Boges

Usually the morning shows aren't like that. And they do have "impartial" newscasts on the .00's and .30's.

Curious why radio isn't an option. I wake up to talk Radio and that's my first exposure to news.

I like how the renter advocate property tax increases but if their rent goes up it's a travesty and the landlord is just being greedy.

I must say that whole Oski Wee Wee! Oski Waa Waa! Holy Makinaw! Tigers! Eat'em Raw! thing is a bit short bus.

As is blaming the woes on repealing a tax on car owners. Blaming the woes on the spending habits of of one David Miller is a good start however.

I don't have access to the payroll of City Hall but I'd imagine there are plenty of pencil pushers that aren't incharge of core service that make a nice wage and the city would do fine without. But these are real people with real families and to put them out of work would be heartless. Granted that's what goes on in the private sector all the time. Why is the public sector so special?

Was that needed Jack?

So you guise are in denial that perhaps Toronto has a spending problem? You really think every civil servant is worth their bloated salary and every service the city provides is sacrosanct? Not sure I would agree with some of these proposals but I suppose tough decisions need to be made. I actually don't think a steep tax hike can be avoided at this point.

I've heard it said that if the NFL comes to Toronto you can kiss the Ti-Cats and the Argos goodbye so maybe you're right. The CFL is very popular out west. Perhaps because, like M Dancer said in regards to many parts of the US, there isn't a whole lot to do there. BTW a $10 Beer isn't warm and flat. The prices at an Argos game aren't that expensive. Well at least compared to the Jays, Raptors and Leaves. Under the new ownership, the Argos are actually a fairly well run club.

I picked 70,000 because no NFL stadium is less than that figure, I do believe. That's why if the NFL moved up to Toronto they'd have to build a new stadium. I'm not researching Superbowl prices but I do remember hear that in the latest Superbowl in Dallas people paid $800 to sit in temporary seating. The seats ended up being not available for them. I'm pretty sure the average Superbowl price is over a few grand.

Well the 100+ Stadium I'm talking about is Ann Abour Michigan. Closer to Northeast than Midwest. So you're saying people in the US go watch football because they have nothing else to do? You're saying there's so much to do in parts of Canada? You're thesis was that Canadians love football as much as Americans do and I don't buy it. I'll agree it's very popular here, just not as popular. You're never going to get 70,000 people to come to a CFL game in the GTA, you just aren't. I don't think we value sports nearly as much in Canada as in the US. College Sports draws flies up here, in the US there are two networks devoted to College sports I can get. One devoted just to a conference (The Big 10). Here's the best evidence I can show to you to prove this. For Game 7 of the Stanley Cup someone paid $7,000 a seat to see that game. Hockey is the most popular sport in Canada, no question. It's not uncommon for Superbowl tickets to for for multiple thousand dollars. Do you know anyone that would pay more than a few hundy to see a CFL game? Anyone? I went to the 2004 Grey Cup and got the ticket given to me.

You're going with that? I guess it's partially true. The attendance in places like Miami for sports is pretty abysmal. They can always go to the beach. But New York sells out their NFL games. Austin, Texas is a pretty happening place. USC Trojans sell out the Olympic Coliseum. Buffalo is a stones throw from the GTA and those people are dirt poor and they still come out to watch the Road kill Bills. Football is ingrained in their culture as of late like hockey has been in ours. To deny it is to have blinders on.

Yeah streaming sports in Canada is pretty dreadful. When the Dolphins aren't playing on any TV channel I get (I refuse to pay for NFL Sunday Ticket) I go to Justin.tv. But it's always pretty bad quality. channelsurfing.net was better but that was shut down. You can get live sports streamed on XBL in the US right? Our CRTC is horribly restrictive on the type of content we get online in Canada.

Dood that's a sweeping statement. Do you have blanket opinions like that about everything?

The love of Football in America and in Canada are not comparable. Sorry. You can get 100,000+ people out to watch a University team play in the US. The Argos can't even fill a 50,000 seats stadium most of the time. The Alhouettes play in the a stadium the size of a hockey arena. Ivor Wind stadium is shittier than some American High School bleachers. Out west it's a bit better, probably because it's the only pro sports most of these places have outside hockey season. But still in now way compares to the way Americans love football.

The Grey Cup is on CTV I do believe. (owns TSN) BTW if you can't afford basic cable, I doubt advertisers to CFL games want you watching anyway. Just sayin' I'm not comparing Grey Cup vs Super Bowl in Canada. I'm comparing NFL in America to CFL in Canada.

That's a very wishy washy answer. I don't particularly want to see naked men, I'll avoid it if I can. That's not because I hate Gays, it's because I'm hetrosexual and would much prefer looking at naked women. Am I homophobic for stating this opinion?

Quite frankly, the education debate is irrelevant to most voters. If you expect the average voter to vote for Daddy Dalton again because they think Hudak will "create a crisis" in the teaching community you're delusional. Hudak comes from a family of teachers, so I doubt he'll be as punitive as Harris was to teachers. But teachers have gotten everything they wanted in the past 8 years, they may need to give a lil back.

Because strictly religious people also believe sex before marriage is wrong. You can respectfully agree on certain things without have to be slanderous. Religious people may disagree with a lifestyle. The one's that actively deny people the right to commit moral sins are on the wrong side of the debate. But I don't see anything wrong with being unwilling to affirm a certain lifestyle. But that's for a different thread. What about not being comfortable with some of the overt sexuality that happens at the Pride Parade? Is that also homophobic? If someone walked around a school buck naked, they'd be charged as a pedophile. Do it at a parade it's fine, in fact if you don't support those actions, you're somehow a homophobe.

No! because people who cannot affirm homosexual on religious grounds are labeled homophobic as well. That former Sportsnet Commentator Damien Goddard probably was called a homophobe many times for opposing Gay marriage. It's a term used to silence opposition.

So Israel doesn't have the "right to exist" then? I think you're just pissed that Israel has the full backing of the US and that's why they can be this Island of freedom and civil rights in the hostile place of bigotry and hatred. And I'm not sure why.

The CFL isn't an institution in Canada like the NFL is in the US. Actually like all levels of Football are in the US. It would be missed by some, but not most. Loss of an NFL season would be treated much like in 2006/7 when we lost the NHL season.

It may have initially been used as a pejoritive towards Gays but not as much anymore. It's just part of casual language. When someone says "That's effing Gay" they usually aren't saying they hate Gay people. I'm not supporting the use of the term as a negative term. I'm just saying, when people use the term homophobe they'd doing the exact same thing. When someone calls Rob Ford a "philthy homophob" for not wanting to attend the Pride Parade, quite frankly that's slander. It makes it sound like he's afraid of Gays like people are afraid of snakes or heights. But you'll tell me that the term has evolved to mean something totally different. I'm telling you, why can't the same treatment be used for "Gay".

What if the intent isn't "homophobic"? Originally Gay meant happy. Word's evolve. Considering Homophobic doesn't mean phobic at all.

So you should have no problem with the term "Gay" being used as a pejorative. Since of course many people using it as a pejorative aren't being "homophobic" It's just the way language evolves afterall.