# Welcome to the Canadoper Café, 2025! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410 "2024-12-31T21:26:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/501 "2025-03-17T21:36:54Z")
I don’t think I would want to be called “sneaky”. But it’s hard to take offence at it. Maybe it would make me tip toe more, or dress like one of the guys from Spy vs. Spy. What do sneaky people look like anyway? Isn’t every politician “sneaky”? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/502 "2025-03-17T21:45:20Z")
Wrong thread ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/503 "2025-03-17T23:22:56Z")
I don’t put any weight on this. But this is the first Economist poll showing the Libs with a small lead. > **[2025 Canada election poll tracker](https://www.economist.com/interactive/2025-canada-election)** > > Monitor our tracker of nationwide polls to see who is ahead in the race ---
**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:** [March 17, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/504 "2025-03-17T23:39:09Z")
This was just on the TV news. I had no idea that Captain Canuck was still around, but he is, and he’s taking on Trump: > **[CTV National News: Celebrating Canadian superhero Captain Canuck](https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/03/17/ctv-national-news-celebrating-canadian-superhero-captain-canuck/)** > > A Canadian superhero is taking a stand against Donald Trump. John Vennavally-Rao on the fictional character Captain Canuck. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/505 "2025-03-18T00:59:53Z")
I don’t know what a 13% is. I’m assuming a climate change denier. You obviously haven’t watched the video and decided to comment on it as if you did and as if it denies climate change. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/506 "2025-03-18T01:09:29Z")
I didn’t comment on the video at all. I clarified that Carney axed the consumer portion only …I see now Polivier wants to kill the major emitter portion as well. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/507 "2025-03-18T01:26:40Z")
The ‘sneaky’ bit in the ads running, is a single word taken entirely out of context from the Jon Stewart interview. Paired with an unconnected photo. It’s so blatantly manipulative, and constructed, especially if you’ve seen the interview. The brazen manipulation, an obvious cut and paste hack job, absolutely screams Trump’s playbook. Yet PP seems blind to it. His non stop, ‘attack, attack’, ‘divide, divide’, screams Trump too, and he’s so clueless he’s the only one not seeing it! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/508 "2025-03-18T01:30:33Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > ETA: This Fraser Institute “news brief” reminds me of a quote, now I’m paraphrasing: Think Tanks are places where you pay smart people money, to write an intellectual narrative of a false consensus, so that you can push your already preconceived and planned polices. Certainly true of right-wing think tanks, which the Fraser Institute most assuredly is. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/509 "2025-03-18T02:05:22Z")
Today’s CBC Interactive Regional Poll still shows a five percent Conservative lead, but they reckon the chance of the Cons winning has dropped from 80% last week to 60% now. > **[Poll Tracker](https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/)** > > If an election were held today, who would win? The CBC News Poll Tracker is your guide to following the polls. Get the latest numbers and analysis on where the political parties stand from Éric Grenier. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/510 "2025-03-18T02:46:49Z")
I thought Canadians were better than that. I don’t necessarily object to the Conservative Party as a party – there may have been a time when I actually voted for them, and I know for sure that I sometimes did for the Ontario PCs – but Poilievre is basically Trump Lite. As befits Canadian culture, he’s a sane version of Trump, lacking the dementia and the ruthless vengeance. But as Mark Carney recently said, he will use the proceeds of reciprocal tariffs to help support Canadians who are jobless or otherwise stricken by the weakened economy, while Poilievre will do what he’s always advocated – use the money to cut taxes for the rich. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/511 "2025-03-18T02:53:15Z")
> [@MacDoc](#): > > I didn’t comment on the video at all. I clarified that Carney axed the consumer portion only …I see now Polivier wants to kill the major emitter portion as well. Around here he’s referred to as PeePee. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/512 "2025-03-18T04:10:52Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I had no idea that Captain Canuck was still around, but he is, and he’s taking on Trump I assumed that Richard Comely was long dead, but I guess he’s only in his 70s. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/513 "2025-03-18T04:16:52Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > Around here he’s referred to as PeePee. I’m liking paper boy lately. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/514 "2025-03-18T04:24:49Z")
Insightful article by Timothy Snyder, American historian and author. Just a couple of excerpts: > When Trump announces an aggressive policy, he attaches to it a grotesque justification. The nonsensical fiction is supposed remain in our minds, as a button to be pushed, so that we accept violence. We will have trouble questioning lies later if we accept them when offered, because that would challenge our own sense of ourselves as not being idiots. > … > The demand for fentanyl is American, including inside the Trump White House itself. The people who live at the epicenters of the addiction crisis tend to vote Republican; without them, Trump would never have become president in the first place. Trump and Vance are attuned to the opioid issue, in the sense that they see the suffering as a political resource, as a wellspring of misery that can be directed against an enemy of choice … This has now become our foreign policy. We are blaming someone else for our problems, and flailing for ever more nonsensical stories: like that Canada is to blame… > … > The amount of fentanyl that passes from Canada to the United States is about 0.2% of the total – not two percent, zero point two percent … the real problem at the border is the illegal smuggling of American guns into Canada. > **[Blame Canada - by Timothy Snyder - Thinking about...](https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-absurdity-is-the-point)** ---
**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:** [March 18, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/515 "2025-03-18T15:59:45Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > **It’s supply and demand, end of story** Who supplies the supply does matter. Developers build for particular segments of markets and charge what they think the market will bear or has to bear because there is no alternative. Housing built to provide decent affordable housing rather than maximum profit looks different, and requires government intervention to supply land cheaply, control profit rates, and use the land differently. Again, see Red Vienna as an example of how housing could be rethought and redone. It does mean refusing to rely on private “market forces” to set prices and costs. This article gives a brief analysis of what happens when governments stop building non-market housing. There is a lot of studies that support this.[The federal government used to build social housing. Then it stopped. How is that going? | CBC Radio](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/federal-social-housing-1.6946376) ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/516 "2025-03-18T16:18:16Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > The ‘sneaky’ bit in the ads running, is a single word taken entirely out of context from the Jon Stewart interview. Paired with an unconnected photo. It’s so blatantly manipulative, and constructed, especially if you’ve seen the interview. > > The brazen manipulation, an obvious cut and paste hack job, absolutely screams Trump’s playbook. And yet, they didn’t even manipulate it _well_. He comes off with a Bugs Bunny kind of vibe. “I’m not going to start a fight, but if you start one, you’ll lose” kind of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/517 "2025-03-18T18:28:06Z")
Canada’s secret weapon in war: coyotes with innovative ACME products and TNT. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/518 "2025-03-18T21:52:42Z")
This just made my day: [Moosehead's crate of 1,461 beers — one-a-day for Trump's term — sells out within days | CBC.ca](https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6680142) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/519 "2025-03-18T23:15:16Z")
For the first time, the CBC Interactive Poll shows the Liberals winning more seats, despite being down 3% overall. > **[Poll Tracker](https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/)** > > If an election were held today, who would win? The CBC News Poll Tracker is your guide to following the polls. Get the latest numbers and analysis on where the political parties stand from Éric Grenier. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/520 "2025-03-19T01:42:27Z")
Now the right wing dings are howling the polls are corrupt yada yada. 🙄 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410.md?page=27)