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So tonight Bill 115 can be imposed. What will the teacher's do in response? More strikes? I think there are certain Liberal leadership candidates that have no will to fight with the teacher. (COUGH! Gerrard Kennedy) The teachers should probably hold off to see what the new leader does. Andrea Horvath has said she doesn't want to force an election at the earliest chance so we could be stuck with this crappy party for a few months to come. Sandra Pupatello has said that, if she wins, she won't bring back the house until she has a seat. John Tory lost a by-election when trying to parachute into a "safe-riding" after losing his race in 2007. There are no guarantees she can win a seat this spring, so we could see, up to if not more than, 6 months without anything happening at Queen's Park. GREAT JOB LIBERALS!!!

Well does council really want to spend $7 million to satisfy the outrage of one, politically motivated, private citizen? Perhaps re-appointing him is an appropriate outcome. He only needs a simple majority for it to happen.

Yep and if the opposition really wanted to form a coalition they could have done so after the prorogation. You can't criticize prorogation, which is a tool the PM has every right to use, and at the same time defend the opposition's right to form a coalition a month after an election where the idea wasn't even mentioned once.

I've been away but I'm absolutely NOT SHOCKED. That no one saw fit to comment that Rob Ford's libel case was thrown out of court last week. One positive thing for the mayor to end the year.

Wife got me Johnny Walker Gold at a Duty Free last month. Excellent scotch! (granted it's blended)

What Poll? Back in 2011 people said he didn't win because he was just a mild alternative to McGuinty. Now he's putting forward concrete differences between his party and the Liberals and people are saying he's too right-wing. Clearly he can't win in the minds of some. I anticipate those people were never going to vote PC in the first place. The price is only part of the problem. The fact that we're being treated like children is the major problem. The LCBO's were closed on Boxing Day WTF???? Even if I had to pay a bit more, why couldn't the people of Ontario get a bottle of wine on Boxing Day? They already have private Beer Stores and Private Wine Stores. They just have to abide by silly social responsibility laws that are completely hypocritical. It's not just the taxes either. It's the markup. The LCBO has a set markup. An independent convenience store owner wouldn't have the overhead of an LCBO so they wouldn't need to take as much profit.

Apparently the only schools that had a locked-door policy up until now were ones where the front door wasn't in a sight line of the office.

Reisling is very sweet. More of a Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc person myself.

I read that the infrastructure spending was mostly a provincial project. So why didn't the NDP Provincial government invite him?

Brampton Centennial in 1975 is the only one I've heard of. The irony, of course, is that the School in Newtown was a Locked Door School. Lanza just shot the window to enter the school. BTW lots of schools have private groups rent the building after hours, how would this effect that?

I have a feeling they aren't BFF's right now for unrelated reasons.

But in response to an unrelated event in the US, Dalton looking for Publicity to make the program mandatory now. It's a very cynical ploy for good PR.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1305043--mcguinty-wants-locked-door-policy-at-all-elementary-schools-by-next-fall He's using the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary for another spending project. If a crazy gunman wants to go to an elementary school to shoot little kids, a locked door and a security camera isn't going to stop him. Dude you're not running anymore, please stop making meaningless spending projects. Knowing this guys track record this will cost more than $500 million not 10.

Then why would the NDP issue a statement that says. "“These comments were simply inappropriate and unacceptable,” Also please cite an example of a member of the CPC calling someone Whore. Justin Jr. called the Conservatives Pieces of Shit earlier this year.

Well it's hyperbole illustrating that there would be across the board outrage if a Conservative called someone a whore in the same manor. I could see women's groups would be criticizing the Tories for using a pejorative for sex trade worker or something like that. Conservatives are definitely held to a different standard regarding these things. IMHO.

Which is why you have nothing to worry about. Unless you have something against voting for Christians.

When has Hudak ever brought up any religious issues as public policy? Harper is still doing quite well in Ontario BTW. Most of his caucus is from Ontario.

Here's a good column from the Star saying how ridiculous the Beer Store is. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1304864--cohn-more-reasons-to-end-the-beer-store-cartel I'll admit the LCBO is a rather pleasant shopping experience even though you're being ripped off. But going to the Beer Store sucks. I always find it amusing that the Top 10 board at the Beer Store include epic brands like Coors Light, Bud and Blue. What's so wrong with these independent craft brewers being able to sell their beer elsewhere so they don't have to pay a premium to the Big Boys.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1304979--angry-ndp-mp-pat-martin-calls-tories-red-faced-whores-on-twitter WAHHHHHHH!!!!! The Governing Party won't let me share in the glory of infrastructure spending, let me call them all whores! If anyone in the CPC called anyone a "whore" I'm sure a Human Rights Tribunal would be contacted. In light of the libel suit against this clown, isn't it time the NDP consider him a liability at some point?

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/montreal-school-admits-baby-snatching-eagle-video-is-a-hoax-1.1085355 Awww Poop, it is fake.

I think he's just responding to Betsy's post. Banning plastic bags do little to save the planet. I don't mind a 5 cent cost (which is a gigantic markup) per bag so people don't just think to throw them away after one use. I don't know who does that though. They're also recyclable. At my local Wal-Mart they actually bag your groceries for you, so it's a pain to hand them canvas bags or other plastic bags, so you actually get a lot of them. There's a box in front of the store where you can put excess bags in for recycling.

I think she's more upset about this than if CFS took her ACTUAL kids away. http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/15/ikea-monkeys-owner-heading-to-court-to-get-him-back-from-animal-sanctuary/ She's apparently willing to move to communities that allow idiots to actually own a Monkey. If she loved Darwin so much, then why did she bring him to an Idea in a cage. I hope for the sake of Darwin that this woman never gets him back. I feel so bad for this woman's husband.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1lgRXCWrcI Don't know what forum to put this in. I'm sure these Quebecers will look to the Federal government for compensation due to this traumatic event. (There now I've made it appropriate for this board!)

I'm sure there's a reason they made Halton the last GTA Board to do this Strike. BTW these strikes aren't really doing anything. Come the end of the year a contract will still be imposed and since Daddy Dalton shut down the house, no one's around to change that law. And if Sandra Puppawhateverhernameis wins she's said she won't recall the house until she wins a seat. Who wants to guess that the teacher's will try to prevent that from happening?