We’d be happy to join you for a nice evening of shit blowing up on the big screen (or something). 
I’ve found that once you start talking microbrews, regardless of where they come from, all bets are off. I’ve hardly tried a small-batch beer that I didn’t like (although I wasn’t a fan of Big Rock’s cold-hopped beer from a few years back—too bitter for my taste).
Customers denied diced onions, throw snake at Saskatoon Tim Hortons employee
That’s about 8 blocks from my house. I can’t figure out how to respond besides laughing my ass off.
Funny story Gorsnak!
I guess that’s probably another one of those things that US Americans don’t know about Canada - our response to everything is to throw a snake.
Edit: Upon reading the story, there is no part of it that makes any sense at all.
Dammit, I said diced onions! I’m warning you, I work in a herpetarium!
Peppered with pythons.
Say, the little guy is kinda cute.
Okay, so he threw a snake.
Where did the snake come from?
He reached into his buddy’s pocket and pulled it out before snake-flingage began.
Who the heck carries a snake around? And what, whispers to his buddy, “Psst! I’ve got the snake. Just reach in and fling it!”
:eek:
Perhaps they wanted it as a special ingredient on their breakfast sandwich?
I’ll bet most people didn’t realize that Snakes on A Plane was based on an incident involving and ill-tempered Air Canada flight attendant on an early morning flight from Edmonton to Toronto, a cold cup of coffee and a pregnant Western Hognose snake…
Thanks Gorsnak, that made my day. Although the poor snake was probably traumatized…
OK, Canada’s Greatest Lawyers and Legal Beagles; I have been having a discussion at work about open liquor in a car and getting charged for it. It seems to be common knowledge that you aren’t supposed to have opened liquor in the car within reach of the driver.
I have looked through every relevant law I can think of including the Highway Traffic Act, The Liquor Control Act , and even into Importation Statutes. I cannot find anything indicating that having an opened bottle is per se illegal. It says you can’t drink in the car, and that alcohol should be driven directly from point of purchase to point of consumption, but nothing about how that should be done.
I was also told leaving your hitch on your vehicle when not pulling a trailer is illegal as well, but can’t find a relevant statute for that either. Are both these cases the legal equivalent of an urban legend?
I think it’s a provincial issue, not federal. Here’s what Ontario has to say in the Liquor Licence Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. L.19.
It is a provincial issue, so you’ll have to dig through each province’s statutes and regulations in order to find the prohibition. Leaffan has found it in Ontario’s Liquor License Act; I found Alberta’s in our Gaming and Liquor Regulation (AR 143/96), which is a regulation to Alberta’s Gaming and Liquor Act:
No idea about the truck hitch. Might look into it later, if I have time.
Yes, provincial laws. The feds only have jurisdiction over inter-provincial transportation, not transportation within the province, which is what most vehicular traffic is.
Ignorance Fought! Thank you, stupid me for not thinking of it being a provincial responsibility.
I’ll keep looking on the trailer hitch thing.
“Three quarters of all federal debt was created by the Mulroney and Harper federal governments.” According to my ex-classmate in the GTA.
I totally could not believe this, and thought Trudeau was a HUGE contributor to debt, and when I asked for a cite she linked to a PDF that said:
Trudeau 738.7% increase in debt.
Mulroney 67.7% increase.
Harper 12.6% increase.
But, she said that “Trudeau was way up there, but the others have him beat for dollars.”
To which I replied that Harper’s debt is entirely due to stimulus spending requested by the NDP and Liberals!
Here’s the link. What do you make of this?
She hasn’t responded.
I think she’s a conservative hater who doesn’t want to let the facts get in the way of her opinions (thanks to my husband for so succinctly summing it up).
ETA: Also, context - PM Harper was PM during the worst financial crisis the world has seen since the Great Depression.
Ha.
Well, this exchange was on Facebook and it’s gone now after my comment.
I’m on the record for voting Liberal in the past; I liked Jean Chrétien in his first term anyway. But the Conservatives have governed well these last 8 years, despite what the commentators on the Globe and Mail would have you believe.
People in the GTA are as iron-clad Liberal as people in Alberta are Conservative. Quite an interesting dichotomy.
Not sure how anyone could dispute that Mulroney contributed far more to the national debt than Trudeau. Harper’s deficit spending is of course both pretty much insignificant and entirely appropriate given the circumstances.
Well if you go by CBC News - Interactive: Canada's deficits and surpluses, 1963-2014 and add up the adjusted Surplus/Deficient numbers for leaders back to Pearson you get
Person added 27.63 Billion over 5 years
Trudeau added 179.6 and 201.6 over 15 years –> 381.2 billion
Clark added 34.6 billion over a single year
The government then changes its accounting principles so numbers may not be directly comparable but what the hell…
Mulroney added 484.9 billion in 9 years
Chretien added 74.7 billion over 11 years
Martin ran a surplus of 16.5 billion over 2 years
Harper added 158.7 billion over 9 years
Now, if you want to rank PM by surplus(+)/deficit(-) added per year you get
The question why the Harper government has undercut their ability to gather revenue and continue to address the underlying debt is a separate question.
