Canadian Salad
A No-Nonsense Podcast On Culture And Immigration
Canadian Salad
The Great Canadian Summer Catch-Up
🥗 Weeez back, salad lovers! Season 3 of Canadian Salad is here with summer shenanigans, fresh politics, AI gossip, Pride wins & tariff tea. Laugh, learn & snack on culture with Andrea & Hostion — your favourite duo of people-loving nerds. 🎧
Join us as we dish about:
- Summer antics: bunny tattoos, ballroom families, and questionable dental records.
- Politics: Pierre “Little PP” Poilievre’s re-election drama.
- Tech talk: Why Meta hired an anti-DEI influencer to “de-woke” AI (and why humans still have to fix bots).
- Pride & culture: A historic LGBTQ pilgrimage at the Vatican and protests over rainbow crosswalk bans.
- Tariffs: Canada drops most retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.
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I like salad. Do you like salad? Welcome to Canadian Salad.
Speaker 2:A fun, factual and friendly podcast about culture and integration in Canada.
Speaker 1:I'm one of your hosts. I'm Ho-Hsin Ho from China, currently living in unceded territory of Musqueam, squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Speaker 2:And I'm Andrea McCoy, an immigrant from the United States, broadcasting you from the unceded traditional territory of the Lekwungen people, the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations.
Speaker 1:And you're listening to Canadian Salad.
Speaker 2:We're back, we're back season three After a whole summer break, know summer break and you know what apologies to our listeners, because we never said we were taking a break and they were just dead.
Speaker 1:I mean we should not apologize for, you know, protecting our peace and energy indeed, indeed.
Speaker 2:But I did have one listener reach out to me and they were like hey, is the podcast going to still happen? I listened to your last one and I haven't heard any. Was mary smith. Wow, well, mary slash ocean. Thank you, and thank you all the others who were wondering where we went but never even said anything so yeah, tons of people have wondered so many people. Yes, I'm excited to be back. Are you ocean?
Speaker 1:I'm very excited too, yeah me too especially today's episode.
Speaker 2:We're gonna recap the summer yes, recap, not re-crap no, no, no because because we probably had really good summers, but there were people probably had really crappy summers. So you know, and there were some crappy things that happened there's always crappy things there is, yes, exactly, but we take the crap with the no crap yes, exactly there's no downs and no up that's right. That's right. No joy without pain, no sorrow without rejoicing.
Speaker 1:Okay, we won't get that, okay, shakespeare, calm down shakespeare.
Speaker 2:Thank you, thank you very much, thank you for today's episode, for our first episode back, it's just going to be a recap and like who did what over the summer and for people who have been in la la like vacation land. We're back here in canada and we're going to just paint a little picture of what happened across the country I was and I was in ala land.
Speaker 1:I was in la you were.
Speaker 2:I am so glad you made it back safely I know I was scared yeah, I get scared for anyone who says they're going To the United States.
Speaker 1:I know it was a journey.
Speaker 2:It's brutal, but LA was nice.
Speaker 1:LA was okay.
Speaker 2:Was okay Okay.
Speaker 1:What else did?
Speaker 2:you do For the summer.
Speaker 1:I also quit my job. You quit your job, yeah, which is a good thing, don't worry, I really wanted To quit that job anyway. So now I'm happily unemployed, looking for jobs. Anyone, if our listeners any leads, let me know. I would want a remote job, please. Yes, and I make a great house husband too. Ooh, not a sugar daddy which is different than a house, husband, yeah, yeah, yeah, I want a house, husband yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I travel a house, house. But yeah, I travel a bunch. I went to LA, went to Las Vegas, went to Toronto. I dye my hair blonde. People who you know, just listen to my voice. Do I sound blonde?
Speaker 2:ooh if you have an answer, send in an email. Hello at Canadian Salad and be like girl. You sound like a blonde, oh my god, yeah it looks good, it looks good for those who watch our little video clip on our socials. You will see it. It looks really really.
Speaker 1:I tried. What about you, andrea? What did you do this summer?
Speaker 2:this summer I got another tattoo. I got this is number 4 for me. It's of a rabbit in a field of grass and it's super cute, so I did that. And this is number four for me. It's of a rabbit in a field of grass and it's super cute, so I did that I also grew two new cavities.
Speaker 1:You're too sweet, ocean, you're too sweet. That's why.
Speaker 2:That's it. That's why, oh my gosh, like this is two of like 30 that I've had. Let's just say I don't know if I have good genetics for teeth. Why, oh my gosh, like this is two of like 30 that I've had. Let's just say I don't know if I have good genetics for teeth. But yes, I grew two new ones and I have my dentist appointment in a week, so hopefully you know, we'll go.
Speaker 1:Get it sorted out. Get it sorted out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, until my next visit. And then I also celebrated my one year canadian birthday, my, my, my citizenship for one year, yeah congratulations, you're a canadian.
Speaker 1:Thank god you don't have to go back to the states I know, I know which.
Speaker 2:I am not going back for a long time, um, but yes, so there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1:That was my summer good, good, yeah, that's our summer that was our summer.
Speaker 2:What about canada ocean? Exactly outside of us there's a lot of things that will happen in the summer.
Speaker 1:Yes, so we're gonna recrap and recap.
Speaker 2:We're gonna recrap some of the crap that went on. It's true and apologies, we have kids listening in the car and you've had to, like, oh my gosh, get frustrated because you've heard the word crap like seven or eight times already. So our apologies. Yes, we thought we'd do a little recap of, like, maybe, what's happened on the more bigger scene in Canada. So I'll cover a little politics, politics, and I'll start with Pierre Poulliev. Pierre Poulliev yes, maple Jump. Pierre Poliev yes, maple Jump, mr Mr Poliev.
Speaker 2:Mr Mr Poliev, so for folks who don't know, mr Poliev was the conservative speaker for many years. He was reelected in his hometown of Carleton for 20 years and then the election earlier this spring, the federal election he was not reelected in his hometown. I don't know if it was because he told women that they had biological clocks or if it was because he sounded like Trump. It's really hard to say why Carlton was like, yeah, we're kind of done. Long term relationship just had to, you know, be broken up. So, which means that Pierre couldn't be speaker of the Conservative Party more because he didn't have a house seat. Because he didn't have a house seat, and so there was a person in Battle River, crowfoot who was elected as a conservative there and he said you know what, pierre Poulliev, I love you so much, I will give up my seat and you can take my seat on my behalf.
Speaker 2:So Alberta did have their elections, their elections for the Battle River Crowfoot election specifically, my understanding, there was quite a few people running for the same position. I think there was like more than 10 at least that were competing for that position. And, surprise, surprise, more than 10 at least that were, uh, uh, competing for that position. Um, and surprise, surprise, um, he won 80 percent of the town's 110 people. 100, sorry, not 110 people, which would be hilarious can you?
Speaker 2:imagine the town of battle, river Crowfoot is 110,000. He won 80% of that and I believe it was the newspaper the CTV that said that. An overwhelming victory for Poliev Buddy. If you need less than 100,000 people to win an election, I don't necessarily call that an overwhelming victory, especially because you were already voted out of your hometown seat like come on, dude, they have to say that oh my god, they do, I know ego vote yes for pies ego um exactly shockingly.
Speaker 2:Um, now that he's got the microphone again, uh, nothing's really changed. Same rhetoric, uh, still sounds like he's whining all the time. That's how I feel about listening to pierre poliev and his policies, anyway. Um, another thing his wife, lovely lady, she actually wants to write a book. I don't know if you know she speaks at his rallies and at his public speaking events.
Speaker 1:Oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she is like a champion for him.
Speaker 1:I mean she has to, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know. I watch her when she speaks and she seems really impassioned. She seems like she really is, like believing in her husband, which you know, believing in a woman Woman is less.
Speaker 1:You know, believing a woman, woman is less. You know woman is inferior to man.
Speaker 2:That's what she believes yeah, I know with the policies, so it's just surprising it's good for her, but yes, so.
Speaker 2:But what I thought was funny was that she actually wants to write a book, um, about being a, the wife of a political leader this is from CTV News and she wanted to go to Quebec, specifically Griffintown there might be some significance there. But she wanted to have a short-term rental to write her book that had a pool and a gym, and unfortunately she couldn't find a place to rent because the city of Montreal had recently tightened its rules around short-term rentals, which were only permitted from June 10th to September 10th in certain jurisdictions, and so no one can rent anything for less than 30 days. So it's basically to help with, like, the housing crisis. But I thought it was really funny because in the article she was just like yeah, it's just like really hard to get a rental, a short term rental, for me to write my book, and I just want to write my book. And I'm thinking the whole time like welcome to being a Canadian who doesn't live off the taxpayer dollars, lady I know I'm like write a book with this money.
Speaker 1:Use tax dollar money to write a book.
Speaker 2:It's crazy I know you're gonna write about the people, can you know can can relate.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna write about how to be a trophy wife. Are you gonna write about how to sit like a reader next to a pool? Are you gonna talk about how to sit my garita next to a pool? Are we going to talk about how to be a man that tells women that they are the worst thing that happened to humanity? What are we going to write about?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but you know what. I'm glad she experienced a bit of what it was like for just briefly a few months to live like regular people, not off the dime of Canadian taxpayers. So that's my political update. I mean there was, there was some we could go into Trump, which I think you're going to cover tariffs, but that's kind of it on like the Canadian scene that's not too depressing even though that's enough to be depressed.
Speaker 1:It is slightly enough. Yes, I mean, pp is never a fun name to mention in any conversation. No, no, maple trump.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure. Okay, hoshin, what are you gonna tell us and give us an update on for the summer?
Speaker 1:um mainly three, you know uh, areas. One is ai. I mean ai is like the talk of the town like AI is like does your town talk about it? Yeah, my town. Talk about it all the time. Ai is like the new girl that got transferred from somewhere else to your school. You know, you kind of heard of it, yeah, but now finally see in front of you, you know yeah, and she's popular, but people aren't. It's a popular girl.
Speaker 2:Even though she doesn't fully deliver on who she says she is. You know, she kind of like.
Speaker 1:You hear rumors yes, you hear rumors how she's going to be, like she's going to be all kinds of ways. Exactly. Yeah, and then she's like the queen bee of the school. So like now, finally she's here. Yeah, is she going to be the queen C or?
Speaker 2:the queen D you know All right. So what is it about AI, the new girl on the block?
Speaker 1:Well, I just want to make majority, like I shared two news. Like you know, ai is trained by things, like a coach, of course, and then you learn this like get taught yourself right, based on databases. So the more people talk to it, ai learns from answers answers learned from resources and that it had access to like articles and analyze things and summarize things and then, but then, um, meta things. That is current. Yeah, you know, facebook things is current. Ai system has biases, you know, because, even though ai learns from its resources and learns from this user, yes, you think the ai had biases, you know quote-unquote biases which the biases.
Speaker 2:We know what the biases are because of the information it's pulling from. But anyway, go ahead, I won't get into your stuff.
Speaker 1:Things with biases. And then they hire a conservative influencer and anti-DEI agitator, Robbie Starbuck.
Speaker 2:Robbie Starbuck, not to be confused. For the coffee chain, yes, robbie Starbuck.
Speaker 1:Exactly, there's no S. Yes. Okay, tell us about Robbie.
Speaker 2:No S, robbie is the former Hollywood music producer. Exactly, yes, okay, tell us about Robbie no S.
Speaker 1:Robbie is the former like Hollywood music producer, video, like director and then turned like conservative influencer. Is like a you know strong believer of the Republican Party and definitely does not believe DEI as well. In all the public forum, even on his own media platform, had very openly spoke against the ei yeah so when matters that the ai has biases and hire this particular guy to fix the so-called biases, I think we all know what that bias is. He's fixing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly Exactly.
Speaker 1:You're talking about specifically the wokeness in AI, even though AI is like something self-taught, right?
Speaker 2:It is. It learns from all the access. It totally does.
Speaker 1:yes, it learns from all the information and access too. That means all this wokeness in the coding or in the AI system technically is whoever, whatever environment makes ai that way right you want to supposedly make it not that way yes, have you.
Speaker 2:Do you use ai? Do you use chat?
Speaker 1:gpt.
Speaker 2:Okay, I do too, for a lot of like. I bounce off ideas or try to wordsmith stuff sometimes and I will say that, um, she is lovingly trained like she will regurgitate stuff. That is just like oh my gosh, this is like really, really powerful. Not as deep as I would like it to be, but you're right, like the trainer, whoever is interacting with it, um, is going to be the one, you know, influencing what it, what it comes up with, right?
Speaker 1:exactly yeah, and you have people don't know. Actually, ai trainer is a job like. There's a lot of ai out there that are all kinds of people, um, and because a lot of ai also face different languages, there's a lot of different trainer that speaks different languages as well. I'm currently unemployed, so I actually have access to some online freelance jobs and some jobs. I'm currently doing two assignments, specifically training AI in Cantonese.
Speaker 1:So I am training AI as well. My job, literally, is to tell AI some of the answers that it provides whether it's accurate, whether it it's culturally sensitive, whether the tone is correct like yes, ai trained by his trainers, trained by his environment, to kind of correct this kind of so-called wokeness is very um how to say wrong. In many ways, obviously, and almost impossible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's definitely not something that is a good strategy to have, in terms of, like you have to change the whole environment to actually achieve that. Yeah, I just don't think it's a very effective way to like use the resources.
Speaker 2:Right? No, not at all To prevent wokeness.
Speaker 1:This is crazy.
Speaker 2:Right, right.
Speaker 1:If it's woke means people who trained it, or the environment, or that resources ai access to our work in general, and maybe you should keep it that way, because that's that's the world. I don't know why woke isn't becomes like a, you know, do you think nowadays woke has this kind of negativity in it?
Speaker 2:I mean from conservative circles, because it's anti-blackness, like. The whole term woke came from a black singer in the States, like, and because anti-blackness is just rampant in the States, you know, and most parts of the Western world linkedin. Recently someone had attended a uh, the ethics of ai, um or um, and this speaker said um. At the end of her talk she said, quote one day, one day ai will be smarter than us and I want it to love us enough to save us. End quote. Wow, I know I was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Clap, clap, clap, clap so you know what, robbie Starbuck, you can take your little you know wokey robots and you can just say, you know what, like it's not going to happen because there's too many of us that care. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I agree, I agree and I feel like if AI is not woke, or AI keeps giving us like conservative ideas, most of us is not going to use it, not going to use it.
Speaker 2:Not going to use it. No, for sure, for sure, absolutely not. We know how to recognize it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's not giving us what we wanted. So, girl, this is not going to work.
Speaker 2:No, it's not, you need to go to another high school, new neighborhood. Find some friends, maybe a toothbrush.
Speaker 1:Go to another school.
Speaker 2:Automatic toothbrushes. Let me tell you, I got an automatic toothbrush because of these cavities and you know what it does. It smiles at me when I brush long enough. Ai needs to join the toothbrush. Pilgrimage and just embrace, smiling at people who are practicing good hygiene. Oh my god.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's my encouragement I hope it's that simple, yes, yes. The second kind of AI related news I want to share is quite funny actually, also kind of. You know, as I alerted to, that I'm actually also working as an AI trainer, and then part of an AI trainer job is to fix AI's work. So humans are being hired Robbie.
Speaker 2:are you listening? Hello, are you listening?
Speaker 1:Hello, are you listening? You have to fix. Ai's work, oh my gosh, it's really funny, like I suppose, if you want to use this news piece from NBC like there's like professionals who, can you know, do photo shops are hired to fix some time some AI's work. Because you know people can go to AI and ask AI to generate a photo for them and then this photo can be sometimes the lines are not right or it looks weird, and then they have to get humans to fix it.
Speaker 2:I love it. I love it. Robbie, we ain't going anywhere and you and your, you and your AI stuff can just, you know, suck an egg and yeah as an ai, as also an air trainer, as I mentioned.
Speaker 1:Like sometimes we also have to fix ai's work, in the sense that some of the tones are completely wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe the information is correct, like I asked for certain things, and it gives me exactly what I wanted but, then the tone is wrong, or like yeah it does not fit the local culture, local kind of sure, for sure um idea what is right or wrong, and it's really funny. So like ai's work is still not 100 in any way, and it's so dependent upon humans.
Speaker 2:My son, um, really got into chess this year and so they, my husband and son.
Speaker 2:They decided to play chat gpt chess and chat gpt. All it does is it takes it. It takes moves that are made, but it doesn't know strategy. It doesn't know how to do strategy. So then it was doing all these illegal moves where, like, the knight would go in a vertical line or the rook would be doing, you know, jumping from square to square. It was hilarious because it just it just goes to show that, like, as much as we're using ai, we are are still fully 1,000% creating it and humans can't go away, because AI will. Honestly, it will fall apart on its own.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Without us, AI won't be there.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:But anyway there's, AI.
Speaker 2:Okay, what's your other update?
Speaker 1:Well, pride, for example Pride in summer. Yay, I love Pride, obviously I had a really busy pride got broken. Busy this girl. This girl right here shaking his ass, multiple events and get some money because, again, she's unemployed.
Speaker 1:So she had to take those gigs yeah um, but there's also like other things, uh, happen in pride. You know that's bad, way better than me shaking ass. For example. There's also like other things Happen in pride. That's way better than me shaking ass. For example, there's a historic Just kidding, historic LGBTQ pilgrimage Gathering At the Vatican Really, first ever. What, wow, imagine the gays and the fatigues.
Speaker 2:I can actually. I know a lot of people. I don't know a lot of people, sorry. I meet and I hear queer influencers, trans influencers, who have like a very deep religious, who have like a very deep religious spiritual faith, even within some of these more conservative expressions like Catholicism and Christianity. And it's amazing that for them and their journey, that that's something they still hold on to and want to change.
Speaker 1:But the thing is like yeah, I think there is a lot of queer people have like deep faith in Christianity, but then this event is very like it's a historic, because it's the first time there's like queer pilgrimage that's invited to attend, like an event in the Vatican. That is, they were there to take part in the Vatican's Jubilee year celebration, so they were invited to be there.
Speaker 2:it's first ever it's amazing you know, pope Leo yeah, thank you Leo. I know, leo, you're so woke. Thank you for being woke, yeah.
Speaker 1:Robbie will hate that yeah, robbie, robbie. Robbie. But yeah, it's like first is kind, so like it definitely sends a message. Um, yeah, many people definitely sees the vatican, the church definitely opening up and including people who are usually neglected across the world, even though the doctrine has not changed. No doctrine has been changed, anything, anything but this message is very welcomed and loved.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I'm not a religious person, but also can feel the joy within this new. I feel like many, many queer questions. Maybe screaming and finger clapping, and yes, yes, queen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wonder if they put beads on the pope. That would be amazing. I would love that if they did that I haven't looked at the pictures. But that's, that's beautiful, I mean yeah any any small, any kind of event like this or any kind of gesture. Invitation is something that you know and unfortunately it is like just a dangling carrot, but at least someone felt like they needed to do this and did it.
Speaker 1:The pope did that, so you know we, we begin leo is american leo is.
Speaker 2:Isn't he peruvian? Though too? Like half I thought he's american.
Speaker 1:I know he's a man, he's he's born in america, but I think he's american. I know he's american, he's, he's born in america, but I think he, he, yeah, I think he's south american anyway, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know either. But thank you, leo, thank you leo, thank you leo yeah robbie, make an appointment with leo the end. Yeah, also, leo doesn't like you know, trump, which is good.
Speaker 2:That is good, that is.
Speaker 1:Yes, and the second news I want to share about Pride Is there's a lot of I don't know whether you know Florida Banned Rainbow crosswalk, which is crazy. They're afraid of rainbow, and then it was Florida's Florida's Transportation department or something, because it's not safe. That's what they said, which is crazy.
Speaker 2:Okay. Well then, anytime there's a rainbow in the sky, call a national emergency for a weather alert, because there's a rainbow in the sky. Come on, it's so absurd, it's so absurd.
Speaker 1:But of course protesters like is pushed against it because they think it's crazy. Protester literally saying was like rainbow really. But of course protesters are pushed against it because they think it's crazy. It is Protesters literally saying like rainbow, really, you're going to ban a rainbow. I know how is a rainbow going to hurt anyone.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh yes.
Speaker 1:Of course rainbow is like a symbol for queer rights and everything, so that's why Florida want to ban it. But for many people this is such a ridiculous because you first, you use the excuse of safety to ban it. That is like, are you out of your mind and second, like you're agenda to kind of diminish gay rights is not gonna work only by banning rainbow with with our rainbow cause, while gay specifics would still exist.
Speaker 1:You know um exactly like, like millennia ago, you know we always have, uh, queerness that always exists in humanity and before rainbow was. You know the word rainbow, ever even you know was created.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so this kind of effort is just very ridiculous and funny funny petty yeah and it just goes to show how much of a slurry type of a world people who are trying to ban people's identities, their expressions, the beauty of who they are. It just goes to show like you really want a gray slurry, sludgy, kind of like oatmeal paste world. I mean, why Like this is so boring?
Speaker 1:It is so boring. Oh my God, it's just rainbow.
Speaker 2:Exactly, I know Exactly Well, good job protesters. Oh my God, it's just rainbow. Exactly, I know Exactly Well. Good job protesters. And good job, I mean, did you know if they actually painted over it?
Speaker 1:Well, there's protesters. Yeah, they paint a rainbow crosswalk. They used chalk to where the original when some of the Rainbow Crosswalk were, but some people got arrested because of that, because of the ban, right, but again, I don't think it's going anywhere. You can do whatever. You try to ban Rainbow but the gays are going to be there.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. You're on the wrong side of history Florida. That's right. That's right, absolutely Preach.
Speaker 1:I think it's probably just too hot there and people are going to get a heat stroke or something to ban the rainbow. That's crazy.
Speaker 2:You know, Florida is a very interesting state. If you just look up News Florida, there's some very interesting stories that come out.
Speaker 1:Tariffs, tariffs Not so depressing I don't know if that's lifting anyone up, I guess a little bit because Canada drops a lot of its retaliatory tariffs on the US in August. That means you know less tariffs to the US goods than some of the goods that you know US goods in Canada will be. You know less expensive.
Speaker 2:So it's good news for us.
Speaker 1:I guess, but but US still, like, had really a lot of tariffs, yeah, against us, against Canadian products, yeah. So maybe not as a great for Canadian businesses, but no, it's not, it's good for us before.
Speaker 2:It is yeah Us buying US products.
Speaker 1:I guess, right, cheaper, cheaper, yeah, are you boycotting us products? Yeah, and the government I mean, yeah, the government also, you know, trying to like buy canada, right, buy canadian product um, for the most part, there's a.
Speaker 2:There's a the pipeline that's going to be put up in uh here in bc. Um, a major funder of that pipeline is a Trump supporter billionaire.
Speaker 1:But anyway, I know.
Speaker 2:I know so, but I refuse to buy United States grapes.
Speaker 1:I also, when I buy, go to the store. I also always will go to Canadian product if I can.
Speaker 2:Me too, if I can. Or I'm like oh wow, bananas from Ecuador. Or oh my gosh, canada makes its own milk. Me too, if I can. Or I'm like oh wow, bananas from Ecuador. Or oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Canada makes its own milk. I mean, yeah it does make its own milk. I mean, it makes its own milk, yeah, and we have like high dairy tariffs actually to like our dairies are protected here, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even I try not to shopping on etsy. Or if I do, I try to avoid amazon as much as I can. But if I'm shopping on etsy I go to etsy canada and I see where it's shipping, like where the artist is. If it's in the states, I won't. Because the other thing too recently I had friends send me some like birthday gifts. Um, thank you, friends who sent them anyway, but I had to pay a huge amount of um a tax just to receive it. I paid $60 just to receive a birthday gift.
Speaker 1:And I was like this is the I don't, yeah?
Speaker 2:well, it's the it's not the tariffs, it's the. What do you call it? It's the import fee or I don't know. There's something that the US Canada to receive anything from the States, depending on how it's mailed you have to pay extra.
Speaker 1:Not anymore, so now I just you should just drive to the States and receive it there.
Speaker 2:Right Now I stitch, I sew my own underwear. I, you know, I make my shoes out of potato skins, because Only now.
Speaker 1:I mean, I have been making my own underwear for eons, have you? Oh, wow, yeah.
Speaker 2:I wish you should exchange some patterns.
Speaker 1:I'm sure there's some pretty patterns that you've got going on. Yeah, I do Bananas, you know Bananas.
Speaker 2:Eggplant Anyway.
Speaker 1:And peaches.
Speaker 2:And peaches Amazing.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Anyway, that's our recap and recap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, our recap and recap of what happened in Canada, the world a bit, but this season I'm excited, hoshin, I think we're going to I don't know we're going to explore some other things, some, yeah, I mean, we're going to continue being the salad, but we've got some fun surprises and treats for you all. So, if you're new to us, thank you so much for checking us out. You're amazing and we love you. Um, do check us out on Instagram. We are also on Tik TOK and we have a website, canadian saladca. Um, and you can drop us notes and this message what you think of the episode. If you have any job. Uh, send us a message what you think of the episode, if you have any job. Uh, links for hoshin because he's looking for a job.
Speaker 2:You can send them at hello canadian saladca remote, please do he's good at stitching underwear, so remember that when you're looking I can sew.
Speaker 1:Yes, he can sew.
Speaker 2:I can cook, I can clean oh, this is why he's the house husband I'm for ray house husband yes, yeah I need to have you over oh my god, please do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uh rate can be discussed. Ray, can I got a honey?
Speaker 2:do list. I do, I have a honey, um, so yeah, so check us out and please follow us. Every tuesday, we drop a brand new episode, um, and so we're going to end our episode the way that we normally do with a drum roll, please. Yeah, canadian salad quiz, a quiz, a quiz that a both of us ask each other questions to answer based on the topic of our episode.
Speaker 1:So, yes, Of course it's about summer events.
Speaker 2:Summer, it's true, yeah.
Speaker 1:Exactly, so I can go first if you don't mind.
Speaker 2:Okay, please go first.
Speaker 1:Do you know? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Maybe We'll see.
Speaker 1:How many years are we celebrating for Canada's legalization of gay marriage? This year in the summer.
Speaker 2:I know this, I think 10.
Speaker 1:10? No Give me one. Give you one more answer.
Speaker 2:Is it 20?
Speaker 1:Yeah, ding, ding, ding ding. Yay, okay, yes, so it was 2005.
Speaker 2:Five yes In 2015. Okay, okay, that's 2005.
Speaker 1:Five yes In 2015.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, that's right Okay.
Speaker 1:Yay, canada is the third country to legalize gay marriage in the world.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. So this summer was the yeah, July 20th 2025.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, that's beautiful 20 years anniversary.
Speaker 2:Yay, happy birthday, canada Happy birthday, happy birthday happy, well, happy birthday. Gay marriage gay marriage in canada. Yes, in canada. Yes, absolutely, that's awesome. That's awesome. I did not know that. Okay, my question to you is this is somewhat summery, um, summer-ish I mean not summery like I'm going to summarize something, but some summer-ish. How many new citizens Citizens are there now in Canada from April 1st to July 31st of this year? What?
Speaker 1:How many new citizens? Impossible.
Speaker 2:Guess 15,000. Okay, one more guess. You can go higher 30,000. All right. Is that your final answer?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:According to Stats Canada, Canada welcomed 86,400 new citizens from April 1st to. July 31st. Yes, sir 86,000.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, 86,000.
Speaker 2:And permanent residencies were granted. And permanent residencies were granted. There were 246,300 new permanent residents from January to. July of this year, which we do love Absolutely. Keep them coming. Let's counter this anti-immigrant rhetoric and recognize that we all make this country wonderful and we are the big old canadian salad and you can't have a salad without anything else like just a bowl of tomatoes is lame. A bowl of lettuce, a bowl of corn?
Speaker 1:yeah, you know you need other things we do and we have other things, which is the invite them in that's's right.
Speaker 2:That's right. Vitamins you put vitamins in your Invite them in. Invite them. In Invite the ingredients. Yes, 266,000 new ingredients to this country and 86,000 new permanent ingredients.
Speaker 1:No, it is because citizens Now do they become bowls?
Speaker 2:do they become like the fork that you use?
Speaker 1:no, I think they become like if they become citizens and they are, like you know, like aged oh, like a fine blue cheese yeah love, love or like a candy pecan yeah like a marinated a marinated piece of chicken.
Speaker 2:Oh, we love you all, so that's our episode. Thanks so much for listening, um. Be sure to follow us um on all our social medias and listen for a new episode every tuesday. Thank you so much. We love you. We're gonna get through this year together, okay.
Speaker 1:Yes, we will See you next time. Bye, bye.
Speaker 2:Canadian Salad is written and produced in British Columbia, canada, by Hoshin Ho and Andrea McCoy. Theme music is by Navur Avityan from Pixabay.
Speaker 1:This has been a good janklin production.
