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

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I appreciate that there is a snow covered BBQ. Barbecuing in the winter is a truly Canadian thing. Every house has a path shoveled out the back door to the BBQ. It's a necessity.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

checkeredhat said:
I had to look up what the hell you were talking about. I probably know people who work on that show, and I still had never heard of it.
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You are lucky. It was passable in the first season (and that's a big passable) but then it just kept getting worse and worse as the series went on. It was made by the same people who did 6teen and Stoked so...yeah no surprise in the quality there.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

My friends are on honeymoon in Nova Scotia. Their status updates took a turn as soon as they left Halifax for Lunenburg. According to them, Lunenburg is just creepy as hell.
In Halifax:
This place rocks.
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But then...
Arrived in Lunenburg. What a weird place.
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In Lunenberg. This place is not great.
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We are leaving tomorrow. None of the locals know any way to leave the town, and they all keep asking where we are sleeping. I'm not sure if it's a full moon or not, but I'm just getting a bad vibe off this place.
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We think we've figured out where to catch a bus now. We're taking off before first light.I have first watch.
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We made it out of Lunenberg alive! The locals made a few attempts to stop us, but we managed to duck them by hiding in a closed down pizzeria
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Then, from back in Halifax,
Despite escaping Lunenberg, we were approached on the street by a guy who says "I saw you two yesterday! You were standing outside of the Foodland in Lunenberg!"
Then, don't we run into the same guy again at the restaurant where we have supper.
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Any maritimers want to weigh in? What's so creepy in Lunenburg?
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Well, you see tourist season is over. Our artificial niceness has been replaced by dour suspiciousness and loathing of the upcoming bleak months of very cold rain and minimal employment.

Tell them to go check out Hal-Con if they are in Halifax.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

From Peggy's Cove, my favourite status update from the honeymooners in Nova Scotia:
Stepped aside to allow John Rhys-Davies to pass me in the hall outside my hotel room. "Thank you young chap, very good of you."
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What is John Rhys-Davies doing in Nova Scotia?!
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

HCGLNS said:
Well, you see tourist season is over. Our artificial niceness has been replaced by dour suspiciousness and loathing of the upcoming bleak months of very cold rain and minimal employment.

Tell them to go check out Hal-Con if they are in Halifax.
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checkeredhat

checkeredhat

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canadian-movember-moustaches-raise-36-6-million-1.734018
Movember, the global charity that encourages growing a moustache to raise funds and awareness for prostate cancer, says 246,060 Canadians participated in this year's campaign.
And those "Mo's" raised $36.6 million for Prostate Cancer Canada, well above last year's total of $22.3 million raised by nearly 119,000 Canadians.
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This makes Canada the leading country in the global Movember movement and Movember co-founder Adam Garone says donations are still coming in.
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HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Movember is awesome. It's amazing how much money women will spend to stop their husbands from looking like idiots.
 
Eriol

Eriol

Frank said:
.....so the Cons just deprotected the vast majority of Canada's waterways and lakes and surprise, surprise, the vast majority of those that remain protected are in ridings held by Conservative MPs.

http://o.canada.com/2012/10/29/afte...f-protected-lakes-lap-on-conservative-shores/
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You know that the conservatives have a relatively greater representation in rural Canada? And that the NDP is largely an urban party? Combine those facts and of course you're going to get a percentage like that. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of waterways in the country are wholly-contained within conservative ridings just by which ridings each party holds, thus making this a non-event in terms of news of bias.

Methinks this is non-news masquerading as news. If you want to criticize the bill, great, but by trying to make it look biased, I think they show their own bias loud and clear.
 
Frank

Frank

Eriol said:
You know that the conservatives have a relatively greater representation in rural Canada? And that the NDP is largely an urban party? Combine those facts and of course you're going to get a percentage like that. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of waterways in the country are wholly-contained within conservative ridings just by which ridings each party holds, thus making this a non-event in terms of news of bias.

Methinks this is non-news masquerading as news. If you want to criticize the bill, great, but by trying to make it look biased, I think they show their own bias loud and clear.
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They removed protection from all but 97 lakes and 62 rivers. That's millions of lakes and rivers that no longer fall under the protected waterways act.
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

We had almost 3 million protected lakes and rivers last week. Now we have less than 200. Time to rape the land I guess.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Per capita crime rates across the country:
http://www2.macleans.ca/crime-chart/

Of note to Halforums members:
Calgary ranked 50th for overall crime, 37th for violent crime, 62nd for non-violent crime
Edmonton 19th overall, 15th for violent crime, 21st for non-violent
Fredericton 43rd overall, 43rd for violent crime, 40th for non-violent
Kelowna ranked 7th overall, 19th in violent crime, 4th in non-violent
Montreal ranked 22nd overall, 8th in violent crime, 36th in non-violent
St. John's ranked 25th overall, 27th in violent crime, 20th in non-violent crime
Toronto ranked 52nd overall, 13th in violent crime, 86th in non-violent crime
Waterloo ranked 64th overall, 42nd in violent crime, 69th in non-violent
Winnipeg ranked 9th overall, 2nd in violent crime (All hopped up on slushies, I guess), 16th in non-violent crime
 
Eriol

Eriol

Given that Saskatoon is even higher (that's where my wife and I used to live), I don't feel as bad about Kelowna (where I live now) being so high. That said, kind of good/bad feeling given how low down my hometown is (Calgary).

As for Victoria being #2, more reason to not visit my mother-in-law? ;)
 
Far

Far

Number 2! So close! Better start the muggings and senseless beatings early this year if we want top bill.

It's strange though. I've always felt safer here than I ever did in Windsor. Well, except the time I got jumped...
 
Timmus

Timmus

My favorite Victoria moment:

I was at a bus stop and this dude comes up to means says, "I'm an interveinous drug user and think there was a bubble in my last hit. Can I bum a smoke?"
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Far said:
Number 2! So close! Better start the muggings and senseless beatings early this year if we want top bill.

It's strange though. I've always felt safer here than I ever did in Windsor. Well, except the time I got jumped...
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I was shocked at how low on the list Windsor was.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Remember when Rush got nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year?

Rush to be inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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http://www.thestar.com/entertainmen...o-be-inducted-into-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame
Rush will officially gain entry into the rock hall on April 18 after a ceremony in L.A., where they’ll be honoured alongside fellow inductees including fiery New York rap pioneers Public Enemy, disco innovator Donna Summer, influential blues guitarist Albert King, gifted songwriter Randy Newman and American-Canadian rock outfit Heart.
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Jay said:
I thought Montreal would be # 1.
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Yesterday, I watched the episode of the Simpsons where Selma marries Troy McClure, and when she was married as "Mrs. Selma Bouvier-Terwilliger-McClure", I could not remember for the life of me where Terwilliger came from. It was familiar, but I could not remember it. Your new avatar has put my mind to rest.
 
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