Clearly it was different elsewhere, but in BC (or at the very least on the Island) the GameStop name didn't show up until very recently. As in, you could walk into an EB Games and walk out with a PS5.
Edit: I forgot you couldn't really find them in store around launch but my point stands.
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It is what it is, I'm not complaining, but your MPs represent less people than average. NS isn't even that disproportionate, PEI and the territories are way worse.
MPs/100,000 people
BC 0.86
AB 0.87
SK 1.24
MB 1.04
ON 0.86
QC 0.92
NB 1.29
NS 1.13
PE 2.59
NL 1.37
YT 2.49
NT 2.43
NU 2.71
Canadian average 0.93
If you want to argue whether or not population is actually a good measure of over/under representation that's fine, but you can't argue some people's votes count more or less than others.
Average population per riding federally is about 108000 (2021 numbers). For Nova Scotia it's about 88000. AB, BC, and ON are all around 115000 and Quebec is pretty much the only one right on the average.
Edit: I just did some quick spreadsheet math to see how even it could possibly get with the current total number of seats and making sure the territories each kept their seats: SK -3, NB NL NS PE -2 each, MB -1, NT NU QC YT no change, AB +2, BC +3, ON +7
And that guy won too, off to a great start.
Nova Scotia is kinda over represented though.
I get your point, but in what reality does it make more sense to move a country than to move to a country.
No one actually "runs for Prime Minister". The Prime Minister is simply the leader of the governing party. That is determined by the number of seats each party wins. The PM is almost always an elected MP, but as demonstrated for the past few weeks they don't have to be.
The American government has already shown they're happy to round up people who look like "foreign enemies"whether they are or not. If your enemy has almost the exact same demographics, all of a sudden there's probable cause to detain anyone (I know, it's not like they care about any due process but everything else feels like we're in make believe land anyways).
I'm curious what they mean about this "12 month restriction". Currently it takes 24 months of a class 7 (N) to be eligible for a full class 5. Is this lowering the bar further, or is it extending it to 36 months?
This would've been the (school)year before the movie came out, 2005/6. I suppose it's possible it was publicly available at the time. It doesn't really matter, it was just a cool memory from decades ago. I hope it didn't come across as a classic "my uncle works at Nintendo" kind of comment.
Night at the Museum (all of them) was a big one that very few people realize was shot in Canada.
That just brought back a memory for me. I remember a career day or something like that at school and one of my classmates brought his aunt who worked on that movie. She showed us some early pre-sfx footage she had of the t-rex chase where it was just a tennis ball on a stick. Definitely not something that could happen today, but that was before every kid had a camera on them at all times.
They only switched the signs to GameStop in 2021, and if your area was anything like mine the only ones left by then were in the deep recesses of a few malls. I don't think I've ever seen a GameStop exposed to natural sunlight.