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Voters in Scotland have turned down independence for now, but separatist movements continue across Europe, possibly threatening to dismantle Spain, France, and Belgium as well as the UK. The next milestone will be an independence vote on Nov. 9 in Catalonia, the region on the northeast coast of Spain which includes Barcelona; separatists are expected to win handily, but the vote is not binding on the Spanish government. Slate has a neat map showing what a completely redrawn Europe would look like, if accommodations were made for all movements that have joined a loose collective called European Free Alliance; a more complete but visually less satisfying map, including EFA holdouts such as Northern Ireland, appears in Wikipedia. The Washington Post has thumbnail descriptions of eight movements.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23 2014, @06:45PM
Poutine is fucking wonderful, and puts our healthcare system to work. ;)
I hear some of those sentiments from (more liberal) Americans fairly often, but that kinda shows that they don't know the state of Canada. We're probably on our way to an economic collapse that will make the USA circa 2008ish look like a minor market correction. We have record amounts of personal debt which is only increasing, our housing market in urban centers is absurd, and because of the way our unemployment rate is measured, we have more people unable to join the workforce than actually represented.
We may have bounced off the bubble a little lighter than everyone else, thanks to our wonderfully mismanaged resource industries, and some financial regulations that our current government is happy to chip away at, but when this one pops, we're in for a bad time.