In the Atlantic Provinces we've always been taking shut the weather.
There are always other subjects such as CETA or is proper name bill C-30, TTIP, learning knots, different workout strategies ( I don't workout but two of my best friend are hard at it so the conversation always ends up there), nutrition.
But the weather is always the best. There was a blog of a Jamaican who moved here three or four winter's ago. At the beginning he was filled with a joy that only children, new comers to snow, and myself feel about winter.
As the winter progressed you could see it bearing down on him. By the end he was fed up with winter and moved back to Jamaica. That is why we talk about weather, it controls a large part of the year and dictates what we can do.