SpankyMcFarland

Instinctively, Trump prefers demagogues, goons like Duterte and Erdogan. Canadian politicians are not to his taste.

IMO the decision to replace OxyContin with OxyNeo was a mistake. Now one can see that it created a gap in the market for ultra-powerful opioids like fentanyl.

We're in an ice age at the moment, aren't we? Albeit interglacial.

Christians are a tiny minority in Iraq and Syria and were treated well by the dictators there. Thus we should not rely on them for a representative view of these countries.

You need to look at CO2 per person as well. Canada ain't great in that league table.

Every little bit helps. Obviously, demand is more important than supply. Production in Canada would at least reduce some of the pressure for ever more potent drugs that can elude customs.

What about all the geezers who take massive doses of opioids for back pain? BTW driving while stoned on opioids is commoner than we would like to think. Lots of older people are doing it.

Let's hope the Chinese are serious about this: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/health/fentanyl-china-ban-opioids/index.html

http://archive.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/what-happened-to-the-poster-children-of-oxycontin-r65r0lo-169056206.html http://www.cnn.com/specials/health/painkiller-opioid-addiction Rather than saying 'I can handle it', supporters of prescription opioids need to look at the overall statistical risk of addiction in patients who have been prescribed these drugs. The risk of subsequent drug abuse is particularly high in young people.

You think the federal election result of 1993 was an example of the best system going? Or UKIP requiring millions of votes to get a seat? FPTP works well with two parties. Beyond that you get results increasingly unrepresentative of total vote share that favour regional parties e.g. the BQ and SNP and punish smaller national parties e.g. the Greens. Anarchy has long since left the bag. 'My' system works fine in a country like Ireland, for example. Coalitions reflect the popular vote and Canada needs to grow up about them.

That's the Iranian approach as well - for poor people, anyway - and it has been a spectacular failure.

Something else to look forward to: http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/04/28/pkg-opioids-orphans-deborah-feyerick.cnn

Deaths from coast to coast to coast: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/drug-overdose-deaths-rising-newfoundland-labrador-1.3852030 http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2016-07/jul13_16drg.html

I haven't followed it closely TBH. I rely mainly on news clips for my info about him.

I'd like to see less autonomy for beer. Pretty sad situation for an alleged federation.

You make the deficit sound like the debt there. Harper prudently continued the policies of his predecessors but he mainly ran deficits.

If the French and Indians had sided with the Americans, we would probably have been toast.

Economic policy positions are easier to modify than social ones. Bernier would have to trim his libertarian sails to have any chance against JT. Harper knew exactly how far he could push Canada to the right and it wasn't that far.

The truly powerless get scant sympathy in these pages - so let's continue to ignore them for a while. I hope it's not news to anyone here that you don't need to be PM to try to bend the law a little bit, to attempt to get charges dropped for a son or relation or to fight them in court with the best lawyer you can afford. Many of you would be screaming blue murder if lawyers were randomly assigned to defend criminal cases. JT did not need to tell this story. The predictable response here says more about us than him.

Trump prefers talking to the likes of Erdogan than to Trudeau, Merkel or the South Koreans.

For starters, car manufacture would take a big hit without NAFTA. The supply chains would be all over the place. Any US businessperson losing out would be very noisy.

Peanuts to a big shot like you.

You are going to have to explain that in rather more detail than you have provided. What particular point of law are you referring to that would impress a judge? There's a real Trudeau Derangement Syndrome operating here. Everything he says has to be evil. Would you have preferred he didn't say anything at all? Time for a little honesty. How many here have families who never got away with anything?

It would not go unnoticed by businesses paying for it.

You'd be keen to know if the cost of the house you were planning went up suddenly.