Bell was available in Nova Scotia when I lived there. It's also in Ontario. I can't speak for other provinces.
BenVimes
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There are actually three major telecom companies making up 85%+ of the market share: Bell, Rogers, and Telus. Don't be fooled by names like Virgin, Fido, and Koodo, as those are just the "lite" subsidiaries of the three major companies respectively.
For supermarkets there is Loblaws, as you said. But, it's not like Sobeys and Metro are much better, they just keep their robber-baron executives better hidden.
I'm just getting to the end of reading Orconomics, and it had a somewhat novel take on this. Basically, elves live so long that their entire personality can change century over century because they meet, and subsequently outlive, so many new people.
The really quick, really accessible version is the Extra Credits videos, though understand that they simplified a lot of things, and made some mistakes (which they admit to in a follow-up video).
The Great War YouTube channel also covers some of the same ground in an accessible but more rigorous manner, though I don't remember them going over all the "clash of empires" background stuff.
On the far other end, I liked the book The War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan. It's a dense tome, but it's chock full of details.
Same with me and WW1. There are so many more factors to the start of that conflict than the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
My wife is from an Eastern European country, and whenever we visit her folks I have a similar experience. Every single restaurant reeks of smoke, and there is apparently no political appetite to change that.
The Stone Angel.
It's a miserable story about a dying old woman regretting all her life choices. It's also required reading in Canadian high schools because the author is Canadian.
And then, on top of all that, my teacher absolutely insisted that its only major theme was "hope" and docked marks for having any other interpretation.
They also had to cram sensationalist words like "scorching" in there, because apparently the Venn diagram of the WWE and American politics is nearly a circle.
Protip: jump back in the water after you raise the level for the first time.
If that doesn't make sense right now, it will in a few hours.
I'm 188cm (6'2") and grew up in a fairly insular community of Dutch people and their descendants. I thought I was average height until I left that bubble went to university.
This is my read of it as well.
I've spent some time with the first three, so I can give my opinion on those.
The FF1 remake is very different experience than the NES original. That version had a ton of minor bugs that gave that gave it a unique balance. Every subsequent remake, including the pixel remaster, has been an attempt to fix those bugs, and add modem QoL features, and then rebalance the game to try to keep the same feel. I think the pixel remaster is a good game, and comes closer to the feel of the original than some other remakes, but it is still a distinctly different experience. I'd characterize it as a different game wearing the same clothes.
The FF2 remaster, on the other hand, is probably the best way to experience that game. The Famicom original is notoriously unbalanced and player-hostile, but those problems are effectively bypassed by the simple inclusion of two QoL features: a map, and a one-button autobattle. It took decades, but FF2 is finally worth recommending to more than hardcore fans.
The FF3 remaster is in an odd situation, in that this is the first time a close approximation of the Famicom original is officially available outside of Japan. The DS remake from 2006 is a significantly different game, especially in the first couple of hours. I didn't play as much of this one as the other two, but I can't imagine it deviates too much in the later parts of the game. I would guess, though, that the more flexible save mechanics make the notoriously difficult final three dungeons much more manageable, though maybe more prone to soft-locking.