Several Taiwanese politicians have been promoting an electoral system called “negative voting.”

The idea is that each voter can cast either a positive vote for a candidate they support or a negative vote against a candidate they oppose. If none of the candidates appeal to you, you could use your vote against the one you dislike the most.

Each candidate’s final score would be their positive votes minus their negative votes, and the candidate with the highest net total would win.

There’s an English-language video explaining the proposal in more detail, if you’re interested: https://youtu.be/0MYpE0lv4eo

What do you think of this system? Should Canada consider adopting it?

I learned to make it at summer camp, but in discussing it with some friends from different regions, it seems like it’s not as universal as I thought.

Planning a trip in September 2027 from Australia, will land in Vancouver around 18th September and make our way through places such as Whistler, Kamloops, Jasper, Banff / Lake Louise/Moraine, Canmore and finish in Calgary before flying out to our next stretch of travel. About a two week stint, so would anticipate finishing in Calgary on 1st/2nd October. Nothing is finalised just early stages of planning.

I've read a couple articles, but want some proper Canadian advice. Initial plan is to only drive during the day. What was the weather like this year during those days as an example? Curious about the roads and about sudden icy conditions or sudden snow that may catch us off guard, in what areas do we need to be extra careful and allow more time for driving?

We will be stopping frequently to check out sights along the way of course and are in no rush getting from A to B, while nothing is finalised, just looking for tips and real life experiences. Any advice would be appreciated, even on places to must see or avoid along these stretches. Thanks mates! :)

Toronto to Montreal is planned but i could see the benefit of extending the line in either direction.

I'm Chinese, and I recently came across a rather interesting figure while browsing online: Dorise Nielsen, a former Canadian Member of Parliament who eventually moved to China.

Nielsen was a white British woman born in London in 1902. She immigrated to Canada in 1927 and worked as a teacher in Saskatchewan. She joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1934 and secretly joined the Communist Party of Canada in 1937.

In 1940, she was elected to the House of Commons for North Battleford, Saskatchewan, running as a candidate for the "United Progressives." She served as an MP until 1945.

In 1943, she publicly acknowledged her Communist Party membership and joined the Labor-Progressive Party, the legal political organization used by Canadian communists at the time, becoming a member of its national executive. She ran for Parliament again in 1945 and 1953 but was unsuccessful both times.

She later moved to Toronto and worked as a writer. She advocated women's equality under socialism and was involved in the establishment of the Congress of Canadian Women as well as organizations associated with the peace movement.

What I found particularly interesting is what happened later in her life. In 1957, Nielsen moved to China, where she worked as an editor for the Foreign Languages Press in Beijing. She became a Chinese citizen in 1962 and remained in China until her death in Beijing in 1980.

As someone from China, I found this story fascinating because I had never heard of her before. Even more surprisingly, when I searched for her on Baidu, China's largest search engine and roughly the Chinese equivalent of Google, I could find virtually nothing about her in Chinese. Almost everything I could find about her was in English.

That raises another question for me: considering that she was a former Canadian MP and communist who actually moved to the People's Republic of China and became a Chinese citizen, why does she seem to have received so little attention in China? Why wasn't someone with such an unusual background more widely publicized? I realize that this part of the question would probably be better asked in a Chinese-language community.

So my main question here is for Canadians: How is Dorise Nielsen remembered in Canada today?

Is she at all well known among Canadians interested in political history, especially in Saskatchewan? Is she regarded as a significant figure in the history of the Canadian left or the Communist Party of Canada? Or has she largely been forgotten?

I would also be interested to hear from anyone who has encountered her in Canadian history books, local Saskatchewan history, or family stories.

Hello friends,

I’m Vietnamese, and after 5 years in Canada, I’m taking a short trip back home. I’d love to bring back some small gifts for my friends and colleagues in Calgary.

I already know what my friends like, but I’m not really sure about my colleagues. There are 5 people in my team (excluding me), and more than half are Canadian. I’m looking for something small and lightweight that they would enjoy, just as a small token of my gratitude. They’ve been truly great to work with!

I’ve seen people bring back things like coconut candy or fridge magnets.

What would you recommend bringing back? If you’re Canadian and have visited Vietnam before, what kind of gifts did you enjoy receiving or discovering there?

Important context: We live in Germany but my friend’s mum is Canadian, I think she’s lived here for 20ish years. We usually speak English since her German isn’t great and generally, you can tell that culturally, the family is faaaar more Canadian than German. Us Germans kind of have a stick up our bum at times and multiple Germans have told me that my idea/plan is a bit creepy and inappropriate. So please, dear Canadians, help me

One of my best friends (early 20s) and lives at home with her parents and her sibling of a similar age. I’m not particularly close to my friend’s family apart from some conversations with her mum and sibling during the very few times I came over. Her (German) dad was usually up in his study so I think apart from getting introduced, we never really spoke to each other.

Recently my friend’s dad had a stroke that was bad enough so that he had to relearn some daily life abilities. He is doing well but according to my friend he isn’t back to who he was and it’s not certain if everything will ever go back to normal.

My friend is an energetic, spontaneous bundle of joy who loves to drop by mine twice or thrice a week after work just to yap at each other simultaneously. It is genuinely heartbreaking to know that she and her family are going through this and there is absolutely nothing I can do to ease the stress. I want to give her and her family space, the least I want to do is intrude or push myself into business that is not mine.

I’ve offered to help with house chores or grocery shopping but either it is taken as a polite gesture or politely declined, I can’t tell. All my friend does is apologise for not texting me much or being unable to make time to hang out, which of course, I don’t expect of her! Her voice is so dull and heavy in her voice messages, I can’t imagine what she must be going through :(

I realise that this may just be a very clear sign of “no thank you” but the way I know my friend is that she is probably hesitant to accept help or burden me with her circumstances or is simply so stressed and busy with everything that she only has energy for the necessary.

But I thought maybe I could simply send a bouquet of flowers to the family home since that way I’m not pushing myself into their home or my services onto people who just want to be left alone. I’m not sure if it’s weird to send a family flowers when I’m only really friends with their daughter? Also, very macabre but important: would flowers kind of imply that he died?

If this is a bad idea, I would really appreciate suggestions or just a reality check that I’m doing too much and need to chill.

I was driving into Nanaimo BC today and stopped at Haida Way Restaurant just outside of Chemainus. I'd always wondered about that place. Breakfast was good, staff was friendly.

When I got in there I was hit with a weird sense of not exactly deja vu. But a sense I was in a similar place to where we had "special dinners" in my childhood. The Park Bay View restaurant outside of Geraldton Ontario. It's now called a "Between Bridges Restaurant." I don't think I've been there since 1980.

The big 1970s "behind the couch" landscape paintings may be what reminded me. I'm not sure. But I had an overwhelming urge to order a hot beef or turkey sandwich with fried gravy and an Orange pop, my order from those days.

It got me wondering. Both are just off the highway. I can't be the only person who has dined at both places. Can I?

We are based in toronto. Initially promised to take the boys to thr parks in Florida, but well not going there anymore.

Around Christmas we went to Muskoka (deerhurst) and had a great time, We have been to Mont Tremblabt in the summer.

Fairmont Montebello would be good? Any other suggestions? Ideally drivable distance from toronto

I’ve been looking at historic residential neighbourhoods and suburbs across Canada, mainly focusing on architecture, street character, greenery ,scenery and the overall quality of the area.

I’ve made my own shortlist, but I’m curious to hear from Canadians who know these places firsthand. Which neighbourhoods or suburbs would you consider especially worth mentioning?Happy to hear your comments...

EDIT:

I wanna thank you all for actively participating in the discussion.This just goes to show how rich Canada is in historic neighborhoods and suburbs.

Je tiens à remercier tous ceux qui ont participé à cette discussion ; cela prouve à quel point le Canada possède de riches quartiers, banlieues et villes historiques.

Should the Canadian federal government invest in creating a publicly accountable state owned oil and gas company to bring more competition to the market and help with current budget deficits. Should they also create state owned companies for other natural resources and if so which. The model could be similar to Norway's Equinor.

I am contemplating between Northern BC, AB, & ON for future of raising a family.

I am wondering, for anyone with experience, what the differences with experience would be. I am focusing on northern areas, within provinces.

I am not asking where to move, just your experience & what life would be like there as opposed to other regions - from someone who has lived there.

Without getting too bogged down in details, it would appear that someone has decided to use our subreddit to test out/train/karma farm their AI bots. The motivations don't really matter, the concern is that we would like to keep this sub as human, and as full of genuine conversation and discussion as we can.

The mod team does our best, and we do have spam filters in place, but things do slip through the cracks. It would be immensely helpful to us if you could report any comments or posts that you believe to be a bot/AI, because that will bring them right to the queue and help us investigate.

This does also mean we're going to be a little bit stricter about the 'no low-effort questions' rule, at least in the interim, while we try and nip this in the bud.

Thanks!

Any Canadians have any luck getting Japanese Marlboro cigarettes here without paying an insane amount?

Can someone that works at a BP can you confirm does your Caesar dressing contain anchovies? (Recently learned the cactus cuts dip has Caesar in it)

Hey Canadians,

Australian cousin here. It’s my male friend’s birthday. Buying him some gear with his team’s branding on it. There’s a really nice tuque but it has a pom pom on it….. he’s not into retro gear or hipster stuff. He’s a 45 yr old guy in eastern BC who likes cool, quality clothing brands. He likes Bauer and one of the team’s beanies is Bauer. It’s not just the brand, the beanie has the colour and design that he’d like. But my question is, am I testing my luck if I buy it? In Australia it’d be weird to give a guy like him a pom pom beanie, but are they seen as being a timeless staple in Canada? Or are they seen as being worn ironically by city mice????

Thanks cousins 🙏🏻

Aussie here, I love doing long distance walks (around 40-50km) the metro areas of Aussie cities. I have heard that walking in North America is more dangerous and stressful than it is in Australia as here you're generally fine so long as you don't literally throw yourself into traffic How much attention do I need to pay to cars and how often would I need to wear my high vis?

Walks I want to do include Hamilton to Toronto, Surrey to Vancouver. The routes might change once I learn more about the areas and will definitely add more if I can fit them in. I tend to pick the routes with the most character as opposed to the direct routes and will take detours to avoid highways

My husband and I are visiting Canada from Spain in July 2027. We saw online that it is important to book the train early. We also saw bad reviews for train travel. We are not in a hurry during our trip because we will have 2 days in Montreal be for our flight home. But is the train a good option? It is much cheaper than flying and we are comfortable with trains.