# The CanaDoper Café (2012 edition of The great, ongoing Canadian current events and politics thread.) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014 "2012-01-01T03:31:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 104
**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, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2062 "2012-10-31T19:41:02Z")
As a southern Ontario kid at the time (Sarnia) I only remember wisps of snow in the air once; there was never, ever snow on the ground. Most years you wouldn’t need a jacket at all. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2063 "2012-10-31T20:06:52Z")
In Manitoba, we always had snow on the ground for Hallowe’en. We only had the fight once (’…but I don’t WANT to wear my parka over my costume!!!’), after which, my parents kept coming up with costume ideas that would go over the snowsuit and boots. So far, the rain is holding off here in Toronto - I remember about 10 years ago when my daughter went as an elephant. It was thick and warm enough for about the first hour, after which it had completely swollen with rain water. That was a cold and miserable walk home that night!!! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2064 "2012-10-31T20:32:34Z")
I remember singing “I’m Dreaming of a White Hallowe’en” a number of times growing up in Saskatoon. But there certainly wasn’t snow every year; maybe every 5 years or something like that. But it was usually pretty nippy. ---
**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, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2065 "2012-10-31T21:52:07Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > I remember wearing a snowsuit under my spiderman costume. The elastic band for the mask fit around the hood. That’s why the boys went trick or treating here as the Hulk, Superman or something else huge almost every year. N.Alberta Halloweens without snow on the ground tend to be unusual. ---
**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, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2066 "2012-10-31T23:11:39Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Yes, I am familiar with Wawa, having spent a few days there, and also having. I also saw the news report. Those look like bad breaks–how long to fix, do you think? Day 6 today. The various breaks have been filled with enough gravel to re-open the highway, although at one spot north of Wawa it is limited to one lane rather than a lane in each direction. The nearby Indian reserve is being evacuated. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2067 "2012-11-01T01:47:30Z")
From the Stats Canada twitter feed of fake stats: > [@](#): > > 77% of Manitoba Halloween costumes include gloves and toques My response to that was, “Only 77%?” 😃 It’s one heckuva miserable night here in Calgary, but the trick-or-treaters are still showing up. The kids these days aren’t complete wimps! ---
**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 1, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2068 "2012-11-01T01:49:26Z")
No wolves howling tonight (they were earlier this week). No halloween trick or treaters either. Coincidence? 😉 ---
**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:** [November 1, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2069 "2012-11-01T03:32:30Z")
I wasn’t planning on being home tonight, but those plans fell through. I had no candy to give out so I didn’t put the porch light on or bother answering the door. There were still doorbell rings though. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2070 "2012-11-01T05:07:25Z")
> [@Cat Screamer](#): > > It’s one heckuva miserable night here in Calgary, but the trick-or-treaters are still showing up. The kids these days aren’t complete wimps! Not as miserable as I thought initially. We were out a couple hours and never got more than cool. The fog really rolled in about almost nine though! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2071 "2012-11-01T14:53:52Z")
At our house in North York, we had about a dozen kids come out in the drizzle – mostly “tweens”, not little kids. We also had some teenagers come around collecting canned food; supposedly it was for some charity, but maybe they were just picking up some cheap groceries. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2072 "2012-11-01T15:04:26Z")
We lit our 6 Jack-O-lanterns outside, at just about 6pm, before driving into town for the kids to go trick-or-treating, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that 2 of them were still a-glow this morning at 7am. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2073 "2012-11-01T15:39:54Z")
> [@Flutterby](#): > > Not as miserable as I thought initially. We were out a couple hours and never got more than cool. The fog really rolled in about almost nine though! Hey, my halloween name _did_ stay in the quote! Cool! It seemed awfully cold to me, but that was probably because I was standing in a warm house in house clothes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2074 "2012-11-01T16:17:29Z")
We got about 40 kids, which is pretty normal. My little guy made it to about 8 houses. He’s just three, so he doesn’t move very fast 🙂 Big sister refuses to go at all, so she watched movies and gave out candy when she felt like it. I think she might be an alien - what 6 year old doesn’t want to go trick or treating? ---
**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:** [November 7, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2075 "2012-11-07T16:59:57Z")
Was there an election somewhere last night? I think there might have been, but it’s hard to tell here today. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2076 "2012-11-07T17:58:33Z")
Election? Nah, there can’t have been - if it was important, we would have heard about it, right? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2077 "2012-11-07T21:21:31Z")
I’m thinking of tapping for maple sap this spring; anyone have any tips, advice, general knowledge, anecdotes or useless information? I know literally nothing about it, beyond drinking beer in a steamy shack seems to be an integral part of the process of refining syrup. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2078 "2012-11-07T22:20:57Z")
> [@Dr\_Doom](#): > > I’m thinking of tapping for maple sap this spring; anyone have any tips, advice, general knowledge, anecdotes or useless information? > > I know literally nothing about it, beyond drinking beer in a steamy shack seems to be an integral part of the process of refining syrup. My dad used to do that (and I got roped in to help). It’s a lot of work. You have to haul something like 50 times as much sap as you get syrup, which means a lot of hauling of buckets with cold sap in them, and lots and lots of boiling. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2079 "2012-11-07T22:22:57Z")
Anyone got one of the new plastic twenties yet? ---
**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 8, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2080 "2012-11-08T00:25:26Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Election? Nah, there can’t have been - if it was important, we would have heard about it, right? We didn’t hear about it because they were under water: > [@](#): > > On November 6, 2012, [Roosevelt Islanders](http://www.riraonline.com/election)went to the polls to elect resident representatives for President and Vice-President of the Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) and individual building members of RIRA’s Common Council. > > In a continuing effort to bring democratic governance to Roosevelt Island, three nominees for appointment to the Board of Directors of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) were also elected on November 6, 2012. > > 1,834 ballots were cast. The final reports of the RIRA and RIOC elections are attached below. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2081 "2012-11-08T06:07:02Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Anyone got one of the new plastic twenties yet? 50s and 100s, but no twenties yet! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014.md?page=103) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014.md?page=105)