[strommen]

The article compares Canada mostly to Europe. It's also interesting to compare Canada to the U.S., which is "obviously" south of Canada on the map.

- If you start in downtown Detroit and go south, you end up in Canada.

- 13.7M Canadians (1/3 of the population) live in Ontario. Nearly all of these are south of Minneapolis/St. Paul (home to 3.3M Americans).

- 10M more Canadians live further north in Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward. Nearly all of these are south of Seattle/Tacoma (home to 3.6M Americans).

The only major Canadian cities that are strictly north of the contiguous U.S. are Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg. And going back to Europe, all of these are strictly south of Scandinavia.

[FreedomToCreate]

Also to note, Ontario experiences harsh winters because of the lake effect from the Great Lakes, but it is the exact same winter that Boston, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis and Chicago get. Toronto and Buffalo have the same weather essentially.

Vancouver rarely receives any snow, and is very similar to Seattle (there only 2 hours apart).

I was in Toronto last week and the temperature was in the 50s. The East coast of the US has had a colder and harsher winter than most of Canada. With that said last year in February while I was also visiting Toronto, the temperate reached -31.

[stan_rogers]

Buffalo is much, much more wintery in winter. Its a much better match with Sudbury or Sault Ste Marie. (By sheer coincidence, the American channels carried by cable provider Northern Cable, which serviced those areas, were from Buffalo, at least back in the day. It didn't much matter whether you were watching the local weather or Buffalo/Rochester from December to March; the only difference was the timing of precipitation.)