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Yeah, nobody goes to strip clubs in Rochester unless it's as a joke. There's one really nasty biker bar called "The Barrell Of Dolls" aka Barrell of Pigs, etc. (insert your own nasty noun). Canada rules, however. Toronto has the Brass Rail and others.

Montreal is a different story. They have a red-light district complete with hookers and everything. And while it's not legal there, it might as well be. When I went to Montreal with my friend from Sweden, I visited friends in town and they gave me a list of places to check out. My buddy and his wife are tattoo artists in Montreal and know just about everybody. He asks "are you going to go to the strip club? I can call the manager at the best place in town and tell him to have some girls waiting there for ya!" Thanks but no thanks, I said, we just wanted to hit the bars and get hammered.

But the cab dropped us off right in front of the place he was going to send us to anyways. TOTAL red-light district! There were strippers OUTSIDE trying to get guys to come in, and hookers walking the streets talking to the cops patroling the neighborhood. It was another world.

Toronto is one of my favorite cities in the whole world, but I think if I'd been to Montreal more than once, it would surpass Toronto easily. Lots of good shopping, lots of good eats, and good nightlife too.

Is the old Half Dollar still around? That was actually a pretty fun club for a while there.....near Kodak so they needed to run pretty girls....

Toronto has the Brass Rail and others.

Ah, the Rail. Haven't been there in a while, but I'm going up to T.O. in April for a bachelor party. Looking forward to hitting the Rail then.

Toronto is one of my favorite cities in the whole world, but I think if I'd been to Montreal more than once, it would surpass Toronto easily. Lots of good shopping, lots of good eats, and good nightlife too.

I've been to Montreal a few times. A lot of my friends from high school ended up at McGill. Montreal's cool, but the whole French/English cultural divide can be a little weird. But, like you said, you can't beat the strip clubs.

I'm off to New Orleans with my wife at the end of the month for her birthday. We're looking forward to comparing Nawlins strip clubs to what places like Toronto and NYC can offer.

Although Quebec is full of french speaking Canadian separatists, it blows away Ontario in terms of fun vacationing and debauchery. Cross the Ottowa River from Canada's boring capital city, Ottowa and you're in a town called Hull. It's a pretty crazy place. The province of Quebec sells beer 24/7 at gas stations! The province of Ontario doesn't even sell beer on Sundays. The cops in Ontario have OPP emblems on their cars. You down with OPP? No, not me. There. I've tied a tangent on Canada back into a discussion of a rapper, Kid Rock, with an old rap refrain. As the Guiness slogan says, "Brilliant!" I should be in advertising: Canada. Lakes everywhere and the number one industry: beer!