter. Mocking anyone from those areas usually just involves poking fun at accents or whining about the whole separation thing. That and not being Ontario. We tend to do that a lot, silly as it may be. (not me specifically, I can't really say anything because I've never been to any of those places)

Funnily enough, my province is in "Eastern" Canada and my school recently changed its name from "The University of Western Ontario" to "Western University." I am so proud.


Have fun in QC Didier! How's the political whiplash?

Yay!

Thanks! And the political whiplash is spectacular.


There are graffiti battles between separatists and non-separatists
(!!!!!!! hehe)

Do they use the sacres?

This is a relevant map of Canada btw:

LOL!!! Newfoundland=comedians... it's funny cause it's kinda true

Religious nuts with oil? It's funny they didn't mention the bombs