That’s what we called it as kids. I’m pretty sure I haven’t heard an adult use the term.
Here in the valley and in the Outaouais a case is 24, a box is 12.
We don’t tend to give them to each other as adults, either. 
I’ve never heard it here in Montreal/Quebec.
I had this discussion a few weeks ago with an American co-worker. He laughed when I said we should eat at the food fair stating that was a funny thing to call it. I pointed out that I don’t see many Kings and Queens hanging out at the fast food places to call it a ‘court’. Not many guys with wigs and robes, either. Whereas any fair I’ve been to sells many variety of foods in dedicated stalls or shops. But I suggested that the next time he was up in front of a judge to try and order a hot dog with all the trimmings from him.
Yes.
Agreed. Shag is a type of rug, or an ‘adult’ activity between two or more people on the rug… (…or bed, or in a car, or an airplane lavatory, kitchen counter, the last row of a theater, an elevator, on a church altar, etc.)
Same here in Manitoba. Also, never heard Bunnyhug except from some Saskatchewanians. We call them hoodies in Winnipeg.
I believe “parkade” was copyrighted by the Hudson’s Bay Co., so any publication that used the term in the generic “parking garage” sense and/or without a capital P was informed by the HB company of the transgression.
I don’t know when HBC lost the war. Maybe its U.S. owners didn’t care.
and in Saskatchewan, the power company generates electricity. It’s not hydro made by the hydro company.
Well, is any of it generated at hydroelectric stations? In Ontario, the first really-big generating stations were hydro-electric, and influenced the name.
“Hydro,” and phrases like “paying the hydro bill” were things I had to explain to friends and acquaintances when I moved from Ontario to Alberta.
Of course, I got used to the local lingo, and learned to call it “power” or “the electric bill,” or similar. Which only means that now, when I converse with friends back in Ontario, they wonder why I’m not calling it “hydro.”
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ETA, to explain Sunspace’s comment further: In Ontario, it doesn’t matter if it’s generated by water falling (i.e. hydroelectric power), nuclear-generated, or coal-fired; the majority of Ontarians consider “hydro” to be a synonym for “electric power.” From what I’ve seen on visits back there, the outfit calling itself “Ontario Power Generation” has a long way to go to convince many Ontarians that it is no longer “Ontario Hydro.” Heck, a friend who works for the Toronto utility that buys from OPG and distributes in Toronto just calls it “Toronto Hydro” (the utility’s colloquial name for years), or simply, “the Hydro.”
some of it is, but a large percentage of our power comes from coal-fired plants in the Estevan area.
Not much. It’s about a quarter of the power generated there. AB and SK are mostly coal-power production provinces.
“Hydro”, specifically, is electricity considered as a utility service. No-one says, “Plug that in to the hydro outlet,” but we do say, “Has the hydro bill come?” or “Bob’s kite got caught in the hydro lines, eh?”. The name of the utility serving the municipality of Toronto is “Toronto Hydro”, and there are similar names in other municipalities (Whitby Hydro, Pickering Hydro, etc). In areas without municipal utilities, the retail arm of the former Ontario Hydro sells electricity under the name of Hydro One. .
My wife is Chinese, so she goes there quite frequently for fruit, Chinese vegetables (e.g. 47 different variations on bok choy), frozen dumplings, Chinese snacks (roasted beans, wasabi peas, etc.) and the butcher counter (which sometimes has some decent deals). The bakery sometimes has some nice stuff, and sometimes we spring for live Dungeness crabs if they’re on sale. The last thing we bought there was some Mae Ploy green curry paste and coconut milk.
I think they play seasonal songs around Chinese New Year. Or at least they did at the Steeles/Warden location the last time I was there around CNY.
Good comments, and you are correct.
I’m old, I guess; I still remember when Toronto Hydro was the “Toronto Hydro Electric Commission,” and various manholes around town carried the initials, “THEC.” Nice to know that they (like the Beer Store) finally changed their name to what everybody’s been calling them for years anyway.
About the term “gas bar”: I always associated that with a gas station that was attached to a store as kind of a side line, especially Canadian Tire gas bars (but also Costco, 7/11, etc.). That’s probably just me, though.
Yep, It’s Hydro Ottawa here and Hydro-Quebec across the river which is kinda obvious since they run James Bay hydroelectric plant.