ninjandrew

Still waiting in Alberta... I agree that they'll be back. They've been too favored for too long. I'm sure people will give them one more chance, at least if they clean up their act.

I just checked GasBuddy and gas in Winnipeg is $0.04 more than it is in Edmonton. $0.06 more in Toronto, and $0.11 more in Vancouver. Edmontons avg. price right now is $1.279/L.

Apparently its no cheaper than in Manitoba.

Also, the other languages spoken in Vancouver aren't national languages.

Do we know where he is?

$1.18 - $1.28 here in EDMONTON.

Estimating reserves is nonsense. An article I read yesterday said 12 years, and somewhere on wikipedia says 200 or so years. I think that was the longest lasting resource, so we have that long to find an alternative. Not even really.

Interesting. Considering how few police we have, Alberta isn't doing too bad.

Im all for a bicycle sharing system. All in favor?

Possibly because Albertas oil isnt expected to last much longer than 15 years.

Why do you keep talking about gifted kids and bullying?? The only people bullys dont bully are people that stand up for themselves.

FREEDOOOOOOOM!!!!

Wow, thats the total opposite of me. It turned out I had ADD and Tourette syndrome, which would have been bad enough, but there seems to be an lot of people who think those disorders/syndromes are made up (or something...). Before I was taken to a child psychologist I was put in a class for deaf kids and had to wear an FM, which is essentially a unit you wear that broadcasts through headphones what the teacher is speaking into a microphone. Than when we moved and that class wasnt available. The new school installed speakers pointed at my chair for the same reason. PS, I'm not hearing impaired. It was determined that I had a fairly high IQ too, so while the ADD prevented me from learning most things in class, I was quickly able to learn things that actually interested me. I bounced around from school to school, special ed. class to special ed. class. Those classes were usually full of kids from abusive families, had FAS, Asperger syndrome, autism, Down's syndrome, you name it. Cant say any of that was any good for my education... As for the Tourettes; that one got me kicked out a lot. In grade 9 when I was actually in normal classes for once, my English teacher ended up making me spend all of my English classes in the special ed. class. My grade 9 math teacher made me sit in a desk in the hallway every class, start to finish. Needless to say, math is my biggest weakness, which sucks because it seems like all the highest paying jobs are math oriented. Another grade 8 teacher of mine actually tried strangling me and left bruises all over my neck. Thank God for high school! Good times... Looks like whether youre gifted with a high IQ or gifted with disorders and syndromes you can still slip through the cracks of our current education system.

Well Ill be damned. Still kinda lame, but Ill scratch that off the list.

Didnt most of the news about her come out after the election?

But that doesnt mean I have to like her. Also, Im sure most of her supporters, if not all of them, were unaware of the issue with her candidacy app. before they voted for her. I'm not anti-NDP, but there sure seems to be some monkey business going on there. [sp]

I agreed with that perspective before I read your post. Now I agree even more.

The open minded and adaptable part. I thought you were referring to those words in the same context MiddleClassCentrist was using them.

I think all of that would be very hard to prove, for both parties. As for the ex Communist Party members: if I was a Communist and joined a non-communist party, what is stopping me from changing my point of view? I know a guy who was all for Anarchy, but a few years later he CHANGED his political point of view, he's much more central now.

If we're talking about Ruth Ellen Brosseau, than I have a problem with the lady. She: - was in Vegas during the election - has never been to her riding - has had some controversial (forged?) signatures on her candidacy application - speaks poor French in a riding that is almost entirely French, and the French seem to hate that more than anything - doesn't have a diploma when it was stated she did, I dont care about the diploma, just the principal - and finally, the judgmental, suspicious side of me thinks that a good looking single mother working as a bartender might very much like the salary of an MP

Except that Harper himself is far from being open minded, or adaptable.

I did, to make a point that things change. But if you acknowledged that theyve mellowed that point is moot.

Was Jack Layton one of them?? CPC is considered centre-right to right, but for somebody to call anyone that supports them a fascist would be retarded, and any of their supporters would agree. The NDP is considered centre-left to left, but nobody seems to think theres anything wrong with calling their supporters communists, or the party itself a communist party. Give your heads a shake. Scandinavian parties that are elected typically alternate from left to right, just like Canada (almost). When do you suppose Canada will become a Communist state? You poor souls must absolutely terrified.

What about trying to teach grade 8's about the French Revolution? Fun fun!!

Is this the first time something like this has happened?