# The CanaDoper Café, 2013 edition. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736 "2013-01-01T03:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**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:** [January 25, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/241 "2013-01-25T15:17:11Z")
Well, for Red Blacks, there are the precedents of the New Zealand All Blacks, and the highly successful Laval Rouge et Or, but still, not on my short list. Rush is just goofy, and “Nationals” is already in use by the used-to-be-the Expos. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/242 "2013-01-25T15:19:31Z")
Honestly I didn’t mind Renegades. If they go with Red Blacks the very first thing people will call them is the Red Tapes given they’re from Ottawa. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/243 "2013-01-25T15:43:08Z")
And personally, my top-of-the-list would still be “Rough Riders”. I’m sorry that the Sask Roughriders have vetoed it. What’s wrong with a league having two teams with almost the same nick, anyway? ---
**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:** [January 25, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/244 "2013-01-25T16:47:27Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Long term, get the pipeline built. Oil prices will rise again. Short term, I think you guys need a sales tax. 😛 . Trust you Easterners to try and make us just like you… Next you’ll be saying we should let a Liberal be our Premier and call in the military when it snows in Calgary! I jest. Happy Friday! I suspect it will inevitably happen, but I have to say that since moving here 20 years ago I don’t miss paying pst/hst at all. HST is still a friggin’ snow job AFAIC. Ottawa Rush FTW! They could play “Limelight” everytime they score a touchdown! ---
**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:** [January 25, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/245 "2013-01-25T16:58:49Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > Ottawa Rush FTW! They could play “Limelight” everytime they score a touchdown! Ah yes; living in the fish islands… ---
**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:** [January 25, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/246 "2013-01-25T17:09:46Z")
And in other news, Rob Ford wins his appeal. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/247 "2013-01-25T18:45:52Z")
In other ,other news: Edmonton gives [Oprah](http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/television/Oprah+offers+evening+inspiration/7851898/story.html) truck nuts purse. I now know what to get the girl that has everything…Except oprah. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/248 "2013-01-25T19:02:04Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > 😛 . Trust you Easterners to try and make us just like you… Next you’ll be saying we should let a Liberal be our Premier and call in the military when it snows in Calgary! Calgary could use a better snow removal strategy than “wait for a chinook to melt it” ---
**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:** [January 25, 2013, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/249 "2013-01-25T19:11:31Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Rush is just goofy… As a name for a football team, yes; but at least we’d know who their halftime entertainment would be at their home games. 😃 I see nothing wrong with “Rough Riders,” but if I had to choose from the list, I’d choose “Raftsmen.” It’s a nod to the heritage of the region, which is more than can be said for “Rush.” ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/250 "2013-01-26T02:43:33Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Reading Week, or you just snapped and are getting out, **antonio107**? The law school wants to be different than the rest of the university, so we get our reading week at the end of January. I’m not complaining! It also lines up with the free preview of NHL centre ice, so win-win-win! Re: CFL, I wouldn’t mind “les rouges et noirs.” It’s the least shitty of the options. Hell, call them the Ottawa Russ Jacksons, that’s better! I’ve decided to forever be bitter towards Saskatchewan for their asinine veto. Awesome fan base, wish they would speak up against ownership! ---
**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:** [January 26, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/251 "2013-01-26T04:37:16Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Long term, get the pipeline built. Oil prices will rise again. Short term, I think you guys need a sales tax. No way, man! That’s just wrong! I don’t understand how a pipeline to take bitumen to the US would change the price they’re giving us for it, since it is going to a refinery in the US now - I think I will have to do more research on this. > [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > Well, I could definitely see fit to treating everyone who showed up to a CanaDopefest in Ottawa to a Double Double & a box of TImbits! But no raincheques … you have to show up in person! > > As far as the facewash, I will pass on that … bad memories of gradeschool. > > Seriously, anyone interested in a Winterlude CanadopeFest in Ottawa? > We could talk about how much radio in this city sucks now and how much better it was back in the day. [/endref to other thread] Get off of my lawn … er snowbank! I would _love_ to come! I don’t think I can make it, though. 🙂 > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Well, for Red Blacks, there are the precedents of the New Zealand All Blacks, and the highly successful Laval Rouge et Or, but still, not on my short list. > > Rush is just goofy, and “Nationals” is already in use by the used-to-be-the Expos. The National Lacrosse League team has the Edmonton Rush - it works for a lacrosse team, but maybe you’re right - implying that there is anything fast and furious about football is kind of goofy. 😃 ---
**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:** [January 26, 2013, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/252 "2013-01-26T10:20:12Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > The National Lacrosse League team has the Edmonton Rush - it works for a lacrosse team, but maybe you’re right - implying that there is anything fast and furious about football is kind of goofy. 😃 I’d be worried that a football team with the name of “Rush” couldn’t complete a passing play. Not exactly what you want in Canadian rules football. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/253 "2013-01-26T15:24:28Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > And in other news, Rob Ford wins his appeal. My Facebook is exploding with people flipping out over this, 98% of whom do not understand anything about the process that led to this, could not tell you any substantive about Ford or any other City Hall politician, and in a surprising number of cases do not know what the “City of Toronto” actually is (no, really) even though they live in it. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/254 "2013-01-26T18:36:22Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > My Facebook is exploding with people flipping out over this, 98% of whom do not understand anything about the process that led to this, could not tell you any substantive about Ford or any other City Hall politician, and in a surprising number of cases do not know what the “City of Toronto” actually is (no, really) even though they live in it. Ditto. And we had a Rob Ford question on our “statutory interpretation” final, so they really ought to know better…lol ---
**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:** [January 26, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/255 "2013-01-26T20:50:16Z")
For once, the Premier of Alberta agrees with me - [Alberta can’t rely on resource wealth to balance budget.](http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Alberta+rely+resource+wealth+balance+budget+Redford/7875102/story.html) I think it’s a great idea to start investing in energy technologies that actually have a future. And I very much enjoyed reading about [Dr. Abdullah Saleh](http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/Simons+Globe+trotting+young+development+doctor+finds/7874539/story.html), who has developed a water purification system which will save thousands of lives in sub-Saharan Africa. > [@](#): > > (Dr. Saleh, from the linked article“Why do I do this, instead of getting rich? Isn’t the point of getting rich to be content? I don’t think we get richer by having more money. I think you calculate your level of richness by contentment.” What an admirable person! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/256 "2013-01-27T15:55:09Z")
The Ontario Liberals’ convention just elected Kathleen Wynne as their leader. Wynne will become Ontario’s first female premier and Canada’s first openly gay first minister. I don’t hold with the Ontario Liberals, to say the least, but at least reaching those milestones is a positive development. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/257 "2013-01-27T17:46:58Z")
So, half of the provinces and one territory now have women premiers! The Famous Five must be beaming! ---
**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:** [January 27, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/258 "2013-01-27T21:17:16Z")
Nice to see a more equitable representation of women at the top in politics. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/259 "2013-01-27T23:07:44Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > The Ontario Liberals’ convention just elected Kathleen Wynne as their leader. Wynne will become Ontario’s first female premier and Canada’s first openly gay first minister. > > I don’t hold with the Ontario Liberals, to say the least, but at least reaching those milestones is a positive development. Except that, like Kim Campbell, Wynne’s being left to clean up the mess of an increasingly unpopular incumbent. It’ll be impressive if she wins her own mandate. If not, I give about as much as a crap about her as I did about Ernie Eves… I was trying to think back about anything I could remember about Ernie Eves, and all I could come up with was “we had a reduced to clear meat cookout during that east coast blackout, and I think the news praised him because we didn’t turn into Mad Max.” 😃 ---
**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:** [January 27, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/260 "2013-01-27T23:43:38Z")
I’m pretty sure the Liberals won’t win the next election, but I also said that in what, 2003, 2007, and 2011. It really is a GTA versus the rest of the province situation. And why in the hell the Liberals continue to win in Toronto, I have no idea: none what ever. Between eHealth, ORNGE, full day kindergarten, cancellation of two power plants, the green energy FIT program, the health care premium tax, HST, … my God the list goes on forever. This is possibly the worst provincial government in the history of Canada. Bob Rae’s Ontario NDP government wasn’t even as bad. Give Tim Hudak a chance Torontonians; could it possibly be worse? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=14)