# 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:** 76
**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:** [October 29, 2014, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1501 "2014-10-29T07:28:59Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Note that John Tory was Secretary to Bill Davis, whose most noted quote was: “Bland works.” > > I have hopes for John Tory. Even if he never appears on Jimmy Kimmell, that’s a _good_ thing! As a former Torontonian, I’d be glad to see that my home city falls off the radar. It’s a great city, and it will always be home, but I’d prefer if the world media looked at it for its good qualities, rather than … you know. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1502 "2014-10-29T13:40:27Z")
Anyway, Ford fans, all is not lost - Doug Ford has announced he’s interested in running for leadership of the provincial Conservative party. Goodby “Mayor” Ford - hello “Premier” Ford! 😃 ---
**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:** [October 29, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1503 "2014-10-29T15:43:51Z")
Mike Harris redux? 😃 ---
**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:** [October 30, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1504 "2014-10-30T01:09:44Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > Mike Harris redux? 😃 You just said the words that must not be said so close to Halloween. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1505 "2014-10-30T02:59:45Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > Mike Harris redux? 😃 Best premier since Bill Davis. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1506 "2014-10-30T03:48:16Z")
That’s a very low bar. We’ve had no good premiers since Davis. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1507 "2014-10-30T03:56:13Z")
What was wrong with David Peterson? ---
**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:** [October 30, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1508 "2014-10-30T03:58:46Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > That’s a very low bar. We’ve had no good premiers since Davis. And McGuinty and now Wynne are certainly not helping the cause. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1509 "2014-10-31T03:10:13Z")
Ski season opener for me at the top of Superior. 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 31, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1510 "2014-10-31T03:44:27Z")
Shush you! Too early. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1511 "2014-10-31T04:01:08Z")
It’s never too early. Simply never. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1512 "2014-10-31T13:05:18Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > What was wrong with David Peterson? Not much, really. Peterson did a reasonably good job, so I take it back; he was certainly more successful than Harris, whose accomplishments are somewhat difficult to ennumerate inasmuch as I cannot think of what they were. Peterson of course will live forever as having called the worst-timed election in the history of the Westminster system, but that doesn’t change the fact he did a fairly reasonable job in office. Actually he was a lot like Bill Davis. I kind of forgot about him, to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1513 "2014-10-31T13:21:19Z")
Forgettable isn’t a bad trait in a politician. It’s a very rare highly noticeable politician who is better than the forgettable ones. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1514 "2014-10-31T13:56:07Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Forgettable isn’t a bad trait in a politician. It’s a very rare highly noticeable politician who is better than the forgettable ones. … which brings us right back to discussing the Ford brothers, as proving the rule. 😉 ---
**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:** [October 31, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1515 "2014-10-31T13:59:51Z")
This will be the fourth Halloween since I moved to Cold Lake in '91 that the kids will have no snow to traipse around and collect treats. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1516 "2014-10-31T18:03:01Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Forgettable isn’t a bad trait in a politician. It’s a very rare highly noticeable politician who is better than the forgettable ones. You say that like someone who lived through the Klein years in Alberta, but I’m pretty sure you didn’t. 🙂 Canada - Land of the Free, Home of the Bland! ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1517 "2014-10-31T18:38:57Z")
The Moncton shooter has been sentenced to [75 years](http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nb/news-nouvelles/releases-communiques/14-10-31-130939-eng.htm) with no chance of parole. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1518 "2014-10-31T18:47:05Z")
Good. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1519 "2014-10-31T19:06:28Z")
Well I am 3/3 for rainy Halloweens, but last year the drizzle let up for trick or treating. 2012 was horrible. Miles had no one to trick or treat with, and it poured so heavily i poured an inch of water out of my purse at the end of the night. Got home, showered, and put my soaked Doc Martins back on to catch a red-eye to Toronto. One of the longest bleeping days of my life, woke up at 230 pm on the 30th, never ended up napping, worked 11pm- 7am didn’t sleep from 5 am until noon on the first of November except for a few cat naps here and there in Pearson Airport between arrival and my flight to YQT. Never doing that again, but reasons to go to Thunder Bay are declining in inverse proportion to snow on M **uffin’s** ski hills. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612/1520 "2014-11-05T03:56:39Z")
> **[Ontario to take back control of private super-jail | CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-to-take-back-control-of-private-super-jail-1.586052)** > > Canada's only privately run jail, in Penetanguishene, Ont., will return to public control on Saturday after a performance evaluation found a public jail of equivalent size had better security and prisoner health care, as well as reduced repeat... > [@](#): > > Canada’s only privately run jail, in Penetanguishene, Ont., will return to public control on Saturday after a performance evaluation found a public jail of equivalent size had better security, prisoner health care, and reduced repeat offender rates. I never did quite follow how the provincial Conservatives figured that adding private corporate profit to the cost paid by the public for a service was actually a savings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612.md?page=75) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2014-edition-in-3-d/677612.md?page=77)