# 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:** 42
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/821 "2013-04-01T00:51:29Z")
> [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](#): > > The fact that Ontario has had spectacularly awful leadership since my family had the good sense to get the hell out in the mid-80s does not mean that every subsequent leader of every province outside of Ontario is some kind of superhero. Who said it did? Again, I am not saying Klein was a GREAT Premier. I am saying he wasn’t the unmitigated evil bastard he’s made out to be. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/822 "2013-04-01T03:21:59Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Who said it did? Again, I am not saying Klein was a GREAT Premier. I am saying he wasn’t the unmitigated evil bastard he’s made out to be. Part of what you’re fighting against is something you probably don’t know about - living in Alberta, we’re living with the Deification of Klein, and the convenient forgetting of what he actually did. No, he wasn’t the AntiChrist, but he wasn’t Saint Klein, either, which a whole lot of Albertans are forgetting or never knew. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/823 "2013-04-01T04:11:04Z")
Klien? He’s the guy who’s social conscience was so great that he gave one way tickets out of Alberta to welfare recipients. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/824 "2013-04-01T05:17:05Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Klien? He’s the guy who’s social conscience was so great that he gave one way tickets out of Alberta to welfare recipients. To be fair, those were only given out to Eastern creeps and bums. 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 3, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/825 "2013-04-03T00:33:30Z")
[Heh heh heh.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BG4s00yCQAAfchq.png) (We’ll just forget about the part where we get snow and cold temps for the rest of the week.) I was out starting to clean out my beds in my yard today! ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/826 "2013-04-03T01:12:25Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > [Heh heh heh.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BG4s00yCQAAfchq.png) (We’ll just forget about the part where we get snow and cold temps for the rest of the week.) I was out starting to clean out my beds in my yard today! I wish I could have. I want to try to deal with them early (as early as I can) this year because it seems like I never get in there before the weeds start taking over and then it’s an endless fight to keep them from overtaking everything I want to grow. My front bed is a complete disaster this season. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/827 "2013-04-03T02:23:21Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > [Heh heh heh.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BG4s00yCQAAfchq.png) (We’ll just forget about the part where we get snow and cold temps for the rest of the week.) I was out starting to clean out my beds in my yard today! ☹ We can’t even \*see \*the flower beds yet - there’s still a foot of snow in my yard. Although it has gone down from the three feet that was there a month ago. _And_ we can actually see to back out of the driveway now that the head-high piles along the side have melted back some. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/828 "2013-04-03T13:25:02Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > [Heh heh heh.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BG4s00yCQAAfchq.png) (We’ll just forget about the part where we get snow and cold temps for the rest of the week.) I was out starting to clean out my beds in my yard today! Pretty annoying to have the warmest day of the year (yesterday) immediately followed up by driving to work in moderate flurries. :mad: ---
**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:** [April 3, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/829 "2013-04-03T15:50:43Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > [Heh heh heh.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BG4s00yCQAAfchq.png) (We’ll just forget about the part where we get snow and cold temps for the rest of the week.) I was out starting to clean out my beds in my yard today! And here I was wondering why you were taking your beds outside to clean them. I was picturing some western Canadian ritual of dragging your mattresses outside in the spring and beating them with a stick or something. :smack: ---
**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:** [April 3, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/830 "2013-04-03T15:56:09Z")
It might cure a bedbug infestation… ---
**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:** [April 3, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/831 "2013-04-03T16:49:43Z")
No need – Klien died. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/832 "2013-04-03T18:03:05Z")
> [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](#): > > Pretty annoying to have the warmest day of the year (yesterday) immediately followed up by driving to work in moderate flurries. :mad: Well, the snow’s pretty much melted - that’s good. I can get back to work on my beds! ---
**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:** [April 3, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/833 "2013-04-03T18:36:41Z")
[I don’t like you anymore.](http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/sk-40_metric_e.html) ---
**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:** [April 3, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/834 "2013-04-03T19:39:21Z")
Aw, dammit. I knew I gloated too much. ☹ ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/835 "2013-04-06T05:14:17Z")
A surprising list of notables at former Premier Klein’s funeral - Prime Minister Harper, the Right Honourable Jean Chrétien, Premier Alison Redford, former Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow, former Ontario Premier Mike Harris, and of course, Mayor Naheed Nenshi. That’s an…interesting list. 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/836 "2013-04-06T05:35:24Z")
Cast of a new reality show? Every week they’re locked in a room till they can come to a unanimous agreement on a public policy issue. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/837 "2013-04-06T09:13:35Z")
Canoe Club BBQ tomorrow. Whoever gets there first has to shovel a way to the door. (And it won’t be me, for I’ll show up a little late, because I’ll be skiing – supposed to get a few centimeters today). ---
**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:** [April 6, 2013, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/838 "2013-04-06T09:14:46Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > A surprising list of notables at former Premier Klein’s funeral - Prime Minister Harper, the Right Honourable Jean Chrétien, Premier Alison Redford, former Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow, former Ontario Premier Mike Harris, and of course, Mayor Naheed Nenshi. That’s an…interesting list. 🙂 What, not Castro? He showed up for Trudeau’s funeral. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/839 "2013-04-06T09:22:30Z")
Klein wasn’t a communist. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/840 "2013-04-06T13:59:14Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > A surprising list of notables at former Premier Klein’s funeral - Prime Minister Harper, the Right Honourable Jean Chrétien, Premier Alison Redford, former Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow, former Ontario Premier Mike Harris, and of course, Mayor Naheed Nenshi. That’s an…interesting list. 🙂 Surely that is precisely the sort of list one would have expected. Politicians don’t hold partisan grudges nearly as much as voters do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=43)