This belongs in here:
Trying to explain the fubar-ed-ness of the private/public school boards in each province (don’t EVEN get me started NFLD why the fuck you put that in your constitution?) to outsiders is hilarious. “So the catholic system is private?” “no, it public, sort of, in Ontario when you’re doing your taxes you tick a box for public or catholic, and thats the board that gets your money”
It is constitutional too, not just in Newf. It’s the system I grew up with in Quebec. I was in the Protestant school board in the West Island; across town (Pointe-Claire), St. Thomas High School was the Catholic high school, and it was effectively two separate schools, one French, one English. Naturally all the Jewish, Muslim and Hindu kids ended up in the Protestant schools (no religious studies, for one).
Quebec has since got smart, I think. Now the split between school boards is purely linguistic. It took a constitutional amendment to get it done, however.
It goes to show the power the catholic church had in the formation of our country eh?
In Ontario we had the “separate” school system. Not specifically catholic cuz we were founded by Anglicans. (All the pomp and none of the guilt?) - seriously the wiki on the separate school system in Ontario is fascinating! Goes back to the colonies and English vs. French stuff! Neat!
Weirdly, we grew up saying the lords prayer every morning after the national anthem. Go secularism! LOL
The Manitoba RCMP and the Vancouver PD are beefing on twitter.
Ten characters and three territories.
This is tangentially related to the kids show thread… but did y’all know that the Hilarious House of Frightenstein was Canadian? And many Americans have never heard of it? Not even dedicated Vincent Price fans?
And I have it on good authority it was NOT aired in NFLD. And it was filmed in Toronto, so it aired in Ontario, and I know it aired in Alberta, who else remembers this one?
I think I recognize this one too. I’m not sure if it got syndicated to the US at some point or if we were watching Windsor TV. (Detroiters can see some Windsor TV over-the-air, though it’s trickier since the digital conversion.)
It didn’t air much in the US because of the all the music rights. Even now you’ll only get bootlegs and the official re-releases had the music cut out! So you just had igor dancing… to silence? It was weird. I would bet you were watching Windsor TV.
I grew up on Buffalo TV. So fair trade. 
We did, too; how close to “South Detroit”, aka Windsor", did you live? As the falcon flies, I was raised about three miles northeast of Lake St. Clair. And when I was a Bluebird, we went to Canada to be on “The Bozo Show”! I didn’t win the six-pack of pop, though, dammit!
The worst thing about growing up close enough to the border that we got TV ads from the US was the goddamn fucking Carvel Icecream ads!
We didn’t have this! We couldn’t get this! This was just cruel!!
Born and raised in the D itself, Southwest neighborhood. 
OOOOOOoooooo…I’m from the southeast side - just north of the GPs.
Are we s’posed to fight or something, LOL?
Aaaargh! I’m patiently waiting form my vote-by-mail package, as I’ll be out of the country on voting day. I am NOT sitting this one out…! Yeesh.
I do, but I did my kidhood in ON, so…
Ha! That was the most astonishing thing to us when we moved from TO to the Niagara region. Buffalo 29! We got THREE channels! 
Monster movies on Sat afternoon…
Nope, not at all! 
We used to get WPTZ (NBC - Plattsburgh NY, North Pole NY, Burlington VT), WCAX (CBS - Burlington, Montpelier) and WMTW (ABC - Poland Spring ME) in Montreal by aerial - channels 5, 3 & 8 respectively. WMTW was always a bit iffy, but 3 and 5 came in strongly enough that, when my brother and I had an apartment off Lakeshore Rd. in Pte-Claire, we could pick them up on rabbit-ears.
Oh, the days. We had all kinds of complicated creations of aluminum foil on the antenna…
My grandfather had one of these attached to the TV.
With little stickers on the dial where to turn it to tune into different channels.
Hehehe! Didn’t need to mess around with the rabbit-ears too much - those stations had plenty of wattage to make sure that the signal got through to Montreal, and both WPTZ and WCAX transmit from the top of Mt. Mansfield in Vermont. Plenty of incentive for them to get through as well - Montreal is easily the largest market for all three stations.