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Actually death's during and because of hockey have recieved a huge amount of attention and have completely changed the way the game is being played including added safety measures to mitigate the chances of another death happening and will probably incur more changes in the coming years. So if we want to compare that to gun murders in the US, the first response would be more to add more safety. If that can't be done or doesn't change anything, then the next response is to remove the thing that causes harm. Though that illicits a response from the old school crowd that thinks its part of the culture... I mean game!

Don't worry bud. Once you break it down each blunt object probably accounts for less than drowning. It's the lakes you have to watch out for.

Maybe it goes Fruit Bats, Lousville Sluggers and then Marruci. But then we have to figure out the different types of clubs. And then we have hammers.. this could take awhile. How convinient the FBI doesn't include that data.

Is that just one type of bat? Louisville or Marucci? How much for each? I mean if we're getting specific.

German's corprate tax rate is still at 15% plus CO2 taxes. Ours would be much lower after we add the severance tax too. The difference between us and Germany is the natural resourcrs at our disposal. If a large company won't extract them at current rates, smaller local companies and investors will. It still makes money.

Well once we lower the corporate tax rate, it works to attract clean companies from all over the World. For clean companies we would have one of the lowest corprate tax rates on the planet.

Their questions often have answers that are too straightforward for the harper government to answer without taking a political hit. So they side step or change the subject or just outright lie.

Nothing is wrong with income taxation but with excise, severance and eco taxation we can lower the progressive income tax scale, as well as corporate taxation. We know that Carbon taxing works and we know this stream of revenue is not going anywhere for a few decades at least.I'll be the first to admit that it really shouldn't be used as a tax for change, more like a tax of change that can be taken advantage of. Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, sugar.. these are things that will continue to be used regardless of taxation. They also burden the healthcare system. So we tax those who lead healthy, clean lifestyles less and those who refuse to change more.

Having them publicly owned is even easier. The companies come in and are taxed a royalty to remove a resource. Oil, Uranium, Potash, Natural Gas, Gold, Silver, virtually anything. You can even lower corprate taxes with the money made. Though the Constitution allows the Province to control how they remove a resource, the Federal Government has the power to tax in any way they please. A Federal severance tax would be in the 100's of billions no doubt. The next step would be some eco taxes, a Carbon tax is without a doubt one of the most effective ways to raise revenue.

A sugar tax isn't meant to target natural sugars in fruits and vegetables. Moslty candy and soft drinks among a few other things. Some estimates put a Marijuana tax in the billions, alcohol surely would be, tobacco is around $700 mill a year, a severance tax would bring in the majority share though. Would it all be enough to replace income tax? Maybe not. But it would be interesting to see the contrasting figures.

We should be doing away with income taxes and bringing in a national alcohol tax, sugar tax, aspertame tax, leaglizing marijuana and taxing it, possibly even prositution. Heck we should be taxing anything that relates to having a burdern on the healthcare system. As well as a national severance tax on all resources.

It was better. Muclair has been making Harper is whipping boy in question period for years. Then after Muclair tears into him we hear Harper favourite line "Mr. Speaker let me be very clear..." and then he rambles on about things that have nothing to do with what Muclair called him out on. Then Muclair usually replies with another on the spot attack on the random ramble that Harper just spewed forth from the bowels of conservative talking points. It really is quite entertaining.

It is the right wing that wishes to continue the failed drug war.

The only thing standing in our way is the Constitution. It allows the Provinces to be in control of their resources, rather than, unlike Norway, the Federal Government.

Imagine that another realistic solution the right wing in the US are against, much like gun laws.

Oh we know. Harper loves his war on drugs though, as did Bush.

haha your map is just a marked shale field map. Doesn't mean there's oil in the entire blue area. The moment they start drilling for oil around Regina you let me know.

Actually it looks more like this...

So it's the war on drugs that is failing the US? So eliminate the illegalily of drugs, eliminate 60-70% of gun crime. Including a black market that perpeutates drug lords in mexico.

Regina will never be the new Calgary. Saskatoon is far more industrious. Estevan is hurting baaad right now, trust me. I work there. The vacancy rate in Estevan has jumped to about 30% from about less than 5%. Housing prices are dropping. I've watched companies close down, friends hand the keys of their houses to the banks. Companies are not coming here, there's a couple companies still going, namely because they hedged against the price of oil when it was around $80 a barrel. Enough to scrape by. Layoffs are being handed out in droves, man camps the size of small towns are closing down. You're also sadly mistaken if you think Estevan is sitting on far more resources than Alberta, in terms of oil. You're sadly mistaken if you think oil in Saskatchewan is doing well.

Does the drug also cause you to become racist? Because he's already admitted that is why he pulled the trigger. Often times social outcasts will take whaever friends they can get. Beggers can't be choosers.

Well I'd assume a range of issues related mostly to the fact that North America and the US in particular has a violent culture. How do you stop the vastly larger problem of a culture that is perpetuated by violence? It's not video games, those exist everywhere, could it be guns? Well some countries have lots of guns and manage to keep themselves in check. Why is the USA so bloodthirtsy? What is this obsession with killing sprees and violence that frequently transcends race. Whites, blacks and hispanics all love to kill eachother and themselves. What is the root of the problem? People have been asking this for a long time.

Because black people aren't killing other black people because they hate the color of their own skin. We'd have to focus just as much attention on white people killing white people. But the reason these people kill each other isn't because they hate the colour of their skin. Should be a no brainer.

It's almost like OT has never played the game before. Have any of you heard of PDO or Puck Luck? It's a stat an Edmonton Oilers fan developed after their Stanley Cup Final run in 2006 to determime exactly how much puck luck they had that year. The answer was more than any other team. Last year the Colorado Avalanche had the best PDO or Puck Luck, no surprise that they kinda fell off this year. The Rangers and Canadiens had the highest puck luck this year, although the Canadiens is mostly attributed to Price playing well above average.

I promise you that Buffalo and Arizona will not trade down in this years draft. That would be a mistake.