# The Canadope Café, 2014 Edition: In 3-D! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2014, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612 "2014-01-01T05:07:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 29
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/561 "2014-03-03T12:38:08Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > For tourists in the city, it is well out of the way; and after a trip there about ten years ago (I used to live in York Region; prior to that, I lived downtown for many years), I found that it was much less welcoming than downtown Toronto’s Chinatown. I have no idea what “welcoming” or “vibrant” means in this context. > [@Spoons](#): > > Besides, if you don’t like the downtown Chinatown; Kensington Market, with its variety of restaurants, is only a few blocks away. [etc] I’m not claiming that the Toronto suburbs are a great tourist destination! Obviously they aren’t because things are more spread out, as you note. I just think it’s silly to claim that Chinatown downtown is the largest. Maybe if you defined “vibrant” as something involving outdoor foot traffic you could make an argument for it being more vibrant, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/562 "2014-03-05T01:32:09Z")
[Westjet passenger leaves sexist note in plane.](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/female-westjet-pilot-posts-passenger-s-sexist-note-on-facebook-1.2559603) From the note: > [@](#): > > “The cockpit of an airline is no place for a woman. A woman being a mother is the most honor, not as ‘captain.’ Proverbs 31. Sorry not PC.” > > It goes on to say, “I wish WestJet could tell me a fair lady is at the helm so I can book another flight!” They know the guy’s name (David), and they know what seat he was in, so hopefully they will be able to make sure every flight he’s on in the future has an all-female crew. What a maroon! ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/563 "2014-03-05T15:09:48Z")
I think kudos should go to the pilot who handled her retort very nicely. I used to love going to Kensington market when I was a kid, looking at the smoked ducks with the heads still on and all sorts of other exotic-ness (To me, I was 7.) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/564 "2014-03-05T17:24:33Z")
When I was a kid, my mother once took me to Yorkville to look at the hippies. As a teenager, my high school geography teacher sent our class on an unsupervised field trip to Kensington with instructions to “poke an Italian.” What can I say – I grew up in a couple of very WASP burbs. Old Toronto was a place to visit. Anything much beyond that was not on the radar. A burb being a place for tourists? Not then. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/565 "2014-03-05T17:28:19Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > [Westjet passenger leaves sexist note in plane.](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/female-westjet-pilot-posts-passenger-s-sexist-note-on-facebook-1.2559603) From the note:They know the guy’s name (David), and they know what seat he was in, so hopefully they will be able to make sure every flight he’s on in the future has an all-female crew. What a maroon! (Shhh! Now all the pervs will know how to get themselves flown about by all-female crews.) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/566 "2014-03-05T17:32:04Z")
In other news, a Regina lawyer is suing Ezra Levant for libel: [http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/4890946](http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/4890946) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/567 "2014-03-05T19:49:03Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > In other news, a Regina lawyer is suing Ezra Levant for libel: > > [http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/4890946](http://m.huffpost.com/ca/entry/4890946) Well, that seems like something that was bound to happen sooner or later. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/568 "2014-03-05T21:36:52Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Honestly these days we’re more at risk from driving while texting than we are from driving while impaired. And just to prove that not all crashes on the Trans-Canada out this way are caused by transports: [pic](http://www.tbnewswatch.com/Pictures/userpics/326162_635296198324123286.jpg) and [vid](http://youtu.be/KILUlAGgZcg). You don’t have to think too hard to narrow down the cause of the crash last Saturday. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/569 "2014-03-06T01:33:11Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > And just to prove that not all crashes on the Trans-Canada out this way are caused by transports: [pic](http://www.tbnewswatch.com/Pictures/userpics/326162_635296198324123286.jpg) and [vid](http://youtu.be/KILUlAGgZcg). > > You don’t have to think too hard to narrow down the cause of the crash last Saturday. We were watching the video, looking to see why someone would just pull out in front of someone driving on the highway - visibility was fine, there was nothing obstructing the other driver’s view, but he just comes out anyway! Oh, talking on the cellphone - I get it now. That infuriates me so much; every single person driving in Canada knows that talking on the phone while driving is illegal and dangerous, but they keep right on doing it without a thought for the damage they’re likely to do. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/570 "2014-03-06T01:56:25Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > And just to prove that not all crashes on the Trans-Canada out this way are caused by transports: [pic](http://www.tbnewswatch.com/Pictures/userpics/326162_635296198324123286.jpg) and [vid](http://youtu.be/KILUlAGgZcg). > > You don’t have to think too hard to narrow down the cause of the crash last Saturday. No, you don’t have to think too hard at all. That video is something! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/571 "2014-03-06T02:03:54Z")
And yet one of my car pool guys on highway 17 is checking his phone all the damned time while driving. I think I need to put my foot down. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/572 "2014-03-06T02:10:28Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > And yet one of my car pool guys on highway 17 is checking his phone all the damned time while driving. I think I need to put my foot down. I’d make it a requirement like seatbelts; I don’t drive anyone who won’t wear a seatbelt, and I won’t be a passenger of someone who messes with their cellphone while driving. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/573 "2014-03-06T02:38:55Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > And yet one of my car pool guys on highway 17 is checking his phone all the damned time while driving. I think I need to put my foot down. You could email him the pic & vid of the crash. Oh, wait a minute, he might watch it on his phone while driving. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/574 "2014-03-06T03:02:10Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I’d make it a requirement like seatbelts; I don’t drive anyone who won’t wear a seatbelt, and I won’t be a passenger of someone who messes with their cellphone while driving. He doesn’t wear a seat belt either. ☹ ETA: I’ve mentioned both. He thinks he’s the greatest driver in the world, and he believes that if he dies he goes on to eternal bliss, utopia, whatever it’s called. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/575 "2014-03-06T03:07:22Z")
Can’t you just let him cling to the roof-racks and have someone else drive his car for him? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/576 "2014-03-06T03:08:26Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > And yet one of my car pool guys on highway 17 is checking his phone all the damned time while driving. I think I need to put my foot down. On his phone, perhaps? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/577 "2014-03-06T05:29:37Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > He doesn’t wear a seat belt either. ☹ > > ETA: I’ve mentioned both. He thinks he’s the greatest driver in the world, and he believes that if he dies he goes on to eternal bliss, utopia, whatever it’s called. He’s welcome to Darwin himself out of the gene pool, but I really wish assholes like that wouldn’t take anyone else with them. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/578 "2014-03-06T09:00:59Z")
From the “too ludicrous to be true” files, it appears that Canadian content in television extends even to porn channels: [Your porn is not Canadian enough, CRTC warns erotica channels](http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/05/your-porn-is-not-canadian-enough-crtc-warns-erotica-channels/). The obvious solution is to produce more porn, but how would it be indicated as Canadian? Maple leaf tattoos on a performer’s butt cheeks? Produce titles like “The Canadian Mountie and the Farm Girl?” Or we could play on anything that refers to _castor canadensis_? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/579 "2014-03-06T09:49:20Z")
Close-captioning and Audio Description? Looks like the Onion slipped an article into the National Post. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/580 "2014-03-06T11:21:42Z")
So, a woman was [arrested](http://m.news919.com/2014/03/05/moncton-woman-in-custody-after-children-found-outside-in-bitterly-cold-temperatures/) the other day (released the next day and no charges laid yet) because her kids were out playing in the cold. The children were wearing proper outdoor attire for the weather (as evinced by the fact that they are not suffering frostbite after having been out for “some time”) but that wasn’t good enough for the nosy neighbours who just had to call police because they didn’t see a parent supervising the play. That situation was my worst nightmare a few years ago. My little one loved to go out and play and the weather didn’t matter at all (except for a blizzard, she didn’t like going out in high winds). I’d make sure she was dressed warmly and give frequent glances out our window to ensure she was ok but if my neighbours had been a bit more butinsky this could easily have been me. My wife still worries about sending our 8 year old out to the park alone (even though we have a clear view of the area from our back window). I can see being worried about the kid but if you must go out and talk to the kid first or knock on the parents door. There are things you can do before you call the police. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612.md?page=30)