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Here's a National Post article that echos this post. How quickly we jump to blacken our own eyes by teaching our children mis-guided fiction. http://nationalpost.com/opinion/guilt-over-aboriginals-can-lead-to-teaching-children-untruths-its-happening-in-canada

Petri dish contains a fertilized human ovum, being prepped for artificial insemination which = baby, for you. So, who should be saved first: lab tech or fertilized human ovum?

No, that time is past. I thought they would go out and convert the existing (thousands) coal fired plants to gas fired, but they will simply build new gas fired thermal plants to replace coal plants (as I understand it: more distributed generation). China bought leading edge sub-critical mass technology from its South African developers years ago (surprised they didn't just steal it!!!) and the intent for that, as with gas/thermal now is for distributed generation, so we are talking very small nukes that will tuck into neighbourhoods (sub gigawatt?). You have to be there a very long time to understand China: once they make their (central planning) mind up, they will then go full speed ahead into implementation at a rate no other country could imagine. That is how you take your economy from stone age to #2 in the world in a couple of decades. AND, environmental protection is now squarely in their sights. ALL developing economies got there by exploiting their resources and environment, China no different from US, Canada, Yurp, etc.

I am not a Candu fan, as they are ancient technology. However, in Canada, we have done a lot of work with thorium fuels, but sadly, the whole business of reactors is now in the hands of an engineering company that I simply do not respect or trust (SNC Lavalin - got to where they are mostly by patronage and bribery). Give me a subcritical mass reactor, and I will glandly live next door. Do you know what the most likely highest source of exposure to radiation a typical Canadian nuclear worker has? Sleeping with spouse. I think dairy products run a close second. I get to work in nuclear facilities once in a while, and the last thing I worry about is radiation exposure.

With due respect Argus didn't make the accused being a Somali a key to his defence the accused did. The accused played the Somali race card not Argus and so it is legitimate grounds to challenge that defence-its directly on point to the defence that got him released. It is true on some other posts some of us might say things with strong biases-we all do of course, but on this one with due respect I think your accusation this is just a pretext for attacking immigration is off base. Back to the topic and I mentioned it once before. When I got my Master's in law a few years back I was fortunate to meet Prof. Hogg. He took a shining to me I have no idea why-but he's a very up front scholar and he told me if he had to do it all over again, he and Trudeau would have never created the Charter of Rights as it exists now-he didn't mean it in a negative sense just in the sense that they did not envision it was going to be used as it is now, i.e., by the Supreme Court of Canada who say they must use it in as WIDE an application as possible in favour of the individual on each scenario that comes up, i.e, they must err on the side of the individual and whenever possible try apply it to the individual's rights.. Hogg and Trudeay never envisioned it being used as widely as it is now in so many criminal cases including the landmark case which says if you don't get a case to trial within a certain time and the delay is NOT caused by the defendant, he can walk. That's the real issue. We have criminals walking all the time on this argument. Its the real subject of this thread. What I say is no secret. I doubt any constitutional lawyer envisioned theCharter arguments being used and allowed in such volume as they are today. I am not sure what to tell you. If people stay in jail too long without trial that is fundamentally against basic democratic principles of freedom. On the other hand if our politicians are underfunding our legal systems causing this delay, we have to look at that. Our current Justice Minister has supposedly appointed 77 more Judges when asked what she has done to deal with the back logs but with due respect to her because she did not create the problem she just inherited it, our entire criminal legal system has collapsed like dominoes from the sheer strain of case load. 90% of criminal cases are plea bargained. I can't tell you the no. of innocent people who get convicted or vice versa. From the cases I have done I just can't tell you. I have had genuinely innocent clients get unfair sentences but I've seen some sob's walk. The system is so huge it seems chaotic but in the courts I am in they have tried their best to manage the huge loads with management methods to keep things moving. I think while I have seen things I think unfair and incompetent, I have also seen things equally fair and competent. My honest answer to you would be we have an imperfect legal system and it can suck some days but its the best we have, it does work albeit slowly, and for the most part the defence lawyers, crown lawyers, Judges, police, social workers, law support staff they are trying their best with soaring case loads. I am not sure what the formula would b e to make things faster. The inherent nature of disputes is if you rush the decision making apparatus when considering them, the more an injustice could arise. That need to be careful and thorough can and does slow things down..

Granted, but the point remains the same in either case. It should not take 56 months to conclude a case - any case. It should not even take five months.