I have more than a few friends here in Timmins who were born and raised in Calgary or towns just outside of there. They all seem to like Northern Ontario and really enjoy our many lakes. I have been noticing a number of Albertans moving here lately, likely to work in mining related jobs.

I'm 100% joking about the correct side but that's actually very interesting. Northern Ontario may actually have a ton to offer in comparison to some parts of Alberta right now I imagine.

That is interesting. Where I currently live, there seems to be few (if any) communists, but there is a preponderance of taciturn, selfish conservatives that read Sun Media birdcage liner and bitch nonstop about foreigners, young people, taxes, Trudeau, etc.

Interesting. I guess this all depends on what your personal definition of a "communist" or a "taciturn selfish conservative" is. :)

Personally, my own bell curve tends to have a broad base, with elongated tails, and only a few communists and fascists on either end. Most people in the middle, while having varying viewpoints, tend to be fairly reasonable people who can be negotiated with............ :rolleyes:

I was born in Windsor, moved to Toronto then back to Windsor, then back to Toronto, then back to Windsor, then out to Banff and finally back to Windsor where I’ve lived for the past 30 years. I love it here, it’s home!

Montreal-->St. Laurent-->Preville-->Montreal-->St. Lambert-->Edmonton-->Kirkland-->Kelowna-->Vancouver-->Richmond (BC)-->Kirkland-->Montreal-->London-->Osoyoos-->London/Marseille (Fr.)-->London

Are you totally fluent in French?

A more interesting question would be: where are your parents and grandparents from?

I'm not sure, but I believe Molson can speak a tiny bit of French, though he's far from comfortable with the language.
I've never seen or heard him, but I've been a member of this site for long and somehow, there are things or people like him that hit my brain and my memory.
I can't explain how or why. I've just always known he's from Montreal and lived in Marseille at some point.

Once you've got a serious taste of the French language, it turns out an addiction. It's like an open door to all other Western European languages. At least Romance ones and English. These are not too hard to get to us.

German, Dutch and Scandinavian languages are a bit far fetched, though. It's not like they'd be so easy. But when you speak French, you get a rather easy access to English, Spanish Castilian and Catalan, Italian or Portuguese. Even possibly Romanian that's another Romance language, though I don't know shit about it.

Anyway, that's quite convenient. You take a look at France's location, then you see why it's been some sort of northern Romance thing. The country is like at the crossroad of Western Euro nations.

I came to think that we never really invented our own language. It was given to us by our neighbors.

Finally, some people in Montreal must have some old English ancestry and now find the English language kind of annoying. They must be too used to French.

Depending on the side, new immigrants or old immigrants. On one side, my grandparents emigrated her. On the other, they have been here as long as Canada was a country. However, they did emigrate here.

I was. French is my second language, but we only spoke English at home as my parents were not very good at speaking French. I can understand 100% when reading/listening but I tend to speak with considerably less facility than I did in my early 20s (when I was fluent), half a lifetime ago. When I get together with French-speaking members of my family, after about 4 hours it all starts coming back, and I can converse quite well (allowing for mangled verb tenses and some mixups with word order). My children are both in French Immersion so I am brushing up on my French. Otherwise, there is little opportunity for me to use it in London. I did work for years in almost exclusively francophone environments, and that is the best way to get you to think in French (which makes it much easier to speak, than to 'translate' in your head). I can enjoy French programming on the TV and watch movies in French without missing anything, and I certainly get by very well when in Quebec/France.

My mother and grandmother speak/spoke French, both having learned it from the same tutor in Aix-en-Provence. My grandmother lived/worked in both Montreal and Paris although she was a Canadian-born Anglophone. My father was multilingual: English, Old English/Norse, Spanish, German and Latin, with French and Hebrew reading comprehension. I was terrible at languages although in junior high did suddenly pick up a bit of French: being a poor listener/ASD results in poor language skills.:(

Aix-en-Provence is very lovely. I spent some time there when I was based in nearby Marseille.

Also know as Hell lol:surrender:

I know Alexandria and would think you are one of a handful who don't get around by car/F-150. There is a train station there on the Ottawa/Montreal line I believe.

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What is also known as Hell? Some place that you have never been to?
what is the lol for? You are actually laughing out loud? At what?
lay off the sauce.

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Born and raised in Montreal. Currently residing in Laval.

How is it neither?

If where you live (most of the time, in the case of several properties) isn't the same as where the CRA believes you live, you're doing something shady !

I think QAnon memes on Facebook have fried Black Star's brain.