American Reacts to 7 Myths About Canadian Culture 

Growing up in the country we never locked our door. Still to this day I can go to my parents house and just walk in. I live in a city now and it would be stupid of me to not lock my door. It really depends on where you are. Since the majority of Canadians live in cities, the majority would lock their doors.

I never thought American beer was weaker in alcohol but rather weaker in flavour. Which is true. Budweiser is like beer-inspired pond water.

Actually in small town Canada a lot of people don’t lock their doors still. In Churchill Manitoba it is actually illegal to lock your car doors. Also most leave their homes unlocked as well. The reason is to provide escape from polar bears. Also if someone stole your car, they wouldn’t get very far as the only way in or out of Churchill is by plane or train!

As for the door locking in Canada, at least for my friends and family whom I can confirm with, we don't tend to lock doors when we're home, but we do absolutely lock them when we go out or go to bed. And the Michael Moore documentary where he made that claim does show him entering people's homes in Canada unhindered, but the people are home so that seems to follow with my experience.

Getting a gun license in Canada requires taking a course and passing a test, having references that will vouch for you, passing a federal criminal background check, and a waiting period. Probably why our gun crime is so much lower...

We left our doors unlocked growing up and we lived in a mid-sized city. That has slowly changed over the years, but I wouldn't feel completely unsafe if I forgot to lock it while I was out or sleeping.

1. "The Great White North" nickname doesn't help dispel the year-round snow myth, fer sure! 2. I believe it's Quebec City that thinks it's the capital of Canada. The welcome sign says "Bienvenue dans la capitale nationale".......uh, no, you're not. 3. There are more privately-owned guns in the US than there are people. Seriously. 4. Not a beer fan myself, so..........yeah. 5. Very grateful when Miss Canada stopped wearing the red serge in the Miss Universe pageant. Wrong ceremony. 6. Canada may not be ruled by Britain but we definitely have our share of queens. 7. People don't lock their doors in SOME PARTS of Canada. Those parts are usually only accessible by boat or plane.

When we moved to Saint John from Toronto, we walked into our new house and found that someone had been in there before we had arrived. Oh no! The "intruders" had left a new coffee maker and a note welcoming us to the area. I was just a small child at the time, but that set the bar for living in a a friendly place.

One thing about Canada’s winters and Canadians is, that we help each other. We just had a small storm and got a couple of inches of snow. My husband went out to shovel the driveway and a neighbour from two doors away had done it already. He’s in his mid fifties helping the mid 60s out. Before snowploughing was don’t by contract people helped each other do their driveways or you paid a kid. UPDATE, Last evening while my husband was at work our neighbour did the rest of the driveway and widened it! We have to give him a Timmy’s card, as a thank you gift. Timmy’s hearing “ Thank-you, has never tasted so good!”

While camping in BC, in 35 degree weather in August, I met two Americans from Oregon. They heard what the temperature would be and brought parkas & boots with them! Okay, they didn’t know about Celsius (scary) but I give them credit anyway for still wanting to come up here thinking the temperature was 35 Fahrenheit. 🤷‍♀️

Igloos are really just an inuit thing that we (I'm inuit myself) do in the winter for fun, it takes around an hour or two to make them and the snow has to be hard and not really soft otherwise it'll just crumble

In my province there is a town in the north where it is illegal to lock your car doors because the residents may need access it to escape polar bears. That's true. Like others here when I was growing up my parents never locked their door since we lived in a rural area and it was generally agreed that if someone needed to access your house during the winter they could find warmth and shelter from the weather especially if they had car trouble or had gotten stuck in the snow..

Hi Tyler, I grew up in Toronto in the 60’s and 70’s. We never locked our doors during the day, only at night, and we would sometimes forget to do that. However, that changed over the years, people now lock there doors. It is true that in the Michael Moore documentary he goes up to doors randomly in a nice part of downtown Toronto and finds several that are unlocked. He then shouts out hello and someone comes to greet him. These myths start somewhere.

I grew up in a small farm town on the Prairies. We never locked the doors to our house, either on the farm or in town.

Mounties are the police in many towns and cities. While they are our national police force they also are the police in probably most towns and cities in Canada. My Dad was a Mountie and worked in many towns and cities across Canada where the R.C.M.P was the local police.

Rural Ontario town here, we don't lock our door unless we are going away for a night even then we will forget to lock a side door or leave a sliding door unlocked. For my vehicle it depends where I am parking and time of day. In town I wont lock my car doors, and rarely lock my doors when parked at night in the drive way. I don't' have any valuables in the car ever, but do have a bad habit of throwing my keys in the cup holder so I don't need to carry them around with me when grocery shopping.

It really depends on where you live in Canada when it comes to locking doors. Growing up in Cape Breton NS no one locked their doors that I remember. In fact as a kid it was known that if you were in some kind of trouble or had to pee & couldn’t make it home, it was ok to run to another home and to just announce yourself & why you are there. I remember doing so and yelling …”Mrs. Chiasson it’s Heather I have to peeee…” when I was 5 years old. Her house was the first one I’d come to on my way from school and being caught short after “dawdling “ she would just yell back “Ok” & check that I made it alright. Another thing that wasn’t unusual was to be sent to a house to get something when our moms were together at another house. “Doors open just grab ….. off the cupboard or “. I don’t lock my doors accept at night & never have. I do have a couple of dogs however it’s just not something I worry about. My sentiment is if the burglar can find anything in my mess he/she can have it 😂

I have lived in a few places. Some I didn't lock the doors, some I did. Mostly I don't. I find I have had more things put in my house like cake and cookies than taken from it, and in most cases, things taken were just neighbours borrowing stuff that I didn't even notice until they come over with a bag of chocolate chips to replace the one they took .

I grew up on the family farm located near Beulah, Manitoba, Canada and I was taught gun safety from a young age. I was 14 years old when my Dad taught me how to shoot the 22 rifle. There is a fence post on the farm with two bullets in it from that 22 rifle almost an inch apart and in an almost vertical line.

I live in a small town in Ontario Canada and this is somewhat true in rural areas, but there is still less crime than in the cities. A couple of years ago we ordered a Bose system on-line. It arrived and was left on the porch while we were at work, for several hours, and it was there, untouched, when we got home. In Toronto or Vancouver it would have disappeared in a few minutes.

I grew up in rural NS and we never locked our doors, even at night. I think we started locking them around mid 2000's, but obviously, its definitely depends on where you live.

We only lock the door at night. During the day, it's always unlocked - easier for friends to get in after quickly knocking to yell "anyone home?". I'm in suburbia near Ottawa, so maybe people downtown lock the doors during the day though.

I live in small town Ontario (pop.350) , never lock our doors , I don't even have keys for the locks , many times I even leave the keys in the truck . If I lived in a larger community I would lock the doors of the house but only when I wasn't home . I would make sure my vehicle was locked up over night for sure . I'm really enjoying your video's Tyler !!

I grew up in a house, our door was never locked if we were home. We locked up when we had to leave the house. When I moved out and rented a ground level apartment (within a house) I still never got in the habit of locking my door lol. I live in an apartment now and there is no need, that I see. I live in Ottawa

You can get a gun in canada to a degree, most gun owners here though are hunters.

When I went on a 2 week vacation with my family, they lived in a town of about 8,000. But we didn't even key for the lock on the front door. So it sat there totally open for 2 weeks. When we came home our flowers & garden were kept alive as someone came over watered and weeded it. 4 ladies went into the house, cleaned it from top to bottom, including the laundry, washing walls, changing all bedding, ironing, cleaned all the windows, and left a note on the kitchen table saying We hope you had a great vacation along with some fresh picked wild flowers in a Mason jar. P.s. I just love your videos Tyler. We all want you to come visit ! ♥️

Buying a gun in Canada requires you to pass a gun safety test and criminal background check to get a gun license. Once you have a gun license you can walk into any gun store and walk out the same day with your purchase.

If you watch Bowling for Columbine you will see that the "not locking the doors" comes when he tests it out while people are home and finds that indeed the doors are unlocked. Which yes, that's probably the case. In most areas of the country if we are at home we don't lock the doors. When we are gone, we do because the insurance companies won't cover you if your don't. We feel safe around each other generally speaking. Might be different in larger cities.

I grew up in Toronto and right up until the early 90s my dad never locked our doors. His friends would just walk in and shout out for him. At night, the front door would be wide open to the street and we'd have a big box fan blowing air in. I'd never dream of doing that now, even though the neighborhood is pretty safe.

As has already been noted by others we didn't lock our doors or cars when I was growing up in the country - about 2 hours north of Toronto - in the mid-80's. One of the many benefits of living in a community where most people know each other and greet each other in stores or on the street. However now that I have moved to a city and raising a family I always make a point of doing a lock-up routine before retiring for the evening. Keep in mind our door is usually unlocked during the day when we are home.

In my family, we've always locked our doors. I know some who don't (and I saw the scene with Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine where he walked into unlocked houses in Toronto) but I always do, as do my family members.

To be honest Tyler, shamefully as a 50 yr old Canadian The only role that I thought the Queen played in our country was her picture on our bills (money) To address the lock door situation. Growing up until the day I moved out of my home I never owned a set of house keys. We never locked the door and even to this day I still have a habit of not locking my doors.

I’m from Calgary Alberta. Before 2010, there were many occasions that we forgot to lock the door. Also many many times we woke up with our front door garage wide opened. My son even forgot to remove his keys from the keyhole outside of the front door for 2 days until he was looking for his keychain (we rarely use the front door because we get to the house via the garage). However, in 2016, there was a break-in our the garage, they took my son’s laptop that he left in his car inside the garage. Since that incident, we make sure to lock all the doors that have access to the house and make sure the garage door is always closed. No more unlocked doors for our family!! 😢

Depending where you live, in the rural areas, no one locks up. Had made friends in Memphis who came up here, and couldn't believe how we lived, no bars on windows, etc. Or we didn't live in igloos! Love your videos!

As some mentioned, we totally used to leave doors unlocked in the country. Heck, we leaved keys in the car's ignition. Sometimes we'd leave for the week-end and my neighbor would come and borrow some SNES games.

I live in Canada in one of the major cities, i don't often lock my door, i mainly just make sure its locked when i sleep. growing up (in the 80's and 90's) we never locked our doors (i lived in a small town at the time) if i'm just running off to the store or to a friends for the day i probably wont lock my door either.

About the weather... I once went to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (slightly north of the latitude of Anchorage, Alaska) one summer for their Midnight Sun festival. On June 21 it was 25°C (77°F) and gorgeous. No, there isn't snow year-round anywhere. I used to live in the Okanagan Valley of BC (just over the border from central Washington state). I had to move away because the long summers routinely get to 40°C (104°F). WAY too hot. I now live in Victoria, BC where we get maybe a week of snow each winter. We literally have palm trees here. It's never too hot or too cold. 🙂

As a teen in Vancouver I used to do a lot of house sitting for home owners. I remember one job was in downtown Vancouver and the woman who owned the house told me she never locks her doors and she requested I did the same while I looked after the place. I tried it for one night. Sure enough, someone walked in late one night to visit the owner not knowing she was away. The encounter creeped me out and I kept the door locked after that. I live in a suburb of Vancouver now. Our doors are unlocked during the day and we usually don't lock our car.

As a Canadian (from Montreal, Quebec - then Toronto, Ontario) what he debunked here is all absolutely accurate. EDIT: Acually though, we do leave our doors unlocked during the day when we're home. As do many others around here. It really depends on the neighbourhood as well as the adjacent ones. And if we're having a party of any size, that door stays unlocked.

I grew up in a fairly rural area and my family hosted about a dozen exchange students over the years. A few of them have come back to visit us again. One of our returning visitors told us that the first thing she'd said to her parents after arriving the previous summer was "This is just crazy! They've got no locks anywhere except for a bolt on one bathroom door!" and none of them could believe it was for real. Where she lived in southern France (a super-popular tourist region) everyone had multiple locks on their exterior doors and top-end home security systems were very common. On the other hand, two shared houses I lived in had incidents where a door was left unlocked and people walked in and just helped themselves to thousands of bucks' worth of computers/music equipment, etc. And a couple of years ago, one of my teenage neighbours was stabbed to death by would-be thieves who entered through an unlocked door.

In regards to door locking, in some communities some will decide to not lock their doors, I am not one of those. In fact I can't sleep unless I have checked that my door is locked.

When I was a kid we never locked our doors, most people in the neighborhood did not. As an adult I lock my door now because of privacy more than security. I live in an apartment complex and I don't want somebody to accidentally wander into our apartment, I feel this way because I accidentally walk into the apartments on either side of line when I pick the wrong door when I'm not paying attention.

I lock my door. I don’t want anyone to just walk into my house. Not even people I like. Unless I know someone is coming over I keep it locked. Also helps to keep young children inside, I don’t have to worry then when I go to the bathroom the toddler is going to see a deer out the front window and get outside

American author James Michener describes the 'Mounties' maintening order in Alaska during the Gold Rush (before it became a state). Tyler may I suggest the Molson Canadian commercials especially the one with Joe. You will love them, they are very entertaining. Keep up the good work! I too am learning about my country.

I live in the country and growing up we never locked our door, up til about 10 years ago we still never did, we usually even left the keys in the vehicles.

Tyler you are very funny. Love watching your videos, and being from Halifax, NS, I’m learning some things as well. Keep them coming!!

I lived in a small town that you've talked about on this channel. I was actually yelled at by my roommates for locking the door. Stayed for 2 years after that, and never once locked the door. Nobody in the building did either.

So in Manitoba (my province) the town of Churchill had nothing locked because of the polar bears! If you need to get into a car or house due to a polar bear tracking your scent and wanting to eat you, ya gotta have a place to take cover

There’s mounted police officers on very different forces. They are mostly used to search in parks etc. It depends on where you live. In a small town, village or in the countryside. People may not lock their doors if they live in those areas. When we lived on a reserve, we often left our doors unlocked but, our neighbours would keep an eye on things for us. Just as we did for them.

My parents didn't lock their doors since they had 5 daughters and they weren't giving out keys. We didn't even have a bathroom door lock until I was a teenager and my little sister and her friend barged in while I was in the tub. I bought my dad a door lock for father's day. Another totally unknown in the US is the exchange rate in Canada. We here in Canada love shopping in the US but with a 30% exchange rate it hurts. The myth about year round snow can be said about the city of Calgary. It is in the foothills of the Rockie Mountains so they have the distinction of saying they have had a snowfall in every month although rare it has happened. Love your videos

Hey, speaking of maple infused, we have a kick ass maple syrup bacon, from Costco, that you really should try. I thought it sounded gross at first, but I tried it, and I am now hooked. Thinking about it, it makes sense, pancakes, maple syrup, and bacon, go hand in hand! :)

Regarding the different policing entities, the RCMP also police smaller communities that wouldn't be able to afford or staff their own police force. They pay a contract amount to the RCMP. And yes, the OPP and SQ do similar policing duties in smaller communities in Ontario and Quebec. Additionally, the RCMP have many, many specialized sections, not just operational policing and traffic enforcement.

Coldest temperature in my town … the Windchill : -71 Fahrenheit (-51) and warmest: humidex: 112 Fahrenheit (44)

where i have lived except in cities, locking vehicles or houses is uncommon, until recently and then we had a reason to. the major reason and it's common in the US as well, is rural communities function differently from cities and we're more relaxed and reliant on our neighbours. sadly, crime comes to everywhere and usually preceded by umm... not legal addictive substances... there's occasional property theft, because the area i live in is "cottage country", so thieves will hit unoccupied cottages, but in my area most people live here year round. as for guns... it's easier to say we have more of a different attitude towards guns, we view them more as a hunting tool and wildlife protection over anything else. IE we own 6, every single one is for hunting various game, in total i and my hubby have probably owned over a dozen so far. we typically don't brag or use them as much as a personality replacement piece. now cities... they can be as bad as any american city and some are worse than others(looking at you toronto) and that's where the handguns come in. it's a fact a lot of the handguns, which are heavily restricted in canada, are smuggled across a certain border. certain other large magazine gun types are banned outright or heavily restricted as well. vehicle theft is a major issue all across the country and a lot of it is trucks ironically. fyi, i'm going to fire up my sled(snowmobile for you cold adverse types) and going to probably go riding across part of the great lake huron with my hubby this weekend, because yeah... it's freakin cold and it snowed and FUN. love being able to leave directly from my own driveway to do it as well.

I live just outside Toronto and during the day when we're home, we don't lock our doors. But I have friends in the city who were shocked about this. Also, I once rented a cottage in PEI and when I asked the owner how to get the keys, she laughed and said, we don't lock our doors. Just walk in and the keys will be on the counter!

Locking doors: very much a person by person, and neighbourhood thing. I lock for extended absences, I know rural areas don't unlock as often as urban dwellers. I always lock when sleeping at night. I use my locks more to protect the people, not so much the 'stuff' that can be replaced.

I'm a huge Matthew Santoro fan! So glad you reacted to one of his vids! I'd encourage checking out more of his library :)

When living in an apartment or condo I would definitely lock my doors - We currently live in a single family home and we never lock our doors. But having three dogs, 2 terriers and a 150 pound Saint Bernard (that thinks she's a terrier), I believe we are safe from intruders/thieves.

When I was a child and a teenager living in the suburbs, doors, my friends', neighbors' and ours, were never locked during daytime. It was accepted that people you knew very well would knock and come in by themselves. Other people, honest ones of course, would wait for you to open the door. The door was locked only when there was no one home and at night. In my teenage years, when I began to stay up very late, I remember that my parents would lock it before going to bed. But it was more than forthy years ago and times have changed since... 😉😁

Tyler on Canadian Beer: "Maybe it's maple-infused"....OMG...so funny man; I love your humor and comments. You rock!

We usually get our first snow fall on Halloween.. it may not stay but that’s usually when abouts it starts. We had a really good start to the winter this year, it was a nice white Xmas. I remember like 7 years ago we had our first green winter and we didn’t really know what to do lol it was so unusual. I never lock my doors. My sister locks the door whenever she’s here tho. If I were to leave for a few days I prob would just to know that the door doesn’t open and let my cat out.

Most Canadians have never seen a gun in their life. Many of us don't look our doors if we're home. We obviously lock our doors if we're away.

Regarding the locking of doors: when I just moved out from home, I rented a house with 4 other people. If someone was home (which was most of the time) the door was unlocked. Only if no one was home did we lock the door. This was 30 years ago but this is true for a friend of mine even today. If someone is home, the door is not locked. I just walk in when I'm visiting. Only if no one is home do they lock the door.

When I lived in Montreal, I always locked the door, didn't want to have some random person walk in, or possibly have to fight someone out. I have since moved in a quiet village. I lock the doors when I am not home or before I go to bed, mostly as a habit, but have no fear. Our family have always owned firearms, but only for hunting, or even target practice or skeet shooting. There are a lot of spaces up north where you can practice legally. I prefer bow and arrow, it's more intuition.

As a Canadian locksmith I can absolutely say for certain that many many Canadians do leave their doors unlocked. Far far more than you'd think, from small towns all the way to cities. I remember growing up in Toronto and nobody in my family ever locked the front door. We didn't "refuse to lock the door", we just didn't really see it as a threat to not lock the door, and if worst comes to worst and you lose your keys, you can still get inside. Fact is if some lunatic legitimately tries to break in and kill everyone, then they will break the window, unlock the deadbolt from the back or just enter from a window. Lock picking is not something burglers do. Granted the fact that I can still earn a living means that many people do lock their doors, and feel the need to have locks on all their doors. I wouldn't expect the majority to have their doors unlocked, but it's definetly not rare to see that happen. For many people they either don't see the point, or don't think it's all that risky to just leave it unlocked

"Canadian beer is stronger" As I stand in my shed in Hamilton drinking PBR 5.9%

When I was a kid, our doors were only locked when we went on vacation, and that was only because we were going to away for a week or more.

I'm canadian and I don't lock my apartment door 🤷‍♀️

Not sure of other cities but Calgary does have a horseback division. They're not out all the time. But if you're lucky enough you can see a couple of officers on horseback riding downtown. As a matter fact I just saw them two days ago. They're more prevalent during Stampede week

I live in Canada and about guns, personally, I don't even know where to start if I ever wanted one. Certainly, it's not accessible and you'll probably ends up with a hunting gun. I could be wrong.

timmy's used to be good, had an urge for a donut, actually got one from there and it was totally gross, blah...and I only have maple syrup with pancakes thank you

I lived in Montreal for 10 yrs. I own a cat that goes outdoors. Once I was calling my cat and saw his face through one of my neighbour's windows. I call the door and nobody answered and the front door was definitively locked. I didn't know how my cat end up inside their home, so I went to the back door, it was unlocked so I let my cat go out. So yes, front doors are locked in the city, but back doors are not always. I live now in a small town in Ontario, I must say when we are home, we rarely lock the door, and I have forgotten to lock the door multiple times when living the house empty too. Not big deal so far, maybe I'm just lucky.

The Ottawa one gets weirder and involves something most Canadians don't even know. Ottawa is officially the capital, and Parliament is in Ottawa, but the National Capital Region covers both Ottawa in Ontario, and Gatineau in Quebec. So in a sense Canada's capital is in both Ontario and Quebec.

Matt is a great guy. We worked at the same place briefly. Growing uo in southern Ontario, we didn't lock our doors until, probably the late 80's. I don't think my parents ever did.

Tyler, I thought you already learned to say Torronno! 😅

As a Canadian in a northern Ontario town, I do no lock my doors during the day. Ever.

Tim Hortons on every street corner isn't a myth thats actually kind of true

We never used to lock our doors except at night time. And sometimes not even then, it was just a normal thing in a smaller city when I grew up. I remember getting instructions to where a friends house was and then walking into the wrong house as the door was unlocked.

I grew up in Hamilton, Ontairo. My Mum worked until about 6, so I would be home alone after school every day. I didn't have keys until I became an adult and got my own place. When I was very little, grade 1 or 2, we had a sort of pageant thing, where each class did something creative, my class did a dance. The teacher who was MCing asked the parents to get out their keys to make noise and I remember thinking that Mum didn't have any keys because she didn't drive. I had no concept of locking the door to the house and was Very surprised when my Mum pulled out a ring of keys

From Newfoundland, Canada here we have snow from Christmas ( on the rare occasions it starts Halloween), until May 24 weekend. We don't plant our outside garden until after the last frost - fathers day.

I live in Edmonton, Alberta and I was always taught to lock your door when you go out or when going to bed

January 2023 in Nova Scotia featured rain, rain and more rain. It was warmer in Halifax most days than further south in Boston or NYC. Being surrounded by ocean, sea water, makes weather forecasting a challenge.

In rural Nova Scotia Canada many people still don't lock their doors. When I was a kid in the early 80s my grandparents would drive their car into the garage and toss the keys on the dash and never lock the doors. The doors to their house were never locked

I'd say the not locking doors is a mostly true outside of dense cities. I have never locked my doors, nor my entire family. I only know one person who was robbed, and they lived in the middle of nowhere and the thief's used a boat to cross a lake so locked doors probably would not have stopped them. I've always walked right into my friends houses too! Growing up, my grandma would yell at people who knocked "STOP MAKING ALL THAT D*** NOISE AND GET IN HERE!!!" lol. We also had a rifle. where I grew up had lots of small farms and most if not all had rifle for wild animals, though I rarely heard of people using them. Some famers would shoot coyote's. we used ours for vermin (fishers and minks attacked our chickens) and when there was bear sightings we got it out but I never heard anyone of needing to fend of an attack.

As kids my father never locked the doors living in Montreal and Laval (city north of Mtl). And myself often forgets to close my patio-door at night and do not feel unsecure when I do realize it.

I don't lock my door to my house or vehicles, I live in a small town and on more then 1 occaision I've had small kids run right into my house to avoid coyotes and bears, I feed them.offer them a drink call their parents and drive them home. Big cities i'm sure people lock up their stuff but it's a different world over here.

When I grew up I had an uncle who never lock his home... and for our family, that was not a drama to forget it sometimes...

im in the country side and we rarelly lock our doors , if you got a cabin in the forest you're suppose to let it unlock so if somebody get lost he can take refuge

I’m Canadian and I use to not lock my door until someone came in while I was watching TV. It was a drunk lady that was looking for her « cheating » husband lol… I didn’t even know the guy.

We typically refer to the Mounties as RCMP and they use vehicles for day to day work. I live in a small city and lock my doors at night or when out, vehicle locked always. I live close to North Dakota and Minnesota and have exactly the same weather all year long.

11:50. I think that was Paul Gross, in Due South, that gave the impression of the Mounties back in the 90s.

I grew up in the suburbs in a community of about 45,000 in Nova Scotia. I lived home until I was 19 in that time I have NEVER owned a key to the house and the doors were NEVER locked. Our family would go on vacations in summer and the doors were not locked while we were gone I can say the same for most of the kids I grew up with. In those years I do not recall any home ever being broke in to

In the case of a vehicle lock, sometimes leaving it unlocked is cheaper for you. It lets people steal some loose change safely, instead of having a broken window to replace....and missing loose change.

There actually is a street corner in Edmonton that has 3 Timmies. One store and two gas stations. It's also been known to snow every month of the year, just not the same year.

we, also, leave our door unlocked most of the time, locking it when we're out and at night. My parents, also, we used to just walk in.

I only lock my door at night when it’s bed time! Most of the time it’s unlocked unless I am gone for several hours!

In the 70s, living in a city close to Vancouver, BC… we hardly locked our doors during the daytime… usually because everyone’s kids were outside all day long, coming in to go to the washroom & then back outside.

When I was a kid, we didn’t really lock our doors (coincidentally bowling for Columbine was partially filmed in my Canadian city lol). Even today, We lock our doors at night or if we leave the house. But I live in a small city.

I live in thunder bay, ontario, it does not have the best reputation and probably deserves it. However we never used to lock our doors, this was about 18 years ago and half the time we would come home to friends or relatives sitting there having coffee and waiting for us to get home. Never had a problem. I was a true crime buff and really got into it around that time and finally started locking the door at night and when we went out, lol. Plus, and i hate to say this, but watching american news, it was scary. Also, i grew up in a house with guns, my stepfather was a hunter. (Rifles and a crossbow, never hand guns, never knew anyone that owned a hand gun, they are pretty rare in canada). They were never locked up, they were kept in a cupboard and i’ll tell you we knew they were not to be touched. I never would have dreamed of handling one of them in any way, don’t even know how many he had.

Most people in my area don’t lock their doors when they’re home and awake, they lock them at night and when they go out. If I’m just going to the neighbours house for a while I don’t lock my door. Downside, all the houses on my street are nearly identical from the outside, so on several occasions people have just walked in thinking it was a different house.