# 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:** 84
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1662 "2012-09-14T20:34:57Z")
> [@Kenm](#): > > It’s all the Tories’ fault for selling Petro-Canada to the capitalist running-dog lackies of imperialist Wall Street. Yeah, I remember the good old days when Petro Canada was run by the government and was twice as awful as it is today. Boy, I wish we had that back. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1663 "2012-09-14T21:23:51Z")
At least if I buy gas at a Shell station now, the money goes to Shell instead of Petro Canada. You know the old saying - “I’d rather push my car five miles than fill up at a Petro Canada station.” 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 14, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1664 "2012-09-14T21:42:02Z")
I was terribly sorry to read that [Peter Lougheed](http://www.calgaryherald.com/Peter+Lougheed+remembered+making+Alberta+arts+priority/7244490/story.html) had died. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1665 "2012-09-14T22:14:19Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > At least if I buy gas at a Shell station now, the money goes to Shell instead of Petro Canada. You know the old saying - “I’d rather push my car five miles than fill up at a Petro Canada station.” 🙂 Right, because supporting[Shell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Nigeria) is just what you want to do… Petro-Can doesn’t hire mercenaries and gun down employees as far as I know… I am perfectly aware that it’s not the same division, but the company gets tarred with the same brush regardless. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1666 "2012-09-14T22:20:37Z")
Okay, maybe Shell is a bad example - how about a Husky station? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1667 "2012-09-15T00:24:33Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Okay, maybe Shell is a bad example - how about a Husky station? It makes no difference, anyway. It’s a fungible resource. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1668 "2012-09-15T00:28:41Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > You know the old saying - “I’d rather push my car five miles than fill up at a Petro Canada station.” 🙂 I’ve never heard that old saying - must be an Alberta thing! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1669 "2012-09-15T00:54:16Z")
It’s about $1.31/L in Ottawa. But all university students get a free bus pass that we’re forced to buy with our tuition (ha! Gov’t town double speak…), so I leave the car at home during the semester. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 15, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1670 "2012-09-15T02:59:55Z")
**I love WestJet!** Overheard in Calgary Airport: “WestJet is paging passenger So-and-So.” “Passenger So-and-So, if you would like to go to Winnipeg tonight, we would suggest you get to Gate Such-and-Such as soon as possible.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1671 "2012-09-15T03:16:20Z")
Luckily, no one ever wants to go to Winnipeg! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1672 "2012-09-15T04:20:25Z")
One of my cousins moved to Winnipeg. After she arrived, she cried. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1673 "2012-09-15T05:11:19Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I’ve never heard that old saying - must be an Alberta thing! 🙂 Yup - Petro-Canada’s head office downtown was also known as Red Square. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 15, 2012, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1674 "2012-09-15T09:07:37Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > One of my cousins moved to Winnipeg. After she arrived, she cried. I never thought I’d be defending Winnipeg, but having passed through there last month, it ain’t all that bad. The Forks area down on the river is quite nice, and the rest of it didn’t look too bad either. Mind you, this was August! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2012, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1675 "2012-09-15T09:54:35Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > One of my cousins moved to Winnipeg. After she arrived, she cried. > [@Leaffan](#): > > I never thought I’d be defending Winnipeg, but having passed through there last month, it ain’t all that bad. The Forks area down on the river is quite nice, and the rest of it didn’t look too bad either. Mind you, this was August! She had been raised on Baffin Island, and more recently had lived on a boathouse on the Mackenzie and at the met station on Sable Island. When her hubby was transferred to northern Ellesmere, half his shift was in Winnipeg, so they bougt a house on Deer Run Drive. She says that when they arrived, there were no deer – just a lot of houses. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2012, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1676 "2012-09-15T10:24:39Z")
Sometimes there’s truth in street names. I’m on Little Norway Road in TBay. At one end of the road is a small fellow from Norway (and a rock from Norway, while at the other end of the road there are ski jumps). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1677 "2012-09-15T14:20:31Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > She had been raised on Baffin Island, and more recently had lived on a boathouse on the Mackenzie and at the met station on Sable Island. When her hubby was transferred to northern Ellesmere, half his shift was in Winnipeg, so they bougt a house on Deer Run Drive. She says that when they arrived, there were no deer – just a lot of houses. All those remote isolated places. Cariboo, muskox, and wild horses, but she’s never seen a deer. Must have been disappointing. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1678 "2012-09-15T14:56:52Z")
Her (our) family has had a hunt camp in New Brunswick on the border with Maine for close to a century, so she’s seen lots of deer. Deer Run Road was not as advertised. Funny you should mention musk ox. Here’s a pic from the front door on Ellesmere that her hubby sent me: [http://imageshack.us/a/img163/1095/goawaythisspotistaken.jpg](http://imageshack.us/a/img163/1095/goawaythisspotistaken.jpg) ---
**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:** [September 15, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1679 "2012-09-15T17:54:14Z")
Holy crap, that’s a musk ox! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1680 "2012-09-15T18:37:36Z")
And those are not sled dogs in the background. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2012-edition-of-the-great-ongoing-canadian-current-events-and-politics-thread/608014/1681 "2012-09-15T20:34:19Z")
**Schrödinger’s TimBit** Took the Piper Cub to a swimming lesson today. He had a good time and was really well-behaved, so as a treat I took him to a Timmy’s drive-through. All the way over, he was debating what to get - two chocolate TimBits, his fave (Mrs Piper has commented that he likes chocolate more than most girls), or the recently discovered Roughriders Doughnut (i.e. a vanilla doughnut with white and green sprinkles). He kept changing his mind, TimBits one moment, Riders doughnut the next. Finally, we got to the order intercom and I said “What’s it to be, Cub?” No reply; turned back and he’s fast asleep, exhausted from the swimming. So I went ahead and bought something for when he wakes up. What will he find when he looks in the Timmies bag, O Dopers? [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=83) [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=85)