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Old May 14th 2009, 2:58 pm
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The Canada Tavern, never an attractive place, became impossible to enter without climbing over bodies. Not the Toronto of the tourist brochures!
Is the Canada Tavern still going?. I haven't been in there since the late 80's.
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Old May 14th 2009, 3:07 pm
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Is the Canada Tavern still going?. I haven't been in there since the late 80's.
Nope. Closed maybe three years ago, much to the relief of my OH who was then catching the tram on that corner.
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Nope. Closed maybe three years ago, much to the relief of my OH who was then catching the tram on that corner.
The demise of the drinking hole for the non-hyphenated. These kinds of dives are disappearing these days. When I was at University of Waterloo, there was a classic dive in Kitchener at the train station, appropriately called the Station Hotel. As well, there was Tommy's Place near there...not sure of their status.
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The demise of the drinking hole for the non-hyphenated. These kinds of dives are disappearing these days. When I was at University of Waterloo, there was a classic dive in Kitchener at the train station, appropriately called the Station Hotel. As well, there was Tommy's Place near there...not sure of their status.
When first in Canada I drank upstairs at the Vic, 56 Yonge, now a boutique hotel, then a place where "John" dropped as many 4oz glasses of "beer" in front of you as he thought you needed and then chose his own tip. The Brampton Hotel and the Scarborough House were similar. The Brunswick House was, maybe still is, a kind of perverted homage. I'm told there was or is a place of a similar style, the King Edward, in Guelph but I do with the Albion.
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When first in Canada I drank upstairs at the Vic, 56 Yonge, now a boutique hotel, then a place where "John" dropped as many 4oz glasses of "beer" in front of you as he thought you needed and then chose his own tip. The Brampton Hotel and the Scarborough House were similar. The Brunswick House was, maybe still is, a kind of perverted homage. I'm told there was or is a place of a similar style, the King Edward, in Guelph but I do with the Albion.
My inlaws live in Guelph and I've never heard of that place...I've been in the Albion and the Woolie (different vibe from the places listed). Kitchener has/had a number of choice dives like that and Hamiltons east side is full of them.

Is the Brampton Hotel actually in Brampton and also known as the Shield and Sword (a peeler joint when I lived in Brampton 1989-1992).
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Is the Brampton Hotel actually in Brampton and also known as the Shield and Sword (a peeler joint when I lived in Brampton 1989-1992).
It's gone now, I've only heard legends of it. I'll get more detail when next I see the man who grew up drinking there.
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How many of you lock your doors when heading to the shops?

(perhaps it would be an interesting poll)
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How many of you lock your doors when heading to the shops?

(perhaps it would be an interesting poll)
Only if we're going to be a long time. Otherwise, no. Windows are routinely left open, the garage door is open most of the time in summer and I suspect that the car isn't locked.
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How many of you lock your doors when heading to the shops?

(perhaps it would be an interesting poll)
We used to until we saw Bowling for Columbine then we stopped. Later we moved to the country; now I don`t even have a key to the house.
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We used to until we saw Bowling for Columbine then we stopped. Later we moved to the country; now I don`t even have a key to the house.
I've got the key to my neighbour's house.
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I've got the key to my neighbour's house.
Me too. This past winter I didn't go over there until they'd been gone a month, it wasn't locked.
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We used to until we saw Bowling for Columbine then we stopped. Later we moved to the country; now I don`t even have a key to the house.
If you believe some of the spin coming out of Michael Moore's mouth, I've got some land to sell you in Florida....

Having grown up in an urban environment in the UK and Toronto, a girlfriend of mine at University here in Canada came from a farm between London and Chatham.....her family left the keys to the car in the ignition in the farmyard and did the same when they went into town...totally blew me away and I had to hold back my thoughts on it all.

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My inlaws live in Guelph and I've never heard of that place...I've been in the Albion and the Woolie (different vibe from the places listed). Kitchener has/had a number of choice dives like that and Hamiltons east side is full of them.

Is the Brampton Hotel actually in Brampton and also known as the Shield and Sword (a peeler joint when I lived in Brampton 1989-1992).
No way i used to live back and fourth from Brampton and Toronto and we had a place on Charters Rd in Brampton right by the Sword and Sheild. I was a little kid and i would see stripper hanging outside for smokes. Too funny I havent been there forever, but i think there is a Hooters up the street now.
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Default Re: Crime rates in Canada

If I were worried about crime rates, it'd be England http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...mes-per-capita

and more specifically, London, http://rechten.uvt.nl/icvs/images/graph05.jpg which would worry me.

Incidentally, taken as a whole, murder rates in Canada and England are very similar.

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Incidentally, taken as a whole, murder rates in Canada and England are very similar.
But always higher in Canada, according to your source:

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...ers-per-capita
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