# 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:** 95
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1881 "2013-08-06T02:50:42Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > I don’t really contribute to this thread because I read what other people have written and end up feeling stupid in comparison. No one said that this group is limited to the ‘smart’ Canadians. Otherwise, I’d have no one to chat with!😃 ---
**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:** [August 6, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1882 "2013-08-06T02:57:51Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Saskatchewan? I think I may have mentioned this before, but if you have people named Dennis in your family, we may be distantly related. (Scary, I know…) :)\ I don’t think we have any Dennis’. I think I’m related to every Mennonite in Canada, though. 🙂 > [@Sunspace](#): > > I may have to come and pester you in Alberta… 🙂 You really should. You have to be prepared, though - once you come out here, you might never want to go back. It’s happened to people before. 😃 > [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > I don’t really contribute to this thread because I read what other people have written and end up feeling stupid in comparison. \ Hey, they let me in here! And I abuse smileys like there’s no tomorrow! 😛 > [@Leaffan](#): > > I hear the weather’s good there in the fall. > > But we’ve been through that a hundred times or more. Lyrics aside, it is really nice here in the fall. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 6, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1883 "2013-08-06T03:21:39Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I hear the weather’s good there in the fall. > > But we’ve been through that a hundred times or more. I got a friend you can go to workin’ for. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1884 "2013-08-09T17:13:13Z")
[H&M pulls fashion headdresses from Canadian shelves for being too offensive](http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/h-m-pulls-fashion-headdresses-canadian-shelves-getting-080012083.html) (to three people). Interesting world we live in. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1885 "2013-08-10T01:47:39Z")
A long shot: Anyone remember Mother’s Pizza? Probably only a Calgary chain. What I’m after is the correct recipe for ‘Pizza on a bun’. Damn, I have a craving! A half slab of french bread with some form of garlic butter, a tangy tomato sauce, and other pizza toppings. I know I can make a pale substitute, but I’d like the real deal. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1886 "2013-08-10T01:50:39Z")
Mother’s Pizza repped Southern Ontario hard in the 1980s, can’t help with the recipe though. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1887 "2013-08-10T01:59:06Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > Mother’s Pizza repped Southern Ontario hard in the 1980s, can’t help with the recipe though. Concurred. There was a Mother’s Pizza in Sarnia that lasted about 3 or 5 years back in the early 80s. Yeah, I’m no help either. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1888 "2013-08-10T02:23:20Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Concurred. There was a Mother’s Pizza in Sarnia that lasted about 3 or 5 years back in the early 80s. Yes, I have been to Sarnia and dimly recall it was somewhere around Front and Wellington. I’ve also seen a Mother’s Pizza or two east of Toronto up through 1990 (?) or so. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1889 "2013-08-10T05:57:28Z")
[Anti-Keystone Pipeline commercial.](http://business.financialpost.com/2013/08/08/why-the-latest-anti-keystone-pipeline-ad-is-a-low-blow-to-canada/?__lsa=d237-4398) It’s a teeny bit over-the-top. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 10, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1890 "2013-08-10T07:25:15Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > Mother’s Pizza repped Southern Ontario hard in the 1980s, can’t help with the recipe though. Agreed. I ate many Mother’s pizzas in southern Ontario back in the 1980s. No idea about the recipe, but it was good. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1891 "2013-08-10T14:42:14Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > [Anti-Keystone Pipeline commercial.](http://business.financialpost.com/2013/08/08/why-the-latest-anti-keystone-pipeline-ad-is-a-low-blow-to-canada/?__lsa=d237-4398) It’s a teeny bit over-the-top. 🙂 I think it’s **hilarious**! Incredibly stupid, but hilarious! ---
**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:** [August 11, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1892 "2013-08-11T16:00:47Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I’m just happy that at the moment, I’m at a friend’s farm near Lake Simcoe in Ontario… Update: I’m back home in Alberta now. As it was the last few years, this was another driving trip; and though I’ve done it before, there is always something fun and interesting to experience. This time around, I enjoyed a sunshiny morning drive through Lake Superior Provincial Park; discovered that the hot, happenin’ place for Dryden, Ontario’s young people on a Sunday night is the local McDonald’s; and experienced “Rider pride” at a Regina sports bar on Friday night when the Riders took on the Stampeders. Of course, there are downsides. Construction delays are inevitable, and traffic accidents cause other delays–there was a horrific semi-truck accident on Highway 17 west of White River that closed the road in both directions for a while. Most of the trip home between Thunder Bay and Kenora was done in the rain, and driving that route in the rain wasn’t much fun. But overall, I’d say that the “fun and interesting” aspect outweighs the downside. I’d suggest that all Canadians get out and see the country this way–yes, we live in a huge country and it’s usually quicker and easier to fly places, but it seems to me that you can get a better picture of Canada and its people if you take a long drive even just once. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lurker\_Above](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Lurker\_Above](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lurker_Above)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1893 "2013-08-11T16:36:48Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Update: I’m back home in Alberta now. And I’m heading into Calgary next week! For a 2 hour layover on the way to BC. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1894 "2013-08-11T18:42:24Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > there was a horrific semi-truck accident on Highway 17 west of White River that closed the road in both directions for a while. While you were waiting to the east of it, I was waiting to the west of it. (Went out that way for work on Thursday, and spent the next couple of days with a friend on isolated beaches along the North Shore.) ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1895 "2013-08-12T00:15:39Z")
Glad to hear you made it back, **Spoons** - sorry I missed you. Also sorry the game didn’t have a better result, you being in the heart of Riderville! What fine local pub were you gracing with your preaence? The Pipers were in a wee settler’s cabin at a B&B near the Cypress Hills, listening to the game on the Riders App on iPhones, because wee settler’s cabins don’t have tv! Strongly recommend the B&B for anyone travelling in that area: Ghostown Blues, 2 km out of Maple Creek, 20 minutes from the Park. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1896 "2013-08-12T08:03:13Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > While you were waiting to the east of it, I was waiting to the west of it. (Went out that way for work on Thursday, and spent the next couple of days with a friend on isolated beaches along the North Shore.) Well, you should have waved as I went by. 🙂 Seriously, it was not pretty, as you found. We all (eastbound and westbound traffic) had to wait until the diesel fuel that was spilled was cleaned up; and then, going through, we saw the results. The truck’s engine was lying in the westbound lanes, and the cab was an unrecognizable mess. I hope the driver was okay, but I don’t know. > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Glad to hear you made it back, **Spoons** - sorry I missed you. Also sorry the game didn’t have a better result, you being in the heart of Riderville! What fine local pub were you gracing with your preaence? It was the bar at Casino Regina. I headed there as I knew the game would be on TV at the casino bar (and I really don’t know Regina that well, so I didn’t know where else to go), and a cab got me there with no problems. It was fun! I was the only one who wasn’t wearing a green jersey. But the fans were welcoming to a stranger, and in spite of the fact that I lived in Calgary for a number of years, I found myself cheering for the Riders. It was hard not to–it’s great to see a city behind its CFL team. I never saw such fan support when I lived in Calgary or Toronto or Edmonton. When the game was over, I decided to try my luck at the crap table. Let’s just say that I made back my expenses (cab fares and drinks), plus a nice profit. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1897 "2013-08-12T11:32:36Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > The truck’s engine was lying in the westbound lanes, and the cab was an unrecognizable mess. I hope the driver was okay, but I don’t know. “[Michel BROUSSEAU, 58, from Ville-Marie QC, was taken to Wilson Memorial General hospital.](http://www.wawa-news.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18612:marathon-hwy-17-near-cash-lake-rd-1-lane-closed&catid=128:weather&Itemid=253)” ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1898 "2013-08-12T13:47:55Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > When the game was over, I decided to try my luck at the crap table. Let’s just say that I made back my expenses (cab fares and drinks), plus a nice profit. 😃 Glad to hear the night wasn’t a total loss! ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1899 "2013-08-12T14:32:18Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > It was fun! I was the only one who wasn’t wearing a green jersey. But the fans were welcoming to a stranger, and in spite of the fact that I lived in Calgary for a number of years, I found myself cheering for the Riders. It was hard not to–it’s great to see a city behind its CFL team. I never saw such fan support when I lived in Calgary or Toronto or Edmonton. Two stats tidbits: 1. The Roughriders rank third in Canada amongst professional sports franchises for sales of team memorabilia, ranking behind the Habs and the Leafs. They outsell all the other Canadian NHL teams, all the other CFL teams, the Raptors and the Jays. 2. A few years ago, there was a stat floating around that the Riders outsell all but the top six teams in the NFL. So go to the online Rider store, and gear up for your next trip through Regina! ---
**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:** [August 12, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1900 "2013-08-12T17:42:09Z")
The Roughriders are hugely popular because in Sask you are pretty much limited in recreational activities to rooting for the Roughriders or watching your dog run away toward the horizon for an afternoon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=94) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=96)