Canada vs US

[Gamblor]

It's the same buddy who met you at GBH.

We don't sit downstairs with the peons or even in the Upper Brass with the slightly wealthier peons.

We sit in the mezzanine, a small bar room for VIPs (maybe 30 cap) upstairs in the back where the strippers hang out (naked) before and after their sets and we sit around talking and drinking with them. Usually after the bar closes we go and hang out at one of their apartments, and they seem to enjoy the same atmosphere at home as at work.

So no. No stabbings.

[Gamblor]

Vancouver is basically Seattle.

Calgary gets Chinook winds which somehow warm the usual 15F temp up to 40-45F. (google chinook)

Toronto averages 25F in the coldest months (Dec-Feb) and 85F in the warmest (Jul-Sept).

[Diplomat]

It depends. Toronto is HOT; DAMN HOT! In the summer (upwards of 110 degrees in the summer, with the humidity) but quite cold in the winter (As cold as about 0, or so). Vancouver is much more moderate, with lows of about 25 and highs around 90, but more rain.

-Diplomat

[Diplomat]

Damnit, I was looking for a stabbing. I guess hanging out with strippers up top will have to do... [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

-Diplomat

[MarkD]

But Calgary gets to -40 as well. It is a great city though.

I would suspect Vancouver / Victoria are the warmest year round cities. Maybe Kamloops?

[Diplomat]

Keep in mind that these numbers are in celcius:

"For the top hot spots (highest annual average temperature °C), ten of the eleven warmest cities are in British Columbia. Only Windsor ON in 8th place is from outside the province. Chilliwack BC garnered top honours as the warmest city (10.5°), followed by Vancouver (10.1°), Abbotsford BC (10.0°), Nanaimo BC (9.8°) and Victoria (9.7°)."

http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/weather/winne...hlights-e.html

So, Vancouver has an average temperature of about 51 degrees Fahrenheit.

-Diplomat

[Cry Me A River]

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Rumours abound (to be honest, I think it was even Diplomat that told me) that Canada is in the process of acquiring Caribbean Islands to reduce the number of Canadian snowbirds (Christmas vacationers) in Florida.

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The Turks and Caicos Islands. It's pretty much a dead issue though the Reform party may be trying to revive it:

http://www.aplaceinthesun.ca/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/turksandcaicos/