To many Americans, Canada might appear to be a parallel universe: a land of courteous people who generally speak English yet do not hold American citizenship—a country that is both close and far away. Others remember Canada as the country that invaded the United States in 1812 and burned down the White House (despite the fact that Canada did not exist at the time, and the British bear sole responsibility for the attack on Washington, DC). However, approximately 800,000 US citizens call Canada home. Cities such as Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, and Edmonton, as well as other parts of the country near the US border, have large numbers of US expats. Taxpayers in Canada must pay both federal and provincial (or territorial) taxes, much as citizens of the United States do to the IRS and state governments. The primary distinction is that most Canadian provinces (with the exception of Quebec) do not need the filing of a separate return; the federal government collects provincial. Because o...
OMG, like in "Factory Time," Tom Wayman and Chandin's dad are totally obsessed with every little detail and the whole vibe of their work time. It's cray cray! Here, tho, religion is also lowkey at stake in the financial predicament. OMG, like this reverend from the "Shivering Northern Wetlands" in England totally adopts Chandin into his seminary. And guess what? Word spreads like wildfire that Chandin's parents have legit converted to Christianity just so the adoption can happen. Crazy, right? Like, this one person in the village is all like, "If it's the only way for your child to get education and not have to work like a horse, sweating and breaking back in the hot sun for hardly anything, wouldn't you convert?" (28). Converting to Christianity is, like, a way for peeps of Indian descent to lowkey ditch their racialization and the whole struggle with money and time It's a pretty tempting choice for Chandin's parents, and ...