# The Canadope Café 2016: The North Awakens **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883 "2016-01-01T05:04:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 29
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/561 "2016-05-24T18:02:36Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > Dare I turn on the news? Or is going to be Elbowgate, week 2? No. Gordon Downie is dying - Glioblastoma. That is dominating the news. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/562 "2016-05-24T18:37:48Z")
He may have some time left in him. The doctor has noted the tumor is smaller than it was in December, and I know of at least one person who survived for four years with this. That they are going on tour soon suggests he is not at death’s door. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/563 "2016-05-24T19:19:39Z")
Huff Post has a cheeky take on elbowgate: [Justin Trudeau’s House Of Commons Incident Gets Canada Some Worldwide Coverage](http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/05/19/justin-trudeaus-elbow-thi_n_10045094.html) ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/564 "2016-05-24T19:56:50Z")
No one will be happier to see an end to 'Elbowgate"…than I !!! ---
**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:** [May 24, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/565 "2016-05-24T20:03:08Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > No one will be happier to see an end to 'Elbowgate"…than I !!! Oh, so you’re just acting like it wasn’t all your fault??? ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/566 "2016-05-24T20:14:48Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > He may have some time left in him. The doctor has noted the tumor is smaller than it was in December, and I know of at least one person who survived for four years with this. > > That they are going on tour soon suggests he is not at death’s door. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 24, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/567 "2016-05-24T20:26:24Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > The Chronicle Journal’s on-line reporting about this story sucks. [TBNewsWatch.com](http://www.tbnewswatch.com/news/local.aspx) ain’t much, but better than the rest. ---
**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/568 "2016-05-24T23:40:02Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > He may have some time left in him. The doctor has noted the tumor is smaller than it was in December, and I know of at least one person who survived for four years with this. > > That they are going on tour soon suggests he is not at death’s door. I guess we will see. I am still pretty choked up about this. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/569 "2016-05-25T14:58:35Z")
The Hip are playing July 22 in Victoria BC and July 24th in Vancouver. I may do both concerts. I missed seeing Spirt of the West’s last show a month or so ago, so I need to see at least one. (Also, I lived in Thunder Bay most of my life, where the Hip famously did not play because the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium was too small and the Fort William Gardens was too??? ) I saw them in Montreal in the late 80s though. Anyone up for a Canadoper Dope fest before or after either of the BC dates? ---
**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:** [May 25, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/570 "2016-05-25T15:03:29Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > (Also, I lived in Thunder Bay most of my life, where the Hip famously did not play because the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium was too small and the Fort William Gardens was too??? ) [All depends on timing:](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/hip-drew-small-crowds-at-first-thunder-bay-shows-1.3598017) > [@](#): > > “He felt so bad,” Loffredo said of lead singer Gord Downie. “I think we didn’t even break 80 people over three nights.” ---
**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:** [May 25, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/571 "2016-05-25T15:40:26Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > [All depends on timing:](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/hip-drew-small-crowds-at-first-thunder-bay-shows-1.3598017) I don’t discuss that promoter at all. Ever. My mother taught me better than that. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/572 "2016-05-25T16:15:44Z")
I am looking at both the Edmonton and Winnipeg shows 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 26, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/573 "2016-05-26T13:08:34Z")
I didn’t know you lived in Winnipeg. I may be one of the few people around that love Winnipeg. I lived there in 1999-2000 and I love everything about it except the winters and the mosquitos. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/574 "2016-05-27T03:28:11Z")
One of the clerks was talking to one of the Geraldton evacuees today, who was a Ft. Mac evacuee. Some folks are followed by a little black cloud, but this guy is followed by forest fires. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/575 "2016-05-27T03:32:45Z")
[You might recognize our Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland.](http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0526/791202-kevin-vickers-tackles-protester/) I like this guy. Russia only has Putin. We have Vickers. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/576 "2016-05-27T05:18:46Z")
[MPSIMS thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19361278#post19361278). Our Man in Dublin, indeed. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/577 "2016-05-27T06:37:05Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > I didn’t know you lived in Winnipeg. I may be one of the few people around that love Winnipeg. I lived there in 1999-2000 and **I love everything about it except the winters and the mosquitos.** [Emphasis added] So what you’re saying is that you hate Winnipeg? 😛 I kid, I kid. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/578 "2016-05-27T06:48:39Z")
She just doesn’t like it during winter and the fabled Winnipeg mosquito season. That must leave about a week or two each spring and fall where she finds it a lovely city. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/579 "2016-05-27T10:12:36Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > I didn’t know you lived in Winnipeg. I may be one of the few people around that love Winnipeg. I lived there in 1999-2000 and I love everything about it except the winters and the mosquitos. One good thing about the winters, no mosquitoes. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2016, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883/580 "2016-05-27T10:59:23Z")
True, but flat is flat, which takes much of the fun out of winter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadope-cafe-2016-the-north-awakens/741883.md?page=30)