There are entire checkpoints, and the border is a huge ditch anywhere there isnt a checkpoint.

The checkpoints are manned by CBSA and they do have the authority to arrest you and they do stop searches and in the rural areas they literally have nothing better to do.

Good luck driving across the 49th illegally without a really versatile vehicle.

You can solve some of these problems in a very PC way. A box with a check in it that says "interested in dating trans people", that you can uncheck. But to do that... oh... the ramifications!

The house has determined that the house's spending is acceptable. The house will take action to regulate the house's debt ceiling to an appropriate level.

Nothing to see here.

No please don't last time we did that we put the NDP in power.

Even when I went to school in 2000, professors warned me if I ever cited Wikipedia in an essay, I would be penalized.

Wikipedia is great as a citation source - just cite their sources instead. Do not cite Wikipedia - ever. Wikipedia has never claimed to, nor ever will, verify information given by the site internally, and thus, has never been a valid citation.