The Super Dooper Canadian Thread (now with 47% more Canadian Bacon)

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Gusto said:
Pick a weekend and I'll definitely try to get it off. My job right now is kinda spotty but damnit I'll try. :)
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I know that feeling. I've been having technical difficulties for like two weeks now that have made it impossible for me to do my job, and my contract is coming to an end soon. So for the next little bit I'm haulin' ass, and I don't even know if I have a job come July or not.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Vrii said:
I'm a bit south of downtown Brampton, not too far off from Mississauga. Toronto is generally pretty doable for me as well!
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You may actually be fairly close by. :confused: I'm in Malton.

I strongly suggest that either we venture into Brampton, or we go all out and head to Toronto, because there aren't any bars or anything anywhere near me (There are two strip joints though. I found them while walking around looking for somewhere to watch game 5 of the playoffs)
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AAAAAAAUGH I wanna know!
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2012/06/14/wdr-mary-spencer-boxing-decision.html?cmp=rss
Let her box, dammit. I don't give a crap about any of the events in the summer Olympics, but let this woman box and I'll watch every one of her matches.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

You fly into Halifax do the Dalhousie install then drive to 2.5 hours to Moncton, past the plains of howling winds, through the pass of confounded stupidity, over the towering marshes before arriving at the village of morons.
 
Made Ya Blush

Made Ya Blush

checkeredhat said:
Toronto is a mere $3 and like 20min away from me. Give me a heads up and I'm absolutely down.
Provided it's not the same weekend I have to go to my friend's dumb wedding.
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I'm around, but crazy busy between work, and exams coming up for school. I am hitting up a karaoke bar tonight with some friends etc. The more the merrier. If you want to come out send me a pm and I'll give you my info etc...
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

If I were in better shape, I would honestly consider it.

Right now, I can't even bike up the hill from downtown Fredericton.

Then again, that's a really steep flipping climb.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I seem to be the only one who's been following this story, nonetheless, I had to post this:
Canadian boxer Mary Spencer has earned a wildcard to box at the London 2012 Olympics, reports say.
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http://www.thestar.com/sports/londo...given-wildcard-to-box-at-olympics-reports-say

After a month of waiting and uncertainty, Canadian boxer Mary Spencer was given a second chance on Monday to compete at the Olympics, winning a wildcard spot at the Games in London following an extended round of deliberation from an international panel.
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http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012...mary-spencer-will-get-to-compete-at-olympics/

For her own part, Spencer has spent the past four weeks preparing for the Games, despite the uncertainty that surrounded her own participation.
"I'm not waiting to hear about a wild card....I'm training for the Olympics!!" She posted to her Twitter account, late last month.
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http://www.ctvolympics.ca/combat-sports/news/article/mary-spencer-will-fight-the-games.html

Hey! I care about the summer Olympics for the first time ever. I say good move, IOC.

 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

For the most part Ontario= click in the general vicinity of either Toronto or Ottawa. I knew most of Ontario, naturally, but when it came to Quebec all I could do was click along the St. Lawrence and hope for the best (This, combined with what little knowledge of Quebec geography I have, was enough. It is when I get to BC that I fail.)
 
Necronic

Necronic

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There was a piece on NPR last night about The War of 1812, and how it usually gets all of a couple days at most in an American classroom, and how it gets weeks to months in a Canadian one. It reminded me of Bison's quote from Street Fighter (modified here):

For you, the day America graced your country was one of the most important periods of your history. But for us, it was Tuesday
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Frank

Frank

It doesn't at all get weeks to months in our classrooms either but that could also be because I'm a western Canadian and we don't give a fuck about what Ontario finds important.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

4 days. I had it for 4 days. Though this year is the 200th anniversary so it has been reopened more than a jar of jam.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I think that depends on where you go to school. But I don't remember learning about it at all in high school (High school Canadian History we mostly talked about the involvement of Canada in WW1 and WW2), and in elementary school I remember learning more about Confederacy, the Red River Rebellion, and the 7 years war than the war of 1812. (Ontario)
But we definitely bestow more significance on it than the Americans do, anyway.
 
Vrii

Vrii

It got mentioned in passing here, I think. Days would be a big stretch, weeks to months...that's a joke.
 
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