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At this point, I'm not sure the Feds have enough talent to negotiate anything with regard to trade. They can't even engage Provinces to talk about facilitating free trade across provincial boundaries.

The Feds should open up Supply Management for negotiations. It's not doing us any good anyway. Yesterday with Paul Martin - he really skewered the Agriculture Minister to clarify whether Trump's numbers on dairy tarriff is correct. The Agriculture Minister just kept deflecting the question - he couldn't answer yes or no. So Martin said in frustration - I take it, it means yes. The Agriculture Minister's defense for supply management is that it gives us "high quality" and safe milk. Martin said, I never heard of anyone getting sick drinking American milk! High quality bs. Let the consumers choose! Milk is milk. As for safety - I'd worry more about products coming from China! So don't give us that bs about "safety." From a non-partisan panel guest who understands about supply management, he says that supply management keeps the prices ARTIFICIALLY HIGH for Canadian consumers! That's why we're paying more for this basic food! A lot of Canadians are already counting pennies to make ends meet!

Our own pundits were rolling their eyes yesterday talking about this: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/05/16/us/ap-us-trudeau-nyu-commencement.html I hope some journalists show those graduate students how Trudeau treats those with differing beliefs and values. http://ottawasun.com/news/national/fox-news-slams-reprehensible-trudeau-over-pro-life-summer-jobs-grant-refusal/wcm/e6522e3f-8c5b-4d85-bb44-17a4803c02fe http://www.realwomenofcanada.ca/unstable-intolerant-prime-minister-trudeau/

You didn't answer with regards to the accuracy of the headline. It said he had not made any payments to the children when in fact the content of the story clearly said that the Will specifically said no payments were to be made until they were adults (25, actually). We don't know what the will said for the widow - except that she had full ownership of the family house because she had already blown through the proceeds from a couple of mortgages. So really - do you think the headline in the Star was fair?

What more can I say? He delivers. American Job Openings Now Outnumber the Jobless U.S. job openings rose to 6.7 million at the end of April, compared with the 6.3 million Americans who were unemployed https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-jobs-outnumber-the-jobless-1528212776

I think we use both....using such narratives provides a thin veneer to hide amoral objectives and actions. Trump can be no more mistaken than prior presidents and administrations when it comes to the DPRK, having inherited the latest and most dangerous version (nuclear weapons + long range ballistic missiles) yielded (pun intended) from previous, ineffective carrot/stick frameworks. Depending on the U.S. to "protect post WW2 order" means depending on U.S. presidential policy decisions, and right now the president is Donald Trump. President Obama got a Nobel for far less.

Another reason why Trump matters more than Trudeau....it is the PM's job to never forget this:

Are you saying the Trinity was invented? I mean, like it wasn't believed in earliest Christianity?

If success is measured merely by the fact that these two leaders met with each other, I guess that counts for something. But, as many in the U.S. media are reporting, Kim gave up almost nothing, agreed to no new nuclear concessions and wasn't made to respond to human rights concerns. He comes off the big winner and Trump will try to claim victory based on the mere fact that he's established a rapport with the hermit regime in NK. I think Kim played Trump like a fiddle in all of this. NK had the weaker hand to play but its regime has clearly won by enhancing its legitimacy. Time will tell if the relationship between Trump and Kim amounts to anything substantial. However, at this point, Obama's Iran deal far exceeds in actual importance anything that's been accomplished in Singapore over the past couple days.

Lets get rid of the supply management, IF america gives up the massive subsidies that thier farmers get.

I'm a bit confused about this, given it directly followed your quoted material which was. Deco, they said, was well run under Doug Ford. But after the 2010 election, when he stepped away from day-to-day management, it descended into something between managerial gridlock and absolute chaos under the leadership of Randy Ford, Doug and Rob’s brother. It sounds like Doug was actually a good manager, but when his brother took over things went to hell. So this would seem to reflect badly on his brother, not Doug.