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🇨🇦 Welcome to Ask Canada

A place to ask real questions about Canadian culture, politics, history, geography, daily life, and everything in between.

If you’re curious about how this country works or want a Canadian perspective, you’re in the right place.

🎤 What You Can Post

Questions about Canada or Canadians
“How does this work?” and “Why is this a thing?”
Personal experiences, regional differences, and local knowledge
Serious questions, practical questions, weird questions
Light debate and thoughtful discussion

If you want Canadians to explain something ask it here.

🧭 Community Values

Discussion > Upvotes
We care about real conversation, not empty karma.

Respectful disagreement
Argue ideas, not people.

No partisan flamewars
Analysis, not tribalism.

Curiosity first
If someone asks a “basic” question, help them.

🛑 Not Allowed

Hate, harassment, racism
Spam
Low-effort troll questions
Nationalist / culture-war bait
Off-topic politics not tied to Canada

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

2 users / day
21 users / week
44 users / month
278 users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
95 subscribers
14 Posts
115 Comments
Modlog

Lemmy.ca

A Canadian-run community, geared towards Canadians, but all are welcome!

Welcome 🍁

Lemmy.ca is run by Canadians, hosted in Canada, and geared toward Canadians. However, it is not restricted to Canadians, or Canadian culture/topics/etc. All are welcome!

To learn more about what Lemmy is, or how the Fediverse works, you can visit our simple Getting Started Guide.

This site is run by the non-profit Fedecan and funded entirely by user donations. You can help support us by visiting our donations page.

Rules and Guidelines

1. No Bigotry

Including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

2. Be Civil

Argue in good faith, attack the argument; not the person, and promote a healthy debate. That includes implying violence, threats or wishes of violence and/or death.

3. No Porn

This instance is not made to host porn communities. You’re free to access porn communities on other instances through your account, but be mindful of Rule 4.

4. Use the NSFW tag

Use your common sense: if you wouldn’t want this image to show up on your work computer, tag it as such. In comments, use the :::spoiler ::: tag for NSFW images, and put a NSFW mention beside links. Do not use NSFW images as your avatar or banner.

5. No Ads / Spam

This instance is not there to act as your billboard. If you want to promote your personal work, at least make the effort to be a contributing member of this community. Your account purpose shouldn’t be to only advertise, make it natural.

6. Bot account

If you are the operator of a “bot” account, make sure to flag is as such in the account’s settings.

7. Right to privacy

Do NOT distribute the personal information of someone else without their consent (aka doxxing). Information that is public domain can be shared, provided it is in good faith.
ex: The official email of an elected official is fair, the private phone number or the real name of a non-public person is NOT.

8. Report abuse

The report function isn’t labelled the disagree button. You might not agree with someone, but that doesn’t mean what the person says is against the rules. Using it repeately in this fashion will lead to actions being taken against the reporter.

9. Impersonation

Don’t make an account with the intent to negatively deceive or defame someone on the fediverse.
ex: Parody of a famous person is okay, submitting outrageous content as appearing like another user, mod or admin isn’t.

Contact an Admin:

Send us a message at @admin@lemmy.ca
Send us an email at support@lemmy.ca

Guides:

You can find more guides at fedecan.ca by opening the sidebar.

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!main: announcements & general discussion
!lemmy_ca_support: support requests
!communityrequests: become a mod of an existing community

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