Also for the record if you live in Canada, I absolutely recommend having three peak rated tires. You choose to live in Canada, you better act like it 🫵

I have also massively overestimated the cost.

So turns out I actually was incorrect in my original post. They are the same thing, at least as far as Quebec is concerned.

Here in the US, we do not regulate tires that way, we do not use the term "winter tires" incorrectly and that may account for the difference.

So instead the poor can spend the extra maybe 20 or so dollars for all season tires that comply with regulations, since they need to replace tires anyway.

This is good because winter tires are expensive. Usually about $200-$300 each, and you need one for each drive wheel (two on most vehicles, 4 on mine) and that would be out of reach for a lot of poor Canadians.

Quebec's regulations require a tire meet certain standards of softness at certain low temperatures and a certain standard of grip on snow, which can be complied with by any well designed all season tire.

A true winter tire looks like this, and has these features (though they usually also include tungsten studs to improve grip on ice)

Part of the miscommunication is that Quebec uses the term "winter tires" incorrectly. (Reasonably, but still incorrectly)

I decided to check, my tires are actually compliant with Quebec's winter tire laws, despite not being winter tires, they're all terrain, and I can confirm that they are excellent on snow and ice.

Sorry bluesky's picture thing is being a fuckass again, here, try this.

I should also point out that Quebec law doesn't require "winter tires" in the way you might think. It requires ice and snow rated tires (ones with this symbol), which you see on just about any all season tires these days.

Tire compounds are one of those things that have advanced a LOT in recent decades, and new tires are far better at staying soft in the cold than older compounds, so I would argue that in the vast majority of the US, winter tires just isn't necessary.

It hints at not just her personality and inner struggle, but also the issues that exist more broadly concerning the social dynamics between matriarchal chune society, and patriarchal human society.

I can't let her be too happy. :) That just wouldn't fit the tone.

No, the city was dirty, the services underfunded, and the humans were FAR more racist than she could ever imagine.

At least now she can take a streetcar instead of driving places. She does still get herself a truck, though, even though by the time she moves, she isn't doing trucking work anymore.

Oh, and unlike the long hair dream, she actually does get to move to the big city, so that is one dream accomplished. While there, she finds a husband, a boyfriend, a girlfriend, and a very unplatonic bestie.