# 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:** 105
**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, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2082 "2012-11-08T12:55:18Z")
Looks like the Americans are going to let us build a big new international bridge for them. The owner of the existing bridge at Windsor didn’t want a second bridge built, so it made a proposition to amend the Michigan constitution. Republican activist Grover Norquist took up the cause, and the proposition gained momentum. Fortunately, the Michigan voters shot it (the proposition, not the fool Republican) down, so Michigan will be able to accept our hand-out, and we’ll be able to significantly reduce the extremely long lines faced by truckers at the busiest international crossing – a good deal all around. ---
**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 8, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2083 "2012-11-08T15:09:20Z")
It should help out the backlog in Sarnia too, which is sometimes kilometers long. ---
**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 8, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2084 "2012-11-08T15:58:30Z")
Mrs\_Doom and I are watching season 2 of the diabolically clever business proposition [Recipe to Riches](http://www.foodnetwork.ca/recipe-to-riches/season2/). We had a hearty Canuckle chuckle last night when the [kinda nerdy](https://www.google.ca/search?q=galen+weston+jr&hl=en&sa=X&rlz=1C1LENP_enCA479CA502&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=WtabUMD7A8bK0AHY2oHIDw&ved=0CCYQsAQ&biw=1023&bih=875) (although introduced as though he were a rock star) [Galen Weston](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Weston,_Jr.) informed us in no uncertain terms that Canadians. Love. Meatballs. ---
**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 8, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2085 "2012-11-08T18:39:54Z")
Well, meatballs are okay, I guess. ---
**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 8, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2086 "2012-11-08T18:49:44Z")
They seem to be popular at pot luck functions, but is there really a huge meatball fan base in Canada? I’d put meatballs up there with, say shrimp rings, as far as popularity is concerned. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2087 "2012-11-08T19:18:00Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > It should help out the backlog in Sarnia too, which is sometimes kilometers long. How is that even possible? Matty Maroun says bridge traffic is down from historic highs and his bridge can easily handle all the traffic there is! And Michigan voters can’t afford to accept handouts from Canada! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2088 "2012-11-08T19:42:45Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > They seem to be popular at pot luck functions, but is there really a huge meatball fan base in Canada? I’d put meatballs up there with, say shrimp rings, as far as popularity is concerned. Well, we eat meatballs all the time in our household. Except I make them myself. I haven’t seen last nights episode yet, tonight I will. Then I’m going to have to start trying things to decide what to vote for. I am totally playing into what they are doing and I know it, but I love eating the items. I still buy the lemon pudding from last season. ---
**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 8, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2089 "2012-11-08T20:20:19Z")
> [@Flutterby](#): > > Well, we eat meatballs all the time in our household. Except I make them myself. > > I haven’t seen last nights episode yet, tonight I will. Then I’m going to have to start trying things to decide what to vote for. I am totally playing into what they are doing and I know it, but I love eating the items. I still buy the lemon pudding from last season. We are unabashed Happy Consumers, here in Latveria, also. We skipped the chili thing, though, because they changed the shape of it. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2090 "2012-11-08T20:33:46Z")
I really want to try Mahbooz Date Cookies. Not sure I want to make them mostly as the contestant used a yeast dough but I really liked the direction they were going; not a cookie, not a cracker. I wish those won over (a probably very delicious) just another brownie. Off to Jimmy’s A and A (or perhaps another Middle East market). ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2091 "2012-11-09T02:41:20Z")
Those did look interesting. Aren’t they putting the non winning recipes up online this season? I don’t know if I’ll take advantage of that but it’s a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2092 "2012-11-09T13:10:31Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > How is that even possible? Matty Maroun says bridge traffic is down from historic highs and his bridge can easily handle all the traffic there is! And Michigan voters can’t afford to accept handouts from Canada! > > :smack: Hey, Matty Maroun is a Michigan voter, isn’t he? If you amortize the money he’s going to lose because of this new bridge across Michigan’s population, you’ll see that Michigan can’t afford a free bridge. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2093 "2012-11-11T00:09:36Z")
36 hours and counting of fluffy snow in Regina. ---
**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 11, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2094 "2012-11-11T04:45:36Z")
We were out and about all day in Calgary today - the temperature was down at -17ºC at one point. That is too freaking cold, too freaking soon. We’re supposed to be able to get used to winter, not have it slam down on us overnight. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2095 "2012-11-11T05:06:53Z")
Got the Christmas lights up today. I wasn’t going to do them until Monday, but the forecast wet flurries turned out to be bright sunshine and 6º instead, so out came the ladder and up on the roof I went. I finished off with the ones on the bushes and lilac, and left them on for Mrs. B to admire when she came back from shopping just before supper. Now they’re off again until December, but no chance now of snow or ice preventing me from doing the roof lights. Highs of 12 and 16 predicted for Sunday and Monday, probably the last warm days until the regular mid-winter thaw shows up to melt the ice sculptures at Winterlude. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2096 "2012-11-11T06:20:43Z")
42 hours and counting. ---
**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 11, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2097 "2012-11-11T07:26:46Z")
I think we got about sixteen inches of snow here. It was preceded by freezing rain. I got around to clearing off the car today, and it took a half-hour. The snow was one thing, but then there was a quarter-inch of ice on the windshield! Now it’s down to twenty below. I agree with **Cat Whisperer** : this is too much winter, far too soon. ---
**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 11, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2098 "2012-11-11T07:51:21Z")
Yikes. You can keep it. ---
**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 11, 2012, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2099 "2012-11-11T09:14:57Z")
Lest we forget. Thank you ladies and gentlemen of our Canadian Forces. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2012, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2100 "2012-11-11T11:10:03Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Lest we forget. > > Thank you ladies and gentlemen of our Canadian Forces. Amen. I always spend this day thinking about my Grandfather, who was Canadian but flew in the RAF. He was part of the Ferry Command which brought planes over to Britian. His plane crashed or was shot down (still unclear) on his last mission before he was going to take leave. It was August, 1941. My father was six weeks old. Lest we forget. * * * I am going to go to the services at Victory Square in Vancouver this morning. I might also go down to Canada place and watch the torch lighting at 8 am. I am bringing my son with me this year, it is the first year since he started school that I am able to bring him to a cenotaph service. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/2101 "2012-11-11T14:17:20Z")
We’re going to a ceremony today. Velociraptor is in Cubs and I somehow signed myself up as a leader so I have to get us sorted out here. I haven’t gone to a ceremony since I was in Guides myself, though every year I make a point of watching the one from Ottawa on tv. [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=104) [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=106)