The dude has been arrested.
What? I thought every Trudeau had to be born on Christmas Day.
This does not bode well for the Liberals.
Ah, that’s good! What a shame.
Thanks for the congratulations (that goes for everyone here!). We are very excited. Today I went looking for fabric to make curtains for the nursery, since our windows are oddly sized and I can’t find anything I like pre-made.
So sweet that people noticed my absence! It really was a matter of being busy and lack of convenient access - my laptop died and while I still have a desk top in this house, it is in a room I’m almost never in! The SDMB is blocked at work.
As for the CFL… I’m still in denial about Calvillo’s retirement and firmly believe the Larks would have another Grey Cup if he had been healthy. It makes me so sad to think that his career as a player is over. End of an era, for sure.
Didja see Carey Price win that Olympic Gold medal, though? There are still some very good things going on in the Montreal sports scene!
Currently -31 C in Regina, with a projected overnight low of -43 C. Don’t even know what the windchill is predicted to be; it’s fortunately very still at the moment.
mnemosyne, while I wouldn’t have gone so far as to say that the Als would have won, I certainly agree that AC had a tremendous career and will be missed. Great player and a classy, humble guy.
I wonder what Mother Nature has in store for April Fools Day a month from now? Blizzard?
Currently -37; don’t know if it dipped down to the forties overnight. Windchill of -52.
On CBC Radio the other day, they mentioned that Saskatchewan would get down to -50 with windchill temperatures this week. They asked a kid what he thought about other provinces where they would shut schools down when it got that cold, and his comment was:
“They’re babies!”
Heard a radio bit mention it’s forecast to be warmer on Mars.
Bite your tongue!
That’s what I’ve always thought. 
-55 with the windchill in Vegreville, Alberta. Currently -25 here, with a -36 windchill. I’m actually going to drive around to do my errands today!
-12 with the windchill here. I wonder if others are jealous of me.
-5, -9 with the windchill here. Downright balmy. I’m heading out for groceries now and feel like putting on my Bermuda shorts and sandals.
That’s what I feel like wearing when it goes back up to a balmy -5 after a week or two of -25.
Yeah, but that’s like hitting your head against the wall because it feels good when you stop.
Here’s a fun article from the New York Times this week, talking about Toronto’s ethnic diversity.
It definitely sounds like an article written by someone who hasn’t ventured much outside of downtown Toronto (and she admits as much at the end). For instance, the idea that the Spadina Chinatown is “the largest and still the most vibrant” in the metro area is nuts unless you’re deliberately excluding Markham for some reason.
The City of Toronto has all kinds of interesting demogrpahical information on its web site: Toronto Social Atlas
I think you could still make a pretty strong argument that Spadina is more “vibrant” in the sense that is clearly meant here. Markham may be very Chinese, but it’s a suburb. The author is writing in the Travel section. I have nothing against Markham, it’s a nice place to live and it’s got a solid business community, but as vibrant tourist destinations go it would be a rather awful place to visit.
I’m sure you could come up with a definition of “vibrant” that favours downtown over Markham, considering it’s kind of a vague term. But if you ask me, Pacific Mall (and the surrounding area) is at least as interesting for tourists as Spadina Chinatown is, unless you’re the kind of tourist who thinks dinginess adds authenticity.
I cannot imagine a tourist in Toronto making the trip to Pacific Mall, just because it is “less dingy.” 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.
Besides, if you don’t like the downtown Chinatown; Kensington Market, with its variety of restaurants, is only a few blocks away. So is Little Italy. Public transit can get anybody quickly and easily from downtown’s Chinatown to Greektown, the Indian Bazaar, and Koreatown; not to mention downtown itself. From Pacific Mall, you can get to … well, Scarborough. Or Unionville, if you’re driving.
RickJay makes a good point; and if I understand him correctly, it is this: tourists visit Toronto to visit Toronto. They don’t go to Toronto in order to visit Markham. Let’s face it, would you visit Chicago to go to Naperville?