CPCFTW

Um ok? Where did I say it's a joke? I'm probably far more educated in economics and finance than most people on this message board, especially a fisherman. I would definitely prefer if a Canadian was employed, but I don't bemoan an impoverished immigrant uprooting himself to earn a living in Canada. If the remedy being considered was to reduce incentives to remaining unemployed, then I'd probably care more.. Unfortunately that solution is politically unpalatable because of our society of pseudo-economists. Unemployed arts grads are too good for that work, don't you know? Maybe a starbucks barista but not tim hortons!

Maybe canadians aren't applying for those jobs because the incentives to remain unemployed are too high. Who would apply for a job at tim hortons when they are making double on EI? Or can make as much on welfare + selling drugs/counterfeit merchandise/pirated media? Fyi tim hortons will not operate at a loss. Higher wages does not mean more spending power, it means higher prices. The problem with our economy isn't the "fatcats" and corporations.. It's pseudo-economists like yourself who think they know what's right for the economy and buy into populist BS because they read some threads on reddit and watched some youtube videos and looked at some funny meme jpgs.

Wages are one of the primary factors in productivity. If you're not competing on wages, you aren't going to have much luck competing on productivity.

I question your reading comprehension if that's the conclusion you drew after reading the article you've linked. The article states the opposite. The meat packers are currently required to segregate imports which makes imports from Canada and Mexico more expensive. Canada and Mexico successfully argued that these segregation requirements are unlawful. The reason the US doesn't want to comply is not because it is more expensive, it's because it wants to protect the US meat industry from international competition.

Sounds thrilling... I've been to casinos, won some money, lost some money. It's entertainment. I don't think casinos bring any more crime and debauchery to a city than clubs and bars do. With drinks going for $5+ each these days, going to a bar is just "redistributing" wealth too. The arguments against casinos are laughable at best. Let people live their lives and make mistakes.

I would think the most feasible alternative to our over-reliance on fossil fuels is to create an infrastructure of electric recharge stations that is comparable to the current gas station infrastructure. Tesla Motors is hoping to start selling electric cars in the 30k price range in 1-2 yrs I believe. The private sector saves the day again! Fyi the founder of Tesla is part-Canadian and attended Queen's U for 2yrs.

Cpc bashers... Plase form a line to the right - thank you!!Typical lefty.. We can only "bash" the organizations you don't like I suppose.

US has 2-3% less labour force participation rate than Canada, and starts counting at 16yrs old (Canada starts at 15yrs old). The percentage of people 15 and older who are working in Canada is about 3-4% higher than the US.

Another 50k jobs under the Harper govt. That makes 216k jobs in the past 7 months (1.1% of the canadian labour force). For those more familiar with US jobs numbers, that would be equivalent to the US creating 1.7M jobs in 7mos (only 1.075 were created). Edit: also 340k jobs created in Canada in last 1yr.

So if person A digs a bunch of resources out of the ground in Alberta and sells them to person B in Ontario, then person B turns those resources into a car and sells it to person C in Quebec, you would say the economy hasn't grown? Talk about economic voodoo..

It is but for most of 1Q 2013 there was fairly unabated exuberance. Furthermore, the economic impact of any "fiscal cliff" decisions/indecisions cannot be blamed on Harper. He has been very vocal about broadening Canada's ties to non-US economies and has worked on various free trade agreements to that effect.

Ooooh "expected to paint a gloomy picture". That's scary considering economists expectations are always right... oh wait. Also keep in mind that this is a report for the last month of a quarter in which the "fiscal cliff" was looming. People/companies weren't exactly lining up to invest in growth opportunities at that time. The S&P was at 1420 at the end of December and is now around 1500. That's 5% growth in 2 months. Wait until the end of May for the corresponding "GDP numbers expected to paint rosy picture of an expanding economy" article.

The teacher in those videos is not too bad. Unfortunately your mental development seems to be more on par with the children she's teaching. Maybe you should join their classes.

I doubt that. Most of the eco-nuts would turn pro-nuclear very quickly if extinction of the human race was impending. The partial test ban treaty would be shredded pretty quickly too. Anyway, the point is that "the 1%" did not "co-opt our small window to launch ourselves into space". We've always had the means, just not the will. When the resources on Earth do eventually become too scarce, asteroid mining will become economical. That will probably be the catalyst to a space age.

Why is that hilarious? That's the design. Or are you claiming you're smarter than NASA scientists? FWIW the nukes were very small (0.15 kt) http://en.wikipedia....ear_propulsion)

True. That's why I said we've theoretically had the ability to do so. We have the technology. We just are unable to test the nuke propulsion design.

Nuke it up there, like I said.

Project Orion.

What are you talking about? We've theoretically had the ability to nuke ourselves to another solar system since the 60s. "Natural resource window through which our species might shoehorn itself into space was co-opted by the 1% for their own purposes." Where do you environmentalists come up with this drivel?

Where did Tim say the US is a currency manipulator? The US is printing money to fund an enormous military and massive entitlement spending... and Bernanke has promised to keep printing money until the US unemployment reaches 6.5%. The US is not intervening in FX markets, the markets are simply reacting to the domestic policy decisions of the US.

And every country in the world has freedom of expression by your ludicrous definition. Clearly Shortlived's point was that we shouldn't further restrict freedom of expression just because some NDPers panties are in a bunch that the CPC dodge their loaded questions. Have you stopped beating your wife yet? Democracy demands the answer!!

Good point. China and Iran have freedom of expression too. It just so happens that exercising that freedom has some inconvenient consequences such as imprisonment or execution.

Oh a punked guarantee? I can't argue with that Please tell me you don't actually believe teachers need to fundraise $10,000 (or any amount) to run a school play at their own school. How delusional can you be?

What a partisan hack.

Something the left constantly seems to misunderstand. To the left, the 1% is some sinister group of people who control the world. In reality, many of the current 1% are people who may have grown up in a poor family and worked hard to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer or banker, etc. Even many of the super-wealthy were not rich in 1980. How many of the "dragons" from dragon's den or the "sharks" from shark tank were wealthy back then? The reality that the left can't accept is that most of the 1% worked their asses off to get there.