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Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

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Re: Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

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Post by cf100clunk »

dismalaf wrote: post #74
stackghost wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>When people say that "Alberta" sends money, they mean that Albertans pay money to the federal government and then federal government spends that money elsewhere. I don't actually think most people mean this when they say it. But hey, sounds like we both are on the same page, and I'm glad we agree that Alberta as an entity doesn't pay equalization payments. It sounds like you have a problem with federal spending, and…

> I don't actually think most people mean this when they say it. It's this kind of deeply insulting and patronizing attitude that illustrates exactly why so many Albertans do want to leave Canada.

That's quite an overreaction.

Re: Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

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Post by canada_dry »

I wonder if anyone remembers the long running computer club that met at the Forest Hill Collegiate on Eglinton Ave in Toronto?

And there was another one in the basement of the old Toronto School Board building (where the new TDSB building now stands) beside Mel Lastman Sq. in Willowdale.

Re: Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

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Post by cf100clunk »

FatherOfCurses wrote: post #84
mewse-hn wrote: post #2

"We will examine this movement by looking at Toronto, the only city in Canada"

York University is in Toronto and the GTA is the most populous area in Canada, I don't think it's a vast conspiracy.

If you're referring to the title, it conflates a relatively small geographic area having a large, concentrated population (York University, GTA, Southern Ontario) with a vastly larger but less densely concentrated national population (the rest of Canada), so it is easily seen as irritating to folks in the latter. Not hard to understand. Not a conspiracy.

Re: Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

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Post by teunispeters »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #79
teunispeters wrote: post #56

All of this was so very inaccessible from North Western Canada. (mind, still is, but Internet makes vast gulfs of space seem so much smaller) When I could get there, Heathkit (~1200km south) or Radio Shack (wow do I ever miss them carrying electronics!) were go-tos. These days, it's order online or ... nothing, really.

Heathkit had physical locations? I had only ever seen magazine ads for mail order kits in 73 & QSL etc. A Heathkit store would probably blow my mind. :)

When I was a kid, there was a physical store around Boundary Road in Vancouver BC area/Canada. (or it could have been another name of a store, carrying their products. I was 12 when I moved to the far north!)

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Post by dismalaf »

cf100clunk wrote: post #91
dismalaf wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't actually think most people mean this when they say it. It's this kind of deeply insulting and patronizing attitude that illustrates exactly why so many Albertans do want to leave Canada.

That's quite an overreaction.

It's not. It's an incredibly common strawman used in discourse on this topic (obviously it's relatively new to HN). They know it's a bad faith argument but it's used over and over to paint Albertans as illiterate rednecks.

This stupid argument comes up all over X, Reddit, etc... to muddy the waters and refuse to actually engage with the topic of equalization and the current formula used to determine how federal transfers are calculated and allocated.

See some of this poster's other comments...

Re: Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

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Post by soperj »

cf100clunk wrote: post #90
soperj wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't. Those were bumper stickers in the 80s referencing the National Energy Program. Very in line with the "What does Petro-Canada stand for?" - Pierre Elliot Trudeau Rips Off Canada.

Point conceded, although I hasten to add Ralph's infamous "Eastern bums and creeps" quote to the mix. Another Alberta bumper sticker from the early 1980s foreclosure era said something like: ''Please, God, let there be another oil boom and this time I won't blow all my money away!"

He had a lot of good ones. He's got a funny history, could have easily been the liberal leader in Alberta.
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