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Well abandoning debt repayment schedules still got them a healthy majority 3 years later so who cares? Their deficit removal strategies are doing fairly well.

He'd have to admit he did drugs first. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford thinks Lance Armstrong is stubborn.

What are Mulclaire's Debt removal strategies? People keep forgetting that the current deficit was a result of the Economic Action Plan which was as much a decision by the Opposition as it was of the government during the Economic meltdown of 2008/9. The whole Coalition scare in 2008 was mostly caused by the fact that the CPC still wanted to balance to books in the face of a global economic meltdown. In hindsight it was a good decision for the opposition to force the government to go into debt to help Canada through the meltdown.

A Half a Trillion dollar debt is not bad considering the National Debt of the US. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ http://www.debtclock.ca/ If Canada was able to eliminate the National Debt that would be a massive accomplishment as a G8 Nation. Canada's debt per person is about $17,000. It's about $50,000 in the US and $26,000 in Germany. I think the current government is well on its way to removing the deficit. They're doing a lot better than the Liberal Ontario government in hiding.

So Sandra Pupatello and Kathleen Wynne could be the favourites so far.

Today Apple released the iPad Mini. I wonder how many iSheep think the iPad mini is the pinnacle of innovation and will need one the minute it comes out even though they already have a traditional iPad and an iPhone. The thing starts at over $300 and the Google Nexus 7 goes for $200. I can only see iSheep wanting to buy this thing. This iPad mini doesn't even have the latest processor or a Retina display (whatever that is)

Except for a provision on Slot Machines at Racetracks (which would actually lose the government money and is why they're kind of backtracking on it) this government pretty much ignored the Drummond report. McGuinty has increased spending exponentially in his term. There are civil servants than certainly don't need to be employed by the government. (many in middle management) Some people need to get laid off.

It's common knowledge that drinking and driving is very dangerous. If you don't know this, you probably shouldn't have a license. MADD has evolved into a prohibitionist Group. Even it's founding members have left because the initial purpose of the group have been bastardized. I bet if you let MADD create legislation there would be zero tolerance for driving with any alcohol in your system. That would create many more "criminals" of people that just had a glass of wine with dinner. http://www.alcoholfa...urseOnMADD.html The people who overwhelmingly kill people behind the wheel are alcoholics that can't be appealed to by a charitable organization. MADD focuses much of its attention on criminalizing social drinkers.

Who really thinks MADD should be a charity? How exactly does that organization really help the public? It's a political lobby group for the most part. I'd like some of the anti-church as getting charitable status provide some studies to prove that churches often don't try and help the public at large. The last church I went to was all about local and international charitable organizations.

That's more of a problem in the US though isn't it? Are prison sentences for simple possession of any illicit drugs common in Canada. Heck some people want to give free needles to druggies in this country.

I get that. It's a liability issue as to why they have to destroy all the beef. But it's One Million Pounds of beef! Ethically is that the right move? And is it right that Danielle Smith is getting flack for saying the food should be donated.

So the Wildrose choke artist leader Danielle Smith is in trouble for retweeting a statement about possibly donating the "tainted" a message asking why the meat at XL has to be thrown in a landfill when it can be cooked to a proper temperature and donated to the poor. http://www.cbc.ca/ne...er.html?cmp=rss Beef is rather expensive, why not give it to people how often go without. There are safeguards that can be made to ensure the meat is safe. Sure you wouldn't want have a medium rare ribeye from this meat but isn't canned meat pasteurized? Can't similar steps be made with this meat, instead of throwing it all away? Why is proposing this somehow an attack on the poor?

As I've said before people just question to benefit of Churches as charitable organizations because they hate religion. Churches don't charge people to attend. You can receive free council at most any church. Why should the donations people give freely to a church be subject to taxation because some question the legitimacy of the benefits to society churches provide.

Well the realities of organized crime have changed. Now we have shootouts for other reasons. So your solution is to make everything legal so organized crime would have no business: Including Bath Salts, Meth, Heroine. It's all fair game and the world will be a better place because of it. I just find that approach very myopic. Criminals will be criminals, people who can make lucrative money selling illegal products will find something else to sell.

Except if you hate Religion. That being said, I'll be consistent here. If someone starts up the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and can convince people to donate to them, those donations should be tax exempt.

It's myopia to think that people who are willing to kill to make money will find more legal methods of making a living once people can find legal methods to obtain illicit drugs. Cigarettes are still smuggled by organized crime, why? because high taxes are put on tobacco, that people don't want to pay. Why would you think high taxes wouldn't be put on other drugs if they are made legal?

The disease is airborne. Everyone has it lying dormant in them. Once someone dies, for whatever reason, they become a zombie. If you get bit by a zombie, you get a fever and die, then become a zombie. But if you died from, say Cancer, in this universe you'd come back as a zombie. One being a Zombie you can only be killed causing trauma to the brain. Now there are lots of questions one might have like: with all this Zombie blood flying all over the place, how can people not get infected the active version of the virus through contact. What if someone died from a Stroke or Brain Cancer? Do they become Zombies? What about people that are Brain Dead?

But they receive their income in the form of charitable donations, They don't charge people to come to church. If they did, I'm sure that money would be taxable. If you've ever been to a church they like you to give your regular donations in a labeled envelope so at the end of the fiscal year they can issue you a tax receipt. Why should money given as a charitable donation be taxed? That's sort of like taxing the food bank for the food they receive.

Well a Church has staff. I'm sure they have to issue them T4's every year. If you think a certain pastor makes too much money then don't donate to that church. Doesn't mean all church's do that. Just like all charities don't funnel most of their money to administration and very little to the actual cause. But a lot do, do that.

I'm sure there has to be some safeguards in place to ensure that a church does legitimate good to obtain charitable status or, like you say, anyone could say they're a church. "I'm the church of me, there for I don't have to pay taxes!!!" You don't see that happening do you? MADD gets charitable status yet, the amount of money they send to an actual cause vs. how much goes to "admin" doesn't change their ability to get tax exemptions on charitable grounds. Some charities are politically active. Why should a church lose charitable status if they try to lobby governments but a secular charity doesn't? In Toronto last week a city councillor was charged with DWI and MADD came down strongly against other councillors that showed support for them. A legit church likely does lots of charitable work therefore it should be seen by the government as a charitable organization. Even if they don't funnel a good majority of their money to a charitable cause doesn't mean they should have to pay taxes on the donations they receive from an offering. People give that money freely as a charitable donation and can write it off. I think people's hatred for religious organizations think that churches are somehow undeserving of having charitable status.

Well initially yeah. But if they try him as an adult and he's convicted, he's fair game. See the Stephanie Rengel killer.

I wonder if he can be tried as an adult? Can you put a minor on a public sex offender registry?

Excellent Walking Dead episode last night. This third season is turning out to be fantastic. Rick is turning into the type of Anti-Hero I wanted to see from him in this show. A Walt White of the Zombie Apocalypse if you will.

The Leadership Convention is going to be held in late January. So at least we're still on track for a Spring election. So that's a good thing. Watch the new leader keep the prorogation going.

I just read today that the Rae NDP prorogued 3 TIMES! I guess no one can really take the moral high ground here. That being said the Tories and Dippers never did it as long as these Liberals plan on doing it.