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If You Go Down to the Woods Today...
SteynonLine ^ | August 11, 2025 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/11/2025 6:41:27 AM PDT by Twotone

The "fifteen-minute cities" are already shrinking. The governments of both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have banned walking in the woods province-wide:

Jeff Evely @JeffEvely got a $28,872 dollar fine for going into the woods in Nova Scotia. FOR GOING INTO THE WOODS! Canada is broken. pic.twitter.com/eOkBa5Cttv — Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) August 9, 2025

This would appear to be in breach of Henry III's Charter of the Forest. But then at the dawn of the thirteenth century your average horny-handed peasant was not so in awe of government experts that he presumed they had the right to prevent him taking a stroll. As the popular idiom has it: You can't see the wood. Period.

This is supposedly because a perambulating Nova Scotian would risk setting the trees on fire.

On the other hand, if you intentionally set Canada alight...:

Saskatchewan volunteer firefighter who set 30 fires in a month sentenced for arson Logan Sieben sentenced to 18 months of probation, 200 hours of community service

So twenty-eight grand versus two hundred hours of community service. As it goes metaphorically in the rest of the west, so it goes literally in Canada: the logic of the justice system is that you might as well burn it all down.

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; europe; forest; forestfires; marksteyn; newbrunswick; northerncuba; novascotia; snownazis

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1 posted on 08/11/2025 6:41:28 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Setting 30 fires by a firefighter has a sentence of 18 months probation and 200 hours of community service. 18 times to walk in all chummy with the PO, and 3 hours of volunteer work at a food pantry. Walk in the woods - $28,000. bucks. I’m guessing the firefighter was a stud and the judge was sweet on him.


2 posted on 08/11/2025 6:47:05 AM PDT by healy61
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To: Twotone

Bkmk


3 posted on 08/11/2025 6:47:05 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Twotone

Canadians are retards. Trump is right, we need nothing they offer.


4 posted on 08/11/2025 6:47:12 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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To: healy61

“I’m guessing the firefighter was a stud and the judge was sweet on him.”

They DEFINITELY do have that weakness.


5 posted on 08/11/2025 6:57:01 AM PDT by BobL (If you're over 50 and still eat carbs, expect to become diabetic)
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To: Twotone
Even though Canada's Maritime Provinces are overwhelmingly white (Nova Scotia: 85% white; New Brunswick: 90% white, per the 2021 Canadian census), politics have a leftist slant. The Progressive Conservative Party would make Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney seem like super-MAGA. The Liberal Party is similar to the Obama-Biden Democratic Party.
6 posted on 08/11/2025 7:06:36 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: spincaster

we just went to Niagara, New York Side. I refused to go to Canada, much to hubby’s amusement. Eff ‘em.


7 posted on 08/11/2025 7:13:49 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
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To: Twotone

Rage-bait.


8 posted on 08/11/2025 7:32:00 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: ronniesgal

Stand with your toes near the US-Canada line and pee across it.....well, the men can do that lol


9 posted on 08/11/2025 7:43:02 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: Twotone

Canadians can’t see the forest for the lefties.


10 posted on 08/11/2025 8:21:51 AM PDT by unlearner (I'm tired of being not tired of winning.)
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To: Twotone

Draconian fines for even walking in the woods will scare people off from collecting deadfall for their fireplaces and stoves. Letting fuel accumulate on the forest floor: Hello massive forest fires. What sort of short-sighted idiots determined this policy?


11 posted on 08/11/2025 8:22:30 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Twotone

Perhaps the cold winters have addled their brains


12 posted on 08/11/2025 9:27:26 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: Twotone

If You Go Down to the Woods Today.
Your sure in for a big surprise.
...
Because that’s the day the Teddy bears have their picnic.


13 posted on 08/11/2025 10:11:53 AM PDT by Revel
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To: Twotone

Here in the US, I go into the forest armed. At age 72, I will not submit to the government demands or fines. Even $100 fine is excessive. I am a citizen, I OWN THE LAND, the people own that land. How about unaliving the homeless and others setting the fires?


14 posted on 08/11/2025 11:31:39 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: Twotone
If You Go Down to the Woods Today...

...you'd better not go alone.
Don't go down to the woods today -
it's safer to stay at home.

For every bear that ever there was,
are gathered there together because,
today's the day
the teddy bears have
their picnic!

15 posted on 08/11/2025 2:52:29 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Revel

WMTA!


16 posted on 08/11/2025 2:53:25 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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