Dave in Vancouver

Wise words from the late Pat Carney, September 5 1984. youtube.com/clip/UgkxEYqDr…

@CDNprojections Robert “Bob for the by-elections” Cotret. (IIRC it was indeed plural; there were 15 by-elections that day)

How my riding has voted since 1965: 1965: 🔴 1968: 🔴 1972: 🔴 1974: 🔴 1978: 🔵 1979: 🔴 1980: 🔴 1984: 🟠 1988: 🔴 1993: 🔴 1997: 🔴 2000: 🔴 2004: 🟠 2006: 🟠 2008: 🟠 2011: 🟠 2015: 🔴 2019: 🔴 2021: 🔴 2025: 🔴

Americans apparently have their very own Mitchell Island

@fagstein CTV doesn’t even have a late local news in Vancouver on weekends. We get Corner Gas instead.

Another content blow for Corus as Global loses SNL to CTV starting next season. Since SNL begins at 11:30pm, this will mean eastern stations losing late local news in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto on Saturdays.

How my riding has voted since 1965. You have to go back to 1926 to find a 🔵 in what is now Burnaby Central. 1965: 🟠 1968: 🔴 1972: 🟠 1974: 🔴 1979: 🟠 1980: 🟠 1984: 🟠 1988: 🟠 1993: 🟢 1997: 🔴 2000: 🔴 2004: 🟠 2006: 🟠 2008: 🟠 2011: 🟠 2015: 🟠 2019: 🟠 2021: 🟠 2025: 🔴

RIP Asha Ganpat Bhosle (8 September 1933 – 12 April 2026) youtu.be/E4SMH-gxri4

@_UniqueLaura_ @Mazirian @Hot_Pepper76 It’s one of the additional verses from a 45 released in the early 70s. Our neighbours had a copy and my dad taped it. (Pirated, lol) The first pilot had an additional verse. Had my 12 tube radio Loved the Eddie Cantor show Oh where did all that beauty go youtu.be/Pn_--ZFTHN4

@Mazirian @Hot_Pepper76 I just sang it to the tune 😂

Wait just a minute... Did the lyrics to All in the Family just fly under the radar back then? Listening now, that opening was saying a whole lot. That was not just a catchy opener. It was sharp, loaded, nostalgic, and telling you exactly what kind of show you were about to watch before the first scene even started. That was a bold way to open a sitcom... Boy, the way Glenn Miller played Songs that made the Hit Parade Guys like us, we had it made Those were the days And you knew who you were then Girls were girls, and men were men Mister, we could use a man Like Herbert Hoover again Didn't need no welfare state Everybody pulled his weight Gee, our old LaSalle ran great Those were the days

@Mazirian @Hot_Pepper76 Take a little Sunday spin Going to watch the Dodgers win Have yourself a dandy day that cost you under a fin.

@Hot_Pepper76 People seemed to be content. Fifty dollars paid the rent. Freaks were in a circus tent. Those were the days!

@Selwyn1750 Well technically it *is* north of Vancouver… about 400km north!

@dave2_too Yes but North Vancouver remains the same, lol.

The best part of this map is Vancouver apparently retained its original name, “Granville”.

Vancouver Sun, April 21 1977. These old columns are fun to read with hindsight. If the 1990s taught us anything the rise of a “Prairie Party” just lead to perpetual Liberal rule. And when did the “decisive period of this great threatening crisis” end? 1980? 1995? Never?

Ugh, I replaced “unexpected” with “surprising” but neglected to change an to a. Still not going to pay for an edit button though.

It’s not the first time an surprising floor from the Tories to the Grits has happened. April 20 1977.

* floor crossing

@CaelemSG @zunxra @JakeLandauTO Macdonald is moving to the $100 from what I’ve read. Borden and King are out.

@zunxra @JakeLandauTO So they're moving Laurier to the $50? I have to say it's somewhat weird to have Laurier and Borden as the only politicians left on our money. If we're going this far we might as well just get rid of politicians on the money entirely.

Are we ever gonna do the rest of the vertical bank notes or is the $10 the only one that will be vertical?

@CaprisArdent @JGM7 @StatisticUrban Except for the fun fact that Mt. Royal the mountain isn’t in the Town of Mount Royal, it is indeed in Montreal.

@JGM7 @StatisticUrban So the centrally located mountain the city is named after isn't part of the city, oh Canada...

American cities have utterly deranged borders

30 years ago today, this Canadian family went BACK TO WINNIPEG! #TheSimpsons episode “Bart on the Road” first aired on March 31, 1996.

@LukeMontalbano Slightly later. No more pea soup or bombs, but FLQ land remained.

Hilarious placemat from the Tomahawk restaurant in North Van. This is definitely being framed 😂

@LukeMontalbano An earlier edition. “Pea soup eaters”, “Home Made Bombs” and “FLQ Land” 🤯

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