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Would a country based on Christian principles allow homosexuality and abortion? Doubt it. Canada is a post-christian country. And if trends are accurate with the advent of science and logic that majority may no longer hold true. Christianity is in a decline in Canada. In just 10 years Canada's Irreligious went from 12.3% of the census population to 23.9%. As we learn more and more about our universe, the earth and our species origins what do you think will happen to that 23.9% in another 10 years? Will it almost double again? Christianity has a medium age of 41 in Canada up from what used to be in the mid 30's. As the population grows older and dies I suspect the religious majority will go with them. The 67% christian majority in this country already has a hard enough time enforcing their doctrine and will on the remaining religious and irreligious minorities of Canada. It's only going to get worse. God may be mentioned in the preamble but along with the Queen, there is a growing number of Canadians who no longer care for either of them.

Long live the open-source creative cooperative commonwealth of cascadia!

I think any nation that wants to exist has the right to exist so long as a majority of the people in that region wish for it too. Is that not democracy? If me and the entirety of the population of Vancouver Island, as impractical as it may be, wish to start a country on said Island and name The Force from Star Wars as our state religion. Do we have the right to exist?

Could also be the reason why Harper has an unwavering support for Israel and has referred to it as both the holy land and a very sacred place numerous times as well as why he may harbour some contempt for Muslims. Evangelical Christianity and Islam don't get along very well, most of the time. Harper may not bring his Evangelical beliefs directly into the political spotlight but you'd have to have a pretty enormous blind spot for the guy if you think it doesn't effect the way he leads this country, the policies he backs, the alliances he forms and the governments and groups he opposes.

The only reason old Harps is doing anything about it now is because it's getting media attention that he has been cutting funding and the Veterns are pissed off about it. Haha yes let's applaud his efforts way to go Harper for fixing your own mistakes only because you got caught not because you actually care, here's a hero cookie and a salute! A co-worker of mine whom is ex-military and has been a staunch conservative supporter for the last few decades told me today that he will not be voting conservative come just about this time next year because they have made it pretty clear they do not care about the veterans and have made numerous broken promises to the military. They really are shooting themselves in the foot. What should be automatic votes from current and ex-military personnel are now being questioned.

He knows if he tried to he'd influence a lot of voters to swing their votes. There is a large portion of conservative voters in this country that do not agree with anti-homosexual policies and are fine with the way abortion is handled in Canada I know quite a few in the conservative heavy area of Saskatchewan I work in. It's really not uncommon so why would he want to jeopardize losing their votes?

I showed this comment to a few conservative supporters I work with. They all had a good laugh at it too. Is there an award on this forum for funniest post? I know who I'm nominating.

The majority of consumers of weed don't care as long as it's cheap. Connoisseur's of marjiuana are about as plentyful as Connoisseurs of finely crafted wine, sure they're are a lot of them. But there are more alcoholics and twenty somethings who just want some cheap Lucky Lager to get them by for the night. There is a market for both, though the big guys will go for the twenty somethings who don't care where its from as long as it's easy to obtain and can be bought at 3am from the 7-11 down the street while the specialty smoke shop downtown is closed. Where as smaller producers will sell their finely crafted bud in the numerous specialized smoke shops downtown.

Hall could easily be the type of player you build a franchise around, the trouble is it seems everyone in the oilers organization as well as the fans are unsure on how to go about that. Eberle would be a perfect trade option to find someone to compliment Hall, he still has a lot of potential and a high trade value in my opinion. Another player that, with the right team, could blossom into an all-star. Yakupov is your stereotypical Russian player, a goal scorer. Again with the right team he could easily become a 30 goal a year guy, but I think without the right tutelage in the Oilers system nor the type of players that can make a sniper he wont become one in Edmonton and any of the teams that could build around this type of player already have this type of player. He would fit well in somewhere like Buffalo or Calgary where star power is really lacking. The Nuge is also a great trade option, he's a playmaker and with the right players he can be formidable but the trouble is the Oilers lack depth so he is forced into the #1 spot right off the bat without any time to develop. If I were in charge of the Oilers i would be trading Eberle and Yakupov, Ebs obviously wants out and Yakupov is not a fit for the team. Throw in some draft picks and take some chances with each of them in separate deals. Fasth and Scrivens are great goalies provided the team can help them win. The problem with the Oilers signing players in the off season is the current state of the team, they have to over-pay anyone to join. They need to get back to the days of being a team players want to play on and the good contracts will come.

Far to long. Eberle, Hall, Yakupov and the Nuge could all still fetch something on the trade market especially earlier in the season. They should be wheeling and dealing with teams in rebuilding mode that want some young guys along with their draft picks this season.

You guys obviously don't know any stoners. Who wants to call a drug dealer, who may or may not pick-up his phone/text back because he's probably busy doing something other than his only job, which is selling pot. Stoners want to head to the corner store, buy a pack of 20 perfectly rolled joints, assorted by potency, just like cigarettes are, grab some slurpee's and a bag of doritos, maybe two. And some beef jerky... and maybe that pack of pretzel m&m's because they look pretty tasty. Head home and relax. There's a very small portion of pot smokers out there that will give a damn about where they get their high, they want the most convenient way possible. Which is more often than not the corner store. And if the government's growers can grow it effectively, they can undercut any and all dealers by a fair margin. Eventually the risk vs. reward becomes to low that it's not worth it and the dealer either gives up or moves on to another endeavor. It's not rocket surgery. The government can make a profit. Sure a few people will sell some homegrown stuff, but it will be nothing compared to the government license grown hydro. As long as the government makes sure the growers keep the product clean and they test it regularly it won't matter. This stuff isn't going to be grown in fields, it will be grown indoors, eliminating the need for chemicals, most likely underground. Or we can let criminal enterprises have all the profit.

Kill or be scared.

That's the conservative way, point fingers at everyone else because they aren't doing what they said they would do and cry that it isn't fair. Even though we said we would do it under a different government, then reneged under the new government because it was "toooo haaarrd" then came up with their own solution, that again they can't do it because it is "tooo haaard". What happened to that good old conservative ingenuity, oh yeah that only applies to money, themselves and the present. Not the future, anyone else or the environment, or their best pals in Oilberta. Damn the children, we're making bank!

They need to deal some of their young players away for some playoff experienced talent. Might give them a shot at making the playoffs. Instead their hoarding all these young players and trying to develop them in a stale environment.

Leafs will miss the playoffs by a couple of games I think. I think the Panthers will settle into that fourth spot, eight seed and nudge them leafs out of the Northeast but it will come down to a couple of games. The Panthers will of course be out in the first round. Also Detroits playoff streak ends this year.

It rises and falls constantly obviously as does the price of everything. A couple months of comparison over a 11 year span is peanuts on the grand scheme. The fact of the matter is before the 1st Iraq war oil was in decline, it rose shortly after they landed maintained its pace then dipped again when America left. Once the war really kicks into gear it will rise. Especially if American boots touch down in Iraq. Like I said it will finish over 100 at the end of the year.

If you refuse to look into it that's fine with me, I'm just presenting some facts what your do with that information is up to you of course. Ignorance is a choice in the age of information. Estevan wasn't pretty but the $32/hr with isolation pay and living allowance helped me deal with it.

,, Its a shame. Harper recycles the same old robotic talking points until something else he hasn't informed the country about slips out in which case he has to reword the same old talking points slightly to try and make himself look better, which isn't fooling anyone. Trudeau can't say anything unless it's written down in front of him. And Muclair time and time again ad libs some incredibly accurate and thought provoking points towards the conservatives tearing their recycled talking points to the shreds they were destined to be. He's done a bang-up job as opposition leader.

It's just recently dropped back down to 90-95 what it was when I was working in Estevan from 2010-2012, after that it began dropping below 90 again right around the same time America left Iraq. It's back up to it's minimum high right now and It will jump to 101-105 by this years end. Mark my words. Conflict has a direct effect on oil prices, if you haven't noticed that it must be fun living in lala land.

Price of oil started jumping in 2003 and peaked shortly thereafter. As soon as the Americans started leaving Iraq it dropped now that they're back its going up again. Easily verifiable. The graphs are all over the internet. Just pointing out Facts. Not my problem if you refuse to see them.

Sorry I should have clarified. As long as there is a conflict, as long as the oil begins flowing again, under western oil companies then the price goes up. Without the conflict no prices rise, provides uncertainty to the market. I never said guns and ammo were manufactured from oil. I was merely talking about the glorification of war in American culture. I also didn't say that eliminating Iraq oil does anything for the environment or domestic issues. But its easy to divert the attention of Canadians away from these issues at home with the issue of a war abroad.

And helping their buddies out at Exxon, BP and Shell while they're at it. Keep the flow of oil up, prices rise worldwide. The worlds biggest corporations are happy. America gets it's heroes, ammo, blood, guns, guts and glory. And the conservatives get to pretend they're doing something "useful" on the world scene while ignoring the environmental issue and all other prevalent domestic issues all while creating the most opaque government we have probably ever had. it all comes together now.

I'm just stating some facts. I could personally care less what Iraq does or does not do with their oil. I'm just stating that the American government and their allies seem to care quite a bit.

China aren't commies, they're state monopoly capitalists that use communist names and imagery. Communism is a socioeconomic system structured upon common ownership of the means of production by all members of society and characterized by the absence of social classes, money, and the state. China is not moving to establish a Communist social order, nor are they a class-less, money-less, or state-less society. These things exist in spades in China. Sorry it just irks me when people refer to China or the Soviet Union as communists. They used the name, the west went with it to run their anti-communist cold war propaganda, they are nothing of the sort. In fact no one has ever achieved communism, and it's pretty obvious China is not actively pursuing it. Also I would just like to clarify to all those in attendance that I am not, nor have I ever been, a member of a communist party. /rant Carry on folks.

I forgot to mention that these oil fields the Kurds are liberating actually belong to the Iraqi government, technically. Chinese state owned oil companies and Russian oil company Lukoil seemed to be key players after the US left Iraq, followed closely by Royal Dutch Shell. But with the Kurds in power, supported by America's coalition, you may see the remaining contracts being leased to Exxon, Dutch and BP. A "Big Win" for democracy no doubt.