I noticed that Tory was doing that as well and I don’t think he did that yesterday. I have used Celsius all my life and I’m no spring chicken but this was a bit odd this morning. I wonder if his producer will talk to him about it. Stay tuned!

eladb wrote:

When I first came to Canada in 1991, radio newscasts would say the temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit all the time. I can't even remember when that practice was dropped altogether.

In my high school years (late '90s/early 2000s), there were still some jocks and newsies in Peterborough and Lindsay regularly using both scales, and one host on CKLY once referred to the Fahrenheit scale as "real degrees".

Last edited by bmaudioworks (July 14, 2026 12:45 pm)

Actually on April 1st 1975 broadcasters were not mandated by government to begin using celsius.  Almost all did include the new temperatures at that time since this was the first official day of Canada's start of converting to the metric system.  However broadcaster were not mandated to do so.  Most just did.

Working in Thunder Bay at CKPR for two and a half years beginning in the spring of 1977, never did you hear a temperature in celsius.  The owner said there was nothing that the government mandated that said that radio or TV stations had to include celsius.  I believe CKPR did begin sometime in the early 80's.  This could have been because of complaints from listeners.  We would get calls from listeners in the late 70's inquiring why we never gave any temperatures in "metric" when the other radio stations in town did. 

RadioActive wrote:

I'm not exactly sure why John Tory has been constantly translating Celsius back into Fahrenheit all morning in talking about our record breaking temps., but he's been doing it since he signed on at 6 AM. 

When I was doing graphics for TV in the early days of C and F, we had to put up both and so I committed the differences to memory, without any math. But I have slightly younger friends who were brought up totally in the metric system era and if I say it's going to be close to 100 tomorrow, they look at me like I'm speaking Swahili. 

I know CFRB's audience skews older, but I'm sure this is lost on many of them.

I'm 58 and was in elementary school when Metric conversion was underway. Fahrenheit is meaningless to me and to almost everyone under 60 unless they're from or spent considerable time in the US.

As an aside, one of my pet peeves is that many grocery stores mark some produce and fresh meat and fish in Imperial and other in Metric making comparison shopping a chore without an app or calculator. I really wish the government would require Metric labeling for all foodstuffs (fine if they want to use both systems but at least have metric on the sign as well as pounds and Oz.