They wanted to prevent Canada from signing any trade deals with anyone else (i.e. giving US a veto over deals)

-20°C or more winters

largely/generally this is how it's done for NAFTA visas

you can renew the same permit without, but you can't go from one type of permit to another (student to working prof in my case) without flagpoling; you also can't go from a visa to a permit without flagpoling

it's a great last line; when trying to explain something to someone it behooves someone to ask a follow-up so they can clarify anything not yet answered.

Thanks for the tip! I will immediately try this line in my next professional e-mail. I am sure they will appreciate my courtesy.

Political violence created and has sustained democracy, democracy is what happens when the violence fails and violence is what happens when the democracy fails.

This seems like fantastic fantasy or fanfic, but unless you have a citation or some actual names, I think I'll put it down to fiction

I am an archivist; please don't use flash drives because they lose data to the air; use hard disk drives.

Brazil and South Korea offer two relatively recent examples

I mean, the CEO of bsky used skeet unironically in interviews so I'd say it's a-ok