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  1. Boges
    You can't really kill the main character. In Season 2 Jimmy Darmody hired one of Capone's men to kill Nucky. He hit him in the hand from point blank. BTW RIP Owen, that's what you get when you screw the boss's wife. Seems like bootlegging is the only thing Van Alden can do well. Cept for the fact that he was doing it in Al Capone's territory. (Facepalm!) Oh and I was right about Carol being alive in Walking Dead. Great set-up episode for things to come. L-O-L Bittergram.
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    Halo 4 is a great game. Was created by a new developer this time. Some of the best graphics I've seen in Video game history.
  3. Boges
    I'm glad the PM essentially said "Tough Luck Buttercup" to the CBC and it's whining that it's losing out over Hockey revenue due to the lockout.
  4. Boges
    You're trolling right? You think Nazi's or the USSR cared about those things? Wars were fought to protect us from people that didn't really care to much about civil rights.
  5. Boges
    And this is different from the Chretien Liberals how? The Omnibus bills just doesn't waste people's time because they're going to pass regardless of what the Opposition thinks.
  6. Boges
    Russell Peters Standup FTW.
  7. Boges
    Yeah and PR ignores where you live completely. No system is perfect. I haven't been shown a system other than the MMP system that Ontario rejected that would work in Canada. We're too big a country to ignore the different type of voters in different regions.
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    I don't know but why wouldn't this lady simply sue these people if she felt she was truly wronged. Human Rights Tribunals have a history of awarding money for things that have no legal standing. See Ezra Levant's Shakedown book where he talks about being dragged before it for publishing the Mohamed Cartoon.
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    But at least they ultimately have to answer to the people that elected them. You would also assume they'd look out for the interests their constituents, they may not, but that means they may not be re-elected. I don't believe that people will always vote for the part regardless of who is running. Iggy lost his seat in 2011, likely because he sucked and he was Parachuted into that Etobicoke riding. Here in Ontario the last PC leader John Tory lost his election seat and forced a popular MPP to step down so he could try and win a seat. The riding (normally a Conservative stronghold) went Liberal in the Bi-election.
  10. Boges
    Tell me how it should be better. And Mixed Member Proportional Representation isn't better, it's an avenue for patronage to party hacks that don't have to face the electorate. What I would support is an American system where the executive is separate from the legislature. The leader of the country can be elected by a popular vote but not a house that's supposed to represent the country as a whole.
  11. Boges
    Well the BC HRC awarded a gay couple $4,000 from Christians that denied them a group because they are Gay. HRC don't need to follow the law. That's why it's a kangaroo court.
  12. Boges
    People keep saying the Liberals and the NDP represent a progressives as a whole. The Liberals are left of the CPC but I'm sure many people that vote Liberal would choose the CPC over the NDP if given the choice so lumping the combined NDP and LPC vote together isn't being honest. Just look at all the Centrist Liberals that lost to the CPC in the last election in the Toronto area.
  13. Boges
    Why would the NDP what to change the system? They made it to the opposition by basically dominating one province?
  14. Boges
    Yeah those European democracies are doing well. Britain uses FPTP and they have a coalition minority government with no trouble.
  15. Boges
    He kind of already did by adding seats to Alberta, Ontario and BC. That further dilutes the East Coast and Quebec in deciding the winner of future elections. Places where the CPC aren't terribly popular.
  16. Boges
    What 40% are you referring to? The Alberta Liberal Party? In Alberta the PCs have increasingly received over 50% though No? They haven't been winning with only a plurality have they?Federally over 50% is very rare. The major failing of FPTP is that a party with 7% (The Bloc) can, in the past receiver 50 plus seats because they only run in one province. While the Green only one their first seat recently. But them's the breaks of the system. Each seat is won by a popular vote and the house is a good representation of the the popular will country-wide.
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    Why should a party that receives less than 40% receive power if another party received more than 40%?Also please cite instances in Canada where a party that lost the popular vote won the election. It might have happened, but have never heard of an instance. Also Ontario rejected MMP by a healthy majority.
  18. Boges
    That idea was proposed in the Ontario 2007 General election and was soundly defeated. The problem with it is that the other seats are given essentially by patronage. Those people wouldn't campaign to win a seat. They are just alloted a seat because of the popular vote. They have no one to answer to either. The only way a popular vote system would work is if you have a house of 100 seats and give one seat to each party that has a 1% share of the vote. But that ignores regional representation completely.
  19. Boges
    Really? Because as Canukistani points out, what about Muslim doctors, Dentists etc. Can they also deny service to women not in their family?
  20. Boges
    If I remember correctly, in the issue of Christian B&B owners they offered to find the couple another room and still lost their case. This is why HRC's are absolute BS.
  21. Boges
    http://www.thestar.c...t-christian-b-b $4,000 payday for the couple involved.
  22. Boges
    A system that involves purely a national popular vote ignores regional differences in deciding who an elected representative should be. In a two party system it would be more reasonable for a popular vote to decide the executive branch. But in Canada where the executive branch is decided by the leader of the winning party any system involving a national popular vote would leave parts of the nation not represented properly. It also would completely ignore any third or fourth parties. No system is going to be perfect. America's system allows for crippling checks and balances where little can actually be done.
  23. Boges
    Because most men have the sense enough not to go. You know the places that charge $100 for a cut, shampoo and blowdry?
  24. Boges
    Christians were taken to a HRC for refusing to serve a gay couple at a B&B. Also a man was taken to a HRC for not allowing a Transgendered person to join his Women's only gym. This case seems to follow those precedents.
  25. Boges
    http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1288023--woman-denied-haircut-goes-to-human-rights-tribunal-of-ontario First of all I think both parties in this story acting regrettably. But finally a politically correct person has challenged a Muslim's right to religious freedom and of their overt misogyny. The woman could have easily found a place, like say Supercuts! to cut her hair but NOOOOO!!!! had to take these people to task because they said they can't cut a woman's hair for religious reasons. Might I ad that I, as a man, would probably be asked to leave a woman's salon if I asked for a simple haircut. Also a men's only barbershop is little different than a women's only Gym. There is a barber shop in a Shopping Mall in the city I grew up in that wasn't allowed to serve women because it was unfair to the several other salons in the mall that would charge a woman $80+ for the same service, instead of the $20 at the barber shop. Obviously I think the idea that Muslims can't touch women outside their family is utter foolishness. Will this finally be the case that makes the Human Right's Tribunal face a paradox that will make it collapse in on itself? Let's hope.
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