Someone must be a complete idiot and/or know nothing about today's NHL Hockey that it is dominated by foreign hockey players playing, being stars and fan favorites on any NHL hockey team especially the two teams in the current Stanley Cup for Florida Panthers & Las Vegas Golden Knights.
What dumbass doesn't understand the statistics of the Nationality of the players in the NHL ???
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Further, any serious NHL Hockey fan would know that traditionally Canadian Hockey players at...collegiate level...most would attend college in the United States on scholarship after heavy recruiting from American universities.
Yet, that trend is slowly changing due to the horrible political environment in the United States since President Trump's years...
Canadians are choosing to play hockey at Canadian universities
prior to being drafted into to an NHL Hockey team...a trend change of a whopping 57%.
With that said, as a citizen of both countries and a proud veteran of the United States Armed Forces...the Canadians not only historically supported the Americans during war or peacekeeping missions...
The Canadians better managed their resources while suffering more friendly-fire casualties from from the Americans than vice versa.
As for
Air Quality...the air that we breathe...
The United States is ranked 99th in polluting its air while Canada is ranked 111th (cleaner air) even though...currently...the United States is getting a big dose wildfire smoke from Canada into many of the U.S. northern cities, especially on the east coast.
Ironically, most of the current wildfire smoke going to the U.S...its from provinces that tend to vote
not liberal.
Why is Canada burning?
Warm and dry conditions are like kindling for wildfires. Much of Canada, like the rest of North America, has experienced record heat and drought recently as climate change continues to warm the planet.
"The fires season is also lasting longer now because of climate change. Spring is coming weeks earlier and fall is coming weeks later. More time for the fires and grasslands to burn," Edward Struzik, a fellow at Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen's University in Canada and author of "Dark Days at Noon, The Future of Fire" told CBS News.
In 2021, Canada experienced its hottest day ever when Lytton, British Columbia hit 49.6 degrees Celsius, 121 degrees Fahrenheit, smashing the previous record of 113 degrees. It tied California's Death Valley as the hottest place in North America that day.
In the Canadian prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba — where fires now rage — drought has hit particularly hard. According to the Canada Drought Monitor, all 10 provinces are experiencing abnormal dryness, moderate or severe drought.
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