# Welcome to Canadoper Pub, 2019! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022 "2019-01-01T03:52:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [May 2, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/101 "2019-05-02T19:27:43Z")
Shag. “There will be Persians to eat at Fred and Wilma’s shag on Friday night.” ---
**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:** [May 3, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/102 "2019-05-03T01:49:08Z")
That’s what I was thinking of! Thanks. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/103 "2019-05-03T01:50:57Z")
Any other Canadopers getting texts and e-mails purporting to be from CRA with notice of assessment and asking that you “please confirm your identity” by signing in? Scam. I’ve been getting several today. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/104 "2019-05-03T02:03:26Z")
Nope. But the CRA doesn’t do text or email. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/105 "2019-05-03T03:28:48Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Nope. But the CRA doesn’t do text or email. It does send out an e-mail to tell you to check your personal CRA account. Then you have to log on through the CRA website. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2019, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/106 "2019-05-03T04:12:35Z")
I got a text today with a link purporting to be my notice of assessment. A bit odd, given that I actually got my notice of assessment over a month ago. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/107 "2019-05-03T14:49:34Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Any other Canadopers getting texts and e-mails purporting to be from CRA with notice of assessment and asking that you “please confirm your identity” by signing in? Scam. I’ve been getting several today. Yeah, I got one moments after I filed. Hold the message, tap ‘more’, then forward to SPAM (7726) and you’ll get a 20 cent credit. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/108 "2019-05-16T16:29:07Z")
How is everyone? Sorry I have not been around much, this has been a super rough year for my little family. At my new job and we have a big media event next week. I am not working at the Canadian Armed Forces Strategic Response Team for Sexual Misconduct (CSRT-SM). It is pretty interesting, but also kind of crazy. Next week is the latest StatsCan release. I am curious to see if it will make it onto the main page of the board, or just stay tucked in here at the Canadoper Pub. Are we finally going to get summer now? ---
**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:** [May 16, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/109 "2019-05-16T19:15:59Z")
It was 23 and sunny on Sunday at the cool pool so we spent the day doing QA on several bottles of wine from Costco. The Kirkland Brunello de Montelcino with a plate of double creme Brie and baguette was particularly lovely. It’s not quite summer yet as we haven’t had the May long weekend snow yet but I’ll take what I can get. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/110 "2019-05-17T00:31:07Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > How is everyone? Sorry I have not been around much, this has been a super rough year for my little family. At my new job and we have a big media event next week. I am not working at the Canadian Armed Forces Strategic Response Team for Sexual Misconduct (CSRT-SM). It is pretty interesting, but also kind of crazy. Next week is the latest StatsCan release. I am curious to see if it will make it onto the main page of the board, or just stay tucked in here at the Canadoper Pub. > > Are we finally going to get summer now? I know you meant “I am **NOW** working at the Canadian Armed Forces Strategic Response Team for Sexual Misconduct (CSRT-SM).” Anyway, the weather looks OK in Ottawa this weekend. It’s been a rainy spring. Those poor flooded people along the Ottawa River. I can’t even imagine. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/111 "2019-05-17T02:16:57Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Those poor flooded people along the Ottawa River. I can’t even imagine. How are things going with the flooding? That story has pretty much dropped off our newscasts out here. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/112 "2019-05-17T02:46:11Z")
It’s still pretty bad. The waters are finally receding, but there are a lot of homes and cottages that still have 1/3 to 1/2 of their dwelling under the water line: can you imagine? A 400 Km stretch of the river has been closed to all but emergency crafts, and people who need to reach their property. One of the bridges from Ontario to Quebec is to remain closed until August. It’s been quite a spring, not to mention that some of these people were also affected by the tornadoes that blew through here last fall, AND a somewhat lesser flood in 2017. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/113 "2019-05-17T03:59:03Z")
Thanks, **Leaffan**. Good to know that the water is receding, but it sounds like there will be a helluva lot of cleanup and other problems for a long time yet. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/114 "2019-05-17T04:23:59Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Thanks, **Leaffan**. Good to know that the water is receding, but it sounds like there will be a helluva lot of cleanup and other problems for a long time yet. There was a news story of a couple who just recently moved back into their house after the 2017 flood. And now this. ☹ ---
**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:** [May 17, 2019, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/115 "2019-05-17T07:13:55Z")
There has been a lot of flooding in western Québec recently. One casualty has been the Kipawa River’s Broken Bridge (Vive la Kipawa Libre), which has gone missing. If you happen to have it, please return it – no questions asked, for the national park wants it back and has closed the river until it is found. 150 cubic metres per second is atypical spring runoff level, and the highest that I have ever run much of the Kipawa was 357. Well, now the gage is 485, so it’s booming. The national park folks would prefer not to have to deal with paddlers being pinned on Broken Bridge, wherever it might be. The Kipawa River was voted as one of the Seven Jewels of Québec in the CBC poll, so if you get the chance, spend some time paddling there – just not until Broken Bridge is found. Here’s an overview of the river [Kipawa River Notes](http://my.tbaytel.net/culpeper/KipawaRiverNotes.html) and here’s a vid I came across on the web of the white water in a typical spring [Kipawa River Fest 2013 Hollywood Rapid Unknown Kayakers - YouTube](https://youtu.be/FyVG3bE4_g0) ---
**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:** [May 19, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/116 "2019-05-19T02:47:22Z")
Hmm. So we now have four provincial minority governments: BC, New Brunswick, PEI and N&L. That’s the greatest number of minorities I can ever remember at once. Seems like voters are not putting their trust in mainline parties. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/117 "2019-05-20T00:33:24Z")
Lost one of my friends yesterday. He and another kayaker went for a white water run. He got pinned in an undercut crevasse and rescue did not succeed. Hopefully a body recovery team will arrive tomorrow. This is horrific. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/118 "2019-05-20T00:46:58Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Hmm. So we now have four provincial minority governments: BC, New Brunswick, PEI and N&L. > > That’s the greatest number of minorities I can ever remember at once. > > Seems like voters are not putting their trust in mainline parties. Hard to tell just what the election results mean, as the first past the post system can often disguise what people are thinking. For example, if memory serves (and I’m not betting that it does) Alberta sent very few Liberals to Ottawa during the Trudeau pere years. But about 25% of Albertans voted Liberal fairly consistently. Much depends on where the support is, e.g., spread evenly but thinly or concentrated in a riding. And given that we vote without knowing what everyone else is doing or how much our vote will matter, it’s hard to say what the broad outcomes mean. Not saying you’re wrong or that pro-rep is the way to go, but it is hard to determine just what is going on from arithmetical results in which a single vote might result in a win for a candidate. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/119 "2019-05-20T01:03:12Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Lost one of my friends yesterday. He and another kayaker went for a white water run. He got pinned in an undercut crevasse and rescue did not succeed. Hopefully a body recovery team will arrive tomorrow. This is horrific. Oh man. That is so sad. Let’s hope the recovery goes well. Peace, Muffin. ---
**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:** [May 20, 2019, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022/120 "2019-05-20T05:24:45Z")
So sorry to hear it, **Muffin**. Peace be with you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-canadoper-pub-2019/827022.md?page=7)