# 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:** 33
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/642 "2025-04-15T21:34:45Z")
Wednesday’s French debate has been moved from 8 pm to 6 pm due to an important Canadiens hockey game. [Canada election: Singh, Blanchet want French debate rescheduled over Habs game](https://www.ctvnews.ca/federal-election-2025/article/singh-calls-for-french-language-debate-to-be-rescheduled-due-to-conflict-with-habs-game/) ---
**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 15, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/643 "2025-04-15T23:29:40Z")
Totally reasonable. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/644 "2025-04-15T23:38:54Z")
This is Canada, after all. (Years ago I was watching a scotties curling match on CBC that went to extra ends. CBC made the NBA delay the start of the Vancouver Grizzlies game against LA until the curling was done. I had this vision of two guys in an LA sports bar going: “What’s curling? Why isn’t our game on?!?” ---
**Author:** ![Slight\_Off\_Hand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@Slight\_Off\_Hand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slight_Off_Hand)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/645 "2025-04-16T10:55:26Z")
Well, we also changed liquor laws for a hockey game. We know what’s important! > **[Where you can grab beer in Canada to watch the men’s gold hockey game -...](https://globalnews.ca/news/1166850/where-you-can-grab-beer-in-canada-to-watch-the-mens-gold-hockey-game/)** > > When Team Canada faces off against Sweden for the men's hockey gold Sunday, chances are you'll be able to enjoy some early morning brews. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2025, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/646 "2025-04-16T11:43:07Z")
> # **Nearly 900,000 fewer people went to the U.S. in March as cross-border travel plummets** > > ## Data shows one of worst year-over-year drops recorded outside of COVID-19 crisis [https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cross-border-trips-us-900-thousand-1.7511090](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cross-border-trips-us-900-thousand-1.7511090) ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/647 "2025-04-18T22:56:54Z")
I finished voting at the advanced poll. There were quite a few people there, more than I have seen in the past. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/648 "2025-04-18T23:44:00Z")
I’m sure mine is wending it’s away across the ocean may airmail ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/649 "2025-04-19T23:43:37Z")
I voted in the advance poll on Friday (yesterday.) ---
**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:** [April 20, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/650 "2025-04-20T03:58:38Z")
What kind of stupid is this. Does he think to sway any voter with this trivia? [https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-scrap-plastics-ban-1.7514037](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-scrap-plastics-ban-1.7514037) ---
**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:** [April 20, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/651 "2025-04-20T19:18:34Z")
Is China trying to tell us something? Spotted on Facebook today: [![](https://i.imgur.com/Q6N3Xp7.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Q6N3Xp7.jpeg) ---
**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:** [April 21, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/652 "2025-04-21T02:55:53Z")
I week to go …is this over yet? > **[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:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/653 "2025-04-24T16:24:49Z")
The OQLF (Quebec’s language police - “tongue troopers”) have struck again. After removing “Stop” from all stop signs (using “Arret” instead), they have now gone after the “Go Canadiens Go” on the digital displays on the front of buses. They have been displayed for years, but one complaint recently to the OQLF has made them change “Go” to “Allez”. [PQ stands by English slogan rejected by OQLF, says ‘we’ve been using Go Habs Go for 100 years’ | Montreal Gazette](https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article894384.html) ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/654 "2025-04-24T16:44:02Z")
Plamondon has found great political gains jumping on the “anti-woke” train and even burying their separatist competitor (the dying, leftist Quebec solidaire) with that label. Makes sense that he wouldn’t dare be seen as championing banning “Go Habs Go” from the streets of Montreal. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/655 "2025-04-24T20:12:11Z")
[51st State? No Way! EH! EH! A Canadian Musical ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhA3bpjah5k) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/656 "2025-05-04T17:23:34Z")
I have a question for Canadians. I was looking at a map of your country and see, of course names of provinces and territories. In the US there are territories, like Puerto Rico, in which the residents are citizens but non-voting. Is it this way in Canada? Or are all residents voters? ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/657 "2025-05-04T17:32:09Z")
People born in the territories are Canadian citizens with both representation in the House and full voting rights. For example Mark Carney (our current Prime Minister) was born in the Northwest Territories. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/658 "2025-05-04T18:16:36Z")
Thanks for the answer. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/659 "2025-05-05T03:40:27Z")
This may be of interest: [How’s Carney doing, Canada?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-s-carney-doing-canada/1017850) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/660 "2025-06-06T14:35:03Z")
I was very surprised to read: > Since October, the province has reported a staggering 2,009 cases of measles associated with the current outbreak – more than all of those in the [United States combined in 2025](https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html), and making Ontario the measles epicentre of the western hemisphere. > > Cases have been climbing by the hundreds over the last month, and three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, according to Public [Health](https://www.theguardian.com/society/health) Ontario… > > Meanwhile, case numbers have also been creeping up in the western province of Alberta, which this week reported a total of 710 confirmed cases, making it the worst year for measles since 1986, when 843 cases were reported. > **[A massive outbreak has made Ontario the measles epicentre of the western...](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/06/measles-outbreak-ontario-canada)** > > Three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, and this week saw the first fatality: a premature baby I didn’t expect to see in Canada the same kind of anti-science craziness about vaccination as a significant part of the U.S. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/661 "2025-06-06T14:44:48Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > I didn’t expect to see in Canada the same kind of anti-science craziness about vaccination as a significant part of the U.S. Many of the Ontario cases are in the Amish/Mennonite region (similar to the outbreak in Texas). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410.md?page=34)