And it's been that way a long time. The second world War for instance. Canada joined the war almost instantly. America joined the war only after they were attacked or in other word only after it directly affected them.
@@timeforanap4268I've heard this as well and fully expected to see many similar comments. I've been told to make sure to correct someone if they think we're American and to wear something with a Canadian flag or maple leaf
19:30 - Tyler, with all due respect, as a Canadian, the whole world thinks this about you guys. America learns about America. The rest of the world learns about each other.
In all fairness, we only learn what we're told by schools and Media, many ( myself included) never actually leave the country they live in to see the rest of the world for themselves.
I’m Canadian and even I watch these videos because I like that this guy is interested in Canada, enjoy hearing what he thinks and says about America, we all learn something
@@jakejensen1166 its not just because America is the biggest power it's more about American culture: Hollywood then the early internet then with having more relative wealth people shared more on social media.
That's my video you've reacted to. Cool. But as I'm sure you know, it's common courtesy to credit the name of the channel you react to. As well as to provide a tag or link to the original in the video. That way you are helping other channels and not just making money off someone else's work... Or maybe that's just a way Canadians and Americans are different? 😂
I almost lost it in a good way when I saw that the clip you used in it's better to be poor in Canada is Waterfront Park here in Kelowna BC. It looks it might be from Canada Day celebrations. I live like a 30 minute walk from that park lol.
@@winnipegconcertfootage3958 Let me clearly clarify this for you *IT DEPENDS ON ALTITUDE.* Sea level atmosphere vs top of a mountain atmosphere, take a guess where the waters freezing or boiling first?
I’m Canadian and have good friends in Michigan. Watching network newscasts in US always amazes me how little world news is covered. It’s not surprising that people in the US know so little about other countries and cultures. In contrast, Canadian newscasts are full of world news.
10:40 Pennies cost more to make than what they were worth. We just round everything. Sometimes you save a few cents, sometimes you pay a few more cents. Most people pay with debit or credit everywhere anyway, so the change isn't as big of a deal.
@@drewthompson7457 you do realize that Canada's economy is much smaller than the U.S., so if the two dollars were equal, Canada's currency would have a value out of proportion to its real value. The Bank of Canada maintains the Canadian dollar at about a 25 per cent discount from its American counterpart. As a result, Canadian goods are more competitive in U.S. markets and Americans goods are more expensive in Canadian markets. An equal dollar is good for importers, but bad for exporters.
Your videos are so fun Tyler! A small history lesson for you. Tommy Douglas was a Canadian politician who introduced universal health care in 1962. He was also the grandfather of Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian Actor. Donald Sutherland ,( Canadian actor) who recently died was married to Shirley Douglas (2nd wife) and Tommy Douglas was her father. Donald and Shirley had son Kiefer.
The solution was simple. Paying with debit, or credit cards, you pay what the price is, Paying with cash, you round up or down to the nearest 0.05 dollars (5 cents). As a matter of fact, it cost more to make a copper penny than the penny was worth, so a number of years before the penny was actually cancelled, they started making them out of copper anodized aluminum.
Really, most US grocery stores have change machines , you put your change in it, after it is all counted, you get a slip with the amount counted, you take it to the customer service desk, hand the paper to the employee and you get the amount on the slip of paper back in bills, I actually did this and the total coin return was $50.00 ,so the employee handed me, five . Twenty dollars bills back.most of the coins were Pennie’s.
Lol I also remember when the polymer notes were new, it was said that the hundred dollar bill smelled like maple syrup. People would be smelling the $100's like scratch and sniff 😂
Tyler when I lived in Connecticut missed my Canadian programs. I got a dish sent to me from Ontario. They told me that in the US outside programs are illegal and they would block my signal. I had outside programs for 3 years and then one day all of my channels were blocked. I was so disappointed but I think that this is why Americans know as little as they do about other countries because everything is from an American point of view.
And meanwhile they speak of China and their firewall that blocks their citizens from seeing the rest of the world, not saying China government is good, just saying ours here in the west only pretends to be any better, and then they do the same shit.
Beginning in 2011, the Bank of Canada introduced a new series of polymer banknotes. The $100 note was issued on 14 November 2011; the $50 was issued on 26 March 2012; the $20 banknote was issued on 7 November 2012, and the $10 and $5 denominations were issued on 7 November 2013.
That depends on each person and depends on the scale of road distances. If you live outside major urban areas, then it would make sense to measure road distances in hours/minutes. Inside metropolitan areas, not so much, too many variables to factor-in. *Btw, measuring road distances in hours isn't uniquely Canadian, it's the same in the US
30:14 I think that me-first mentality is very American, especially with healthcare. I watched a very interesting documentary a while back in grade 10 about the Canadian healthcare system from an American perspective. In one part an American conservative was talking to a Canadian conservative. The American said something along the lines of “why would you want to pay for someone else’s medical procedure?” My thoughts on that are; universal healthcare helps people without a ton of money, because say you’re bordering on poor, but your child develops cancer: would you rather have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for your child’s healthcare, or would you rather have the taxes you and the other ~40 billion people pay every year pay for it? It helps people who don’t have enough money to pay directly for medical procedures.
The view on poor vs rich differs, in my experience from the US to Canada. In Canada, when talking about a poor individual, unable to afford the basic needs in life and struggling, I find the average response is one of concern - "What could have happened to this person to put them in such a place, and how can we address this issue?" In the US, my experience tells me the average response to this same situation would be more one of disregard - "They need to make better life choices. I don't want my taxes going to give people stuff for free that they should be working for." The US seems to be far more concerned with things they specifically don't ant their own personal taxes going towards, where as in Canada, I think broad spectrum tax expenditure is more generally accepted. If I don't have kids in Canada, I more or less still understand that some of my local taxes will still be going into the school system.
I was recently in the U.S. and what gets me is all their toll roads. Instead of having municipal taxes increase just a little, and would probably save a lot of people more money even by paying more taxes because of how many there are and how they are set up, they would rather keep having a million tolls just to 'stick it to the people who use them'.
@@wombat4583 I live in BC and we used to cross the border a lot. My dad always used to say "you know you're in the USA because of the road kill". I'm not sure if it's because we have larger predators that take the road kill and we just clean them more, or it it's because where I live there's more rain and washes it away but it's true. You can really tell.
@@sharis9095 hahaha my sister and I said the same thing. It wasn't even just small animals. We saw multiple deer and such too. Eventually we did see someone picking a few up but it didn't appear to be any less on our way back. (Michigan and Indiana for reference).
This one kills me, because the actual spending on social services is a drop in the bucket compared to shit like the military budget, but it's the one thing politicians are able to get people up in arms over.
@@STB_666 From like 2019 to 2022, the US military budget went from 646 Billion to 806 Billion (close to those numbers) per year. It's been detailed that it would cost 58 Billion per year to give free education - no restrictions, in the US. One third of the increase congress has given the military in the last few years. Yet they keep cutting education, medicare, social programs. It's a damn crime...
I'm Canadian and lived in the States during the pandemic. While there people would ask if I was Canadian then follow it up with how nice I was. I did meet some wonderfully polite people there, but also some downright ignorant and rude people. But hey you can find those anywhere! Anywho keep up the great videos. You're a pretty good guy yourself. Come up to Canada sometime! Plenty of room!
At the end of May my friend and I went to Lyndon, Washington. I was in a shop and I was given pennies, and I mentioned we didn't have pennies and the man behind the counter said that they should also get rid of pennies because it takes 7 cents to produce a penny, which is more than it is worth.
@mrmacq-jk4td I am. I am also used to people not understanding why it was irrelevant that they cost more than a penny to make. People don't ask, "so what?" Nestly enough.
Tyler, Americans can be really kind as well. A long time ago my Dad's car broke down and this small town family in S. Carolina took us to their house for hours. They were all so good to us and I still fondly remember them!
I think one of the biggest differences between Canadians and Americans as a Canadian I can say in school we learn about American history. You are our neighbors. We need to know. Americans don't learn about Canada in school. From what I've seen some of those interviews on the street, some Americans don't even know about America, which is a shame
@@buffalobill9793 Agreed. People give them too much leeway for reasons as to why they don't know (about anywhere - not just Canada) but in reality it's that they just don't care.
I love your commentary Tyler. You’re always willing to discover more and you are very curious re other countries/cultures. I hope you continue to be as inquisitive. Thank you for being you.
Canadian polymer notes cost about 40% more to produce but they last about four times longer than US paper notes. That of course applies only to the bills of the same denominations. Canada has replaced the one and two dollar paper notes with coins where the far greater lifespan of coins cannot even be compared.
@@Bakemer94I frequently handle cash in large quantities as part of a volunteer job, and the 1987 run of loonies is one of the most common coins I see. That's approaching 40 years of more or less continuous use. The bills are harder to tell, but 10s have had a sequential run of different t designs so they are easier to tell. The original polymer designs are still in good condition generally, they were introduced in 2013 for the $10. So over 10 years. Paper bills least only 5 or so years I think, and those polymer bills are still going strong.
@@jolenethiessen357 Thats actually crazy because I went and looked it up after I asked the question, and it said the polymer notes had a lifespan of 10 years. If they are still going strong, I'm guessing they're stronger than first estimates.
To be fair US cash is made of textiles(cotton and linen) and not paper. However their currency seems extremely outdated compared with most other currencies that I have come across.
@@MrEHowell Gas is the only thing priced to tenths of a cent. Like 209.9 cents per litre. Don't know why they don't just say $2.10 and be done with it, cause that's what you end up paying, anyway.
@@dorianlindberg1662 There are actually papers made with cotton and linen. The fibres are shredded and mashed down and combined with an enzyme that converts it to a pulp that dries into paper. It was actually a way to recycle old textiles, and is much older than wood paper. The paper is low acid or acid free, depending on the process, and lasts for centuries, and was once considered the only paper suitable for legal documents.
I find we have ridiculous portion sizes in Canada also. I only went to the States in the 90s and they had salads at McDonalds with something called "Blue Cheese" dressing. I had never seen that before. lol I also tried Taco Bell but corn fed beef tasted like cardboard. Now we have Walmart and Count Chocula and Cherry Coke and and tons of other stuff you used to only get in America.
A lot of professional kitchens in Canada still use a mix which doesn't make sense to me at all. But then, we do get much of our equipment either sourced or licensed from US companies. @drewthompson7457 that sounds like a big time pain in the arse!
Typically the construction industry in Canada still uses imperial but the drawings are required to be in metric so most drawings show both imperial & metric.
Honestly! The colourful money is actually super useful cause you can identify the amount of bill you’re grabbing/holding by the colour and the plastic is also way better! Way less ripping! More durable! It can literally get wet and by fine!
Yes, we say sorry a lot. It’s not an admission that we’ve done something wrong. We even have a law to protect us in this respect. The apology law. Our apology cannot be used as an admission of guilt.
@@thewolfdoctor761 Where have you heard the others compared? Americans have never been particularly big on international travel and once they saw our bank notes they compared it to theirs without realizing they are not the norm. I don't know your age but the monopoly reference goes back half a century and never is it used to describe the notes from other countries.
Yep. Because we're near by and they compare us without knowing a thing about the rest of the world.. Sadly, they are so backward because aside from colour many countries have switched to polymer for both security and longevity and they still use green paper. So now instead of thinking Canada has weird coloured money it's also Canada has weird plastic money. Him saying 'Canadian-style money' when so many others use polymer is exactly my point.
Pay 1 % more taxes,but we don’t expensive healthcare insurance to pay.We also have way more social programs,child support etc than American ,so in the end ,they pay more for less.
@loyz8048 100% agreed. I was pointing out the myth that we pay so much more tax than Americans when it's completely negligible unless you make like over 300k than it's way less in the US. Canada all day long for me.
@@Electronic_Boyscout I will add the caveat that there's also more loopholes for the Americans who really want to stress and penny pinch at tax time, but even then that really only applies to certain people and lifestyles.
Yeah. It’s something like if you make less than 15,000 ish and you get most if not all your taxes back. I don’t work cause I’m taking care of two young kids one of which is disabled. On our last taxes all those credits went to my husband and we got back like $11,000. There’s always going to be some good and some bad.
The portions comment is accurate! The amount of food you get served at restaurants it unbelievable. My spouse and I have to remember to not order appetizers when we are in the States. It's too much!
When paying cash in Canada, we just round up to the nearest 5 or 10 cents. I got to look at the rough sales figures for a small grocery chain and they kept track of all the rounding up and down. At the end of the month it would add up to only a few dollars plus OR minus. So the store might gain or lose about $10 per year. It cost them more to reprogram their cash registers to track the rounding. :)
As the person who does the laundry in our relationship, I love the Canadian bills. Yes, the colours, etc., but I especially like finding perfect bills after being put through the laundry cycle. I keep more than half for my efforts. As to the k. versus miles, people of a certain generation just know the difference, we were taught both. Another great reaction, thank you!
an overestimate of celsius to fahrenheit is double the celsius temperature and add 32. if you want to convert back, you take the 32 off first, then divide by 2. (again, just an easy way to estimate).
16:36 unfortunately this is also happening in most countries including Canada. Free health care is probably the biggest reason our middle class lives a bit more comfortable. And yes taxes suck, but the most prosperous time in the US for the middle class was when the top tax brackets were taxed at like 90%.
There’s a stretch of highway I drive often that’s 120km/hr. It’s fun but very scary in the rain/snow. We just did it in march during a huge snowfall and I was shitting bricks 😂
As someone now well acquainted with Tim Horton's, it might interest you that the chain is celebrating its 60th birthday this year. Today, a new musical is opening on stage in Toronto, as part of that celebration. The musical is titled, "The Last Timbit."
The McDonalds cup size thing is so weird. You can order the same size of drink, say a "Medium", and in a US restaurant you'd get a cup that's one size larger than what you'd get in Canada. Most chains in Canada use similar sizes. An interesting exception is Wendy's, which uses American cup sizes in Canada (I always have to remember to order a size smaller than I normally do).
As a Canadian who has lived in the US. I found there to be more similarities between Canada and the US. I agreed with your comments Tyler. In the end I always remind myself, these differences are not right or wrong, they are just different. most are small differences that make travel interesting. We all have our preferences.
RE: the Penny. If you pay with cash the total is round to the closest 5 cents, so like $2.92 would be $2.90 if paying in cash. If you are paying with credit card or debit card then it is not rounded.
To add on the News thing, just in Quebec we have Local news, Canadian news, US news, France news and BBC news... not that everyone watches all of those, but at least they are easily available
9:30- just wanted to say if the sales total is something off like .57$ then if you pay with your card you pay the exact amount, but if you pay with cash they either round up or down to the nearest 5 cents. If it’s .56 or .57 then the store accepts a couple cents off the final bill as a loss, but if it’s .58 or .59 then the customer does as an added cost.
One of my nieces work for an American own company. The owner came up to see how the company was going. When he found out that they were following Canadian laws. He was quite upset. He thought they had to follow Amercian labour laws.
*****Yeah they get mad because they have to follow our higher standards and pay higher wages and have better working conditions. Now the minimum wage in british columbia just went up to $17.40 on june 1 2024.
Hey Tyler, The lowest setting on our air conditioners is 15-16 C. Ideal temps are between 20 - 25 C depending on the person. 28 -35 with no sun and a breeze would be humid but reasonable.
The first Canadian penny was minted in 1858. The final penny was minted on May 4, 2012. They stopped because the cost of minting pennies rose to be double the actual worth of the penny, due to the rise in the value of copper , so making 1 loonie's worth of pennies would cost you a twoonie
10:36 when we got rid of pennies we round cash but debit/credit still does exact. So 1,2,6,7 cent endings round down (eg 57 cents is 55 in change) and 3,4,8,9 rounds up (58 cents is 60 cents in change)
Canada stopped using the penny because 1 penny cost 1.6 pennies to make.... So... yeah.... purchases in stores are handled 2 ways: 1) If it's a debit or credit card transaction, then full price, down to the exact cent, is charged to your card. 2) If it's a cash transaction, things are rounded to the nearest 5 cents. A $2.57 coffee would cost you $2.55 in cash, while a $2.98 muffin would cost you $3.00 in cash.
If we were more astute, we Canadians would carry cash AND card when possible. That way you can take advantage (using the payment method that keeps more money in your pocket so to speak) of the rounding and feel like you are gaming the system. I considered doing this but it's a cumbersome way to live.
@@EmmaBadOne If the advantage is no more than a couple of dollars, at best, a year so it ain't worth it. At best you can save like 2 cents per transaction. Certainly not worth it.
@@EmmaBadOne Agreed it is cumbersome. Personally I don't like to have to deal with the difference, but mostly because I work in areas with a lot of homelessness and drug use I prefer the card for safety and money security. If somebody asks me for change I can honestly tell them that I have none.
@@Kim-ro9bs I agree, it's for the rhyme honestly. Technically water freezes at 0, which is something americans don't always know. The dew sometimes frosts over on a nice 0 morning (Then again, it's humid-cold in the east). You can easily get away with just a t-shirt up to -5 if the sun's out and there's minimal wind.
Polymer money is actually an Australian invention and they started switching to it in 1988 (finished in 1996). Canada is a relative latecomer, only switching in 2013, despite the Bank of Canada and the U.S. Department of the Treasury testing out a joint Canadian/US-designed material named DuraNote in the 80s and 90s. (Thank you, Wikipedia. I didn't know about DuraNote and I'd forgotten the dates.)
Many Americanisms are sneaking up to Canada but here are a few more things where we are different. 1) Americans live by association to groups. I am white, your black, he is gay, they are Democratic, he is a republican, they are Jews etc etc etc. They use these associations to extend community power local or in politics. 2) Excessive Patriotism. Seeing a privately owned flag for instance on a front lawn or up a flap pole is uncommon in Canada, let alone chanting your pride for your country outside of specialize events seems odd to us. 3) I grew up thinking of guns as tools, not self defence. I get the U.S. interest but really..an AK15 for Christmas and you take family pictures to show off? My Dad owned multiple guns and he never once bragged or brought them out to show off. They were tools for hunting or killing vermin. 4) Politics is getting more adversarial up here in Canada because of the U.S. but must you hate your opposition? I hear such extreme trash talk from both sides that sounds like they want to literally end each other. Actually I could list dozens of difference so will read comments from others rather than write a full on novel
Politician trash talk is one of my pet peeves. I dont want them to tell me what the other one is doing wrong! Tell me what YOUR ideas are! What YOU want to do for us. 😒
The way Americans introduce themselves is so real. I'm in Rome and I say I'm Canadian, a German introduces themself and then "I'm from Michigan" we gave each other a side eye
I've never met an American outside of the US but if someone said that to me I think I'd mess with them and say "What country is Michigan?" then they'd probably respond with "Michigan United States" I'd respond with "Never heard of it" lol and see how long until they realize I am trolling lol.
"The West Wing" touched on the US penny situation, and one of the points made was resistance by the state of Illinois, where the speaker of the house was from, also the "Land of Lincoln", and Lincoln is depicted on the penny.
I heard you say several times that Americans are "ignorant". The word certainly has derogatory tones, in Canada 🇨🇦 we would say "un educated", or something similar. Canada is not perfect, but we, for the most part, try to be less aggressive in our everyday speech and practices.
Thank you Tyler for, first, knowing there are differences between us..and second, trying to learn what they are. It’s appreciated. In the end..America/Canada have more similarities than differences. America is like our older sister..we learn from her..but we want to grow independent ( and yet still be part of the family)
Pennies get rounded up or down depending on the cost of the item. The exceptions are credit and debit cards. A lot of American TV shows are filmed in Canada because of cheaper productions costs.
Yeah they can get special credits and stuff for filming. The provincial governments give them out to bring business to their provinces. I wonder if it helps us to be able to air the products too. Since a certain amount of the broadcasts in Canada have to be Canadian content so we don’t get over powered by US stuff. It’s why a lot of the animation studios here in Canada work with foreign studios. The projects then count as the Canadian broadcast.
Fun fact has a canadian hvac guy we learn everything with F° cause its a more persise scale and most of the units are made in the states. Also 32F is 0C and the point the scales meet is -40
Yes. Any temperature over 30°C is considered hot. And there are areas of Canada that get close to 40° in the summer. (which blows a lot of Americans away because I think they often assume that we are cold all the time.) 0° is the temperature where water freezes.
Growing up in Windsor Ontario, it was a common occurrence of hearing Americans getting caught on the Hwy 401 doing 110 mph instead of kph. And the metric system is more accurate and you Americans are using the metric system on your money.
@@justinleonard6183 110 is newer in southern Ontario along certain highways but it's more common up north, minus the winded roads where it usually below 100.
@@wombat4583 maybe if there’s divided highways I’ve seen some 100s there where I live the trans Canada is one lane in each direction and 90 kph is usually the biggest I’ll see up in northern Ontario
@@justinleonard6183 In 2022 several highways part of the 400 series changed to 110. Also, I can verify northern Ontario since I moved back across the country last year. Big chunks are 90 though and that's because of the mountainous areas with lots of curves and limited vision. To be fair those are big chunks of the routes but outside that 110 isn't uncommon.
To answer your question about the penny. Basically you simply round up or down from what ever needs to be change after the payment is done. Thus if you buy a coffee at $2.01 or $2.02 then you would pay $2.00, but if it was $2.03 or $2.04 then you would pay $2.05. Basically round up or down to the closest $0.05 (5 cents)
At the original Legoland in Denmark, Miniland is a section of recreated landmarks and buildings like The Eiffel Towel, Big Ben, Burj Khalifa and the Statue of Liberty. At Legoland Florida, their Miniland is almost exclusively of landmarks. To me, this illustrates the centre of the universe concept well.
The maple leaf on the Canadian money when it was first released in plastic... was a scratch and sniff and smelled like maple syrup. He never mentions it but its neat
With regard to figuring out what Celsius is in Fahrenheit just keep in mind that the point at which water freezes is 32 degrees F or 0 degrees C. To convert C to F double the number and add 30 and that’s approximately what it is in F. So like 5 degrees C = 5 + 5 + 30 = 40 degrees F. It gets you pretty close.
The penny was funny when it happened. There were the standard bombastic claims that it would ruin everything. As the one person said, 99% of Canadian purchases are done either by Debit (Interac in Canada) or Credit. Stores adjusted their prices to round to the near nickle. The event came and went and most people have forgotten.
I had a retail job at the time, and it was amazing what a non-issue it was. People adapted immediately. It seems like most of us were sick of the penny by that point, and happy to say goodbye to it.
Exactly….american doctors always have their hands out for money. I don’t think that should be the case for example how do Americans pay for an important surgery when they are downright poor. I’m glad I’m a Canadian in that way.
Unfortunately some people have gone broke if they need an expensive drug that isn't covered. The pharmacist literally laughed in my face about the eye drops I needed pre-post/op that weren't covered. Apparently he found it funny that I had to choose between meds and food for the month.
@@Shan_Dalamani probably because the eye drops were seemingly very reasonable and that still broke the camel's back. Im just guessing, because i got prescribed eye drop medication just today, 2 hours ago, havent used them yet though, and they were $50 with tax.
@@paddington1670 Only $50? I'm not talking about regular eye drops. This was pre/post-op for cataract surgery. No, they weren't cheap. Yes, the pharmacist laughed at me when I asked if there was a cheaper alternative. So I'm not kidding when I said it was a choice between eye drops and food.
If you wanted to pay in cash, and the final price ends in .*1, .*2, it is rounded down to end in .*0. .*3 or .*4 is rounded up to end in .*5. Just like .*6 or .*7 rounds down to .*5 and .*8 and .*9 rounds up to .*0. But like most comments said, we mostly us debit or credit to pay for things
They tried to ban plastic drinking straws and shopping bags but I guess the polymer bills and the bags your bread comes in are still ok.......go Canada go
@@mattzahab2946 Difference is the bank notes are going to end up back in the hands of the Bank of Canada and get recycled when necessary(unless you throw it in the bin lol).
Highways are bigger? This kid's obviously never been to Toronto, and driven on the 401......32 lanes in some places, and it's the most heavily travelled highway in North America.
Wait until he finds out the ink used to print American money was invented by a guy from Montreal. And the penny was taken out because it cost more to produce than the coin was worth.
That's not why it was taken out of circulation. A penny had a lifespan of 30 years. That it cost 1.6 cent as being the reason is ridiculous. That 1.6 cent penny would be used hundreds of times over it's lifespan. They got rid of it because it's useless with inflation over time. You couldn't buy anything for a penny any more. Even small candies were 5 cents, not 3 for a penny. Really, they should can the nickle as well.
The highway speed limits in Ontario are 100-110km/h which is basically 62-69mph. In reality most through traffic goes 120km/h which is 75mph. The OPP (basically state police) doesn’t really start caring about exact speed until you cross the street racing threshold of 150km/h then they seize your vehicle, take your license, give you a 10k fine and a court summons. Canada is the rarity compared to the US in using polymer banknotes, but colours are common. Pennies being gone leads to rounding up or down to the next multiple of 5 cents.
One last comment: I am on the edge of poverty. I got into a work related motor vehicle accident. Almost died. Spent a week in hospital and had reconstructive surgery. Been on compensation for 5 months. My boss is appealing my claim. I got a pro bono lawyer fighting my case for me. I have also had to go back to hospital because I injured my broken arm incased with hardware doing CPR with chest compressions on somebody and ended back in ER because of horrible side effects from the heavy duty pain killers I got. And now I’m working with a weight loss clinic working towards weight loss surgery and all of this hasn’t costed me a cent. Other than the taxes I pay. I don’t think I’d wanna live if I were in the States dealing with all of this because I’d be in thousands of dollars in debt just to live. It’s insane. But when I had my accident and somebody made contact with me asking if I’m ok, I knew I was in bad shape. I kept repeating call 911. The cost to survive didn’t even cross my mind. The bill I’d get after spending a week in hospital didn’t cross my mind. I haven’t been able to work since my accident. It’s been 5 months. You know what I complained about? I lost everything in my accident including the clothes I was wearing and I really disliked the fact that my naked body was examined. But… I’m alive. I give the Canadian medical system an A not an A+ because we need improvement but I’m at home. I’m able to pay my rent, bills, have food on the table and it looks like I will qualify for some long term disability benefits even if I am able to return to work. And now that I have found a Government Aided Representation I am starting to feel confident that my needs are going to be met. I really can’t complain as a Canadian. I feel taken care of by our Government/system.
As a Canadian truck driver that spends 30 percent off the time in the US, its always that Americans giving off the ideal they are better, more free, but its not true, Canada is in the top 10, the US is the twenties.
Dont put our money in a microwave! 😂 unless you want to completely fill your entire house with smoke instantly. We got rid of the penny because bolt washers cost like 6 cents and a penny with a hole in it cost 1 cent
The Apology Act came into force in Ontario on April 23, 2009. It allows the communication of expressions of sorrow or regret without worrying that the comments can later be used adversely in a civil court. Its also been in place as a type of law in many different provinces and even a few states have something like it. Being sorry doesn't mean you did something wrong, its about reaching out to the person as to say "dang that thing sucks, bummer" Canadian and frequent sorry giver :)
Canada introduced bank notes with a different colour for each denomination in 1937. It prevented counterfeiters from "raising" the value of a note by adding a zero to the denomination of a real note. So no adding a zero to a $5 note (blue) to create a $50 note (orange before '75 and red after '75).
@@blanchemoyaert3714 I know. I still have a few Dutch guilder notes from before the Euro was introduced. I'm not saying Canada was the first to introduce different coloured notes. It also was not the first to introduce polymer notes. I was just pointing out that Canada had various coloured bills long before it switched to polymer notes and part of the reason why.
@@edwardlongshanks827 It looks like Australia was the first to test it out in 1988 and make it universal by 1996. Why the heck did it take us so long to adopt such a practical switch?
@@dorianlindberg1662 I suspect cost of the switch over and concerns about the actual longevity of the notes. The very first synthetic fibre banknotes were made and marketed using Tyvek, the same material you see used for house wrap underneath siding on houses. Haiti and a couple of other countries tried it but it didn't work out because the ink would smudge over time and the Tyvek proved to fragile.
Tyler, the guy in the video was saying the exact same thing you were for #9. Americans don't think they are the centre of the universe out of malice, but out of ignorance. We all know this and he was saying the same thing. ❤
Not just Canadians feel like American's think they're the center of the universe. It's pretty much universal.
For realsies.
And it's been that way a long time. The second world War for instance. Canada joined the war almost instantly. America joined the war only after they were attacked or in other word only after it directly affected them.
Except Toronto. That is what Canadians who aren't from Toronto there call the city "the centre of the universe".
I've heard that Americans will (or at least used to) pretend to be Canadian while traveling abroad.
@@timeforanap4268I've heard this as well and fully expected to see many similar comments. I've been told to make sure to correct someone if they think we're American and to wear something with a Canadian flag or maple leaf
19:30 - Tyler, with all due respect, as a Canadian, the whole world thinks this about you guys. America learns about America. The rest of the world learns about each other.
100%
He's feigning ignorance - he reacted to that on his UK channel.. he's fully aware this is a consensus.
Exactly well said.
In all fairness, we only learn what we're told by schools and Media, many ( myself included) never actually leave the country they live in to see the rest of the world for themselves.
Couldn't have said it better myself 👍
I’m Canadian and even I watch these videos because I like that this guy is interested in Canada, enjoy hearing what he thinks and says about America, we all learn something
Love this comment. I feel the same way 🙂
same here
As a Canadian Tyler, I really appreciate your open-mindedness and understanding, as you go through all your research of Canada!!
Brother, you need to make a series of youtube videos actually VISITING Canada and exploring the differences first hand. Would be dope.
Yes!
Agreed.
My wife says the same thing whenever she's around and I watch him
We’ll host you coast to coast 🎉😅😎
Classy wealthy hang out in Europe, in the Mediterranean… Italy, South of France,Greece,Capri, Saint-Barths, not much in Florida 😅
7:40 Yep! There is braille on the money as well.
It's funny how much more Canadians know about Americans than vice versa
It’s natural given reality.
Sometimes it's not so funny.
It makes sense. I bet a lot of people from other countries also know more about Americans. They're the world's superpower.
@@jakejensen1166 its not just because America is the biggest power it's more about American culture: Hollywood then the early internet then with having more relative wealth people shared more on social media.
Most of the rest of the world knows more about other countries vs Americans.
That's my video you've reacted to. Cool. But as I'm sure you know, it's common courtesy to credit the name of the channel you react to. As well as to provide a tag or link to the original in the video. That way you are helping other channels and not just making money off someone else's work...
Or maybe that's just a way Canadians and Americans are different? 😂
I almost lost it in a good way when I saw that the clip you used in it's better to be poor in Canada is Waterfront Park here in Kelowna BC. It looks it might be from Canada Day celebrations. I live like a 30 minute walk from that park lol.
He did credit you at the end of the video tho; he always does!
But I agree there should also be a link to the video in the description.
Celsius: At 100 degrees water will boil, at 0 degrees water will freeze.... It's very sensible
Depends on altitude.
10 Degrees in fall: It's so cold out there!
10 Degrees in spring: It's so warm out there!
@@RyanStonedonCanadianGamingCelsius goes on the assumption of standard atmospheric pressure. So 1 atm
@@winnipegconcertfootage3958
Let me clearly clarify this for you *IT DEPENDS ON ALTITUDE.*
Sea level atmosphere vs top of a mountain atmosphere, take a guess where the waters freezing or boiling first?
@@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming The only thing he wasn't clear on is measured at sea level. As with all measurements some conditions apply.
USA: our 8-lane highways are huge. Toronto: hold my beer 🍺
HAHAHA!!!! ACCURATE!!!!! What a nightmare eh?
How much is Toronto?
China has a 50 lane highway that merges into 4
@@camppillow wow. The 401 by the airport is 18 lanes.
The 401 in Toronto is the busiest highway in North America.
LOL! SO TRUE!
Most American Movies about America are made in Canada.
Exchange rate
@@ebayvideo6383 Many but definitely not most. Not even close.
Yeah cuz it costs less money for them to make in Canada and they pay less taxes.
@christinebenoit301 Ya and if dollars were equal no movies would be made in Canada
if we didnt make them bout 'murika most 'murikans wouldnt watch them
I’m Canadian and have good friends in Michigan. Watching network newscasts in US always amazes me how little world news is covered. It’s not surprising that people in the US know so little about other countries and cultures. In contrast, Canadian newscasts are full of world news.
10:40 Pennies cost more to make than what they were worth. We just round everything. Sometimes you save a few cents, sometimes you pay a few more cents. Most people pay with debit or credit everywhere anyway, so the change isn't as big of a deal.
90+% of all transactions in Canada involve a card.
Our dollars aren't worth much these days, 1/100 is next to nothing.
@@drewthompson7457 you do realize that Canada's economy is much smaller than the U.S., so if the two dollars were equal, Canada's currency would have a value out of proportion to its real value.
The Bank of Canada maintains the Canadian dollar at about a 25 per cent discount from its American counterpart. As a result, Canadian goods are more competitive in U.S. markets and Americans goods are more expensive in Canadian markets.
An equal dollar is good for importers, but bad for exporters.
@@PontiacBandit902 : compare how many more dollars are needed to buy anything over the last few years. Product is the same, the dollars aren't.
@@drewthompson7457 and do you think that is a uniquely Canadian problem? Prices are up all over the world.
Your videos are so fun Tyler! A small history lesson for you. Tommy Douglas was a Canadian politician who introduced universal health care in 1962. He was also the grandfather of Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian Actor. Donald Sutherland ,( Canadian actor) who recently died was married to Shirley Douglas (2nd wife) and Tommy Douglas was her father. Donald and Shirley had son Kiefer.
Many of us Canadians appreciate not having to use pennies anymore.
I leave them on the counter in the US when I travel
The solution was simple. Paying with debit, or credit cards, you pay what the price is, Paying with cash, you round up or down to the nearest 0.05 dollars (5 cents). As a matter of fact, it cost more to make a copper penny than the penny was worth, so a number of years before the penny was actually cancelled, they started making them out of copper anodized aluminum.
We all do!
Really, most US grocery stores have change machines , you put your change in it, after it is all counted, you get a slip with the amount counted, you take it to the customer service desk, hand the paper to the employee and you get the amount on the slip of paper back in bills, I actually did this and the total coin return was $50.00 ,so the employee handed me, five . Twenty dollars bills back.most of the coins were Pennie’s.
@@pugle1
The penny costing more than a penny to make means nothing.
They were used more than once each.
"I'm not going to test this theory too hard because this is a fifty" -- I felt that one, real deep
Lol I also remember when the polymer notes were new, it was said that the hundred dollar bill smelled like maple syrup. People would be smelling the $100's like scratch and sniff 😂
Tyler when I lived in Connecticut missed my Canadian programs. I got a dish sent to me from Ontario. They told me that in the US outside programs are illegal and they would block my signal. I had outside programs for 3 years and then one day all of my channels were blocked. I was so disappointed but I think that this is why Americans know as little as they do about other countries because everything is from an American point of view.
Are you referring to a satellite dish?
Interesting so more socialist then portrayed.
And meanwhile they speak of China and their firewall that blocks their citizens from seeing the rest of the world, not saying China government is good, just saying ours here in the west only pretends to be any better, and then they do the same shit.
Beginning in 2011, the Bank of Canada introduced a new series of polymer banknotes. The $100 note was issued on 14 November 2011; the $50 was issued on 26 March 2012; the $20 banknote was issued on 7 November 2012, and the $10 and $5 denominations were issued on 7 November 2013.
Road distance in Canada is measured in hours.
with added time, depending on weather!!
@@janbarriault4494 And number of pee breaks. Lowered by amount of lead in foot.
@@avernar lmao!! sooo true!
This!
That depends on each person and depends on the scale of road distances. If you live outside major urban areas, then it would make sense to measure road distances in hours/minutes. Inside metropolitan areas, not so much, too many variables to factor-in. *Btw, measuring road distances in hours isn't uniquely Canadian, it's the same in the US
30:14 I think that me-first mentality is very American, especially with healthcare. I watched a very interesting documentary a while back in grade 10 about the Canadian healthcare system from an American perspective. In one part an American conservative was talking to a Canadian conservative. The American said something along the lines of “why would you want to pay for someone else’s medical procedure?”
My thoughts on that are; universal healthcare helps people without a ton of money, because say you’re bordering on poor, but your child develops cancer: would you rather have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for your child’s healthcare, or would you rather have the taxes you and the other ~40 billion people pay every year pay for it? It helps people who don’t have enough money to pay directly for medical procedures.
The view on poor vs rich differs, in my experience from the US to Canada.
In Canada, when talking about a poor individual, unable to afford the basic needs in life and struggling, I find the average response is one of concern - "What could have happened to this person to put them in such a place, and how can we address this issue?"
In the US, my experience tells me the average response to this same situation would be more one of disregard - "They need to make better life choices. I don't want my taxes going to give people stuff for free that they should be working for."
The US seems to be far more concerned with things they specifically don't ant their own personal taxes going towards, where as in Canada, I think broad spectrum tax expenditure is more generally accepted. If I don't have kids in Canada, I more or less still understand that some of my local taxes will still be going into the school system.
I was recently in the U.S. and what gets me is all their toll roads. Instead of having municipal taxes increase just a little, and would probably save a lot of people more money even by paying more taxes because of how many there are and how they are set up, they would rather keep having a million tolls just to 'stick it to the people who use them'.
@@wombat4583 I live in BC and we used to cross the border a lot. My dad always used to say "you know you're in the USA because of the road kill". I'm not sure if it's because we have larger predators that take the road kill and we just clean them more, or it it's because where I live there's more rain and washes it away but it's true. You can really tell.
@@sharis9095 hahaha my sister and I said the same thing. It wasn't even just small animals. We saw multiple deer and such too. Eventually we did see someone picking a few up but it didn't appear to be any less on our way back. (Michigan and Indiana for reference).
This one kills me, because the actual spending on social services is a drop in the bucket compared to shit like the military budget, but it's the one thing politicians are able to get people up in arms over.
@@STB_666 From like 2019 to 2022, the US military budget went from 646 Billion to 806 Billion (close to those numbers) per year.
It's been detailed that it would cost 58 Billion per year to give free education - no restrictions, in the US. One third of the increase congress has given the military in the last few years. Yet they keep cutting education, medicare, social programs. It's a damn crime...
I'm Canadian and lived in the States during the pandemic. While there people would ask if I was Canadian then follow it up with how nice I was. I did meet some wonderfully polite people there, but also some downright ignorant and rude people. But hey you can find those anywhere! Anywho keep up the great videos. You're a pretty good guy yourself. Come up to Canada sometime! Plenty of room!
At the end of May my friend and I went to Lyndon, Washington. I was in a shop and I was given pennies, and I mentioned we didn't have pennies and the man behind the counter said that they should also get rid of pennies because it takes 7 cents to produce a penny, which is more than it is worth.
That's why Canada got rid of pennies.
@@michaelbaird5029I came here to comment the same thing
Pennies get used more than once. It is not relevant that they cost more to make one.
They are tokens.
@@stephenolan5539 well, dude theyre not coming back
i suggest you get use to that fact
@mrmacq-jk4td
I am. I am also used to people not understanding why it was irrelevant that they cost more than a penny to make.
People don't ask, "so what?" Nestly enough.
Tyler, Americans can be really kind as well. A long time ago my Dad's car broke down and this small town family in S. Carolina took us to their house for hours. They were all so good to us and I still fondly remember them!
One bee doesn't make a hive !
I think one of the biggest differences between Canadians and Americans as a Canadian I can say in school we learn about American history. You are our neighbors. We need to know. Americans don't learn about Canada in school.
From what I've seen some of those interviews on the street, some Americans don't even know about America, which is a shame
And Canadian kids don't worry about school shootings.
I agree. Americans seem so sheltered when it comes to learning about the world around them.
@@rickbeith3336 They don’t have to worry but they still make kids do active shooter drills in school in Canada.
@@mariecook797 they genuinely don't care. If it isn't happening in America most Americans could care less.
@@buffalobill9793 Agreed. People give them too much leeway for reasons as to why they don't know (about anywhere - not just Canada) but in reality it's that they just don't care.
I love your commentary Tyler. You’re always willing to discover more and you are very curious re other countries/cultures. I hope you continue to be as inquisitive. Thank you for being you.
Canadian polymer notes cost about 40% more to produce but they last about four times longer than US paper notes. That of course applies only to the bills of the same denominations. Canada has replaced the one and two dollar paper notes with coins where the far greater lifespan of coins cannot even be compared.
I wonder what the lifespan difference is between the plastic bills and metal coins. I know the coins last longer, but how much longer?
@@Bakemer94 thing is, you can melt coins to make new ones without having to get new materials. So they last much more longer
@@Bakemer94I frequently handle cash in large quantities as part of a volunteer job, and the 1987 run of loonies is one of the most common coins I see. That's approaching 40 years of more or less continuous use. The bills are harder to tell, but 10s have had a sequential run of different t designs so they are easier to tell. The original polymer designs are still in good condition generally, they were introduced in 2013 for the $10. So over 10 years. Paper bills least only 5 or so years I think, and those polymer bills are still going strong.
@@jolenethiessen357 Thats actually crazy because I went and looked it up after I asked the question, and it said the polymer notes had a lifespan of 10 years. If they are still going strong, I'm guessing they're stronger than first estimates.
I have washed and dries many a bill!! Comes out fine! Sometimes static cling, but other than that, it's just fine
Yes the money has braille! Also, they stopped producing paper bills a little over 10 years ago.
Even our old paper money had braille. Credit and debit transactions are to the cent, cash is rounded to the nearest nickle.
And to make even a little more money, businesses started making prices that would always round up and not down...
Pay for gas in cash and get that extra 2 cents!
To be fair US cash is made of textiles(cotton and linen) and not paper. However their currency seems extremely outdated compared with most other currencies that I have come across.
@@MrEHowell Gas is the only thing priced to tenths of a cent. Like 209.9 cents per litre. Don't know why they don't just say $2.10 and be done with it, cause that's what you end up paying, anyway.
@@dorianlindberg1662 There are actually papers made with cotton and linen. The fibres are shredded and mashed down and combined with an enzyme that converts it to a pulp that dries into paper. It was actually a way to recycle old textiles, and is much older than wood paper. The paper is low acid or acid free, depending on the process, and lasts for centuries, and was once considered the only paper suitable for legal documents.
0°C is freezing, 21°C is room temperature, 35°C is quite hot, and100°C is boiling point of water in general
If I drink from those king sized American cups I would likely spend the rest of the day in the washroom or looking for one.
A large soda in the US is the same size as a medium in other countries, other countries forget, we have a lot of ice in drinks here in the US.
I never thought about what you said about entering science classes only knowing the imperial system 😂That would be a shock to the system for sure LOL
I have a rule when travelling in the States: no appetizers. The portions of the mains are usually enough to feed an army.
Or, just order their Massive appetizers, which are bigger then the Mains in the GWN.
So just get an appetizer if I go to the states...got to
Tony's in Frankenmuth Michigan. You order a sundae, you get a gallon of ice cream. I am not even kidding.
I find we have ridiculous portion sizes in Canada also. I only went to the States in the 90s and they had salads at McDonalds with something called "Blue Cheese" dressing. I had never seen that before. lol I also tried Taco Bell but corn fed beef tasted like cardboard. Now we have Walmart and Count Chocula and Cherry Coke and and tons of other stuff you used to only get in America.
and this is one of the contributing reasons that 'murika has an obesity issue
Merci Tyler, je suis de Montréal et je suis nouveau sur ta chaîne, je trouve que tes vdos sont super intéressantes, très bien faites.
I'm Canadian. When I designed my house, I had to do in in metric. When I built it, all the building material was in Imperial measure.
Much of it still is. Wapato recently vehicle sold in Canada had their fuel tanks measured in gallons instead of in liters
A lot of professional kitchens in Canada still use a mix which doesn't make sense to me at all. But then, we do get much of our equipment either sourced or licensed from US companies. @drewthompson7457 that sounds like a big time pain in the arse!
Typically the construction industry in Canada still uses imperial but the drawings are required to be in metric so most drawings show both imperial & metric.
Honestly! The colourful money is actually super useful cause you can identify the amount of bill you’re grabbing/holding by the colour and the plastic is also way better! Way less ripping! More durable! It can literally get wet and by fine!
Yes, we say sorry a lot. It’s not an admission that we’ve done something wrong. We even have a law to protect us in this respect. The apology law. Our apology cannot be used as an admission of guilt.
It's not 'Sorry I fucked up', it's 'Sorry this situation happened, regardless of who is at fault or if you are even an animate object.' 😅
Why do Americans compare our Canadian money to monopoly money? Have they not seen the Euro? British pound? Australian dollar? Such ignorance.
It's the color, it's always been that way, and it's not ignorance. As a Canadian who's been around for 60+ years you have to laugh at it.
How do you know that Americans don't also compare the Euro, British pound and Australian dollar to monopoly money ?
@@thewolfdoctor761 Where have you heard the others compared? Americans have never been particularly big on international travel and once they saw our bank notes they compared it to theirs without realizing they are not the norm. I don't know your age but the monopoly reference goes back half a century and never is it used to describe the notes from other countries.
Yep. Because we're near by and they compare us without knowing a thing about the rest of the world.. Sadly, they are so backward because aside from colour many countries have switched to polymer for both security and longevity and they still use green paper. So now instead of thinking Canada has weird coloured money it's also Canada has weird plastic money. Him saying 'Canadian-style money' when so many others use polymer is exactly my point.
@@mw-wl2hm Where have you heard the others compared? I was pointing out your illogic. BTW, I'm in my 70s, so yes I know all about monopoly.
I love it when people say Canada pays more taxes. We pay less tax at some levels, and the middle class pays 1% more tax in Canada.
Pay 1 % more taxes,but we don’t expensive healthcare insurance to pay.We also have way more social programs,child support etc than American ,so in the end ,they pay more for less.
@loyz8048 100% agreed. I was pointing out the myth that we pay so much more tax than Americans when it's completely negligible unless you make like over 300k than it's way less in the US. Canada all day long for me.
I put a similar comment above
@@Electronic_Boyscout I will add the caveat that there's also more loopholes for the Americans who really want to stress and penny pinch at tax time, but even then that really only applies to certain people and lifestyles.
Yeah. It’s something like if you make less than 15,000 ish and you get most if not all your taxes back. I don’t work cause I’m taking care of two young kids one of which is disabled. On our last taxes all those credits went to my husband and we got back like $11,000.
There’s always going to be some good and some bad.
The portions comment is accurate! The amount of food you get served at restaurants it unbelievable. My spouse and I have to remember to not order appetizers when we are in the States. It's too much!
When paying cash in Canada, we just round up to the nearest 5 or 10 cents. I got to look at the rough sales figures for a small grocery chain and they kept track of all the rounding up and down. At the end of the month it would add up to only a few dollars plus OR minus. So the store might gain or lose about $10 per year. It cost them more to reprogram their cash registers to track the rounding. :)
Yes, polymer bills are slippery. They also build up some static cling, so it's necessary to make sure you're not giving someone more than you intend.
As the person who does the laundry in our relationship, I love the Canadian bills. Yes, the colours, etc., but I especially like finding perfect bills after being put through the laundry cycle. I keep more than half for my efforts. As to the k. versus miles, people of a certain generation just know the difference, we were taught both. Another great reaction, thank you!
Maybe not plastic, however US bills survive the laundry and still be useable
I am a Canadian, and I am 65 years old, and I cannot remember the last time I used cash. It is all Bank Card and credit card.
Canada prints money for 80 countries, for example Costa Rica. They have the same plastic bills as Canada.
Polymer banknote technology was developed in Australia.
7:38 They actually do have braille! Its stamped into the top left corner of every bill (face side)!
Canadian bills (money) does have Braille on it.
Yes it does
an overestimate of celsius to fahrenheit is double the celsius temperature and add 32. if you want to convert back, you take the 32 off first, then divide by 2. (again, just an easy way to estimate).
16:36 unfortunately this is also happening in most countries including Canada. Free health care is probably the biggest reason our middle class lives a bit more comfortable.
And yes taxes suck, but the most prosperous time in the US for the middle class was when the top tax brackets were taxed at like 90%.
There’s a stretch of highway I drive often that’s 120km/hr. It’s fun but very scary in the rain/snow. We just did it in march during a huge snowfall and I was shitting bricks 😂
OMG thats fast! Do people go 130km/h as the ten km/h wiggle room?
Slow down.
As someone now well acquainted with Tim Horton's, it might interest you that the chain is celebrating its 60th birthday this year. Today, a new musical is opening on stage in Toronto, as part of that celebration. The musical is titled, "The Last Timbit."
It also might interest you that Tim Horton's has been owned by Burger King since 2014
The McDonalds cup size thing is so weird. You can order the same size of drink, say a "Medium", and in a US restaurant you'd get a cup that's one size larger than what you'd get in Canada. Most chains in Canada use similar sizes. An interesting exception is Wendy's, which uses American cup sizes in Canada (I always have to remember to order a size smaller than I normally do).
As a Canadian who has lived in the US. I found there to be more similarities between Canada and the US. I agreed with your comments Tyler.
In the end I always remind myself, these differences are not right or wrong, they are just different. most are small differences that make travel interesting. We all have our preferences.
RE: the Penny. If you pay with cash the total is round to the closest 5 cents, so like $2.92 would be $2.90 if paying in cash. If you are paying with credit card or debit card then it is not rounded.
Actually Ontario has the world's widest highway. Ontario's King's Highway 401 is 26 lanes wide.
This is funny Tyler. You’re awesome. I’m Canadian living in Kobe, Japan,.
To add on the News thing, just in Quebec we have Local news, Canadian news, US news, France news and BBC news... not that everyone watches all of those, but at least they are easily available
And Indigenous News (APTN).
Not just in Quebec
9:30- just wanted to say if the sales total is something off like .57$ then if you pay with your card you pay the exact amount, but if you pay with cash they either round up or down to the nearest 5 cents. If it’s .56 or .57 then the store accepts a couple cents off the final bill as a loss, but if it’s .58 or .59 then the customer does as an added cost.
One of my nieces work for an American own company. The owner came up to see how the company was going. When he found out that they were following Canadian laws. He was quite upset. He thought they had to follow Amercian labour laws.
*****Yeah they get mad because they have to follow our higher standards and pay higher wages and have better working conditions. Now the minimum wage in british columbia just went up to $17.40 on june 1 2024.
Like we'd roll back children's labour and environment protections the way they have... 😢
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Hey Tyler, The lowest setting on our air conditioners is 15-16 C. Ideal temps are between 20 - 25 C depending on the person. 28 -35 with no sun and a breeze would be humid but reasonable.
The first Canadian penny was minted in 1858. The final penny was minted on May 4, 2012. They stopped because the cost of minting pennies rose to be double the actual worth of the penny, due to the rise in the value of copper , so making 1 loonie's worth of pennies would cost you a twoonie
10:36 when we got rid of pennies we round cash but debit/credit still does exact. So 1,2,6,7 cent endings round down (eg 57 cents is 55 in change) and 3,4,8,9 rounds up (58 cents is 60 cents in change)
Canada stopped using the penny because 1 penny cost 1.6 pennies to make....
So... yeah.... purchases in stores are handled 2 ways:
1) If it's a debit or credit card transaction, then full price, down to the exact cent, is charged to your card.
2) If it's a cash transaction, things are rounded to the nearest 5 cents. A $2.57 coffee would cost you $2.55 in cash, while a $2.98 muffin would cost you $3.00 in cash.
If we were more astute, we Canadians would carry cash AND card when possible. That way you can take advantage (using the payment method that keeps more money in your pocket so to speak) of the rounding and feel like you are gaming the system. I considered doing this but it's a cumbersome way to live.
@@EmmaBadOne If the advantage is no more than a couple of dollars, at best, a year so it ain't worth it. At best you can save like 2 cents per transaction. Certainly not worth it.
@@wombat4583 i know, that's why I don't do it and plus the government needs it way more than we do ;)
@@EmmaBadOne Agreed it is cumbersome. Personally I don't like to have to deal with the difference, but mostly because I work in areas with a lot of homelessness and drug use I prefer the card for safety and money security. If somebody asks me for change I can honestly tell them that I have none.
Polymer banknote technology was developed in Australia.
The one cent and two cent coins were discontinued in Australia almost 30 years ago.
For Celsius temperature:
30 is hot
20 is nice
10 is cool
0 is ice
Great analysis
Sorry to tell you, 0 is not ice. Here in Winnipeg 0 is a lovely, balmy day, unless the wind is blowing then it gets a tad chilly.
@@Kim-ro9bs I agree, it's for the rhyme honestly. Technically water freezes at 0, which is something americans don't always know.
The dew sometimes frosts over on a nice 0 morning (Then again, it's humid-cold in the east). You can easily get away with just a t-shirt up to -5 if the sun's out and there's minimal wind.
And -40 is bloody cold no matter the scale used and everyone should stay home..
Polymer money is actually an Australian invention and they started switching to it in 1988 (finished in 1996). Canada is a relative latecomer, only switching in 2013, despite the Bank of Canada and the U.S. Department of the Treasury testing out a joint Canadian/US-designed material named DuraNote in the 80s and 90s.
(Thank you, Wikipedia. I didn't know about DuraNote and I'd forgotten the dates.)
Many Americanisms are sneaking up to Canada but here are a few more things where we are different. 1) Americans live by association to groups. I am white, your black, he is gay, they are Democratic, he is a republican, they are Jews etc etc etc. They use these associations to extend community power local or in politics. 2) Excessive Patriotism. Seeing a privately owned flag for instance on a front lawn or up a flap pole is uncommon in Canada, let alone chanting your pride for your country outside of specialize events seems odd to us. 3) I grew up thinking of guns as tools, not self defence. I get the U.S. interest but really..an AK15 for Christmas and you take family pictures to show off? My Dad owned multiple guns and he never once bragged or brought them out to show off. They were tools for hunting or killing vermin. 4) Politics is getting more adversarial up here in Canada because of the U.S. but must you hate your opposition? I hear such extreme trash talk from both sides that sounds like they want to literally end each other. Actually I could list dozens of difference so will read comments from others rather than write a full on novel
Great points
Now our politics are getting as bad as they are in the States too. More extreme & more trash talking
Politician trash talk is one of my pet peeves. I dont want them to tell me what the other one is doing wrong! Tell me what YOUR ideas are! What YOU want to do for us. 😒
Trash talking politics AND the inflammatory sensationalism and opinion biased, lack of neutrality reporting, of the news services.
Pro tip reverse ...82F is 28C it provides a good conversion base 🌡
The way Americans introduce themselves is so real. I'm in Rome and I say I'm Canadian, a German introduces themself and then "I'm from Michigan" we gave each other a side eye
I've never met an American outside of the US but if someone said that to me I think I'd mess with them and say "What country is Michigan?" then they'd probably respond with "Michigan United States" I'd respond with "Never heard of it" lol and see how long until they realize I am trolling lol.
Americans assume everyone in the world knows all 50 states and all the US territories at the top of their head. Which is crazy.
No they don't
That’s because our states are often the same size as some other countries.
"The West Wing" touched on the US penny situation, and one of the points made was resistance by the state of Illinois, where the speaker of the house was from, also the "Land of Lincoln", and Lincoln is depicted on the penny.
I heard you say several times that Americans are "ignorant". The word certainly has derogatory tones, in Canada 🇨🇦 we would say "un educated", or something similar. Canada is not perfect, but we, for the most part, try to be less aggressive in our everyday speech and practices.
Thank you Tyler for, first, knowing there are differences between us..and second, trying to learn what they are. It’s appreciated. In the end..America/Canada have more similarities than differences. America is like our older sister..we learn from her..but we want to grow independent ( and yet still be part of the family)
Pennies get rounded up or down depending on the cost of the item. The exceptions are credit and debit cards. A lot of American TV shows are filmed in Canada because of cheaper productions costs.
Ex: If it cost like 0,98 0,99 1,00 1,01 ou 1,02 , it will cost you 1$. But if it cost 1,03 1,04 1,05 1,06 or 1,07, it will cost you 1,05.$
Yeah they can get special credits and stuff for filming. The provincial governments give them out to bring business to their provinces. I wonder if it helps us to be able to air the products too. Since a certain amount of the broadcasts in Canada have to be Canadian content so we don’t get over powered by US stuff. It’s why a lot of the animation studios here in Canada work with foreign studios. The projects then count as the Canadian broadcast.
@@Nevertoleave The federal government also has a film and TV production fund. That's where the cable TV tax money goes.
Fun fact has a canadian hvac guy we learn everything with F° cause its a more persise scale and most of the units are made in the states. Also 32F is 0C and the point the scales meet is -40
Drive the Coquihalla it's 140 km all the way to Vancouver
not true the Coq is a small section between Hope & Kamloops it is not 140 .
@@stevedockeray Kelowna to Hope is 239 km
@@dougstewart3243 I think doug was talking about the speed limit.
@@dorianlindberg1662 So was I, it is not 140 per hour & it runs from Hope to Kamloops not Vancouver
Yes. Any temperature over 30°C is considered hot. And there are areas of Canada that get close to 40° in the summer. (which blows a lot of Americans away because I think they often assume that we are cold all the time.) 0° is the temperature where water freezes.
Growing up in Windsor Ontario, it was a common occurrence of hearing Americans getting caught on the Hwy 401 doing 110 mph instead of kph.
And the metric system is more accurate and you Americans are using the metric system on your money.
I’ve don’t think never seen a 110 in Ontario but when I drove across the border to Michigan/ Wisconsin i Saw 70 mph
@@justinleonard6183 110 is newer in southern Ontario along certain highways but it's more common up north, minus the winded roads where it usually below 100.
@@wombat4583 maybe if there’s divided highways I’ve seen some 100s there where I live the trans Canada is one lane in each direction and 90 kph is usually the biggest I’ll see up in northern Ontario
@@justinleonard6183 In 2022 several highways part of the 400 series changed to 110. Also, I can verify northern Ontario since I moved back across the country last year. Big chunks are 90 though and that's because of the mountainous areas with lots of curves and limited vision. To be fair those are big chunks of the routes but outside that 110 isn't uncommon.
That is absolutely halarious and scary at the same time Dave! Also so true about the metric money ;)
To answer your question about the penny. Basically you simply round up or down from what ever needs to be change after the payment is done. Thus if you buy a coffee at $2.01 or $2.02 then you would pay $2.00, but if it was $2.03 or $2.04 then you would pay $2.05. Basically round up or down to the closest $0.05 (5 cents)
At the original Legoland in Denmark, Miniland is a section of recreated landmarks and buildings like The Eiffel Towel, Big Ben, Burj Khalifa and the Statue of Liberty. At Legoland Florida, their Miniland is almost exclusively of landmarks. To me, this illustrates the centre of the universe concept well.
The maple leaf on the Canadian money when it was first released in plastic... was a scratch and sniff and smelled like maple syrup. He never mentions it but its neat
lol lol lol lol
That would be so cool!!
Practically every country has plastic money other than the US.
With regard to figuring out what Celsius is in Fahrenheit just keep in mind that the point at which water freezes is 32 degrees F or 0 degrees C. To convert C to F double the number and add 30 and that’s approximately what it is in F. So like 5 degrees C = 5 + 5 + 30 = 40 degrees F. It gets you pretty close.
The penny was funny when it happened. There were the standard bombastic claims that it would ruin everything. As the one person said, 99% of Canadian purchases are done either by Debit (Interac in Canada) or Credit. Stores adjusted their prices to round to the near nickle. The event came and went and most people have forgotten.
I think about ten years earlier a bank tried not dealing with pennies and it was worth it for them.
I had a retail job at the time, and it was amazing what a non-issue it was. People adapted immediately. It seems like most of us were sick of the penny by that point, and happy to say goodbye to it.
When I was a kid, we were traveling through a southern state, and we were asked if our (Canadian) money was Monopoly money at a restaurant.
Nobody goes broke paying for health care. Only the USA has that problem in the free world.
Exactly….american doctors always have their hands out for money. I don’t think that should be the case for example how do Americans pay for an important surgery when they are downright poor. I’m glad I’m a Canadian in that way.
Canada got rid of the penny because it cost more to make them it is worth. Prices are rounded if the customer pays by cash.
Unfortunately some people have gone broke if they need an expensive drug that isn't covered. The pharmacist literally laughed in my face about the eye drops I needed pre-post/op that weren't covered. Apparently he found it funny that I had to choose between meds and food for the month.
@@Shan_Dalamani probably because the eye drops were seemingly very reasonable and that still broke the camel's back. Im just guessing, because i got prescribed eye drop medication just today, 2 hours ago, havent used them yet though, and they were $50 with tax.
@@paddington1670 Only $50? I'm not talking about regular eye drops. This was pre/post-op for cataract surgery. No, they weren't cheap. Yes, the pharmacist laughed at me when I asked if there was a cheaper alternative. So I'm not kidding when I said it was a choice between eye drops and food.
If you wanted to pay in cash, and the final price ends in .*1, .*2, it is rounded down to end in .*0. .*3 or .*4 is rounded up to end in .*5. Just like .*6 or .*7 rounds down to .*5 and .*8 and .*9 rounds up to .*0. But like most comments said, we mostly us debit or credit to pay for things
The money in Canada is made out of polymer a durable type of plastic that is specifically made for bank notes
They tried to ban plastic drinking straws and shopping bags but I guess the polymer bills and the bags your bread comes in are still ok.......go Canada go
@@mattzahab2946and what are you doing for the environment instead of being an ignorant American?
Polymer can mean anything from silk rubber wool shellac amber hemp PVC polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, silicone,
@@mattzahab2946
How many of your polymer bills are going to end up in landfill?
@@mattzahab2946 Difference is the bank notes are going to end up back in the hands of the Bank of Canada and get recycled when necessary(unless you throw it in the bin lol).
I appreciate having learned Imperial & Metric systems.
Highways are bigger? This kid's obviously never been to Toronto, and driven on the 401......32 lanes in some places, and it's the most heavily travelled highway in North America.
Where is the 401 32 lanes wide?
@@stephenolan5539 I mis-spoke. It is 18 lanes wide in parts of Toronto.
Wow! Here in BC 3 lans is the normal for highways
One of the most dangerous roads in the world too
for temperature, 0C is freezing point of water, -30C is cold af, +30C is hot just keep that 30 to 30 scale in your mind.
Wait until he finds out the ink used to print American money was invented by a guy from Montreal.
And the penny was taken out because it cost more to produce than the coin was worth.
A penny costs 1.6 to make.
Good ol' Inky Lemieux. 😂
That's not why it was taken out of circulation. A penny had a lifespan of 30 years. That it cost 1.6 cent as being the reason is ridiculous. That 1.6 cent penny would be used hundreds of times over it's lifespan. They got rid of it because it's useless with inflation over time. You couldn't buy anything for a penny any more. Even small candies were 5 cents, not 3 for a penny. Really, they should can the nickle as well.
The highway speed limits in Ontario are 100-110km/h which is basically 62-69mph. In reality most through traffic goes 120km/h which is 75mph. The OPP (basically state police) doesn’t really start caring about exact speed until you cross the street racing threshold of 150km/h then they seize your vehicle, take your license, give you a 10k fine and a court summons.
Canada is the rarity compared to the US in using polymer banknotes, but colours are common. Pennies being gone leads to rounding up or down to the next multiple of 5 cents.
One last comment:
I am on the edge of poverty. I got into a work related motor vehicle accident. Almost died. Spent a week in hospital and had reconstructive surgery. Been on compensation for 5 months. My boss is appealing my claim. I got a pro bono lawyer fighting my case for me. I have also had to go back to hospital because I injured my broken arm incased with hardware doing CPR with chest compressions on somebody and ended back in ER because of horrible side effects from the heavy duty pain killers I got. And now I’m working with a weight loss clinic working towards weight loss surgery and all of this hasn’t costed me a cent. Other than the taxes I pay. I don’t think I’d wanna live if I were in the States dealing with all of this because I’d be in thousands of dollars in debt just to live. It’s insane. But when I had my accident and somebody made contact with me asking if I’m ok, I knew I was in bad shape. I kept repeating call 911. The cost to survive didn’t even cross my mind. The bill I’d get after spending a week in hospital didn’t cross my mind. I haven’t been able to work since my accident. It’s been 5 months. You know what I complained about? I lost everything in my accident including the clothes I was wearing and I really disliked the fact that my naked body was examined. But… I’m alive. I give the Canadian medical system an A not an A+ because we need improvement but I’m at home. I’m able to pay my rent, bills, have food on the table and it looks like I will qualify for some long term disability benefits even if I am able to return to work. And now that I have found a Government Aided Representation I am starting to feel confident that my needs are going to be met. I really can’t complain as a Canadian. I feel taken care of by our Government/system.
We introduced the plastic bils in 2011 but the colour thing started decades earlier.
As a Canadian truck driver that spends 30 percent off the time in the US, its always that Americans giving off the ideal they are better, more free, but its not true, Canada is in the top 10, the US is the twenties.
We got our plastic bills in 2011! 😁
Also cash purchases are rounded to nearest 5 cents. Card purchases are exact.
Dont put our money in a microwave! 😂 unless you want to completely fill your entire house with smoke instantly. We got rid of the penny because bolt washers cost like 6 cents and a penny with a hole in it cost 1 cent
The bank looked at us weird the first year pennies finished, when we asked for hundreds of them, as we did the same thing. Too funny.
The Apology Act came into force in Ontario on April 23, 2009. It allows the communication of expressions of sorrow or regret without worrying that the comments can later be used adversely in a civil court.
Its also been in place as a type of law in many different provinces and even a few states have something like it.
Being sorry doesn't mean you did something wrong, its about reaching out to the person as to say "dang that thing sucks, bummer"
Canadian and frequent sorry giver :)
Canada introduced bank notes with a different colour for each denomination in 1937. It prevented counterfeiters from "raising" the value of a note by adding a zero to the denomination of a real note. So no adding a zero to a $5 note (blue) to create a $50 note (orange before '75 and red after '75).
Euro bills are also all different colours, as well as different sizes
@@blanchemoyaert3714 I know. I still have a few Dutch guilder notes from before the Euro was introduced.
I'm not saying Canada was the first to introduce different coloured notes. It also was not the first to introduce polymer notes.
I was just pointing out that Canada had various coloured bills long before it switched to polymer notes and part of the reason why.
@@edwardlongshanks827 It looks like Australia was the first to test it out in 1988 and make it universal by 1996. Why the heck did it take us so long to adopt such a practical switch?
@@dorianlindberg1662 I suspect cost of the switch over and concerns about the actual longevity of the notes.
The very first synthetic fibre banknotes were made and marketed using Tyvek, the same material you see used for house wrap underneath siding on houses. Haiti and a couple of other countries tried it but it didn't work out because the ink would smudge over time and the Tyvek proved to fragile.
Tyler, the guy in the video was saying the exact same thing you were for #9. Americans don't think they are the centre of the universe out of malice, but out of ignorance. We all know this and he was saying the same thing. ❤