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by kenned3 2386 days ago
As a Canadian i find these pictures weird.

It seems to imply that women outnumber men yet statistics canada indicates this is not the case?

Lumberjack guy and two women Lone female hockey player Women drinking beer

We dont need to take opportunity to push a political message, sometimes we just have stock photos without careful screening to meet some agenda.

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I think you are reading too much into stock photography. I don't really think they are trying to imply anything other than being a little silly.
Look, bub, they've got ketchup chips, poutine, canadian tuxedos, business meetings about the maple syrup reserve... are you gonna complain about the anatomical inaccuracy of the moose, too?

Otoh...

I'm not really sure why this got posted to HN... it's just a dumb joke. My gf sent me this gallery of butt-shaped mushrooms... are we posting those here now?

edit: come on folks, I'm not posting that here, you know how to search the internet

CIRA's humorous and rather interesting marketing campaign is kind of interesting in the tech sphere, especially to Canadians.
My gf sent me this gallery of butt-shaped mushrooms...

And you're holding out on us???!!??

I'd upvote that. Post it and reap the sweet, sweet HN karma!
Convince .as to buy it and publish it as a stock photo gallery!
Maybe it was just chance, or maybe it was intentional. I'm ok with it regardless.

It's called oversteering. You sometimes do it when you've been on a crash course you're trying to get out of :)

Sounds like you need to have a puppers and simmer down, bud.
Yeah he’s gonna need to take 10-20% off
I've heard the documentary Trailer Park Boys also presents a somewhat distorted view of rural Canadia. Is that true?
Yeah, in my experience, the Red Green show is more accurate