I remember drifts of them in bus shelters in Mississauga.
Oh boy! More snow for Sunday night! 
(/sarcasm)
Not for electing Rob. Just for being Toronto 
Last night, I caught up with a friend who has just returned from Cuba; and today, I spoke on the phone with a friend who is leaving for Jamaica in a couple of days.
I just got back in from shovelling snow in -18C temps. 
17C here. No snow to shovel. No yard to worry about as the grounds staff do it all.
The major worry this winter is if I look too much like an outsider if I go down to the grocery store in a t-shirt, shorts and sandals - those aclimatized here are wearing, well, what I’d be wearing if I had to shovel snow at -18C.
As an fyi, there are 295,000 Canadians living in HK. More Canadians in this city than most cities in Canada. It would be 17th on the list.
Then they can all stare at you like I stare at the people here who wear parkas and mitts in +15ºC weather. 
Okay, it’s really freaking cold in the middle of Canada. It’s chilly here, but it sounds like Sask. and Man. are truly frigid. I won’t tease you guys for not wanting to go out in -48ºC temps!
Happy 2014 from Vancouver. 2013 was… challenging. Here’s hoping for better, or at least curtailing the three-front insanity.
It’s COLD here in Winnipeg. Heading out tomorrow, hoping the roads are good. Apparently yesterday’s storm combined with the crazy slippery ice from the few days before was too much for our most excellent drivers - they were reporting 750 claims in at Autopac (our insurance) by 4:30 yesterday afternoon. For one day.
Please, let it be a little warmer out West.
Prediction for southern Saskatchewan tomorrow morning: -45 to -50, including wind chill.
Crikeys.Take care mes amis.
We went through that for a couple of weeks or so, until the day before yesterday. Then it warmed up to -20 or something and dumped massive amounts of snow on the already massive amounts of snow (the snowblower went through a five-litre gas can since October; I had to fill it again today).
I prefer -45 or -50 to snow.
Yeowch! I’ll send warm thoughts your way.
Couldn’t find my skates, so I borrowed my mom’s to go on the Rideau canal yesterday. Never had a pair with a toe pick before. I started getting a pretty good speed and kind of low and squat, as I’m used to with hockey skates. As I came down low, the picks dug into the ice, and I FLEW into the air, landing kneecaps first on the ice.
I’m in pain today. First time skating on the canal in five years. I always forget how crappy I skate, how crappy the ice is, and how cold it is outside. 
Pick-tripping couldn’t have helped your skating any, either.
One of my fondest memories of working for Opera Lyra in 2005 - my apartment was about 4 blocks from the canal. At least once a day, I’d skate from the Drill Hall to Carlton U. and back. It was glorious, even for a crappy skater like me.
I have two words for you - toe pick.
It’s only -21 here today, so I’m going to go for a nice walk. Later, dudes!
Scooped again.
I found yet another reason (among many) to hate the current Canadian government:
Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives
Geez. As if I needed another reason.
Though I’m not really familiar with the website (boingboing) and how reliable it is, but this sounds serious to me.
AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I mean, sorry.
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AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I mean, sorry. :)[/QUOTE
thhttphhpthhtht!
Oddly enough my wife and I were just recently discussing that movie with some 30 yo friends who had never heard of it. That was the “thing that makes me feel old” for that day.