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How would allowing the sales of a taxed product cause a deficit? It's expanding the availability. No one has said the LCBOs should close. However the evidence is the privately owned Beer Store is an absolute scam, I believe, should be done away with. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/beer-store-profits-700m-yearly-from-near-monopoly-study-finds-1.1382689 The province rakes in profits from tobacco sales and it's sold in privately owned facilities. I think the consumer just wants more choice. The beer store is owned by the big boys and makes it very difficult for craft brewers to get a foothold.

It shows the irrelevance of highlight shows in the internet age that I have never once seen him do that. Going to the US is the dream of any broadcaster because that's where the money is. That being said, Jay and Dan did go and join a start-up sport network. All the 4 main US Networks now have cable sports networks. Obviously ABC's ESPN is the Holy Grail. Fox Sports One is a new player in the game. Interestingly the least profile cable sports network, CBS Sports Network, is the only one that's actually available in Canada.

After spending a little time in the US I realize how ass backwards this province is. Then you get a blowhard like Charles Sousa coming out yesterday saying it's socially responsible to treat adults like little children. http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2013/10/29/ontario_rejects_call_to_sell_beer_wines_in_convenience_stores.html Is there anyone, anywhere that believe this social responsibility crap. These are the same places that allow sales of tobacco. We have a thread where people laud drinking craft beers that probably cost $3 plus a pop but here we are in Ontario where we have to go to government sanctioned facilities to buy legal products and pay through the teeth for it. Alcohol is at least twice the price than in the United States. It's not about social responsibility, it's about using a government monopoly to make lots of money for an every growing government.

You'd think that would be something he'd have disclosed earlier on and not days before he's set to be booted from the Senate. I guess we'll see the evidence of these claims soon. All this from Duffy smacks of desperation though. Harper has come out aggressively in defense of his record here and has him up against the wall.

Yes but not allowing development to go forward unless an agreement is made is a veto.

In Monte Solberg's column today he talks about how Harper resisted appointing Senators for awhile and would love to hear from the Supreme Court that he could reform or scrap the whole thing. Ironically, arguably, the highest profile scandal his government has seen to date comes from, what was likely, a flippant appointment of a former broadcaster who at the time seemed sympathetic to the cause. http://www.torontosun.com/2013/10/25/a-loathe-hate-relationship-pm-refused-for-years-to-appoint-senators-now-theyre-chained-around-his-neck BTW you'd think if the PMO paid for Duffy's legal fees, he'd have ample evidence to prove it.

What was the wedge issue in 2011? The idea that Iggy was a horrible leader of the Opposition? Wedge issue politics is not something only the Tories have done. The 2007 Ontario Election was a classic example where a single Tory Campaign Plank to extend vouchers to Faith-based public school was pretty much the only thing that was discussed.

They completely crap the bed against Columbus then put in, perhaps, their best performance of the year the next night against The Crosby Show. The last two games Reimer started, where he didn't get run over by a teammate and pulled from the game 30 seconds in, he's most certainly been the more impressive goalie of the two. He should start against the Oilers on Tuesday.

Leaf Fans are everywhere! I would assume even in Quebec.

Most groceries aren't subject to GST/HST either. I was in the states recently and I must admit that gap has closed a fair bit. Sure alcohol and certain meats and fresh meats and produce are a lot less but other groceries are pretty close. You gotta remember everyone in Canada has Healthcare and the minimum wage is around $10/hour. So it's not a surprise the price is higher.

Mormons!

If you're against the enemy then you're a friend right? I can't see how this will stick to Harper in 2015. Especially if he's able to balance the budget and implement the populist things he proposed in the Throne Speech. An Abacus poll out today has the Tories and Liberals tied at 32% amongst those that identify themselves as Middle-Class. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2013/10/24/21220691.html

How much does an induction cooktop go for in tandem with an oven? The one good thing about the gas stove is the fact that I don't have to worry about time of use gas consumption . . . yet!

I don't think I could go back to an electric stove after having a gas one.

Short of Wright admitting as much. How can anyone prove Harper knew about the payoff? People are going to make up their mind regardless.

Yet he was a close friend of Hitler. Apparently the betrayal of Speer hurt Hitler the most, he wasn't furious at him like he was with Himmler and Goering.

Does it make you feel somewhat sympathetic to Albert Speer? Seemed to cast him in a positive light for being an inner circle Nazi.

They detail it WaW how Truman told Stalin about the Bomb at Potsdam thinking he'd have been blown away but he was like Meh. It was later discovered he already had spies imbedded in the Manhattan Project.

And you don't think any of his reasoning was to show off to the Ruskies?

Fair enough. But the claim is that the A-Bomb was decisive in ending the war. Those cities were going to be destroyed by bombing anyway. The catastrophic fall-out wasn't completely evident to any parties involved at the time.

Another reason to believe that the A-Bombs didn't have as much of a shock effect on the Japanese as they had seen 60 plus cities destroyed due to bombing. What's the difference, to the Japanese, if it came from one bomber or 1,000 bombers?

How would have invading Japan and beating them that way changed any of that?

At least? The casualties on both side of the Battle of Berlin were over 500,000. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Battle_of_Berlin_April_1945_casualties They did surrender (individually) at a much higher clip but Germany fought long after the war was obviously lost.

OK well straight from the WoW series we're talking about they having a Japanese official saying dropping the bomb wasn't needed and as long as the Emperor was allowed to be kept as a figurehead the Japanese were more than willing to surrender. Truman wanted unconditional surrender yet they ended up letting the Emperor stay.

He did significant research to come up with his conclusions. In the documentary he shows interviews of Truman in the years following where the number of casualties saved by dropping the bomb keeps going up. 250,000, 500,000, a million? The thesis would be that an invasion would never have been needed in the first place, Japan's ability to "make war" was relatively contained. It was thought that the Soviets could take Sappora and all of the Korean Peninsula.