this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
500 points (98.8% liked)

Canada

8896 readers
1687 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


πŸ—ΊοΈ Provinces / Territories


πŸ™οΈ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


πŸ’ SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


πŸ’» Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


πŸ’΅ Finance, Shopping, Sales


πŸ—£οΈ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (4 children)

the US-Canadian border has been one of, if not the, most peaceful borders in the entire world.

the most peaceful and mutually beneficial border on Earth.

Tell me your views are extremely America-centric without telling me.

The only way you can have those views is if you know nothing about the EU at all.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The US and Canada haven't fought since 1812. Which European border of a major super power has a longer history of being close allies?

The UK and Scotland shouldn't count because Scotland isn't a sovereign country, they are a state of the UK that has lied about retaining their sovereignty for 500 years (which is why they have to beg England for permission to even hold an independece referendum)

Spain and France shouldn't count because Spain worked with the Nazis in ww2 and wouldn't help France.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 points 20 minutes ago

Quite a surprising one here: I think the Norwegian/russian border can actually match that. I believe Norway is the only country neighbouring russia that has never been invaded by them (sans WWII, where they invaded Nazi-occupied Norway and willingly left after the Axis was defeated).

I also think the Norwegian/Danish border has been conflict-free for some hundred years (to be fair, we were in a union for β‰ˆ450 years ending in 1814). We've had some skirmishes with the Swedes throughout the years, but I believe the last one was in 1814.

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 11 points 5 hours ago

"In the last 100 years"... European borders were not peaceful for that long

[–] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

To be fair, historically speaking, Europe's borders have been all but peaceful.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Fair, but on March 26 the initial Schengen-Borders will have been basically nonexistent for 30 years.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Canada and the US have been close allies for 200 years. The last time they fought was 1812

[–] m4xie@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago

It has been detrimental to the many first nations whose lands have been divided.