[manny_santos]

Pizza Slut is the shittiest. Goo (mozza filled crust) and gop (toppings).
Pizza Pizza: never eat the "by the slice" unless it is right at lunchtime. Your slice might have been fresh back when Abe Lincoln was President.
Dominoes: too much sauce, not enough cheese. burnt.

Personally, I like the "independents" for pizza. I especially miss Piazza Romana in Pointe Claire Village (Quebec), and for pizza by-the-slice, gotta go with Al Taib (Montreal, at Guy and de Maisonneuve). Here in London, I am partial to "Flying Tomato" and "Byron Pizza".

Not to get too far off topic, but the best place in London is Cousin Vinny's. $2.15 + tax for a jumbo slice of pizza on Tuesdays. I was just there tonight at 11 PM, and it was freshly made. The owner is a great guy, and I used to work with their delivery guy. Stobie's is also great, but a little more expensive.

You can't be more right about Pizza Pizza. The independent side isn't always great though. Angelo's in London, like Pizza Pizza, is best at lunchtime. At dinnertime I have seen pizza that has been sitting out for years and is hard enough to cut wood with.

[MolsonExport]

^hehe. Yeah, you need a mitre saw to work your way through PizzaPizza slices outside of lunchtime.

[highdensitysprawl]

Where is this "Roi de la Bière", and why have I not heard of it??

I agree, Boreale is the Bee's knees. I can pick up a six pack for 7.39 at my local dep. Can't beat that price.

I actually have a good friend who works for Boreale.. he got me two kegs of beer for my wedding for free. I am forever indebted to him.

Le Roi de la Biere is on the street that you turn north on once you hit the marina etc on rue Principale. It is on the left at a corner maybe 300 m north of the marina. It is technically a 'dep'.

Speaking of beer in Aylmer, is that restaurant between the 'British' and the marina any good for beer...can't remember the name of it but it is in an old house and near that place that peelers go to retire.

[harls]

^ not sure which resto you're referring to... Ambrosia?

[highdensitysprawl]

^ not sure which resto you're referring to... Ambrosia?


No, not the Ambrosia...I'm talking about this place.

http://www.ratebeer.com/Places/ShowPlace.asp?PlaceID=394

I trust that you used the word 'resto' to get my blood boiling...that and the words 'mains' 'appies' 'cappo' are some of the words in the english language that get my blood pressure up...a certain SSP poster uses them very often and I get a very pretentious vibe from them. You don't give me a pretentious vibe:)

[Acajack]

No, not the Ambrosia...I'm talking about this place.

http://www.ratebeer.com/Places/ShowPlace.asp?PlaceID=394

I trust that you used the word 'resto' to get my blood boiling...that and the words 'mains' 'appies' 'cappo' are some of the words in the english language that get my blood pressure up...a certain SSP poster uses them very often and I get a very pretentious vibe from them. You don't give me a pretentious vibe:)

I think this is the place that in its advertising boasts of having the widest selection of different beers of any bar in Quebec.

Now, “resto” is a very common term for restaurant in French (likely how harls picked it up), but what do mains, appies and cappo mean?

[highdensitysprawl]

I think this is the place that in its advertising boasts of having the widest selection of different beers of any bar in Quebec.

Now, “resto” is a very common term for restaurant in French (likely how harls picked it up), but what do mains, appies and cappo mean?

Sorry for any misunderstanding but the 4 terms I listed really get on my nerves.

Mains = Main course
Appies = Appetizers
Cappo= frothy coffee

If they have the widest selection, I'll have to check it out next time I'm in Aylmer.....hopefully, they have some nice cask conditioned ales.

[Acajack]

Sorry for any misunderstanding but the 4 terms I listed really get on my nerves.

Mains = Main course
Appies = Appetizers
Cappo= frothy coffee

If they have the widest selection, I'll have to check it out next time I'm in Aylmer.....hopefully, they have some nice cask conditioned ales.

Thanks for the info. Now I’ll know how to sound cool if I venture into an anglo hispter haunt on the Ottawa side! ;)

[harls]

Haha... didn't mean to come of all pretentious :D Acajack's right, I just picked that up from living in Quebec for so long.

I have seen this L'autre Oeil place, but never tried it. I hear it's good from my non-snooty friends.

[highdensitysprawl]

Haha... didn't mean to come of all pretentious :D Acajack's right, I just picked that up from living in Quebec for so long.

I have seen this L'autre Oeil place, but never tried it. I hear it's good from my non-snooty friends.

Glad to hear that we are all on the same non-snooty page. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this L'autre Oeil place seems to be on the few 'pub' style places in the Outaouais (or at least what an anglo perceives a pub to be) ...aside from that place in Chelsea near the entrance to the Gatineau Park

[Acajack]

Glad to hear that we are all on the same non-snooty page. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this L'autre Oeil place seems to be on the few 'pub' style places in the Outaouais (or at least what an anglo perceives a pub to be) ...aside from that place in Chelsea near the entrance to the Gatineau Park

Not too much in the way of Royal Oak/Barley Mow-type places it is true. Most places to go for a drink in Gatineau would be best described as café-style bars. Although the traditional French names café/bistro/brasserie are now meaningless and often indistinguishable from one another in Quebec.

Same with many “pubs” in Ontario I suppose, the menus of which have little to do with traditional pub fare like meat pies, etc.

[vid]

I wouldn't eat a meat pie at a pub. Lord knows what in the thing...

[Rico Rommheim]

I wouldn't eat a meat pie at a pub. Lord knows what in the thing...

You've never even been in a pub. :koko:

[SpongeG]

lol

[MolsonExport]

I wouldn't eat a meat pie at a pub. Lord knows what in the thing...

Which pub was that?

[waterloowarrior]

today at the Sens game
(http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Stars+shine+Sens+game/1379106/story.html)

http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.ottawacitizen.com/1379118.bin
http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.ottawacitizen.com/sens+lightning/1379211/1379216.bin
Stars shine at Sens game


THE OTTAWA CITIZENMARCH 11, 2009 9:07 PMBE THE FIRST TO POST A COMMENT

OTTAWA-Senators fans are basking in the celebrity spotlight tonight as singers Carrie Underwood and Hilary Duff have been spotted among the rest of the Sens Army at Scotiabank Place, where the Senators are hosting the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Duff, a multi-platinum selling pop singer and actress, has been romantically linked to newly acquired Sens forward Mike Comrie, and Underwood — a Grammy Award winning country singer and former American Idol champ — is reportedly dating Mike Fisher.

Stay tuned for our story on the game’s outcome. :D

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

[mr.John]

Seen at the last Canadien's game chearing for the Kostitsyn brothers

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5688/scarfacealpacinotonymonha9.jpg

[MolsonExport]

^muh hahahah! :D

[Rico Rommheim]

ROMMHEIM MEMO - - - - March 11, 2009

Good evening,

To those 'Canadians' who'd like to be or just pretend to be Americans because of Barack Obama's presidency, go fuck yourselves.


Thank you.

[circle33]

I have both Fisher and Comrie as late round picks in my pool. While they haven't been producing points at all (52 between them both, 3 more than the illustrious Nik Antropov has on his own), there's probably a pun about scoring in there somewhere.

[vid]

I didn't know the indefinite article could be so definitive. :(

[harls]

why are there more employees at Future Shop then there are customers?

[HomeInMyShoes]

^That's going on there too?

[SpongeG]

they don't last that long anyway

people get fired pretty fast there if they don't sell enough

[highdensitysprawl]

they don't last that long anyway

people get fired pretty fast there if they don't sell enough

My advice with Future Shop is if you don't know much about the technology that you want to buy, make sure you bring a family or friend with you to FS...otherwise the BS merchants on commission at FS will try and take you for a ride and upsell you beyond your wildest dreams.

[waterloowarrior]

My advice with Future Shop is if you don't know much about the technology that you want to buy, make sure you bring a family or friend with you to FS...otherwise the BS merchants on commission at FS will try and take you for a ride and upsell you beyond your wildest dreams.

Sir that $40, 5 year warranty on your $25 DVD Drive is going to pay for itself. The peace of mind is worth it.

[harls]

:laugh:

[vid]

why are there more employees at Future Shop then there are customers?

To justify charging $120 for a USB cable?

[highdensitysprawl]

Sir that $40, 5 year warranty on your $25 DVD Drive is going to pay for itself. The peace of mind is worth it.

I once went to buy one of those things that keeps your coffee warm (a mini hot plate) and it was on sale for something like $9 (reduced from $15) and they tried to sell me an extended warranty for $12...I glared at them, told him to listen to himself trying to upsell that crap, gave the sales guy the thing back, and walked out muttering to myself.

I then went to the Source and bought an identical thing w/o the upsell speil on the extended warranty.

[Rico Rommheim]

Ok I just saw Jesus de montreal today in Class, this film was really really really good.


By far the best canadian film I've seen so far.


I mean, wow!

[Acajack]

Ok I just saw Jesus de montreal today in Class, this film was really really really good.


By far the best canadian film I've seen so far.


I mean, wow!

It was the first non-Hollywood, repertory film I saw in my life, and remains my favourite Denys Arcand film. I like it better than the more celebrated Decline and Invasions movies.

[HomeInMyShoes]

^^You just saw it?!? I've probably seen it five or six times over the years. One of the best Canadian films ever for me.

[harls]

I just saw that Hamburger Helper commercial with the talking dismembered hand telling the mom how you can feed the entire family a meal for under $10. Happy family, happy budget! Looks like they're trying to convince us that ground cow and chemical cheese is good for you, ya know.. because of these 'tough economic times'... Never mind that your house will stink of putrid ass toxin later that evening thanks to a happy farting family.

[vid]

For 8 dollars, I can make enough kraft dinner for 3 people with REAL macaroni noodles and REAL cheddar cheese.

For 6.50 I can make five days worth of meatless chili for myself.

[MolsonExport]

for $0, I can fill up a bucket with dog shit.

[harls]

That's what it is. Just dried and put into powdered form. With about 20 cups of salt.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Mmmm....salt.

[mr.John]

Meatless chili ? please provide the recipe, and there better not be tofu involved

[vid]

Tomato sauce, kidney beans, jalapenos and lots of cayenne pepper...... put in pot. Heat for some amount of time. It's basically a normal chili without any meat or meat substitutes.

I settle for very little and cook very badly. :)

[mr.John]

That's it? I was expecting something elaborate,you my friend are no Paul Prudhomme

[vid]

Elaborate? In my house, a complicated dinner is one where you have to put the margarine in after removing the Lipton Sidekicks from the heat.

[Ayreonaut]

Imperial margarine at that, talk about complicated.

I use butter, I'm such a badass.

[highdensitysprawl]

That's it? I was expecting something elaborate,you my friend are no Paul Prudhomme

He's obviously suffering from living in a city with little in the way of restos....ditto goes for poor proletariat coffee in the City at the top of Superior.

[harls]

Today I cancelled my contract with Bell Mobility (apparently you have to notify them a month in advance that your contract is over). I wanted to keep my number available for whichever gang of shysters I decide to go with later on, and the woman at Bell told me, "Make sure you do not transfer your phone number until after such-and-such date, or you will have to pay a $100 fee". WTF is with all of these nonsense fees? Fee for activation (service rep hits enter on keyboard, that'll be 35 dollars, sir); Fee for scratching your ass on Tuesday night, fee for mentioning fee fee, what a bunch of garbage. Hot, rotten, steaming garbage.

[MolsonExport]

^how "mobile" of Bell Mobility.

[Rico Rommheim]

Never owned a cell phone but I'm getting one tomorrow. Any suggestions, I'm on a shoe string budget.


and for fuck sake, can someone tell me what the fuck 'pwned' means?

[MolsonExport]

pawned? maybe from a pawnshop? or perhaps, preowned?

[Ayreonaut]

It's "owned", apparently replacing the 'o' with the nearby 'p' is teh coolz. It's also acceptable to replace the 'ed' with a simple 't'...pwnt!

[highdensitysprawl]

Today I cancelled my contract with Bell Mobility (apparently you have to notify them a month in advance that your contract is over). I wanted to keep my number available for whichever gang of shysters I decide to go with later on, and the woman at Bell told me, "Make sure you do not transfer your phone number until after such-and-such date, or you will have to pay a $100 fee". WTF is with all of these nonsense fees? Fee for activation (service rep hits enter on keyboard, that'll be 35 dollars, sir); Fee for scratching your ass on Tuesday night, fee for mentioning fee fee, what a bunch of garbage. Hot, rotten, steaming garbage.

That $35 activiation fee can be negotiated as a terms of signing up with a company. If you bundle your services (in other words you basically have a Rogers or Bell tattoo on you) you can negotiate all sorts of deals...they want your business and they want you indebted to them.

If you don't use a cell much, 7-11 have good Pay as you Go phones with decent rates and no contracts. Ditto for Petro Canada.

[harls]

I know that if you sign up with Fido online, they waive the 35 dollar activation fee. They bury this information in a link at the bottom of the page somewhere, like it's a treasure hunt and clicking it is a 'reward'.

[MolsonExport]

speaking of pre-owned, doesn't bother you that instead of "used cars" we have "pre-owned vehicles"? Pre-owned? wtf is that? It is a used car (very often, from a rental fleet)...and I have no faith whatsoever in their b.s. "optimum" or "certified" crap.

I am not old; I am "post-young".
The bread is not stale, it is "post-fresh"
That bike is not second-hand, it is pre-used.

[mr.John]

Question ..does anybody in Canada give a shit about March madness? you would think by watching those brown nosing American wannabes on TSN,Rogers,The fan....and listening to radio shows (hardcore sports radio) that all of Canada can't wait for this pile of over-hyped American crap to begin. Getting back to hardcore sports radio, what a train wreck that station is,their announcers have to be the biggest collection of untalented losers in North America

[kirjtc2]

Only because they added it to Pro-Line.

Seriously....Canadians are so disinterested in regular season NCAA ball that the networks don't even show it, and then we're supposed to go all ga-ga over March Madness? I don't get it either.

[mr.John]

Will Puke win it all,or will the Tar Pits stage an upset, and what will Godzilla do this year ,these are question that have to be answered

[Acajack]

Question ..does anybody in Canada give a shit about March madness? you would think by watching those brown nosing American wannabes on TSN,Rogers,The fan....and listening to radio shows (hardcore sports radio) that all of Canada can't wait for this pile of over-hyped American crap to begin. Getting back to hardcore sports radio, what a train wreck that station is,their announcers have to be the biggest collection of untalented losers in North America

Amen Alleluia! Yes, the wannabe Yanks have been a huge problem in Canadian sports journalism for some time (since the early to mid 80s I would say). There are a few exceptions but for the most part the wannabes are in control of the medium.

For example, seems that in recent weeks every time I turned Rogers SportsNet on they had U.S. college hockey games playing. Now, I know that the calibre of play is pretty good in the Hockey East conference in particular, and that many Canadians play there, but geez, how much coverage of CIS hockey do we see in a given year? Even CHL junior hockey, which is probably in the top five most popular sports genres in the country, gets totally anemic national TV coverage outside of the Memorial Cup.

And it’s not just live coverage that is lacking, it’s also the billing that Canadian stuff gets on sports news programs. As has been said, if you watch Canadian sports news in English, you’d think the entire country (which is called Canada, in case anyone forgot) is coming to a screeching halt because of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

Of course, the just-completed CIS men’s basketball championship just ended, and it didn’t merit the saturation media coverage that March Madness is getting and will get from the Canadian media. Perhaps this is part of the reason that the championship game last weekend only drew 8,000 people to the 20,000 seat Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, despite the presence of the hometown powerhouse Carleton Ravens.

Note that I am not a person with a narrow view, and I recognize that the NCAA tourney has an excellent calibre of play. It’s a compelling thing to follow for some people. I am not much of a basketball fan but am a big follower of World Cup Soccer, where there are no Canadians taking part of course.

My problem isn’t so much that people take an interest in stuff from the States (or other countries I guess - but let's be frank it's almost always American stuff), but rather that the upshot is that Canadian stuff has to be blatantly and deliberately ignored.

[kirjtc2]

My problem isn’t so much that people take an interest in stuff from the States (or other countries I guess - but let's be frank it's almost always American stuff), but rather that the upshot is that Canadian stuff has to be blatantly and deliberately ignored.

It might not just be a US thing. How many European soccer tournaments do the networks say we have to care about?

[mr.John]

What's even more annoying these windbags who are reporting on March madness don't know their ass from their elbows when it comes to college basketball..."I got TEXAS A&W and UCLUCY in my bracket" shut the fuck up and go report on curling

[manny_santos]

"I got TEXAS A&W and UCLUCY in my bracket" shut the fuck up and go report on curling

Why didn't anybody tell me about Texas A&W?! I should've gone there and eaten Teen Burgers every day! :D

The sad thing with university sports, except for football, most people don't care at all. Western was playing against Carleton in the CIS basketball semi-final (and almost won until Carleton scored 2 points right on the buzzer), and until that night nobody at Western cared about the basketball team. Suddenly there was a huge drunken crowd at the campus bar cheering them on.

The crowd for this past weekend's Queen's Cup, the all-Ontario hockey tournament which Western won, was even more pathetic. Empty seats abounding.

[Acajack]

It might not just be a US thing. How many European soccer tournaments do the networks say we have to care about?

The only soccer events from abroad that would benefit from anything close to saturation TV coverage similar to NCAA basketball (or football around bowl time) here in Canada would be the World Cup and the Euro tournament. Note that they only happen every four years.

There is actually very little TV coverage in Canada of European club soccer, even of the world’s best leagues like the English Premier League. You do get a little bit of coverage on TSN of select European tournaments like the Champions League with top clubs from various countries playing against each other. But other than that, the pickings are very slim.

Certainly when you combine the massive coverage from U.S. media that cross the border into Canada, then add on the coverage from Canadian media (both live and in sports news shows and talk shows), one can say that the phenomenon is much, much more a U.S.-centric one than “foreign-centric” or even “Euro-centric”.

[mr.John]

A national embarrassment

http://sales.ctv.ca/sales/sales2008/images/sportscentre-web.jpg

[Acajack]

I actually have issues with Darren Dutchyshen - how does a guy from rural Saskatchewan end up with an accent (obviously fake) that sounds like a bad cross between Boston, Mass and the Bronx?

[harls]

There are a few prairie boys on the sports networks.. Darren Dreger used to do sports in Brandon.. same with Carlos Machado (is he even still around)?

[Acajack]

There are a few prairie boys on the sports networks.. Darren Dreger used to do sports in Brandon.. same with Carlos Machado (is he even still around)?

Carlos Machado... now there's a good Prairie farm boy name!

[harls]

Oops. Ok, how about 'sportscasters who did a stint in Brandon'? there we go.

The station where those two worked was pretty cutting edge. I think they used 27 inch TV's over their shoulders to showcase sports highlights.

Once they got promoted to the big Winnipeg market, they got themselves some fancy computer graphics.

[Acajack]

Oops. Ok, how about 'sportscasters who did a stint in Brandon'? there we go.



Sorry, didn't mean to burn you there bud. But Carlos could've been from Steinbach or Melfort, who knows?

[harls]

Sure dressed like it.

[highdensitysprawl]

There is actually very little TV coverage in Canada of European club soccer, even of the world’s best leagues like the English Premier League. You do get a little bit of coverage on TSN of select European tournaments like the Champions League with top clubs from various countries playing against each other. But other than that, the pickings are very slim.


er, I beg to differ. I have Fox Sports World Canada (crap station most of the time), Gol TV and Setanta on my package. I get (in combination with Sportsnet and The Score) all 10 EPL games/week, 2 scottish, 2 or 3 french, 2 or 3 spanish, 2 or 3 italian, a game or two from the league where cheating is encouraged and exhaulted (er, did I say that out loud), a game from Brazil per week and enough highlights shows to shake a stick at. Plus probably 1/2 - 2/3 of the Champions League games that are played.

It is not to be sniffed at, but the mainstream media and the Jim Rome's of the world bash footie to a degree unheard of in any sport of pastime (by saying pastime I bring golf and baseball into the equation).

[highdensitysprawl]

There are a few prairie boys on the sports networks.. Darren Dreger used to do sports in Brandon.. same with Carlos Machado (is he even still around)?

If its the same guy I"m thinking about he is on the frat boy highlights show known as the Fox Soccer Report aired on Fox Sports World Canada. It is from Winnipeg.

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/3712930/Carlos-Machado

[harls]

That's him, but the Carlos I remember had a mullet.

[highdensitysprawl]

That's him, but the Carlos I remember had a mullet.

Many of us had mullets in our past.

The Kentucky waterfall was very popular.

[harls]

I only had a mullet in Grade 9. it was more of a trickle than a waterfall.

CTV's Janet Dirks scares me with her crazy eyeballs.

[harls]

This has been pissing me off for a long time.

Does anyone, I mean - has anyone, been fooled into thinking a nice soft kitty they were sleeping with was actually a roll of toilet paper?

Because I've tried it, and it is no replacement. By tried it I mean wiped my ass with a cat.

[Rico Rommheim]

This has been pissing me off for a long time.

Does anyone, I mean - has anyone, been fooled into thinking a nice soft kitty they were sleeping with was actually a roll of toilet paper?

Because I've tried it, and it is no replacement. By tried it I mean wiped my ass with a cat.

Those fucking cat shit paper commercials are deeply offensive to me, as a cat lover and consumer of shit paper.


But they don't burn me as much as those stupid bears who cant for the life of them wipe their asses correctly and dance because they have shit paper.


I'm gonna track down these fucking bears and torture them And then I'm gonna bring them back to life and have someone else torture them for my enjoyment.


there. so yeah, I agree harls.

[harls]

Those fuckin' porridge stealin motherfuckers piss me off too. I have had my share of shit paper at the throne, but none of it, even the one-ply econo crap, shreds into pieces onto my buttocks. even if it did, do you think I would leave the toilet with my hairy bear ass with paper shards? Who shits on a tree anyway? these bears are advocating defecation in parks, as long as there is a roll of charmin attached to a branch. I will bring this up at my next hearing re: crapping in public.

[Rico Rommheim]

Toilet paper commercials are the worst, even worst than the reprehensible tic tac commercials. If ever there was a more shameful attempt at exploiting 13 year old boys with an annoying bitch I haven't heard of it. I tell you the people who make ads for a living ( I know a few here in town) are all morons. They're part of a league of morons. "Look at me I'm driving an audi, and I make cottonelle commercials for a living." Fuck you.

[MolsonExport]

"I feel your pain" (W. Clinton), re: papier de toilette.

But I must correct you. Nothing is worse than Frozen Pizza commercials (repeat, after me). Except maybe, grammar nazis on SSP.

[highdensitysprawl]

Nothing is worse than Frozen Pizza commercials (repeat, after me). Except maybe, grammar nazis on SSP.

Grammar nazis on SSP....never:banana: Next you are going to be telling me that there are people on SSP who a) boost their city above all others, b) claim that murder stats are biassed c) feel that their home town is world class above all others d) should be free of criticism and e) Montreal is overrated and full of douc*ebags.

[vid]

That's "Nazis", Molson. It's a proper noun.

[SteelTown]

I love watching Family Restaurant on the Food Network, the Quons are a cute and funny family.

[MolsonExport]

Grammar nazis on SSP....never:banana: Next you are going to be telling me that there are people on SSP who a) boost their city above all others, b) claim that murder stats are biassed c) feel that their home town is world class above all others d) should be free of criticism and e) Montreal is overrated and full of douc*ebags.

:jester: :jester: :jester: :haha: :haha: :haha:
^source: Malek

[SpongeG]

i've been sucked into Being Erica

love that show

so good

watched 9 of the 11 episodes the last few days - she could be Jenniifer Annistons double though - her way of talking and mannerisms are so jennifer a

[Rico Rommheim]

like totally like helllllllooooooo lol rofl ;)

[harls]

I've seen these Canadian Tire Life insurance ads, and it just seems weird to get life insurance from a place like Canadian Tire... maybe it's just me.

[vid]

I wouldn't want life insurance from a store that can't even change a car's oil properly. :(

What is it with Home Hardware and GM advertisements and people walking toward the camera while talking? Stop that. It's weird.

[mr.John]

Love to see one of those walking jerkoffs step in front of a speeding bus...end of commercial.

[Rathgrith]

What is it with Home Hardware and GM advertisements and people walking toward the camera while talking? Stop that. It's weird.

I laugh whenever I see those car company commercials that "demonstrate" how busy their dealership are. HA!

[MolsonExport]

I've seen these Canadian Tire Life insurance ads, and it just seems weird to get life insurance from a place like Canadian Tire... maybe it's just me.


You just need the Canadian Tire Guy to convince you.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.ca/pbl/hype/cdntireguy173.jpg
Source www.publicbroadcasting.ca

[Acajack]

You just need the Canadian Tire Guy to convince you.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.ca/pbl/hype/cdntireguy173.jpg
Source www.publicbroadcasting.ca

Anglos don’t know how lucky they are. The guy we got on the French ads was 100 times worse.

[SteelTown]

CBC cuts 800 jobs across Canada

The Canadian Press
http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/536660

MONTREAL — The cash-strapped CBC told employees today that it will be cutting 800 jobs in effort to save $171 million amid sinking advertising revenues.

Internal sources say CBC president Hubert Lacroix broke the news to staff at a town hall meeting in Montreal.

The plan is to cut 396 jobs in the English service, 336 on the French side, and 70 corporate service positions.

The public broadcaster also plans to sell $125 million in assets in a bid to balance its budget, workers were reportedly told.

In recent weeks, Lacroix has been warning of deep cuts to staff and programming to cope with a significant budget shortfall.

He has also said there will a salary freeze for top executives.

[mr.John]

Why is it no matter where you are in North America if you turn on the local news you will see the same joke repeated over and over by the airhead news anchor, the joke is pretend the equally stupid weather person has some kind of magic power over the weather,it wasn't funny the first time and it's not funny the 1000th time.

[harls]

Weather people somehow take credit for sunny days, and blame shit weather on other places (ie - disturbance from the south, arctic high pressure)

Also, weather segways are horrible, and make me cringe.

"speaking of uh... wet... uh.. doctors, how about that rainy forecast, Jim?"

I need to stop watching CTV.

[SpongeG]

isn't the same government making cuts to CBC giving a "bailout" to CTV?

is harper reaping revenge on rick mercer?

[kirjtc2]

Weather people somehow take credit for sunny days, and blame shit weather on other places (ie - disturbance from the south, arctic high pressure)

Also, weather segways are horrible, and make me cringe.

"speaking of uh... wet... uh.. doctors, how about that rainy forecast, Jim?"

I need to stop watching CTV.

No weather segues are more awkward than those on CBC New Brunswick at Six.

That's what happens when you hire an entertainment/human interest reporter to anchor the news.

[Rico Rommheim]

Weather people somehow take credit for sunny days, and blame shit weather on other places (ie - disturbance from the south, arctic high pressure)

Also, weather segways are horrible, and make me cringe.

"speaking of uh... wet... uh.. doctors, how about that rainy forecast, Jim?"

I need to stop watching CTV.

I cannot beging to express my raging disdain for weather people and their arrogant reports. First of all don't need a feature-length weather update every fucking 10 minutes to remind me that its sunny outside. And I really don't give a crap what "weather-maker" mishmash is heading through factor A B or C. Just do your job and tell me if its cold or hot or its gonna rain or whatever the fuck and shut up!

[kirjtc2]

It's been announced that last.fm will no longer be free in Canada. I guess only the US and UK matter to them now.

[vid]

Oh fuck them. First Pandora and now Last? As long as links to download their music from blogs still works I'll be happy. I get about a fifth of what I listen to from Last.fm, even though I never go there. People link to it and you just right click and save as.

Haven't had to use file sharing programmes in years.

[SpongeG]

just the last.fm radio

the rest of the stuff isn't changing

I never listened to their radio

[highdensitysprawl]

It's been announced that last.fm will no longer be free in Canada. I guess only the US and UK matter to them now.

The version that is loaded on my computer still works.....the one where you enter either an 'artist' or a 'tag'...is that different from the radio version?

There is always jango.com

[Rico Rommheim]

"And now back to Tracy in our E-Talk Toronto studio"

"Thanks Tanya"


E-Talk has a Toronto studio? :shrug:

[vid]

E-Talk has a studio other than the one in Toronto?